OK - I'll concede Cornelius was a christian (maybe a proto-christian:) - he just wasn't 'saved' but by that token maybe we are all 'christians' in that God has a relationship with everyone even if they don't recognise it.
Mark 16:15 - 16
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
1 Peter 3:20 - 21
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
..and afterwards there as still a law of commandments
Matthew 28:19 - 20
19 ¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen
Posts by Qcmbr
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by Honesty in1. were among the first to respond to the tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina with food, water, shelter, clothing, comfort, etc.
and provided relief efforts to every person they came in contact with regardless of religious beliefs.. 2. point to jesus as the only source of true happiness in today's world of uncertainty.
3. utilise 'worldly' holidays to focus attention on god's love for mankind.. 4. welcome you in no matter how many tattoos or body piercings you adorn your body with.. 5. pray for everything and at a moment's notice.
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Are you weird too?
by kittyeatzjdubs indo you have sorta weird habits in your day to day life?.
example: here at work, i will only use one stall in the bathroom.
the one second from the left.
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Lowering the tone again..
Even if I'm teddy legging it I never do a number 2 at work. -
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SLAP Your Coworker Day is Coming!!
by BrendaCloutier inslap your coworker day is coming!!.
september 29, 2005 is the official slap your irritating co-workers holiday: do you.
have a co-worker who talks nonstop about nothing, working your last nerve.
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I just said goodbye to a colleague who headed back to India but he gave me hours of fun bless his cotton socks you see his english wasn't easy to understand and a conversation would go like this:
'Hiya Dave, you good? I have exuded your code and I am thinking that you need to see.
Am I thinking right?'
'er..hi Rajiv(names hidden to protect the innocent) do you want me to come and fix it?'
quizzical look. 'You need to understand. I exuded your code. The bindings are making me wonder.'
'OK. I'll have a look'
follows behind looking at me like I'm an idiot while I head to his pc hoping that enlightenment will fall on me and somehow I'll see what is going on.
Ten minutes later.
'Right. I've had a look through the code and I've cleaned up a couple bugs I found - is that what you wanted?'
'No. That code was fine. I exuded (executed) your code and my code worked with it. I just came to say I think its ready.'
At which point I wander off embarrassed by my idiocy - thing is this Indian guy is a friggin' computer genius. This sort of thing happened several times and I spent hours debugging code that was absolutely fine thanks to my inability to understand.. ho hum. -
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Who am I thinking of? Question to all
by Sam the Man inwho am i describing here: .
- i am god made flesh, the saviour and the 'son of god' .
- my father is god and my mother is a mortal virgin.
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JEHOVAH Jr.!!! - Jesus had kids?
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"Quotes" website owner-Radio Interview on the Net-Sept. 24, '05
by sf inhttp://www.drewmarshall.ca/listen.html [ open link to select player best suited for your computer ].
having grown up in a jehovah's witness family, { quotes } came to the realization that what he was being raised to believe, wasn't standing up to scrutiny.
subsequently, he put together a fantastic website, simply showing primary resource material (stuff jw's say about themselves and their beliefs) then simply highlighted various points of interest... things to make you say "hmmm!
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Good luck - normally I'm not in favour of biting the hand that feeds but the response of the WT is childish. When will officialdom learn that the more truth is suppressed the more it spreads?
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Real Christians.....
by Honesty in1. were among the first to respond to the tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina with food, water, shelter, clothing, comfort, etc.
and provided relief efforts to every person they came in contact with regardless of religious beliefs.. 2. point to jesus as the only source of true happiness in today's world of uncertainty.
3. utilise 'worldly' holidays to focus attention on god's love for mankind.. 4. welcome you in no matter how many tattoos or body piercings you adorn your body with.. 5. pray for everything and at a moment's notice.
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I totally agree - you'd be bonkers to get baptised if you didn't believe and have a relationship with God. It'd be like signing a mortgage on a house you never looked at.
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Why Fundyism is Irrational
by jgnat inlately i've been putting a lot of thought in to what is rational and what must be relegated to faith alone.
ever since the scientific method was discovered, humanity has attempted to put it to work in so many areas.
after all, discoveries exploded once we were set free from the shackles of tradition.
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Being irrational is required in our human condition - rational thinking isn't always the best. Even 'rational' people can find some of life's greatest answers / fulfillment when they are filled with passion, intuition, ecstacy (the non-chewable kind;), siritual enlightenment , sorrow, hope and faith.
1 Corinthians 1:17 - 24
7 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
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.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Drawings are pretty cool though:) -
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Real Christians.....
by Honesty in1. were among the first to respond to the tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina with food, water, shelter, clothing, comfort, etc.
and provided relief efforts to every person they came in contact with regardless of religious beliefs.. 2. point to jesus as the only source of true happiness in today's world of uncertainty.
3. utilise 'worldly' holidays to focus attention on god's love for mankind.. 4. welcome you in no matter how many tattoos or body piercings you adorn your body with.. 5. pray for everything and at a moment's notice.
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..but clearly the context of Revelations is not talking about a body but a physical place? I think the concept is quite clear - a temple is a the House of God and if you are filled with the Spirit then you are also a temple.
It is sad (IMO) that only a few religions still use temples. -
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Real Christians.....
by Honesty in1. were among the first to respond to the tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina with food, water, shelter, clothing, comfort, etc.
and provided relief efforts to every person they came in contact with regardless of religious beliefs.. 2. point to jesus as the only source of true happiness in today's world of uncertainty.
3. utilise 'worldly' holidays to focus attention on god's love for mankind.. 4. welcome you in no matter how many tattoos or body piercings you adorn your body with.. 5. pray for everything and at a moment's notice.
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Interesting end to the Cornelius conversion:
(New Testament | Acts 10:47 - 48)
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. -
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Real Christians.....
by Honesty in1. were among the first to respond to the tsunami of 2004 and hurricane katrina with food, water, shelter, clothing, comfort, etc.
and provided relief efforts to every person they came in contact with regardless of religious beliefs.. 2. point to jesus as the only source of true happiness in today's world of uncertainty.
3. utilise 'worldly' holidays to focus attention on god's love for mankind.. 4. welcome you in no matter how many tattoos or body piercings you adorn your body with.. 5. pray for everything and at a moment's notice.
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Hiya LT - fair enough - I don't want you to feel I'm digging on your beliefs.
Lots of necessary cr*p for Mormon 'madness':
(New Testament | Acts 21:26)
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 9:13)
13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the alter are partakers with the alter?
(New Testament | Revelation 7:13 - 15)
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
(New Testament | Matthew 21:12 - 14)
12 ¶ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
Clothing:
(Old Testament | Exodus 28:1 - 4)
1 AND take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
(New Testament | Revelation 3:4 - 5)
4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
(New Testament | Revelation 6:11)
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
(New Testament | Revelation 16:15)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Looks to me like the temple and temple clothing are pretty important.