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Posted on 05/06/2018 1:49:30 PM PDT by pcottraux
Thinking Christianity is wishful thinking...is wishful thinking.
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As Jeremiah told us, “christianity” is the collection of “inherited lies wherein there is no profit.”
The big one is “Saved by Grace.”
The word says we are saved by our faith, and it is by the grace of Yehova that we are led to that faith.
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>> “ and come to Him by Faith.” <<
Precisely!
Without that faith, there can be no application for grace. It cannot be of effect to those who reject the faith delivered on the first shavuot, at Mt. Sinai.
That is what Paul explained in Hebrews ch 3 and 4.
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Allowing anything but the work of the Holy Spirit to ever effect ones faith is a sad state for any human.
A recipe for failure.
The wishful thinking could be the desire to see wrongdoers punished. The other side of a father figure. It's comforting to believe evil will always be punished and crime never pays.
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>> “I was raised by Christian parents but the Bible was never taught or even discussed.” <<
Ditto, at least what the Bible really said in very plain language.
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Nope, thanks for posting!
Anyone who has ever had a personal relationship with Jesus can tell you without a shadow of doubt that He is. Having experienced Him, nothing else in my sphere of experience has ever equaled it. I always smile a little at people who try to explain Him away.
Christianity is constantly subjected to such critical analyses as those by Freud, but never, or very rarely, do you see Leftism receive the same treatment; though in all its forms it is replete with features of the same kind. So, why not?
There’s a place in the darkness I use to cling to.
That presses harsh hope against time.
In the absence of martyrs there’s a presence of thieves.
who only want to rob you blind.
They steal away any sense of peace tho I’m a king.
I’m a king on my knees.
And I know they are wrong when they say I am strong. As the darkness covers me.
So I turn on the light and reveal all the glory
I am not afraid.
To bear all my weakness, knowing in meekness, I have a kingdom to gain.
Where there is peace and Love in the Light in the Light, I am not afraid.
To let your light shine bright in my life In my life.
There are ghosts from my past who have owned more of my soul
Than I thought I had given away.
They linger in closets and under my bed.
And in pictures less proudly dis-played.
A great fool in my Life I have been. Have squandered til pallid and thin.
Hung my head in shame and refused to take blame.
From darkness I know I’ve let win.
So turn on the light and reveal all the glory
I am not afraid
To bear all my weakness, knowing in meekness
I have a kingdom to gain
Where there is peace and love in the light
In the light ,
I am not afraid
To let your light shine bright in my life, in my life
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me? (5x)
I’ve never been much for the bearing of soul
In the presence of any man
I’d rather keep to myself all safe and secure
In the arms of a sinner I am.
Jennifer Knapp | Martyrs & Thieves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyLh2oqgsg8
Communism is wishful thinking.
The universe without an intelligent first cause is wishful thinking.
A democrat that doesnt want to use government to confiscate more of your stuff, is wishful thinking.
But in Freud's case, the claim is that a lot of his theories were never tested or proclaimed factual without any real, or at the very questionable, backing. Also known as "pseudo-science."
Done.
True. The “testing” is ongoing. I just thought it was an interesting way to put it.
It is there as sure as I am here. I am 100% sure.
” I always smile a little at people who try to explain Him away.”
It’s kinda like them telling you your mom and dad dont exist - just because THEY never met your parents...
It’s a very self-centered view.
Late in life — he was in his 80s, in fact — Sigmund Freud got religion. No, Freud didn’t begin showing up at temple every Saturday, wrapping himself in a prayer shawl and reading from the Torah. To the end of his life, he maintained his stance as an uncompromising atheist, the stance he is best known for down to the present. In “The Future of an Illusion,” he described belief in God as a collective neurosis: he called it “longing for a father.” But in his last completed book, “Moses and Monotheism,” something new emerges. There Freud, without abandoning his atheism, begins to see the Jewish faith that he was born into as a source of cultural progress in the past and of personal inspiration in the present. Close to his own death, Freud starts to recognize the poetry and promise in religion.
I did a two hour lecture in Raleigh, NC last Thursday evening for about 100 people. I purposely invited all the atheists, agnostics and skeptics. The emails I received afterward were very complimentary.
I have many emails from people stating that they were atheists until they attended my lecture. The pathway to knowing and experiencing God is both scientific and logical, without discounting Christianity.
Leftism pretty much owns main line education and the MSM so Christianity has an uphill battle in the “world”....but what else is new. :)
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