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Would you sacrifice someone if you knew God was ordering you to do it?
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son and he almost did it before he was stopped. What about you? What if you were completely convinced God had ordered you to sacrifice someone. Would you do it?
You don't feel love because you hate the truth and it seems unloving to you when somebody tells you the truth. I love you man, even though you are an idiotic proud and brave fool.
I know you love all living creatures. The thing is, you should stop. I know it sounds strange, but telling people what you think is the correct way of doing things will only make them not want to do it.
Just do what I do, love everyone but only try to correct those you love personally.
You're in rebellion against God, that's not my problem. If I tell you the correct way of getting things is to work for them, and you say you don't like being told what to do so you go out and steal to get what you want, that is not my fault. You are a thief and you can't put me in your place to excuse yourself from the justice you deserve.
I don't hate the truth Saintnow. And I don't hate you either. But I'm never going to stop asking questions just because you say you already showed me the only possible answer.
If you won't accept the truth, and you believe you can know the truth, you will ask questions and remain forever learning but unable to come to the knowledge of the truth, exactly as the Bible states regarding you.
well, there is only one way to be saved from Hell and God made, is, the way in Jesus Christ. There is no other way. If you want to be saved you must:
First believe God is there
Second, admit you have sinned against Him and deserve to die
third, believe He loves you so much that He came down from heaven in form of a man as the Son of God to die for your sins; He paid your price to buy you back from your sins, then rose from the dead and is alive now and forever willing to forgive you because He paid for you so you don't have to pay in Hell
Fourth.......call on God in prayer asking for His forgiveness and believing on His Son, and receive Jesus as your Savior
If you will really believe and trust in the Savior, He will come into you by His Holy Spirit giving you a new heart, a new life, making you a new creation, and you will be saved from Hell.
There is no other way. If I told you anything different I would be apathetic which is no better than being hateful. God's solution is the only remedy for the human condition of dying. If you won't trust in what He did to save you from Hell, in reality you are being hateful toward God by figuratively trampling the blood of His Son under your feet as you go about asking questions in doubt. If you really want to know the truth, you will know Jesus is the Truth and the truth will make you free. That's why I do not waver from trying to get you to see the only possible answer.
What you are reading isn't a commandment to us Christians. It is talking about the end of days. But feel free to find more and we can help you understand. Matthew 13:40 "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world?" Please I encourage you to find many more.
Luke 19:27 again is a parable about the end times. Everyone will be judged and re payed for there deeds. Jesus is explaining with a parable the repayment that will come to sinner and those people who wrongfully persecute Christians. As you can see now many Christians are being persecuted unto death. Those that have choosing to do this have declared themselves enemies of Jesus. Remember God will repay.
Since you apparently don't much care for trying to read the Bible or understand God, let me give you a little Bible lesson.
God had promised Abraham that His promises for Abraham would be fulfilled through Isaac. As Abraham was going with Isaac to the place of sacrifice, Isaac asked where the sacrificial lamb was. Abraham replied, "God will provide himself a lamb". The wording of this statement is important, and is perverted in meaning in modern versions. The correct translation in English is that God will provide himself a lamb, a direct reference to the coming Messiah, the Lamb of God, Jesus.
Hebrews 11: 17-19 ....By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
God had a special purpose in commanding Abraham to offer Isaac up as a sacrifice, and Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness by God. Abraham believed, trusted, and obeyed God so it was imputed to him for righteousness...the righteousness of God which is by faith to all who believe.....and if you really trust God and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ who Isaac pictured here, you will know the power of His resurrection and it will change your life forever, giving you new desires to do right and new disdain against the things you do that are unrighteous...like in the case of many people here, they would stop being foul mouth perverts of all sorts.
God is not commanding anybody to sacrifice anybody today. One time He used Abraham and Isaac for an example of Himself, and then He Himself did what He had asked Abraham to do, and raised Jesus Christ from the dead through whom we may obtain the promises of God and the Muslims will end up burning in Hell the same as Atheists and Hindus if they won't believe God loves them so much He became a man to die for them so they can be considered paid for and pardoned from Hell.
Anyone who responds yes to this proves the point religion is merely a tool to manipulate and justify peoples actions for the supposedly greater good of there faith!
there is no god to request this action! so any request will be from another human or an insane human with voices in his or hers head!!!
Anyone who responds yes to this proves the point religion is merely a tool to manipulate and justify peoples actions for the supposedly greater good of there faith!
there is no god to request this action! so any request will be from another human or an insane human with voices in his or hers head!!!
There lacks any diety to represent this behaviour, so any appeal will be from another human or an insane human with visions in his or her dreams.
Religion is delusional, it was CREATED in a time where humans were still learning about the world and trying to find answers, answers that were far from there grasp, religion hasn't advanced this world, science has! religion hasn't made this world a better place, its only created division, religion hasn't given any answers with evidence? so to follow the words written in a book created thousands of years ago is delusional
Humans still ARE LEARNING about the world, but I don't think it makes Religion any less delusional. Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing with you, I'm just curious what has science proved in a way that Christianity hasn't?
were still learning through technology and science, the list is to large to state what we have learned as apposed to what religion has taught us, i.e. religion has taught us nothing.
Science has proven the world is how ever many billions of years old it is, dinosaurs, how the earth moves around the sun and how the moon effects the tides etc........ I could go on all night, the easy and quick question is what has religion taught us...................................................? NOTHING!
I'm referring more to a moral background... what has science taught us morally that religion hasn't? How has science taught us how to behave in a way science hasn't?
Lets not go down the moral route of religion, when you see the problems that the catholic church has caused in Africa with the moral stance on condom's, not just that the abuse that's gone on in catholic churches behind the scenes, the origins of Allah and the paedophile attitude he had which still exist today in that religion, Science taught us the age for which a young girl should be ready to bare a baby and why we should wear a condom, yes I accept many of our morals have a religious background or undertone to them, but there basic right and wrongs, but so many religious morals are foolish and wrong based on todays standards.
I think we do have to go down the moral route considering it was science who invented the internet, and science who created global warming! Sure, totally I think that religion has done more harm than good, and I'm not for one moment suggesting it's good but considering precisely just how dangerous one of them could be, how can we keep going further down both routes? Science could potentially from now become more destructive, just as religion is! If we just listened to science, then Hitler general idea of Eugenics is acceptable, but we both know it's not!
Yes science has the potential to cause harm, but it has just the same potential for good, I understand your perspective but science is the lesser of the two evils if you look at it your way.
My way doesn't compare the two evils; my way looks at the issue realistically. Suppose religion didn't exist, would wars not exist? Think back to the Romans or the Mongols. They both had religious beliefs, but they didn't wage war because of them. They waged war because they were imperialist War Lords. Religion was the thing that held them back. Science is different all together - science just makes everything better... and that includes medicine and the effectiveness of ware fare of which one is good, and the other bad.
Wars will always happen with humans as were tribalistic in nature, religions just adds fuel to that fire as a form of justification, as you stated Romans and Mongols weren't driven by religion and certainly weren't restricted or held back by them iver, I personally would love to see the world without religion, I couldn't foresee the world being a worst place for it? but who knows that's just my personal perspective.
Sometimes religion does add fuel. It also adds fuel to everyone else which in turn places restriction on the people in charge - that fuel works like two forces acting against each other, and the power of the media practically always comes out on top. That is unless they are under some form of dictatorship, of which in that case is the person of whom is in charge that is corrupt rather than the other way round! I think a lack of, or maybe an excess of democracy is the real reason they are so God-damn wars.
Your right with this day and age, the media can turn a flame into an inferno, but much of the under current stems from Religion and tribal loyalties especially in the middle east. but of course your right on the dictatorship and the impact they have.
were still learning through technology and science, the list is to large to state what we have learned as apposed to what religion has taught us, i.e. religion has taught us nothing.
Religion has taught us nothing?
Well, same with science in that case.
We are still learning and the world is still primitive, so we need religion still.
Religion is for motivating people, not for teaching people.
Religion is for motivating primitive minds.
We at this day and age still have primitive minds.
We haven't yet stopped learning about the world.
When we have finished learning about the world, then religion may no longer motivate us, but by that time we will be learning about the universe after we have finished learning about the world.
But by the time we finished learning about the world and learn about the universe, the antichrist will spring upon us!
YIKES!
I'm right, you're wrong!
So debate!
Come on' let's start this boomin' fight!
Prove you got the speed ♫, prove you got the style ♫
Religion doesn't motivate it dictates! science has taught us everything! its at your finger tips now reading this! the only primitive minds are the religious fools like yourself who seek to be told what to do, and of course we haven't stopped learning we never will, but if we were all dedicated to religion and nothing else, we wouldn't seek new answers or new information, we would restrict our learning and abilities! so be thankful for people like me who made this world you live in today, the people who broke with tradition and choose to seek knowledge and to be different and not listen to some dumb ass book with fictional story's about all the animals on an ark and bla bla bla yawn!!!!!!!!
I love how you feel so good about your response as if you have proven anything!
the only primitive minds are the religious fools like yourself who seek to be told what to do, and of course we haven't stopped learning we never will
The only primitive minds are the doctrinal obsessives like myself who await to be told what to mentally process, and of course we both should not halt thinking and never will.
Napoleon recognized the claims of Christ to divinity, and also recognized that He gained His followers through love rather than by force as he and other Emperors had done.....with no money, no army......and today millions will still die for Him.
Jesus is God who took on Human form to plunge Himself into our death to pull us out of it in His resurrection. He paid the price for us so we can know His Pardon, our debt has been paid.
You can know for sure, 100 percent certain....being agnostic avoids the changes that certainty of knowledge brings. If you really decide to believe on the Lord, He will be your life and your life in Him is eternal....and God wants you to know absolutely 100 percent sure.....and you can...I do, I know....if they want to crucify me demanding I renounce the Savior who died on the cross for me, I'll take my place on the cross and not deny my Savior lives and I know I'm going to heaven.
I suspect cognitive dissonance would be a state of confusion and self-contradictory ideas, feelings, or beliefs...close enough? You could say it's believing both sides of an oxy-moron. Agnostic excludes being a Christian as to be a Christian is to know God. Being a Christian excludes being an agnostic as to be an agnostic is to believe you cannot know God. You can't be both agnostic and Christian, unless you define being a Christian differently than how the Bible defines being a Christian, and then you are not really a Christian but some kind of imposter because you are using the name "Christian" when you exclude yourself from knowing God by claiming to be an agnostic. A real Christian believes the Bible is the word of God and being a Christian is defined by the Bible alone, and not by any single person or group's personal preference of what constitutes being a Christian for themselves outside of what the Bible says a Christian is.
God wants you to know Him personally, and you can know Him personally. If you don't, you need to. If you think you do, but you are not sure, then you need to get it settled so you can be sure and stop being confused in agnosticism.
You can know God now, for real. He loves you so much that He gave His Son to be the payment for your sins so you can be forgiven if you will believe from your heart that God has raised Him from the dead and ask God the Father in the name of God the Son to save you from death, which is the penalty for your sins, taking you to Hell away from God to pay for yourself if you won't accept Jesus Christ as your payment and receive Him by faith as your Savior.
God wants you to know Him for real and enjoy His Heaven forever, giving you all things that pertain to life to glorify His own name as He is good, He loves you and you can know 100% absolutely sure of being forgiven with Heaven as your eternal home.
You can know God now, for real. He loves you so much that He gave His Son to be the payment for your sins so you can be forgiven if you will believe from your heart that God has raised Him from the dead and ask God the Father in the name of God the Son to save you from death, which is the penalty for your sins, taking you to Hell away from God to pay for yourself if you won't accept Jesus Christ as your payment and receive Him by faith as your Savior.
God wants you to know Him for real and enjoy His Heaven forever, giving you all things that pertain to life to glorify His own name as He is good, He loves you and you can know 100% absolutely sure of being forgiven with Heaven as your eternal home.
You will know true love if you believe God loves you and proves it in that He gave His only begotten Son to be the payment for your sins.....even while you were His enemy, He still loves you and died in your place. He now stands with arms wide open to you in His resurrection seeking you, wanting you to know His forgiveness.....He paid your price in death because He loves you, the price must be paid, you can be forgiven of all your debt and know God's love.
Love is a choice. God is love. God loves you. You can know. Only repent of your sins; take sides with God in agreeing against your sins, believe on Jesus is His resurrection and receive Him by faith as your Savior. You can talk it all over with God directly, He will hear you when you are agreeing with Him admitting your fault and need of His mercy.
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
Jesus Christ is God, you can know Him for real now. You are not sure anybody truly knows God because you do not know Him....you can know if you will.
Admit you are a sinner and your sin has separated you from God, has put you in enmity against Him and His wrath against your sin is justified and you deserve to die and burn in Hell.
Believe that God loves you so much He gave His Son, God in human form, Jesus, to die for your sins so that you can be forgiven by Him in His resurrection.
Call on God in the name of His Son to be saved from Hell. If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. With the heart you believe unto righteousness, and with the mouth you confess unto salvation. If you come into agreement with God, He will give you a new heart, a new Spirt, Jesus Christ Himself will indwell you making you a new person, a new creation, born again as a child of God, adopted into His family to be a joint heir with Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life and all the blessings of God in Heaven.
Yes it is really possible. You can know, God wants you to know Him, He loves you.
Call on God in the name of His Son to be saved from Hell. If you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. With the heart you believe unto righteousness, and with the mouth you confess unto salvation. If you come into agreement with God, He will give you a new heart, a new Spirt, Jesus Christ Himself will indwell you making you a new person, a new creation, born again as a child of God, adopted into His family to be a joint heir with Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life and all the blessings of God in Heaven.
Pretending to not know what sin is, is sin. You can name other sins you enjoy when you are doing them.
Why the fuck would I know what sin means? You can't even be bothered to clarify. Are all things that we enjoy somehow sinful? Does that mean that once you become a Christian that you cannot enjoy being a Christian without sinning?
I see what people mean now when they say that even if you become a Christian it doesn't stop you from sinning.
Your potty mouth is a disappointment, you can't expect me to read junk like this......when I see this kind of stuff, I ignore whatever it is they are trying to say after they tried to express their weak mind forcefully by using profane speech.
Your potty mouth is a disappointment, you can't expect me to read junk like this......when I see this kind of stuff, I ignore whatever it is they are trying to say after they tried to express their weak mind forcefully by using profane speech.
You're weak.
You're so weak morally that you can't even explain what sin is. Do you count not having the willingness to explain it as a sin? What the essence of morality is depends on the morality that is within the mind of the one that believes in morality.
Well at least I think I know what you meant now.....thank you for clarifying. I do recall I promised to respond kindly, and I hope I did not come across rude of harsh in my response.
No, I'd tell the big shy, silent man to take time off from zooming around the cosmos and do his own dirty work. It would be important to be conscious of the fact that if you talk to God you're praying. But, if he talks back you are a schizophrenic. A lot of murderers use the old, ''instructions from this mythical god'' as an excuse for their vile deeds.
No, I'd tell the big shy, silent man to take time off from zooming around the cosmos and do his own dirty work. It would be important to be conscious of the fact that if you talk to God you're praying. But, if he talks back you are a schizophrenic. A lot of murderers use the old, ''instructions from this mythical god'' as an excuse for their vile deeds.
I'd tell the large introverted, soft-spoken men to remove minutes away from crashing around the cosmos and do his own field work.
He seems to be silent to you because you have stuck your fingers in your ears to shut Him out and you won't be quiet so you block out His calling for you to return to Him and be saved from Hell. And you look very pretty in your picture.
You don't want Him to do that because you don't want Him to rule over you, you don't want to take sides with Him against your sin. You want to be the same old punk you have been, loving your sin more than life and propelling yourself into the fire of Hell like a moth into the flames.
