Posted on 11/30/2016 2:41:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The bodily resurrection of Christ is pretty basic stuff. Not sure why any believer would struggle with it.
When referring to things that are shared as frank miracle, to call them less is a travesty. The world follows certain rules, yes. But God can break those rules, much as a spider can cut its own web.
Well, watered-down Christianity is like watered-down liquor. It doesn’t get the job done and nobody who has experienced the real thing prefers it.
If this is the Joel Osteen Lakewood church, I'd have to quibble about the conservative Gospel part.
Preachers often won’t get everything 100% right. Someone who isn’t always Berean minded about what the preacher says, can get misled even in the best congregations.
Worship and the Word. Whoda thunk it would attract people to God.
Well fine. The next question I’d have is, what in the hell/heaven is he DOING with it.
The Bible means exactly what it says (just like the Constitution does). God did not make any mistakes, and He would tell us if He wanted anything changed. Until God tells us otherwise, we should take the Bible as literal.
As for modern worship, that is also consistent with biblical worship. The original manuscripts of the New Testament were in conversational language, and the original point was to follow the spirit of God's Word rather than allowing outdated traditions to interfere. Then that meant getting away from the stilted pharisees who had forgotten the meaning of the words they recited and the point behind the strict rules they enforced, and today that means getting away from our own stilted traditionalists who have forgotten the meaning of the words they recite from memory and the point behind the strict rules they blindly endorse.
While the stately language of the King James Version sounds impressive, okay, I confess, I love KJV, but it can put a barrier of formality between us as Christians and God's Word. Similarly, to the extent that traditional methods of worship impose artificial barriers, they are not consistent with our original practices as Christians. [Note: In no way am I endorsing "modern" methods of worship that violate the literal word of the Bible or deny God/Jesus, just modern worship music and less formal/stilted/dated language/conversation when appropriate.]
that’s the name of the holy game... well, with the caveat that worship (or failure to worship) will include everything a Christian does... the “church” could be the very smallest part of it.
Never really understood the whole waving hands in the air thing.
Oh, there are a lot of lively conversations and debates that still go on in the body.
Try old earth creationism, if one wants to raise a stir, for instance. (I aver that there is nothing that forbids a parallel time line explanation, which goes even deeper than day-age metaphor. I.e. God records activities on calendar A, which is stretched alongside the world’s calendar B. General relativity already tells us sufficient speed on the Creator’s part can achieve this.)
One might feel inspired to hail an important enough human figure that way... why not God?
I’m always surprised at the covetness present here...
covetousness
Re : Post #17
*I’m always surprised at the covetness present here...*
Can you elaborate?
“Never really understood the whole waving hands in the air thing.”
Read Scripture.
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