Posted on 05/19/2018 11:43:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ve an AA and another year college. Retired. Noahide.
Raised Christian, yet am agnostic of the New Testament which I do however, know well, and believe, OTOH, the US could not have been founded without it.
Am impressed with Jesus method of prayer, the “Our Father”, which was modeled on the Amidah, a longer Jewish formulation. Also fond of his frequent, life long referrals to The Law of Moses.
Ditto!
Anyone who denies Jesus is the only way to God is not a Christian.
Yeshua clearly said he was and is the only path to salvation. Any who denies it denies what Yeshua said.
None of this is new. I believe what we are seeing is the product of lifelong prosperity. A world where for the most part faith in God feels unnecessary.
I think many people do not want a strict God who they are accountable to. This can be accomplished by either believing science has disproved God…..or creating a new type of God that doesn’t demand anything from them.
Furthermore:
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you” (Jn 6:53).
No one gets to the Father except through me . Guess who? Satan plays everyone ....look at the Vatican and its upper people and the babble they spew!
That title is a logic fallacy the size of the Milky Way galaxy.
False prophets face a terrible judgement, “pastor.”
I almost but not quite agree that Marxism is applied Christianity without faith in God. But there’s still a huge difference between biblical morality and communism. Biblical morality recognizes the Free Will of each person and appeals to voluntary faith and moral behavior. Communism totally disrespects the individual and relies on brute force to get the behaviors it wants. Therefore while communism talks about a nice idealistic- looking future world (somewhat similar to Judeo- Christian escharologies) - it’s a false and very evil image - and one that has already cost millions and millions of innocent lives Just as God knows you can’t force anyone to love you, communists should realize they can’t force millions of people to comply with their purported image of a future world. Doesn’t work and since it requires tremendous application of ( what always becomes barbaric) force, it winds up being a Satanic parody ( and a very bad one) of true Biblicsl faith. (I’ve always greatly respected those folks who’ve tried to set up and operate socialistic communities on a purely voluntary basis, they’ve got a lot of idealism and they put their money/lives where their mouths are. But they almost always fail. Communism even where voluntary just doesn’t work. At least not for more than a couple generations ).the bible wisdom works much better, or at least it still offers hope with a better chance of eventual victory , imho. Best, m
This is NOT about the Vatican. Why do you even bring it up?
Prayers that those who are lost come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Christianity without Christ, that’s a hot one
For so many Americans, nothing is plain and straightforward. They are constantly looking for alternatives.
Well...they’re not Christians then.
Does “Nobody comes to the Father, but through Me” ring a bell for these people???
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The man is a fool.
“Believing in Jesus” is as the Apostle John explained in his first epistle, simply the keeping of the commandments of the covenant.
If you reject doing that, you definitely are headed to eternal punishment!
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We’re there any Muslims in the “We Are the World” video?
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Some people have nothing in their bellfry to ring!
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>> “For so many Americans, nothing is plain and straightforward. They are constantly looking for alternatives.” <<
And that included Billy Graham!
I was watching him in a live TV interview in the ‘60s and plainly heard him state “All paths lead to the Father.”
I know his son Franklin does not hold that opinion, but I never heard of Billy recanting that statement.
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