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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.
According to Matthew 16:17 the truth, from the Father and not from man, is the rock His church is built upon. People united in His truth and no one else's. Focus on Jesus and the Kingdom, not the kingdoms of man. Focus on the governance of the Father, not the governance of man. Both lead in...
Jesus said repent in accord with His Gospel of the Kingdom which taught the selflessness, servitude and justice of the Kingdom compared to the self serving gain at the expense of others world of man. Those who sought a more just life from their oppression had no trouble understanding the...
The end of days is an eventuality, no disputing that. Those in the time of the early church in Rome thought it was already there, as did those at the fall of the Temple. It's always been there, and even Jesus said only the Father, not He, knew the time. And face it, it is there for each of us as...
Far too many who profess to follow Jesus instead follow a religion and doctrines which deals with "after the fact" and little of Jesus' times and teachings that He spent on us beforehand. Wasted effort and purpose in His part?
Perhaps that is why so many seem proficient in the ideals of the...
It is often said in varying ways that there is no sense in visiting Jesus' grave because He is not there. Fortunate for us that the finality of death has been overcome by one man's desire to do only the will of the Father, and not His own. Yet as a result, rather than follow this example, man...
People seem preoccupied with knowing the mind of God. This, when it seems to me that He said, don't go there. Stick with what you were created for. Following Him is not the same as knowing His mind, that is to say attempting to mimic Him, naturally being what vain man will often do. This of...
Think about how one might be better off considering what the Father does for us, rather than what we do for the Father thus putting the spotlight on ourselves in the process.
There is much pride and vanity exhibited among Christians today over their relationship with God. We should be showing...
Christianity was never meant to exude unity, for the truth behind Christianity lies in the very lack of said unity within the religion. God gave over the teachings of Jesus to those gentiles who were well known for (and who still practice) self-glorification, which of course in itself leads to a...
Christian traditions are often defended as keeping Christianity alive and carrying it on until this day. The problem is that the wrong message is often being promoted as God knew it would be, a confusion when human tradition is mixed with Christian tradition.
Man being man, maintains worldly...
The traditional ways of mankind are to accept at face value what the world wishes to teach us. Unfortunately, this also applies to those in charge of religion, having established for themselves a kingdom of their own making on earth, and like governors and financiers, expecting us to believe and...
One quite often hears the excuse from the aggressively minded out there, that they must put on the armour of God and basically 'attack'. These are still of the world and not of the Kingdom, as yet not being reborn into a way of thinking that does not complement the traditional ways of mankind...
CEO worship is making a revival today. Christianity likewise, once gave a nod to Constantine and his mom, for Constantine offered them a chance to become street legal.
But it wasn't free. In return gentile Christianity sold it's soul back to the world of man for a chance at power and glory of...
Faith is believing what God tells you.
Jesus' sole mission was the Gospel of the Kingdom. What did the Father tell us through Jesus regarding that? What did Jesus say was the Father's truth? Verily means truthfully. Some examples of what truths Jesus said to have faith in.
John 3:5 Jesus...
People have all sorts of notions as to how Jesus may serve their lives and world in every way from making a touchdown to winning elections or wars. But it seems to me that Jesus made it quite clear that when it comes to the Kingdom, the inmates don't get to rule the asylum as they think they do...
There is always talk in the news in the US come election times about abortion, either outright or masked as issues over funding to various organizations.
Without touching the subject itself, abortion no doubt already being in the minds of Christians as an obvious affront to God, we should as...
It seems to me there is only One Master Builder, but everybody out here seems to think they are architects.
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The entire Bible, from Eve through Noah's day, Sodom, the people who escaped Egypt and so on... all was about self, and the scriptures throughout show the failings of mankind based on self.
Jesus and the Father continually made it very clear that self was not the will of God. God punished, laid...
People often make the comment that the Adversary is trying to defeat God, to become God, but it seems to me it knows it has already lost that battle. It knows full well what Jesus accomplished and that it, the adversarial spirit, will have no part in the Kingdom to come, it's reign and it's...
Many people talk of the need to be saved, but it seems they rarely say or clearly define saved from what? Instead they expound endlessly on how to be saved or what salvation is.
Reverse the process by asking and answering the question 'saved from what?'. The answer to that question would...
Jesus and the Way were once seen as a cult simply because His teachings conflicted with the status quo, much in the same way the early Gentile state church in their own struggle, called opponents heretics. What we today would call a cult is a person or group that personally benefits in some way...