I’ve always said that if you are bored, you are not in the will of God. After all, if we are doing what we are supposed to do as Christians, we don’t have time to be bored. If someone says they are bored, ask them if they have prayed, read their Bible, talked to someone about Christ, helped the needy, visited the widows, etc. I think we all know what the answer will be.
As I think about boredom, it’s not just that people are failing to do the activities they should be doing; it’s that people are filling their lives with the wrong kind of activities. Their days are spent pursuing insignificant activities, entertainment, and self-fulfillment rather than living their lives for God and others. They pursue meaningless activities like playing video games for hours on end, watching endless amounts of television, and spending inordinate amounts of time on social media rather than pursuing relationships with God and others.
For an increasing number of people, their “relationships” are mostly virtual. Having a relationship with people has been reduced to posting pictures of yourself online and waiting for your “friends” to like and comment on them. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against entertainment or social media, but if that’s where we are spending most of our time, and that’s where we seeking meaning for our life, we will be bored.
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March 10, 2014 at 2:05 pm
“….and spending inordinate amounts of time on social media rather than pursuing relationships with God and others.”
But that’s just the point for me>
I may spend an inordinate amount of time on Social Media like “WordPress”; for example, but I am not bored nor do I think it is failing to do what the mission is because I think it is very important to bring a “Jesus perspective” into discussion about God, the supernatural, the reality of being spirtual and bible scriptures.
The Mission therefore is and must necessarily be:
17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Who follows a myth is counted among the loneliest people on earth and there are very few Christians who are not lonely, downtrodden, poor, brokenhearted, captive, blind, and oppressed by a clergy obsessed with preaching supernatural nonsense instead of the natural common sense of Jesus: preaching suffering, death and life in the there and after instead of the here and now: “……your will be done on earth as it is in heaven……..”
Jesus’ legacy is one of attitude and disposition, graceful and genuine in compassion and kindness, always ready to forgive those willing to receive it; a man so full of common sense and sound judgment, that he recognized the truth of the Father within: the conscience, the Self Witness not the supernatural gods created by charlatans, magicians, popoffs and snake oil salesmen selling miracle water in ketchup packages. Jesus gave the presence of his peace by his LIFE, not by his death; the clergy has it all backward, criss-crossed and upside down by claiming Jesus gave the world LIFE through his death, uh uh what a bunch of nonsense. Couldn’t be further from the truth. “….and spending inordinate amounts of time on social media rather than pursuing relationships with God and others.”
But that’s just the point for me>
I may spend an inordinate amount of time on Social Media like “WordPress”; for example, but I am not bored nor do I think it is failing to do what the mission is because I think it is very important to bring a “Jesus perspective” into discussion about God, the supernatural, the reality of being spirtual and bible scriptures.
The Mission therefore is and must necessarily be:
17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Who follows a myth is counted among the loneliest people on earth and there are very few Christians who are not lonely, downtrodden, poor, brokenhearted, captive, blind, and oppressed by a clergy obsessed with preaching supernatural nonsense instead of the natural common sense of Jesus: preaching suffering, death and life in the there and after instead of the here and now: “……your will be done on earth as it is in heaven……..”
Jesus’ legacy is one of attitude and disposition, graceful and genuine in compassion and kindness, always ready to forgive those willing to receive it; a man so full of common sense and sound judgment, that he recognized the truth of the Father within: the conscience, the Self Witness not the supernatural gods created by charlatans, magicians, popoffs and snake oil salesmen selling miracle water in ketchup packages. Jesus gave the presence of his peace by his LIFE, not by his death; the clergy has it all backward, criss-crossed and upside down by claiming Jesus gave the world LIFE through his death, uh uh what a bunch of nonsense. Couldn’t be further from the truth.
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March 11, 2014 at 10:37 am
“Jesus gave the world LIFE through his death, uh uh what a bunch of nonsense. Couldn’t be further from the truth.”
Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1Co 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Naz
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March 11, 2014 at 10:52 am
Preaching the cross (the crucifixion) and preaching his death are two different things, separate and distinct. It was Jesus’ life that gave LIFE to the world not his death; if you think otherwise, not only are you not saved but you are blind. If you do not follow his life’s teachings you simply follow the clergy who themselves have been deceived since they try to prove a supernatural God using magic tricks as demonstrated by Moses to the people who believed in the magic of Moses to Pharaoh by Moses who did not believe the magic tricks of Moses because the other court magicians were able to duplicate the magic trick.
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March 11, 2014 at 12:39 pm
It is nonsensical to say that the crucifixion is different from his death. His life does give Life to the world and that through the resurrection not His earthly life because like Jesus, you and I will die an earthly death. Only through His resurrection can we have Life beyond the grave.
Naz
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March 11, 2014 at 2:01 pm
I couldn’t agree more. We should feed the physical and spiritual. IMO the Bible indicates we Christians very greatly in spiritual strength though. So is a Christian “bored” because he/she didn’t feed the soul or because he/she just didn’t get as big a portion of Spirit? Now that I’m older I don’t get bored, I get tired. When I was younger “I’m bored” really meant nothing exciting was happening in the physical realm. “Being bored” now for me is a good thing. It means things are going smoothly in all aspects of my life. This post brings to mind the curse “may you live in interesting times”.
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March 11, 2014 at 2:02 pm
Don’t be so silly; there was no resurrection; Jesus escaped through the hewn out tunnel made in the tomb by Joseph of Arimathea which he had hewn out for two years before the crucifixion; helped also by Nicodemus. This was planned over a period of time; it was not a spontaneous event. It’s so simple if you take off the supernatural blinders.
Who asked for and received the body down from the cross? Directly from Pontius Pilate?….Joseph…..who had a direct link to the hierarchy, WHY? because Joseph, like Nicodemus were members of the Sanhedrin, Rulers of the Jews, the weathiest men in town with direct access to the Head Honchos.
After escape, Jesus required sufficient time to heal from his wounds and the reason why, when the women wanted to hug him he said; no, don’t touch me for I have not yet been healed; Later when he was healed enough he arrived in the midst of them and ate with them noted in Luke 24: 36-41 Jesus appeared to them and said, “Peace be with you.” They thought they were seeing a ghost and were scared half to death.(that’s supernaturalism for you) He continued, “Don’t be upset. Look at my hands; look at my feet—it’s really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn’t have muscle and bone like this.” As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41-43 He asked, “Do you have any food here?” They gave him a piece of leftover fish they had cooked. He took it and ate it right before their eyes. No apologies needed but thank you. Dialogue is good.
Do you think flesh and blood enters the Kingdom? I can show you scriptures that says flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom so either his body was flesh and blood and muscle or it was spirit and the Ascension “out of their sight” is another supernatural myth that Jesus was spirit after the crucifixion because clearly Jesus proclaimed he was not a spirit and walked with them bodily.
These words I speak are directly from Jesus, so what’s the problem? The problem is that you discount Jesus’ words and accept the nonsense of clergy promoting supernatualism, trying by the same magic nonsense to brainwash you like Moses used on the people, who believed him, and on Pharaoh who did not because Moses was like Peter Poppoff. The clergy know this but wilol never tell you the truth because they cannot finacially survive by knowledge, only by make belief can they indoctrinate the Believers by the dictates of deceit.
And all the people said AMEN and the tithes and offerings kept pouring in.
Leo remains
for the TheWay, TheTruth and TheLife (not the death) of the Son.
You need to hear this if not adopt it to be set free. Use your Birth Brain not the Religious Brain.
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March 12, 2014 at 3:48 pm
Son of Man,
Hopefully Jason will post about the resurrection in April and I’ll give some input then if possible. Discussing the resurrection is never boring for sure but I’ll save most of my comments till then. I’m sure you thought about many of the same issues as me but have come to a different conclusion. First, I don’t know what happened and still have many questions but, unless a fraud or Bible exaggerates, Jesus was either dead or severely wounded when crucified as per my research. Depending on interpretation Jesus was in the tomb for a relatively short time (but that’s a whole other topic also) and I surmise He would be in pretty rough state and His wounds would be healing but not healed when He first appeared to Mary M. if He didn’t die. Are your conclusions out of the realm of the natural? I guess it’s possible, but then that brings into question the whole movement doesn’t it?
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March 12, 2014 at 7:46 pm
It only brings into question the whole movement if the whole movement is based on the supernatural; but all it would call into question would be the death/resurrection scenario, which on its face is incredible enough. However, if one sees Jesus’ life, teachings etc, as I do, then the supernatural need not even come into it as the common sense of his teachings attest to the extraordinary social revolution he began.
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March 13, 2014 at 9:33 am
“but then that brings into question the whole movement doesn’t it?”
YES !!
The whole point of the movement is to have a hope for something after the grave and that what the resurrection does.
Otherwise, Jesus is just another one of many teachers with no eternal significance. And that is not the Jesus of the bible. Frankly, if all I took from the bible were his insights into how to live and assumed the supernatural aspect from it was fake, I would burn my bible and not follow a word of it. Why would I believe Jesus about how to treat someone if in the next breath He is lying about His identity and performing magic tricks to fool the masses.
The Jesus described here would be the most horrible monster that ever lived.
Thank God that’s not the case……Amen.
Naz
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March 13, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Naz,
Messenger and Message are connected for me also or love God and love your neighbor are connected for me also. However, parts of the message have stand alone universal appeal IMO, it helps me in the here and now. IMO, problems happen when the Messenger’s replaced and the Message gets twisted to oppress and control people.
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March 13, 2014 at 3:08 pm
“…….Jesus is just another one of many teachers with no eternal significance…….. Frankly, if all I took from the bible were his insights into how to live and assumed the supernatural aspect from it was fake, I would burn my bible and not follow a word of it.”
Yes, then I advise you to burn your bible because you lack understanding and common sense about the truth of Jesus identity, why? the Son of Man and why? who he claimed to be. None of what Jesus did was by magic tricks, that was how Moses and all the other so called religious leaders got their followings; the events that Jesus did were by common sense which your supernatural slant can never be. All you have to do is to figure out simplicity of the events but when you can’t or refuse to try, you are lulled in to the erroneous belief in superstition, the supernatural, the Santa Claus magic of children and remain in the dark without understanding. It’s why you think 666 is some weird code.
What did Jesus say about his identity; notwithstanding, ascribing the power of the spirit to the Father “within you”:
John 8:54-56 Jesus said, “If I turned the spotlight on myself, it wouldn’t amount to anything. But my Father, the same One you say is your Father, put me here at this time and place of splendor. You haven’t recognized him in this. But I have. If I, in false modesty, said I didn’t know what was going on, I would be as much of a liar as you are. But I do know, and I am doing what he says. Abraham—your ‘father’—with jubilant faith looked down the corridors of history and saw my day coming. He saw it and cheered.”
What do you think Jesus meant when he said to the Pharisees, “Abraham saw my day and rejoiced? Because Jesus recognized……………that…..?
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March 14, 2014 at 5:14 am
SonofMan, that’s your opinion and your entitled to it. I believe the scriptures as they are written and have no need to embellish them. I take them at face value. Call me a fool if you wish but I believe Jesus performed true miracles that only God can do like raising Lazarus from the dead. I believe that Jesus died and rose from the grave for my sins and my salvation. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Call me a fool I don’t care………I believe !!
Naz
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March 14, 2014 at 7:05 am
Paul, I understand your point. Shame on them who twist and contort the message to control people, they will have their reward…….
As for the universal appeal to the message, certainly I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think if the scriptures did not have universal appeal and was not applicable to the here and now, I would also have a problem believing them for that reason.
I have carefully studied the scriptures and have found that it answers questions for the here and now and for the here ever after as well. That is what I would expect for writings that are believed to be the inspired words of God.
Naz
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March 14, 2014 at 7:47 am
NAZ:
Lazarus suffered from a rare disease called Narcolepsy, Cataplexy. This is similiar to the recent case in the news about the man who woke up in a body bag just before embalming. Imagine the fright that invoked.
You can actually view a Youtube video about the woman who has this disease and woke up not once but three times in the morgue after being pronounced dead.
Of course it would be called a miracle but remember miracles only occur if the laws of physics are suspended, altered, reversed.
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March 14, 2014 at 8:18 am
It’s true that some people find God as pure consciousness. Or as being synonymous with the laws of nature. But if we talk about consciousness and the laws of nature, we won’t be talking about the God that most of our neighbors believe in. Which is a personal God who hears our prayers and occasionally answers them. So I just want you to be sensitive to this in case I say something derogatory about Islam, Judaism or Christianity, which seems possible, but the response from the other side shouldn’t mention quantum mechanics and it shouldn’t reference a notion of God that is so denuded of doctrine as to more or less be synonymous with pure mystery or pure information or pure energy or pure anything.
So I want to plant a flag there, where you all can see it. Because a God that our neighbors believe in is essentially an invisible person, is a creator deity, who created the universe to have a relationship with one species of primate. Lucky us.
And he’s got galaxy upon galaxy to attend to but he’s especially concerned with what we do, and he’s especially concerned with what we do when naked. And he almost certainly disapproves of homosexuality and he’s created this cosmos as a vast laboratory in which to test our powers of credulity. And the test is this: Can you believe in this God on bad evidence, which is to say on faith? And if you can, you will win an eternity of happiness after you die.
Many people claim to find it impossible to believe or to imagine that they won’t exist after death. Just try it for a second. Imagine that everyone in Paris right now is getting along fine without all of us, I mean none of us are in Paris. We are really, really materially absent from whatever is going on in every other city on this planet right now. You were absent from all of human history before your birth. The idea that you simply can’t imagine not existing after death is for really lack of trying, I think.
To not believe in God is to know that it’s up to us to make the world a better place. We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It’s not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world; it is hard work to climb down out of the trees, walk upright and build a viable global civilization when you start with technology made of rocks and sticks and fur. This is a project and progress is difficult.
Just picture going back a hundred generations within your own family. Just picture mapped to this room maybe just a hundred people. Picture your father’s father’s father, mother’s mother’s mother on back. I don’t care how cultured you are, how well educated your family, you can be Matthew Chapman whose great great grandfather was Charles Darwin but if you just keep going, in no more than a hundred conversations you’re going to meet someone who thinks that sacrificing your first born child just might be a good way to control the weather. Some of you may not have to go back quite that far; (chuckles) you just have to go home for Christmas.
Just think about the Muslims at this moment who are blowing themselves up convinced they are agents of God’s will. There’s absolutely nothing you can say against their behavior in moral terms apart from your own faith based claim that they’re praying to the wrong God. If they had the right God, what they are doing would be good, on Divine Command Theory. Now I’m obviously not saying that all religious people are psychopaths and psychotics but this to me is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions what only lunatics could believe on their own. If you wake up tomorrow morning thinking that saying a few Latin words over your pancakes is going to turn them into the body of Elvis Presley, you have lost your mind. But if you think more or less the same thing about a cracker, and the body of Jesus, you’re just a Catholic.
And it’s precisely this sort of God and this sort of scheme that you must believe in if you are going to have any kind of future in politics in this country; no matter what your gifts. I mean you could be an unprecedented genius, you could look like George Clooney; you could have a billion dollars and you could have the social skills of Oprah and you are going nowhere in politics in this country unless you believe in that sort of God. sharris
And the definition of religions’ Gods gives liberty to discriminate, hate and even kill those who disagree with the cultural hand-me-down dogmas of religious decrees which as a matter of biblical recod is exactly what happened to Jesus. And to think that Jesus died for your sins is a fairy tale; the truth is that Jesus was reviled, hated, hunted, captured, arrested, scourged, whipped, flogged, beaten and crucified because of religious dogmatic decrees that Jesus constantly was against throughout his ministry of defiance. No, Jesus wasn’t crucified for your sins or my sins; Jesus was crucified because of the sins of a society infested with religious insanity of supernatural dogma. So when Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the sabbath, clergy hatred festered all the more. Jesus was hated because of religion’s inflexible nonsense.
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March 14, 2014 at 10:16 am
Joh 8:23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Joh 8:24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Joh 8:30 As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Joh 8:31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Joh 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Joh 8:33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
Joh 8:35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
Joh 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Joh 8:37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
Joh 8:38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
Joh 8:39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,
Joh 8:40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
Joh 8:41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”
Joh 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
Joh 8:43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Joh 8:45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Joh 8:46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Joh 8:47 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
Seems like Jesus talks a lot about “sin” and that He is NOT from this world. Of course those aren’t really Jesus’ words, the “clergy” wrote that part, isn’t that right LTG ? Hey everybody, let’s go cherry picking !!
Since day 1 all you do is embellish the scriptures to make your point. Your straw man argument does not hold……you have to do a better job than that to convince me that I have been led astray by the “clergy”.
C’mon LTG, please right another thousand line post…..please……I can’t wait to read it…..I’m bored……..
Naz
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March 14, 2014 at 11:03 am
A Christian school experiencing an outbreak of measles in Chilliwacke BC chose Christianity instead of Science and decided against medical vaccinations; now, the outbreak has migrated into the entire outside community that has now implemented an emergency vaccination program in the general population. So much for placebo prayers.
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March 14, 2014 at 11:11 am
Naz:
You are merely repeating what I wrote without all the flare of scripture that has nothing to do with the point I was making. Sin as you have made obvious is what other people think you do that offends them and I am not convicted of your idea of sin nor am I unable to say I too am from above for the same Father within Jesus is within me and that Father is not of this world, for its mindset, while in the world, is not convinced by the world.
However it is noted that you did not answer my questin that was What did Jesus mean when he said that Abraham saw my day and rejoiced. Can it be assumed you do not know the answer but can not admit you do not know?
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March 14, 2014 at 11:41 am
Clergy wrote the entire bible I’m afraid, not Jesus. And the only bible Jesus ever had was the Old Testament bible; Jesus did not have the New Testament, not because he didn’t like it, he just never had it. Few Christians understand that the only bible Jesus ever used was the Old Testament. But when he opened the book everyone was on the edge of his seat wondering what AMAZING thing he’d say next because he taught them as as one having authority not like the Scribes and the Pharisees, the minions, proxies, proselytes and pawns; you know who I mean, the ones indoctrinated by the clergy and cannot differentiate one verse from the other or recognize the difference between the supernatural that does not exist and common sense that requires birth-brain thinking not clergy-washed dogma-amgod reasoning with discernment.
Do you agree with me?
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March 14, 2014 at 12:03 pm
First, the Chilliwacke BC story is an example of ignorance, not science vs. Christianity. There is no dichotomy between science and God only a lack of understanding between the two.
As for what Jesus meant when He said Abraham was glad to see my day…Jesus is claiming here to be the “I AM” of the Old Testament, that is why He said, “before Abraham was, I AM”. This is what God told Moses on Mt Sinai when He told him to go and tell Pharaoh that “I AM” sent you.
Jesus is the the eternal God manifest in human flesh. He is the Son of God and the Son of Man.
The Jews knowing Jesus was only around 30 years old immediately tried to stone Him because to claim one is God is the highest form of blasphemy against God, which by the way you are currently guilty of Mr. LTG.
This is partly what Jesus was referring to in Matthew 12 when He said that to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit would NOT be forgiven.
Naz
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March 14, 2014 at 12:54 pm
LTG, your underlying premise is that you believe the people of that century were a gullible bunch of dolts just because they had no technology or because they didn’t have the knowledge we have today. People of all ages were very intelligent. Archeology even confirms this as we are amazed as what ancient civilizations have accomplished.
We know that Jesus did not directly write the scriptures, but they were written by the apostles who were eye witnesses of His life. It is a historic document.
So no I don’t agree with you because you don’t have to check your brains at the door of theism in order to believe in God. Actually the opposite is true and that is what sites like this is all about, kudos to Jason for that !!
Naz
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March 14, 2014 at 6:02 pm
“And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: But YHWH of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of YHWH of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.”
(ISAIAH 5:15-24)
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March 14, 2014 at 9:44 pm
Frank:
That is some powerful negatives you throw at us.
I am curious what verses you think would be the antithesis of the scathing indictment message to all those who dare ignore the laws decreed; what I have said, I have said.
I must be speaking in tongues right about now………!
But I will accept the challenge you offer, by responding to the “scathing indictment, you offered, against those who would go against the cultural stock you have been inducted into, since you are right, and the penalty thereof who respond outside your mindset coordinates, must beware.
However, for those of us who have been annointed to go beyond th punishment, the rewards are not, “what you know to be true”, but “what you know to be true”, are the rewards, who remain true to thine own self. And so I offer you the words of rewards we now reap, and hope you too, will receive the peace of “just to have these very words in the mindset is reward sufficient.
Here is what I offer :
Love and the Spirit Good. Love is not a feeling..Love is a spirit…………
It knows no boundaries, transcends all nations, speaks in every tongue; it’s the dream of every man, woman and child……
Charity and the love within suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in truth, bears all things, endures all things.
The fruit of the spirit of good is love, joy, peace, longsuffering(patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.
Against such there is no law.
I remain for the SoM
You need to know
Leo
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March 15, 2014 at 9:22 am
N:
While it is true that every generation builds on the shoulders of the previous generations, the generation of Moses’ day and especially the bible blogger who told Moses that God’s name was I AM, indeed was from a generation that spawned “a gullible bunch of dolts”. The bible blogger who said that God said his name was I AM is the same blogger who said that to prove the power of the God I AM,,peform a magid trick miracle when Pharoah asks for a miracle for proof.
In order to believe this stuff, maybe you don’t need to check your brains at the door of Theism but you must necessarily suspend the very ordinary human reasoning of disbelief to accept magic tricks to prove your personal, supernatural God nonsense. And when the best proof for your God I AM you can offer, is a staff that turns into a snake, there is something wanting in your divine message n’est ce pas?
And I don’t mind at all being put into the same Camp as Jesus by being accused of pharisaical blasphemy like he was; on the contrary, to be classed with Jesus as being guilty of blasphemy is indeed a compliment. But of course as Jesus himself said, “who convinceth me of guilt”? And as your own reliable bible says about me? Well, read it in Romans 14:22 NIV:”“Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves!”
And while I’m in Romans did you ever read where the bible blogger compliments, supports and endorses atheism? Here read it for yourself:
Rom 2:13-15
(For not the hearers of the law are righteous, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14For when the Atheists, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another;)
In other words:
“When outsiders who have never heard of the Law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm a Universal Truth by their obedience. They show that Nature’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of their being. There is something deep within them that echoes the Universal Truth of yes and no, right and wrong.”
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March 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Leo,
“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. I Yahshua (Jesus) have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.” (REVELATION 22:11-16)
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March 17, 2014 at 8:52 pm
So Frank:
What’s your point?
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March 18, 2014 at 8:30 pm
Darn, I’m getting bored. So here goes to spark the the mind, if there is anyone listening and somehow I think most of you are off doing the worldly thing. Nevertheless I contribute the following when you return.
The Gods travel the circles outside human parameters and then repeat themselves over and over unbeknowns to any generation before or after as each generation has already enveloped the Gods of the day; BUT, human generations that birth, bloom, battle life and bye bye in 90 years, spawns the next generation of “do-it-yourself” crews at the helm; and yeah, looking back at history but without ever imagining that THEY are the history they read, the history they study, the history they live. When will they see the obvious and take control of history and the sanctity of life.
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