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Jesus is coming, and i'd rather be on His side with a totally unknown future, than anywhere with haters, scowlers, and name-callers.
so i've placed my bet.
satan has no power over me.
thank you Lord Jesus for leading me to this board
i have cursed it and this plan many times, b/c i don't have full understanding
but i am beginning to see now that all of these years, you have used many anons who know and love you to reach out to other anons who don't
and, maybe, without this board, these basement dwellers would never have encountered your Word or the love and acceptance that you have for them through exchanges with other humans
i ask your your continued Blessings for this board, for Truth to be revealed, for your Will in this entire plan, and for me to limit my anger when incited.
in Your name, Jesus.
amen
but my God is Jesus.
When you remember a story, you had to have understood the words that were being said and you need to will yourself to recall that story.
When you seek to understand a concept, you have to remember what the concept is and will yourself to understand it.
When you will or desire something, you must understand what you are willing, and you must remember what you are willing.
Thus, while a certain act like remembering might be more visible or tangible, it necessarily depends on understanding and will.
As these acts can never be fully separated, so too with God: “The divine Persons are also inseparable in what they do. But within the single divine operation each shows forth what is proper to him in the Trinity, especially in the divine missions of the Son's Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit” (CCC, 267). While we might see the work of the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit more distinctly in particular situations (the Father in Creation, the Son on the Cross, the Spirit at Pentecost), you can never divorce one from the other: “Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the Persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another” (CCC, 255). The Father reveals the Son, the Son reveals the Father, and the Father and the Son are revealed by the Holy Spirit.
Though the mystery is difficult to comprehend, and requires an act of faith to believe it, we should be thankful that we live in an age where we have concrete doctrine (or teaching) on the Trinity. There was a time when many theologians argued over what we should or should not believe—whether or not Jesus and the Holy Spirit were divine, whether or not the Holy Spirit could be included in the Trinity . . . and so on. It sounds exhausting! I’m just grateful that now, rather than having to formulate a teaching, we have the privilege of trying to understand one that has been revealed to us by God and developed by many holy people over many years.
https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/st.-augustines-analogy-for-understanding-the-trinity
you're so angry and confused, you cursed a prayer, anon.
you-cursed-someone's-prayer. really?
a little self-reflection might do you some good, anon.
but i said "might".
God bless you, anon.
would you like for people who believe as i do to just be dead?
i never spoke of a theocracy.
i didn't use my faith as a cover for my actions.
my actions are mine, not God's.
what parts of your thinking/beliefs are faulty and erroneous, anon?
i appreciate your thoughts.
i disagree with a lot of what you share.
there is a reason that we were not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
we reap the consequences.
just as children who disobey their parents can experience consequences, if by their parents or just naturally.
this is a war of good and evil. Jesus is on the good side and represents Truth, not my opinion.
i don't resort to name-calling, i just share my understanding.
i give/share information, what you do with it belongs to you.
there is no totalitarianism in that. and it makes no difference to me if you think i'm brainwashed.
where is this man's obituary?
yeah let's not