Posted on 02/03/2012 8:41:21 PM PST by One of the sons
You did get the massive sarcasm, right? :-)
No, I totally missed it. LOL. I guess it is time for me to head to bed.
BTW, I pinged you to another thread.
Aurrgh! You are tired sweetie! Mocking the “Jesus died so thatwe will be nice and have good manners” crowd, LOL!
You suspect wrong.
I wasn’t blogging and as you see my post generated quite a bit of discussion.
As of now I really don’t like any of the candidates, although if I had to pick one it might be Santorum.
God is the ultimate power above everything. He has the final say.
He will place or allow whom he wishes to be a ruler/leader.
Didn’t he allow the Hebrews to be ruled by Nebuchadnezzar?
Adopted son of God the Father.
If you had, you wouldn’t have posted what you did. Those in Mormonism need a spiritual 2x4 to get them to start thinking for themselves.
Promising answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXNm9b6pKs
Alison Krauss - There Is A Reason
Welcome to Free Republic, a conservative political discussion forum. The majority of us are Christians who love our country just as our founding fathers loved it and fought for it. I do seem to recall a few “heated discussions” between Jesus and some Scribes and Pharisees. We love one another, but we also use our “righteous judgment” from time to time. Peace.
Clear that up and we can deal with “Washed” and “Blood”.
“Thirdly, it is not a sin to be angry or to have a heated discussion. We are commanded not to son in our anger. Christ himself had a temper, as Scripture shows more than once.”
I think Paul had and expressed strong opinions strongly, also.
I honestly believe that God punished us with Obama. In Scripture, God has used a hostile and enemy nation to punish Israel.
Since this is a discussion and you brought up the subject, YES. Almost 40 years of abortion, pushing the limits on ‘free sex’, not to mention gay sex, all of which is an abomination to Him. YES! We get what we deserve as a consequence for our national sins. God uses evil men like this to wake us up. Whether we wake up to the truth and heed it, or just react to it, is determined by the condition of our hearts. I see both reactions. I see people genuinely seeking God’s will and praying for revival/spiritual awakening. I see others acting like we’ve been robbed, being totally cynical and tearing down anybody’s efforts to mention the root problem. What we are seeing today are the fruits of our national sin, not random acts of sin and disobedience.
Many within the Christian culture still do not understand that sin is reprehensible in any shape. We quickly forgive ourselves and move on, stating how great is is we have a forgiving God, but patterns of sin must be reversed, not just repeatedly asked forgiveness for. Well, He will help us overcome, but not if it means that we will not change, or just ask His help to protect a standard of living. You can read the OT to see how God used evil nations to punish Israel. She didn’t learn when Israel (northern kingdom) was taken into captivity, so Judah (southern) followed later. She had good kings and bad kings, some that did away with evil practices, but did not complete the task, so future kings became more corrupt and discarded the reforms. We are living out those days. We have been chided to not be so judgmental, so we judge almost nothing. Now, treason is never prosecuted, and things like we see unfolding in the government today are never really dealt with. Brought to light, but no one is ever held accountable. Not really. It is an affront to the Constitution and our country, but we keep electing these fools who make fools of us in return. So, we get what we deserve. And God uses these men and circumstances to try to get our attention, but mostly we complain, and nothing else. We could pray, but some even in this site are opposed to even the thought of it, believe it is a worthless endeavor.
If you knew me, you'd never interpret what I said to mean we should be quiet. I'll fight evil wherever I meet it. If we don't get Obama out then we may not have the right to pray. He's on a mission to destroy this country and I won't be quiet or intimidated.
That said, I don't think name-calling or hostility towards those who support a different candidate will help. Call attention to the lies, shine a light on Romney's flip-flops, and start hammering Romney on Obamacare where he's already backtracked. He said in the debates he would repeal it yet on Hannity he said he would "grant waivers to all 50 states". That would leave the remainder of Obamacare in tact yet with even less funding, an impossible scenario for our economy.
We need to work together to get Obama out. And yes, pray, that's probably the most effective thing we can do.
How could anyone ever think that Satan and Jesus are brothers. From what I have read the Morman’s attribute that belief to the later-day revelations. Joseph Smith was nothing but a false profit. The Bible we have was canonized, I believe (if I am not I mistaken) in the the 2nd century. There are the Gnostic books at the Nag Hammati Library some other books of various and sundry ideas. These didn’t make it into the Canon and for good reason. What we have is all we need to accept the Holy Trinity and believe. Take it, live by it, and tell others about it. As for the Washed in the Blood, that would be Jesus’ Blood that was shed so all be may be accepted by God. But only by accepting the Son as God by believing in His Resurrection and letting the Holy Spirit guide their lives. If I err I ask for forgiveness, but if I an correct I give Praise to the Living God in Heaven.
So where do Christ or any of the Apostles say anything about portions of the Septuagint being in error, the very Septuagint they freely quoted from?Chapter and Verse, please.
There's no question a lot was written after Christ that didn't merit inclusion, but there's also no question that what was appropriate for Christ and the Apostles passed the ultimate test and is the Christian canon of Scripture we call the Old Testament.
So, why accept the Pharisee canon rather than the Christian canon of the Old Testament? The only reason is that there are things Luther didn't want in his new religion that the Catholic Church teaches based on clear Scripture that Luther threw out. Nothing Gnostic about what Christ and the Apostles referred to. Forget Joseph Smith, he wrote his own Bible equivalent so, obviously he didn't have the Holy Spirit as his guide. Nor does anyone who throws portions of the Old Testament that they don't agree with for that matter.
Surrender, take up your cross, and follow Him. Surrender is the tough part and the majority of people who consider themselves Christian never do surrender. They take what they think is best in spite of the Scriptures because they can always reinterpret Scriptures as they see fit or feel, "led" to interpret them. Prosperity Gospel. Social Gospel. Liberation Gospel. There are plenty of choices of which flavor to adopt or to begin with as you roll your own. The first step in avoiding that is to have at a minimum the entire Scripture that Christ and the Apostles used. If you accept that, you should at least begin with a church that still has the same Scriptures that were accepted by Christ and the Apostles.
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