god and jesus
May I ask what purpose you had for pointing out this error? Any comments about this young guys letter?
Now, if this IS true, then yes, it is a great point to be made.
I admitted that I did not copy down the correct source. I gave you the correct source. Look it up with the same veracity that you found the error initially. If I had taken credit for the letter that would be another story.
Thank you for finally making the correction of the S.E. Calgary News.
If we want to know more about what the perfect man/woman is like, we should look to Jesus..
He shows us both the nature of man and God...for he was both.
misterskank, I think you are a brillant person and I like to read your posts...but Jesus is real (notice I didn't say was) He can save us all. He has already paid the price, we just have to redeem our prize.
No.
I hope you have a blessed day, Chaps my Brother. <><
I hope you have a blessed day, misterskank!
Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God.
Matt 19:17a And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none [is] good, save one, [that is], God.
It was not centuries later that this idea came to being because the bible clearly states in the new testament that The Word always was. The Word, being Jesus, has always been. It even says that Jesus created to the world. Jesus also called himself the Alpha and the Omega, I am sure I don't have to tell you, the beginning and the end.
I don't really have to argue with my efforts to justify anything because you don't believe and as stated in the new testament, because you are not a believer you will never understand The Word, aka.. Jesus.
You are right, we have clearly not all learned, but that is no fault of Jesus'. It is our own because we were born to sin and he wasn't. Why do you think he was so frustrated so many times...even his disciples could not fully grasp his perfectness and they witnessed the miracles everyday!!!! As Jesus said, we think of things in terms of this world, he did not and never will.
I wish peace upon you, Misterskank, and the love of Christ. <><
Nor would I call it an exchange. No we aren't yelling at each other and getting all pissy but we are certainly not agreeing. But, I don't have to tell you because you know it all...right?
God bless you.. and Jesus too!
Your response to mythousonit is a building plan gone all wrong. We have read your blogs on your spiritual awakenings across various religious experiences over many years and all I see reading them is this Lego Land Log Cabin pasted together that doesn't look like anything. I can't wait for your flock to get their licks into this metaphor.
After reading what you wrote to this devoted woman of God, you are so wrong on so many things I could write volumes. You truly don't know anything about the bible from which you quote do you?
You took the directions out of the box and perused them at one time, but its been all gut feeling from there. You selectively leave out scripture you must know, to confuse and deceive. Your responses are usually never intended for the responder but for the innocent who stumble by your writings and hop on board.
Get out the directions just one last time and let's debate, or discuss what is written. It is in the word that we can find the truth. It is right in there.
Chaps
In 1 John 2:29 John asserts that he (Jesus Christ) is righteous. What does it mean to be "righteous?" Is this the perfect that mythoutsonit claimed? How is Jesus righteous? Does it mean perfection for us?
The verse clearly states that he is righteous but that everyone who knows him or claims him as their savior "practices" to be righteous.
If Jesus is not then perfect or the only one who is righteous, what does this verse mean?
This is what mythoutsonit is referring to, one verse anyway among many. Do you agree with this verse then that Jesus was able to live righteously, sinless before God for to be fully righteous one must be holy and pure. I believe Jesus has us on that one.
1st John 1:1-2
" That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life, the life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness, and declare to you that the eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us we declare to you"
This is why you need John's words. He was there. He heard, saw and touched Jesus, an eye witness. Proof misterskank gathered and written the same as any historical figure we take as truth. We know Ceasar existed. It is in the history books. Someone wrote about him, and then someone else and those writings made it to today. We don't deny the existance of Mozart. Have you seen him? Is anyone alive who has? The life of Jesus is no different. We rely on accounts written and documented now in bibles or textbooks which you and I use to teach.
Sin is all together another subject. If there is good and there is, there must be an opposite, which is bad. Sin? Concept?
God doesn't need us to be good and care for people. He needs us to glorify Him with our lives. I know that sounds despicable to you. It sure did to me for a very long time. I am going to glorify who, and by an act of faith I will have eternal what?
No thank you.
God kept coming after me, proving his love and forgiveness and desire to love me unconditionally if I only ask him to.
And what a life I have now!!!
WOW!!!
Again though you don't know the God of the bible and I do know very well what I speak of. He indeed asks us to worship Him, to glorify Him with our lives above all else. Is He a jealous God?
You need to read up professor. Your biblical knowledge if ever grasped is showing wear.
—Bob
I do enjoy your writings, they are well written and as an English major I want to be a great writer, as you are. But, maybe for a different purpose. <><
I am fifty-five years old and, with the exception of the fourteen or fifteen years of my childhood, I have been until recently a “Nihilist” in the proper signification of that term. I have not been a Socialist or Revolutionist, but a Nihilist in the sense of being completely without faith.
Five years ago I began to believe in the doctrine of Christ, and in consequence a great change has been wrought in me. I now no longer care for the things that I had prized, and I have begun to desire things concerning which I had formerly been indifferent. Like a man who, going out on business, on his way suddenly becomes convinced of the futility of that business and turns back; and all that stood to the right now stands to the left, and all that was to the left is now to the right; his wish to be as far from home as possible is changed to the desire of being as near home as possible – so, I may say, the whole aim and purpose of my life has been changed; my desires are no more what they have been. For me, good and evil have changed places. This experience came through my apprehending the doctrine of Christ in an altogether different way, and seeing it in quite a new light.
It is not my intention to interpret the doctrine of Christ, but simply to relate how I came to understand the simplest, clearest, and most intelligible point in that doctrine; and how, when once I had clearly grasped His meaning, it gave a new direction to all my thoughts.
I have no wish to interpret the doctrine of Christ, but I should like to prevent others from interpreting it wrongly. Christian churches generally acknowledge that all men, however they may differ from each other in knowledge or mental capacity, are equal before God; and that the truth revealed to man is accessible to all. Christ Himself has told us that the Father has hidden some things ‘from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to babes.’
All men cannot be initiated into the mysteries of dogmatic, homiletic, and patristic theologies, and so on, but all can understand what Christ taught and still teaches to simple and ignorant men. The teachings of Christ were incomprehensible to me until recently, but I understand them now, and what I have found I desire to explain to others.
The thief on the cross believed in Christ and was saved. Would it have harmed anybody if the thief had not died on the cross, but had come down to tell us how he believed in Christ?
Like the thief on the cross, I, too, believed in the doctrine of Christ, and found my salvation in it. This is not a far-fetched comparison; it worthily describes the condition of anguish and despair I was once in at the thought of life and of death, and it also indicates the peace and happiness that now fill my soul.
Like the thief, I knew that my life was full of wickedness; I saw that the greater part of those around me were morally no better than I was. Like the thief, too, I knew that I was unhappy, and that I suffered; and that all around me were unhappy and suffering likewise, and I saw no way out of this state of misery but through death.
Like the thief, I was nailed, as it were by some invisible power, to this life of suffering and evil; and the same dreadful darkness of death that awaited the thief, after his useless suffering and enduring of the evils of life, awaited me.
In all this I was like the thief, but there was this difference between us: he was dying, and I still lived. The thief could believe that his salvation would be realized beyond the grave, but I could not; because, putting aside the life beyond the grave, I had yet to live on earth. I did not, however, understand life. It seemed awful to me until I heard the words of Christ and understood them; and then life and death no longer seemed to be evils; instead of despair I felt the joy of possessing a life that death has no power to destroy.
Can it harm anyone if I relate how it was that this change was effected in me?
I do believe in a higher power most of the time, the power of human emotion. I believe that good things happen to good people and being around happy people makes you feel happy. I control my life because I control how I react to situations, the people I surround myself with, and how much effort I put into things.
However, since I grew up Baptist there are times where I revert back to it, mostly out of comfort in the thought of me not being in control. But I know that I am in control and that no problem that I have can be solved unless I solve it myself.
Tolstoy in "What I Believe":
"These words, 'Resist not evil,' understood in their literal significance, were to me the master key. I was astonished that I could have so grossly misunderstood words so clear and definite…. Then with this understanding came also a clear comprehension of all the teaching of Jesus, not only in the Sermon on the Mount, but throughout the Gospels, then all that before had seemed obscure became intelligible, all that had seemed contradictory became harmonious, and, above all, what had appeared superfluous became necessary. All the parts were fused into one whole, and without any possibility of doubt confirmed one another, as the fragment of the broken statue rightly fitted together. In this Sermon, and throughout all the Gospels, I found universal confirmation of the teaching, 'Resist not evil.'"
How hard the world seems to make telling the plain truth as you, and, you fear, perhaps you only among the living, have experienced it! How dear, then, are believing, or unbelieving but still kind, loving friends and family?
Maybe we can show Him Christ's love? I should pray about that.
Have a blessed day!
