Posted on 03/01/2013 1:10:48 PM PST by Frank Broom
Great stuff! Christianity is easy (the way of transgressors is hard). We have one focus and one task: Get close to Jesus. How do we do that? Get to know Him. How do we do that? Read and meditate on His word, because the Word and Jesus are one. If we do that, we fulfill as the requirements of being a Spirit lead Christian: Love God, love our neighbor. Because Christ lives in and through us. As ye have received Christ, so walk ye in him.
It’s the exchanged life Hudson Taylor discovered. It’s the solution to all our internal and external problems.
IMO, not so “great stuff”. Your hermeneutic smears the edges of all kinds of passages. Have you ever moved a mountain with a word in your mouth? The point of Jesus’ remarks was that men don’t have that important ingredient in their hearts...faith. That is why you cannot do this. But, go ahead and try. We will await the result.
Some of the material here may be good, but it is lost in the weeds.
Good Word! Praise God!
God SPOKE the world into existence and said it was good!
YES!! Whatever obstacle in my way is a mountain.
The point of Jesus’ remarks was that men don’t have that important ingredient in their hearts...faith.
If that's the way you interpret it, perhaps God is showing 'you' something?
Jesus didn’t say the reason they couldn’t cast the demon out was because they didn’t have any faith. They did have faith. That’s why they were confused and asked this question. They had cast demons out before (Luke 9:1-6) and expected positive results this time, but they didn’t get them.
It is possible to have faith but not see that faith produce the desired result because UNBELIEF negates or counteracts faith.
God NEVER says anything that cannot be done. "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me". If one doesn't believe it, the problem rests with them and NOT God's Word - EVER.
Faith grows as we use it - much like a muscle.
Thank you. I enjoyed this.
No, sir, you have not moved a mountain. You may think you have solved problems, or resolved conflicts, or dealt with some other difficult matters and doing so constitutes "moving mountains", but you have never moved a mountain. When you have done so, get back to us.
"God NEVER says anything that cannot be done. "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me". If one doesn't believe it, the problem rests with them and NOT God's Word - EVER."
And, if you think that Paul meant "all things" as in lift the Empire State building, then you have demonstrated a complete disregard for the context of these writings. You are dangerous.
Your fanciful hermeneutic allows for the Bible to be teaching most anything. It does not. However, those for whom its message is hidden will claim all sort of kooky understandings. Your work is in that category. I suggest you take a long course in good biblical interpretation. However, God may not permit you to see any clearer than you do now.
YES I have and do it daily! Sorry, to hear your life is so difficult.
When you have done so, get back to us.
You mean you, not us. Who would ever want to get back to the faithless? "Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to HIM must believe that He exists and that HE rewards those who earnestly seek HIM." Heb 11:6
And, if you think that Paul meant "all things" as in lift the Empire State building, then you have demonstrated a complete disregard for the context of these writings. You are dangerous.
God has not put the desire in me to lift the Empire State building as it wouldn't give HIM glory. Why would something of destruction come to your mind? Destruction comes from the evil one. REPENT and CHOOSE LIFE! If not, one goes into default mode which is death/destruction.
Your fanciful hermeneutic allows for the Bible to be teaching most anything. It does not.
And yours hermeneutic shows a complete lack of faith. God's Word teaches what HE wants us to know through the Holy Spirit. Believe, repent and then get caught up. Your choice!
However, those for whom its message is hidden will claim all sort of kooky understandings. Your work is in that category.
There is nothing hidden - only to those void of the Spirit and that is where you fit in.
"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor 2:16
One void of The Spirit making a suggestion? LOL!! I suggest you take a long course in good biblical interpretation. I see where the long course got you. Get your money back!
However, God may not permit you to see any clearer than you do now.
I see the have and the have nots and the reason why!
"But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for MY power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9
Thank YOU, JESUS!!
Thank you demshateGod for taking the time to read this article and for your comment. Thanks!!!!!
Thank you presently no screen name I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!!!!!!
Thank you Actually_in_Tokyo for reading this article, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!!!!
WOW! I quoted Scripture and you say it's made up material, ear-tickling junk? You WILL have to answer for that someday for It Is Written.
And what's the anger about? It's that sorry life you have and that makes you name call, also. Just more proof of what Scripture says about the ones WITHOUT THE SPIRIT.
CHOOSE LIFE! Repent! Become born again and filled with The Spirit! And get your money back from that long course - that was a bad CHOICE as the results are horrible.
“It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if YOU can do anything, take pity on us and help us.” Mark 9:22
Then Jesus said to him, "'If You can? EVERYTHING is possible to the one who BELIEVES." Mark 9:23
JESUS said it. The difference between you and me, is I BELIEVE JESUS so I 'HAVE', you 'have not' and that's where your anger and sorry life comes from. Your CHOICE.
"You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out." Deuteronomy 28:6
I am blessed and I KNOW IT! I chose LIFE/Blessings! Thank YOU, Jesus! The default position is death/curses/powerless.
"HE who is in me is greater than he who is in the world!"
Now stay away from tall buildings, it seems you have a fetish for them. Miss the 'destroyed' twin towers?
"As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, Isaiah 55:10
"So shall MY WORD be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
What a heavenly Father we have! The JOY we get from reading and obeying HIS WORD.
Your churlish responses are as poorly organized as your unbiblical hermeneutic. Those of us who have been born from above don’t believe nonsensical, homemade theological constructs fit only for the cults.
But, again, you actually claim to be some kind of self-aggrandizing superhero. Well, prove it. If your utterly ridiculous hermeneutic supports a belief Jesus meant that you can do anything, if you just believe, then pay off the national debt this afternoon. Write God’s name in the sky 40 miles high. Move a real mountain.
If you are correct, then you should be able to move the real mountain, not just a figurative mountain. If you cannot, why not? Don’t you believe Jesus?
"NOW faith is the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things NOT SEEN." Heb. 11:1.
The "NOW" that is written is the "BUT NOW" of Ephesians 2:13. We do not walk by sight NOW, but by faith. Our conversation is in the heavenlies, where Christ is seated by God the Father. We are to look UP, not around, for our faith. This does not mean that God does not answer prayers, or provide miracles NOW. It DOES mean that He performs them according to His will, not our commands. He does not have "healers" that operate in this age of grace. THere is no man that is greater than another in this age. We are all equal and everything that He does is according to His good will and reasons. Not because some man claims God heals through him.
I think Satan said things very similar to that when he was trying to temp Jesus. That post was just plain soul chilling.
OK, so tell me why I haven’t been healed yet.
I’ve been prayed for and anointed time without count. What’s up?
Yes. GOD did speak the world into existence. We do not have the power to speak creative miracles.
If God heals in a response to prayer, it's HIS power, not ours.
Sorry, pnsn, I am sick and tired of being told that I’m not healed because I don’t have enough faith.
That is a very destructive theology to the faith of a person struggling with some physical issue who hasn’t seen the manifestation of their healing.
It’s very condemning and judgmental. No one can say why another person has not been healed, as healing is God’s responsibility, but to claim that anyone knows why that healing hasn’t occurred, especially with something like an accusation of lack of faith, is reprehensible.
Jesus never failed to heal, nor did HE ever tell someone that they weren’t healed because of their lack of faith.
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