"If anyone ever asks if your a God you say YES!"
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"The Bible is the word of God because God inspired scholars, theologians and apostles to put it together."
Than I agree with because God is the creator of all things but in this the Bible is not alone many other valuable books have been inspired by God. Just because God inspired something does not mean it is true just that it is valuable.
"they'll read the daily paper and believe it first before they believe the "good book". Folks believe in the stock market, take stock in the farmers almanac, believe the weather forecaster, etc."
Are you kidding me, they don't believe and trust those things, most smart people take that all with a grain of salt.
"Every time you sit down in a chair you involuntarily have 'Faith" that it's going to hold you up."
Most times I sit in a chair I believe it will hold me up because I can tell it is a sturdy chair, has nothing to do with "Faith." Some times I doubt the chair and will gingerly try it out. We trust chairs because they have been tested and proven good. Same with the Bible, some parts tested and some parts are proven good some are unbelievable.
"I took a step of faith and was totally transformed into something I don't regret to this day! God has done some big time, fancy work in my life that otherwise wouldn't have happened without Him!"
Well lucky you. Sad that you need fancy work. All credit does go to God. God is the giver of all things.
"Just say the following..."
Do you understand that belief by rote repetition of doctrine is a powerful form of brainwashing. Churches do it, Schools do it, the military training camps do it, terrorists camps do it, socialists do it. That does create faith, belief but it is a trap. It is not faith through understanding, it is brainwashing.
Tim
"stop believing the things you look for in your own head"
You have no idea of where I have gotten my beliefs so maybe I can help you. I don't make up my beliefs. I look to God's expression of his values in his creations including but not exclusively the bibles. God shows us the way all around us. We can see what is good and what is bad. What is right and what is wrong. What works and what does not work. It is an almost certainty that ideas that are repeated in different religious texts from all around the world from different times are good ideas. Jesus repeated may of those ideas that were written before he had been born. Heaven and Hell are Abrahamic ideas not commonly believed before the establishment of the Catholic Church and the colonization of large parts of the world by Catholic European Explorers.
If you wonder what Heaven is like look to a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. Nirvana. Peace. We become one with God.
Tim
Seriously, do you believe there are pearly gates? I will pray for God to show you the path as well, I think you don't understand the true path. God will look into your heart, no need to stop by the pearly gates. I don't think God is going to be explaining his decision to you at some pearly gates. Most likely when you die you just be gone though some will become one with God. Sadly some will just haunt the world suffering with denial of obliteration or oneness with God, stuck in between. That is probably the worst hell.
Tim
A world run by Democrats?
"The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass." Revelation 21:21, NKJV.
Always wondered if there was a verse to substantiate that "pearly gates" stuff. Ain't the internet wonderful?
exile
"Dismiss this phantasma of disease and health, sorrow and joy. Rise above it. Become the Self. Watch the show of the universe, but do not become absorbed in it. Many times I have seen my body gone from this world.
I laugh at death.
I am ready anytime.
There is nothing to it.
Eternal life is mine.
I am the ocean of consciousness. Sometimes I become the little wave of the body, but I am never just the wave without the Ocean of God." - Paramahansa Yogananda
Thank you for explaining your belief system.
I thought you might be a Me-ist.
Worshiping your Ford as yourself.
My mistake, I'm truely sorry.
I cannot help evangelizing to the lost.
If they ask.
Glad I am you are not a Me-ist.
Your Ford is not eternal.
Mine went to Hell one day.
Perished in the lake of fire...
Oh, listing Catholic holidays,
you forgot
Halloween, Valentine's day,
New Year's and Labor day.
Halloween is Christmas
without thank you notes.
Sample program
works for me:
100 There is a God
200 I am not God
300 Thank You Jesus! else go to 200
400 If you love Him, then serve Him.
500 There is no end
Hell is irrelevant,
unless you choose hell.
Choose life, joy, service!
Where's your joy?
EIS TON AIONA
(aiona eye-on-eh Koine
is eon in English)
-forever- Heb 5:6
and 5:11 Amen
"Hell is truth seen too late": Thomas Hobbes
+1 on that!
I have no problem understanding that I have a God given conscience that informs me about good and bad, right and wrong. In informs me in ways that no written law can define. You can argue about what rules mean and laws mean but you can't argue with the feeling in your heart. Jesus has nothing to do with it. It comes right from God.
Tim
I believe that the Father and the Good Shephered Yeshua is a perfect judge and His Judgement on the wicked will be Hell Fire.
1 Peter 4:18
And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
2 Peter 2
2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Hate to break it to you but...
"John 14:6-11
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves."
Romans 3
10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
John 12:48
He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
Before asking if you believe in hell, first you have to ask yourself if you believe in a supernatural God/Creator who created all things, and if you don't, then the only other choice you have for the creation is that:
1) Matter brings itself into existence from nothingness
2) All the properties of physics that are needed to control how matter behaves, brought themselves into existence from nothingness
3) Matter came together from the vastness of the universe or it already was compressed into a 'dot' having all of the right components that from a violent explosion/expansion creates EXTREMELY INTRICATE planets, solar systems, etc
4) Non-living matter has the ability to create living matter
5) From 'goo pools, living matter 'crawled' out of it whereby eventually evolving into apes and then humans evolved from the apes....and to this day all ape-to-man missing links (transitional forms) have been proven fraudulent:
a. After catching atheist paleontologists red handed mixing 'monkey' bones with human bones
b. Only having literally one tooth and then GROSSLY hyping up that one single tooth into being a whole ape/man-like creature in their pictures of it
c. Their other missing link skeleton was proven by DNA to only be an extinct species of ape.
d. Other missing link skeletons of theirs, only having what amounts to a handful of bones and a partial skull that they hired artists to fill in the rest of the grotesquely missing skeletal structure to then resemble what their imagination thinks an ape-to-man skeleton should look like in order to keep promoting their ludicrous fairy-tale propaganda that's literally taught as fact for happening the way they claim