you guys may want to watch this video.
this man's background, beliefs and experiences i think is quite similar to most of the folks here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsm120gflq.
you guys may want to watch this video. this man's background, beliefs and experiences i think is quite similar to most of the folks here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSm120gFlQ
i repeat, its only for those who are still searching. for those who don't give a sh**, its ok, it doesnt matter.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
If we don't believe in life after death and the world to come, then I dont know what explanation we would be willing to accept. It is what it is. And we are all in this together in the suffering. Even God didn't exempt himself, and took our flesh and suffered with us. He will save you and me (regardless of what we think about him), and those who died in the tsunami and countless other tragedies. He will flood our hearts with His love so much that we will not be able to bear it, and then we will shut our mouths, and bow our knees, not by force, but because we have come to understood that He deserves it.
Of course one has to have faith to believe this, and by faith I mean, one needs to be a fool.
i have not got an answer (theoretical or not) to the above question.. but the main text book (introducing the new testament- its literature and theology - achtemeier, green and thompson) for my study unit (early christian literature and thought) in the assigned reading for today's lecture on the gospel of john, has a section on the ransom.
it says (p. 237): one of the few passages that explicitly speaks of jesus dying for others is mark 10:45:.
"for even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.. .
i'm not fond of any religious fanatic.
islamic fundies can be downright crazy.
mormonism seems silly to me.
Russell ... In his youth he was known to chalk Bible verses on fence boards and city sidewalks to draw attention to the punishment of hell awaiting the unfaithful in an attempt to convert unbelievers.
supposing that you might say that you believe in god, how might a god of love, show that he really cares about us all?.
God had Jesus killed so that god didn't have to kill us.
I think God did not kill Jesus, men did. He just allowed it. And Jesus came and accepted that cup, and drank it to the dregs, to do the will of his Father, and to suffer and die WITH us, as one of us, so we will know what to do. He is our Brother. Emmanuel. God with us.
So we in turn, if we in anyway are touched by this act, ought to follow Him and his Father as best we can, even through suffering and death and innumerable evils from within and without, do works of righteousness
" To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." - 1 Peter 2:21
There are lesson to be learned in this life...and there IS more for us beyond death.
i have tried researching, but this pesky organisation always packs out the list.
you seem to have to drill down several layers before reaching christadelphians.. is it a recognised idea among other peoples/religions?.
Eastern Orthodoxy also teaches the resurrection of the body in the flesh, in the same manner as Christ resurrected in the flesh. It teaches that the separation of soul and body in death is an unnatural act as a result of the Fall, but mankind will one day be resurrected without corruption.
the society always speaks about all the wonderful people and characters in the bible.. they always too speak of many of them as being so humble, faithful, loyal, diligent, loving, kind, wise, merciful etc, and worthy of imitation.
also of how god blessed them followed by endless examples and reasons why we today should imitate them.. .
they also speak of how wonderful it would be to meet some of these people in the future 'new system' and have often depicted scenes where the the survivors of armageddon would be gathered around some ancient resurrected faithful asking them questions and listening to their stories of times past.
Saul of Tarsus
been out now for 10 yrs but life is a mess.
starting to think its because i have no spiritual compass.
why shouldn't i consider going back?.
the governing body is a false prophet. are you willing to be subjected under the power of false prophets, and then be an instrument of spreading false doctrines towards others, inviting others to be subjected under the same yoke?
you can start by reading some christian history like the one from diarmaid mcculloch... :) it may not be palatable from a believer's point of view but that book is not afraid to point out holes of the christian churches
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
what else do you really have, other than this moment and the collective past effects of them
we have them as long as we exist and then we die and all our love ones, we journey on to oblivion, like nothing ever happened.. eventually the universe itself will die of heat death if we take on faith that these theories are true.
