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Besides, who are you to judge God? Can you see all ends? No? Then maybe it would be wiser to read His words so that you might gain some understanding.
Well I see the SHILLCON levels are high tonight. I guess next wekk is going to be interesting.
Piss and moan shills, the flood is coming and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it. Have a nice day.
People think that salvation is difficult. It's not. People who hate God have tried to make it that way to confuse people. When Jesus taught, who understood the message and accepted it? The humble, the ones who knew they were broken and were dirty with sin. Who rejected it? The self righteous ones like the scribes and Pharisees who thought they were above everyone else.
God wants everyone, but not everyone wants God. Yes, we are all sinners and worthy of death but that is the beauty of what Jesus did. He is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world by His own blood.
Those who accept that are considered justified, but not sinless. All the past prophets had sin, but because of their faith in God were deemed righteous, because of their faith, not because of their works.
The catholic church became corrupted by Constantine and has been ever since. Prior to that, it remained relatively pure. It also consisted to both Jew and Gentile, but the catholic church over the centuries pushed them out, much to the worlds and its own detriment.
Oh, so are you telling me that Ismael or Esau is really the chosen people? Btw, what is the Kaaba Stone? Is your symbol the crescent moon? Ishtar? Inanna? Semiramis?
One other thing. The ark didn't land on Mount Ararat, it probably didn't even exist then. It came to rest in the REGION of Urartu. Look that up. Roughly SW Turkey NW Iran.
What book would that be?
The Talmud is generally from Babylon and is the written and oral Rabbinic traditions but it is NOT the Torah. It was written by Rabbis and considering Yeshuas views about them, is probably the leaven of the Pharisees that He always talks about. It is probably also the reason for the feast of unleavened bread.
Israel has always had pompous men who were more interested in themselves than in God. Pretty much the same for everyone though.
That is misleading. Half DON'T do everything right. We ALL fall short, not some, ALL.
The real question is, despite our failings, do we believe God or not? Faith is what redeems us, our works and the law condemn us.
That is a common excuse given by people who don't understand. Let me tell you a story.
A great king ruled over his kingdom. He laid down the laws for his kingdom. Breaking those laws meant the death penalty. Every single subject in his kingdom broke the laws in one way or another, multiple times.
Does he kill his entire kingdom? Everybody was under a death penalty. The letter of the law condemned them. Then he came up with a plan.
The letter of the law said that death was the proscribed penalty but didn't say WHO had to die. He decided to have his son pay the peoples penalty for the peoples crimes. Each person had to either accept the free gift by acknowledging his sons death as payment for their crimes. The king was being merciful.
However, some people thought the king was a mean tyrant and rejected the free gift while others gladly accepted it.
Now, put yourself in that kings place. He gave up his own son to be a redeemer for his whole kingdom. His son freely gave up his life so that others may live.
How would you feel about the people who, while being guilty of knowingly breaking the law, refused a great act of mercy and refused to acknowledge either the king or his son?
They had a choice. They made their choice. It is on their own heads because they rejected a free clemency.
Yes and no. If you were pardoned from death, how grateful would you be? It's what's in your heart that counts. There is NOTHING by way of works that will save you. If you try to live by the law you will die because the law condemns us, it does not save us. Grace saves us. Our sins don't go away, our faith in God and our love for Him is what makes us righteous in His eyes.
Children try to do things to please their parents out of love. Same thing. If you love God, even though you mess up, you at least TRY to do what's right because of the love you have. Sure, you will stumble, but that is where grace comes in.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Rom 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Rom 3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Rom 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
It defends itself.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
No, I am just not going to waste my time with someone who doesn't want to listen, not to me, to God. Those are His words. Take it up with Him.
I don't understand because you say so? I am satisfying my ego because you say so? I hold myself as superior because you say so?
Believe what you want.
Mat 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Mat 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Mat 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
I am judging no one. I am doing what we are told to do. He isn't interesting in hearing it, only in belittling it.
Just because I chose not to, doesn't mean that I can't. You make a lot of assumptions. Why would I use my words when I can use the words of God? His word is more powerful than mine.
Maybe that's why you don't like it.
One, because I'm trying not to make a big slide, and many of your questions make assumptions that are wrong and I don't feel like writing a dissertation in here just so you can try to poke holes in everything I post.
If you want the answers, go find them yourself. Go to the source, the bible, and read it. I suspect you won't though.