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What do you think worshipping Jesus means?
John 5:22
The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son,JUST AS they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Loving God would be a good place to start. How can you love God if you don't even know who He is? You can't worship the Father without worshipping the Son.
Or would it be following his example in love? His greatest commandment is to love God and then to love your neighbor as yourself.
Do you keep these commands? The command says to love God with all your heart, with all your soul and all your mind. Are you doing that? The only way I can do this is by faith (in what Jesus has done), not by works.
If you worship Jesus, why are you trying to scare people with hell?
Don't you mean why is Jesus trying to scare people with hell? Look at the words of Jesus:
Mat 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Mat 18:8And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Luk 12:5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into Hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Your own church teaches this. There are plenty more verses I worship Jesus because He payed the price to keep me from hell (which I deserve). Hell is what we all deserve, and what we will recieve without faith in Jesus.
Why are you trying to turn this into a competition between churches, DP?
I thought you were the one doing that. when you said:
I want to note that the Episcopal Church does not disagree with Evolution. The church is ecuemenical. The church is mostly Universalist in it's leanings and inclusive, save a few conservative thinkers. They will serve you communion if you've been baptized, doesn't matter if you are an atheist or agnostic or have converted to Muslim, etc. You're welcome there.
You say this as if it's a good thing that they do, that others don't. Do you think it's a sign of a healthy church that would baptize (accept as members) "an atheist or agnostic or have converted to Muslim, etc."?
You don't have to go to any church to do this. You don't have to believe in God to follow Jesus' example.
Really? I have never seen one person who can follow His example. How many people have you died for today? How many people have you healed? How many have you raised from the dead? Jesus did not sin at all. Have you?
What is the scripture that talks about non christians who followed the law written in their hearts?
It's in Romans
Rom 2:12
For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
15They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel,
God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
