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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Just like people, having seemingly two opposing ways with politics, we can as humans transcend from a selfish character running primarily on animal instinct, to an alternate, one of love and servitude to God and each other. You do realize we are the only species that knows we will eventually...
The world of man outside the Garden, thanks to our self-serving nature, is predestined to fail; but free will allows us to change from self-adoration to instead following the Will of God that leads this world away from death.
© ...timothyu
God created a kingdom in earth. From the time of A&E until now, mankind has refused God's will and taken that kingdom for self, using it for self, and creating all the evils and oppressions and violence as a result. Jesus' good news (gospel) was that God was going to take it back. Don't get too...
Admit our will, our ways of self-interest, only produces trouble, not only for ourselves, but mainly for others. Trouble is, few admit it until they are caught. God tells us plainly to not seek personal gain creating loss for someone else. Admitting we act contrary to the ways of the Kingdom and...
Man's truths amount to nothing. Man's institutions that are built upon those truths add to the problem. Yes, few are the number that follow the ways of the Kingdom rather than of man. Just like there will always be the poor, we can't fix what is broken by using the same methods that broke them...
Mankind was told in the Garden of the tree of life. How we approached it would have two different outcomes. It could be be used for either good or evil. To either give to the tree of Life, tend to creation in order to reap nourishment and its rewards, or take from it which would result in death...
Acting in servitude to God and to each other is a choice for both elohim and mankind, but a commandment of God. Both creations have the power to decide as both were created to perform duties under the authourity of God. For example, naming the animals in Genesis was part of the creative process...
We took the Knowledge against God's Will. We deserve the consequences. Even the elohim failed and three times took us down with them into chaos. We no longer have any concept of life in the neutral zone. We can only do as the entire Bible tells us: to act in servitude to the Father and to each...
It is a shame when the world overtakes any notion of the Kingdom. Creating a new bible to fit the ways of mankind is not the answer that some claim, especially the modern ways of self calling itself social justice. It draws away from the Kingdom. It uses the concept of servitude for personal...
It is amusing to watch a nation fall apart and Christians fighting amongst themselves, thinking current events prompted by yet another leader seeing himself as a Caesar... are political. This is just another example in history of the conflict between adversarial mankind and the Kingdom. The...
This is an open letter to everyone willing to read it and to anyone that some may forward it to. You will be doing them a disservice if you do not.
It infuriates me to see people stumbling around looking for meaning as if truth were a scavenger hunt within the Bible. That attitude may serve...
It all boils down to following only God's Will or our own. The entire Bible from beginning to end dwells on that choice. It shows us the results of being self-serving rather than following God's Will. Jesus was the only one to ever follow only the Will of the Father. We still rebel. Time to...
Mankind's war against the Will of the Father is far from over. Adversity to Him and to each other is at an all time high, as those who were scattered at Babel now come together. Bad move. The path to the Kingdom is getting narrower all the time.
© ...timothyu
The Kingdom does not blend in with the ways of man. We instead have to blend in with the Kingdom. The Kingdom shares and so must we.
© ...timothyu
Confusion is taught. Forgive them, for they simply are too lost in the lies of this world taught since birth, to know any better. The blind have led the blind for 1700 years since the 'Church' joined forces with the Roman Empire, thus abandoning the Kingdom and its ways for the world of man. The...
Whether we are smart enough to seek something greater than ourselves on our own or, as some believe, that God wakes us up to do so, this will always be a matter of debate between religious factions and, quite frankly, yet another rabbit trail that leads us further away from the Kingdom, which is...
If humans continually thrive on their own wisdom and self-reliance and pride, why do they claim to follow God? Self-reliance is idolatry. We want for ourselves, not only salvation, but recognition and a sense of worthiness. We proclaim God, but fail to follow Him. We falsely claim our schemes...
I recently had the opportunity to eavesdrop on an online Bible study, which was starting off in Genesis 1. There's nothing wrong with Bible studies, but after listening to the readings of written commentaries accompanying the subject at hand (that said a lot but explained little), it occurred to...
Jesus Himself revealed the Will of the Father for those who would turn away from man's ways towards His.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
"Repent, and believe in the gospel."
"Go...
Jesus and His followers relied heavily on the scriptures of what we now call the OT (their Torah). His church was formed on the truth from God within those old scriptures, specifically put God's will ahead of our own and love all as self. The NT was more a 'what's happening in the 1st century'...