Wow...Ol' Twin believes God's word, and the Bible. What says, "Salvation can only occur if you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior" (my words based on facts) guides my light and path. I believe that we...including you...have the ability to choose eternal life or eternal death.
If you are referring to - the name of the Lord. I think "name" is a good description but is too restrictive. Likewise, many translations use the word money instead of mannon. That is fine, but mannon equates to so much more.
No, I was thinking more in terms of your wish for people to go to the Word to disagree with you.
I agree sometimes we as Christians do not set the best example but fortunately we are not the standard to get to Heaven. Jesus Christ is the standard. And the standard is perfection. Gandhi was a great person and did great things but was not perfect. We are not saved by works but by grace. Ephesians 2:8,9. If everyone goes to Heaven how would Heaven be any different than the world we live in today? I personally would hate to spend eternity living in a place like this world. I want to spend eternity in a perfect place.
Many in the US want to be secular and go in this direction. We are in the world, but we are not of the world. When the world started, this is what happened when man ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Now, man knew more than God and began with live and let live. Men were physically stronger than women, and many beat them into submission. It doesn't affect me, so if the border allows sex trafficking, live and let live. Men teamed up with other men and beat other men and women into submission and made slaves of them. This does not affect me, so if the border encourages child trafficking, live and let live.
You are in a perfect place! You are with the Lord. What can harm you? Are you afraid of divers temptations? Can you get sick and die? You and I have everlasting Life, so why am I not doing more? I want everyone to have this complete joy, to stop doing what I want to do, and to do more work to Love thy God and Love thy neighbor.
How you talk on here is in direct contradiction with what Jesus preached, so pardon me if I think you’re absolutely full of shit.
Do you gents really love God, or is your faith just based on saving yourselves from hell?
You skipped right over the golden rule part of my post. Wonder why that is.
You are right I am in a perfect place but not in a perfect world. There is nothing that can harm my soul but lots of things that can harm me physically and emotionally. I am not afraid of temptations but I am tired of fighting them. This body will get sick and die but my new body will live forever. I am looking forward to a time and a place where there is no more temptations, no more crying, no more mourning, no more death and no more pain. Revelation 21:4
I obviously don’t know exactly how Heaven works but I’m guessing that since there will be no crying or pain in Heaven that I assume we will not have any memory of them when we get Heaven if they are not there which is sad to think about. That’s why I try my best to make sure I do everything I can to make sure they make it.
Is your faith based on love of God, or fear of going to hell?
Christianity does not equalized women. The Bible says that women are to submit to their husbands.
My faith is definitely based on my love for God. But the fear of hell would definitely be a motivating factor in wanting to get to Heaven. Hell was not contrived to scare people into believing. It was created for a place for satan and his angels to spend eternity because they rebelled against God. Matthew 25:41
No it was not made for them but there are only 2 places to go when we die and if we don't choose to go to Heaven unfortunately by default then we end up in hell.
Since we are made in the image of God as Genesis 1:27 says we have an eternal soul. We will live some place forever.
Maybe something was lost in the translation. Eternal suffering seems completely incompatible with Christianity.
Yes it does but there is 2 sides of God. God is love but God is justice also. If we don't follow His plan He has no choice but to apply justice. I am enjoying these dicussions where we can discuss civilly and without name calling. I have a 2 hour online class coming up so have to pause for now.
Love your neighbor as yourself. Nobody who follows that commandment can be a slaveholder, right?
Exactly. That is my point. These professed Christians, like people say founded the US with Judeo-Christian values. These same people owned slaves. Then Thomas Jefferson, one of those professed Christians, wrote that BS in the Declaration of Independence that’s”All Men Are Created Equal”. This pedofile owned hundreds of slaves.
You are right. I believe Christians are the biggest hypocrites. And that is a compliment because Christians have the highest values. My goal is to Love God, my neighbor, and be a Light to others. I want the US to form a more perfect union. Whenever I think of my goal, I realize I have failed miserably. Even worse is when I walk somewhere, and someone thinks I am a hypocrite because I didn't say hi to them. The media has them convinced that I am either a bigot, racist, Trump endorser, or sexist and definitely a hypocrite. The truth is that I was probably thinking about a priority and never saw them.
This is why I take the inspired Word of the Bible.
But then there are monuments for confederate soldiers that fought to keep slavery.
I bet 99.9% of the confederate soldiers were fighting for State Rights.
Wrong! I never said that the Civil War wasn’t about freeing the slaves. I said that Emancipation Proclamation was a war document that allowed slaves from the confederate states to join the Union Army as they needed more numbers. The slaves in the northern states were not freed. The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery whatsoever like we were taught in K-12.
FWIW, if anyone has not visited the memorials in D.C. a visit may let you see quotes different than projected by the media.
Is this it?. My reading has slowed down a lot due to dry eyes. I may order it anyway since this is an area of interest to me. I generally agree with your comments, but would dwell more on your two bullets. I think some parsing gives a slightly more accurate perception, but I have covered this topic too much already. Anyhow, if the print is large enough I may entertain reading it. I know I have to finish Dave Shellhase's book before I see him in a couple of months. My problem is there is so much I want to learn and not enough time. I always thought I would become better versed on genetics and I haven't taken a first step... as well as a better understanding of the data, assumptions and calculations in Kenpom ;(
I'm sort of a Civil War Historian thanks for the info.
Is this it?. My reading has slowed down a lot due to dry eyes. I may order it anyway since this is an area of interest to me. I generally agree with your comments, but would dwell more on your two bullets. I think some parsing gives a slightly more accurate perception, but I have covered this topic too much already. Anyhow, if the print is large enough I may entertain reading it. I know I have to finish Dave Shellhase's book before I see him in a couple of months. My problem is there is so much I want to learn and not enough time. I always thought I would become better versed on genetics and I haven't taken a first step... as well as a better understanding of the data, assumptions and calculations in Kenpom ;(
I had a cousin that fought for Indiana. He was captured and died in Andersonville, but I know noting else. BTW it was an Indiana group that was instrumental in not only finding the three cigars of Lee's plan for Gettysburg, but holding the confederates at bay in Frederick, Maryland (The Battle of Monocacy) which some historians think was crucial in preventing the south from advancing on Washington.
Should there be confederate monuments erected to honor the traitorous soldiers that killed your cousin?
