Counseled for wearing a sweater(with white shirt and tie) to a book study and asked to read by the overseer who worked for a beer company .
freydo
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What Stupid Things Were You Counseled For?
by minimus ini've always been told that i have a very good personality, that i'm humorous, etc.. one elder called me over and said that i was "smiling too much".
the other elders talked to the elder who counseled me and he came back to say that i should be like i was .
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Are the Ten Commandments still in force?
by wannabe inare the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
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freydo
"I came to put an end to the law." - right?
What does "under grace" mean? That whatever we choose to do that's wrong, it's ignored because Yahushua didn't do it?
QUOTE - "Listen to this message which I, the Lord, have spoken against you Israelites, against your whole family that I brought out of Egypt. 2 Out of all the families on earth, I have known no one else but you.That is why I am going to punish you for all your sins. 3 Do two people ever walk together without meeting first?" {Amos 3:1-3 GWT} Obviously he never met with other Nations."
It may also be of interest to remember that it is gentiles who are grafted into Israel; not the other way around,
with one law - not two.
Ephesians 2:11-12 (NIV) - "Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth....... remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world."
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Atheism is NOT a Faith...
by zeroday* in**disclaimer** i'm an atheist.... atheism is not a faith, it is not a religion, it is not a belief system...what do atheist and believers have in common...nothing.
so why do atheist seem it necessary to argue, fight and debate believers.
what is to be gained, a new nonbeliever...i have never understood it.
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freydo
On the one hand I kind of admire those who have no hope beyond their present existence. On the other hand I find them most pitiable. They are quite right about railing against abuses by evil men done in the name of religion, but they neglect to understand that some of the great men of science were also great men of faith. Men like Isaac Newton, who wrote probably as much on religion as he did science. http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=135&name=1. And what a faith that must have inspired men like Galileo. Yes, there's obviously much we cannot know, but sticking our heads in the sand either by declaring our disbelief in anything is just as nonsensical as wanting to live in the dark ages as evil men in the Middle East would have us. It's like black light on one extreme and no light on the other.
Rev 3:17 "You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked."
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Afraid of Dying?
by PointBlank ini don't know if this subject has been discussed here before.
if it has, could someone help me find it?
if it hasn't (i can't imagine that it hasn't), here's what i was wondering.
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Will Boomers Help or Hurt Funeral Industry?
Published: Thursday, 20 May 2010 | 10:40 AM ET
By: Kenneth W. Gronbachhttp://www.cnbc.com/id/37196946/
"At the Cannes Film Festival recently, director Woody Allen said about death, "I'm strongly against it."
No doubt he was serious, but the former stand-up comedian was also serious about promoting his latest film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger—the "tall dark stranger" being a euphemism for death. For those in the funeral industry, death, or lack thereof, has been no laughing matter for almost a decade. Funerals and cremations are at a 20-year low. About a decade ago, the industry was handling three million deaths a year. Now that number is a third less. With an inherent gallows-humor bent, it's not surprising that lots of possible reasons have been circulating within the funeral industry about slow business. Among them are alien abductions, body snatchers, secret and private home funerals and burials, but none seemed to satisfy or be tenable. What adds insult to injury is that the industry geared up for lots of new business, following advice from a noted demographer and expert on aging 15 years ago. The demographer predicted that members of the huge Baby Boomer generation would start dying en masse in 2000.
That “good” news coursed through the industry like wild fire, and funeral professionals braced for the predicted explosive demand. The mom-and-pop funeral homes made substantial capital improvements, the big boys bought each other up with a vengeance and Wall Street geared up for a killing, so to speak. The year 2000 came and went. The year 2005 passed. Now it’s 2010, and still the vast majority of the Boomers are alive and kicking. People in the industry were asking "why aren't the Boomers dying?" Didn’t they know that the industry was counting on them? The Boomers weren’t dying, because the esteemed demographer was 20 years off. That is correct, 20 years off. That’s a very big mistake in the field of demography..........." -
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Who Would You Like To See As President Of The USA In The Next Election?
by minimus inwill it be obama or someone else?.
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Are the Ten Commandments still in force?
by wannabe inare the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
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Romans 3:31 - "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
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Are the Ten Commandments still in force?
by wannabe inare the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
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Heb 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind,"
What laws?
Matthew 5:18"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."
Last time I checked, heaven and earth are still here and all obviously has not been fulfilled.
Heb 7:12,18 "For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law.....The former regulation is set aside"
That doesn't make all of God's laws obsolete. It makes salvation possible for those of faith who keep the law that's written in their minds.
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Are the Ten Commandments still in force?
by wannabe inare the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
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Perhaps you can show in Scripture where the apostles and disciples stopped following the Torah.
Matthew 5:19 - "Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Heb 10:26-27 "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God."
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Are the Ten Commandments still in force?
by wannabe inare the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
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freydo
The law was only a restatement of instructions that had been given in generations past that had been lost due to captivity in Egypt. Those righteous standards have always applied as God does not change. Man was made in his image and likeness, thus knowing right from wrong. When corruption became a total abomination, Yahweh, decreed destruction on Jew and heathen alike. We now are approaching Pentecost that has a number of very significant events attached to it. Granted it's not in the 10 rules, but neither was Passover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
The Law never went away just because Messiah fulfilled it, except where his blood replaced that of animals. We are still to hallow God's name, and it's not Jehovah or the LORD. And we are to keep HIS Sabbaths and time schedule - because that's what he goes by - not Pope Gregory. As for the rest of the 10, "don't do this that or the other" - there's nothing terribly unique in that virtually all religion teaches morality.
Interesting that virtually all who call themselves Christian and claim to follow the 10 Commandments - seem to ignore the correct pronunciation of his name and Messiah's and his Sabbaths. And those who claim to keep the law(Jews) - reject Messiah.
