To: Chickensoup
Even though some churches and pastors make it seem that way,
Tithing is NOT a entrance ticket into heaven....
They use that old trick in the book called:
" YOU ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE " bat over people's heads.
Didn't Balaam the prophet try to " CURSE " God's people when God said that they are not cursed ?
Numbers 23:
8. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
Guess what ? you know what Moab saw when looking at the camp of Israel from the hill tops ?
Funny thing is ? Jesus Christ took our " CURSE " away.... he bore our " Curse " ....
Anyone who has trusted in, believed in, put their faith in and received eternal life from Christ is now more " CURSED " .
A true born again Christian is not cursed nor can they ever be cursed again..... yes, God can use chastisement to correct us, but, we are not ever cursed again.
To: American Constitutionalist
I know the nit pickers heresy hunters ( as the spelling checker nit pickers do ) will hound me for saying this.
" Didn't Balaam the prophet try to " CURSE " God's people when God said that they are not cursed ? "
( I am still searching to see if God actually said this, ok heresy hunters ? ( spelling checkers ).
When the bible says this:
Numbers 23:
8. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
Ok, ok, ok, Balaam said, that ? how can HE curse whom God has not " cursed ".
To: American Constitutionalist
Typo hunters, spelling checker hunters, heresy hunters.... ok, I make my correction:
Anyone who has trusted in, believed in, put their faith in and received eternal life from Christ is now NO more " CURSED " .
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