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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.
Remember those early days when you fit the mold of what it was the world expected you to be, both in the secular society and as a Christian? All along, the concept of the Kingdom has remained long hidden by the very religion that is supposed to expose it. Instead, institutional Christianity...
Conversion from the self-serving ways of man to the otherness of the Kingdom is not an emotional decision but an intellectual one. One must first understand why God thinks our world is backwards, and they will then better appreciate the alternative and, as a result, be less likely to fall away...
Jesus spent all His time teaching HIS Gospel of the Kingdom for which He said He was sent to tell and bring about. His Gospel which said God was coming back to live among man and take control away from man over each other. Most churches don't want to teach that... even if it is in the Lord's...
Like Jesus said : Matthew 24: 35-37, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone". Why are people so hung up on this? Is this the purpose of Christianity, to spend all...
It pays to remember that in the beginning Christianity was not an institution of religion but a movement of humans which grew beyond the borders of the Hebrew people. It was never meant to become a government or a ruling organisation, but a movement of easily manageable home groups or local...
Unfortunately, people saying woe is us have been looking forward to salvation for 2000 years. Times in the past have been a lot worse than they are now although living condition wise, people in the past had a lot less to lose. But perhaps the idea is to not look forward for salvation all the...
Consider throughout the post Flood era that God had His own chosen people while the rebellious elohim had all the rest of mankind in this world. A world that originally we were cast into from the Garden. A world of adversarial elohim and now adversarial man. A world where God continued to...
The story goes back long before the creation of man, a place in non-time where entities first created the foundation for future rebellious mankind by way of their own original adversarial ways to the will of God. The blinded were preparing to create the blind. For mankind, being adversarial by...
With repentance, we begin to see life as being about each other rather than focusing on self. Yes we are of the same nature as our fellow worldly predators, everything in existence being food for everything else, but man for some reason beyond a natural survival instinct hunts each other, having...
It is quite common this time of year to be asked what Christmas means to us.
Well... the Christ's birth is biblical, being as it is recorded in scripture. So there we have one reason to acknowledge it although I am sure Jesus would prefer we concentrate on His death and resurrection as a focal...
This is a bit off topic but there seems to be a shift in Christianity as of late.
If Jesus is an archangel as many claim in this growing thought trend, then this all becomes about the battle between archangels and all about that war in Heaven we've heard about that started long before our...
Being of the law simply means putting God's will ahead of our own. This of course goes against mankind's natural tendency to put our self interests first, our original sin. No wonder so many deny it, wanting both the ways of the world and the Kingdom. God says simply, we can't have both and...
Fearing God is to respect Him. For the other version, it is man we must fear for any evil that comes is at our own hands. That is why God commands us to love our enemies, not just our own or ourselves. In doing good to all we can lessen their anger, hence our fears will be decreased. Of course...
Jesus told mankind the good news (gospel) was the good news of the Kingdom of God, coming to take away authority of man over fellow man. Life as we know it would be reversed. See Sermon on the Mount. What many Christians today speak of with their grace doctrine was a part of that, not the other...
We are but a side note in life as the real story is God's ongoing struggle with the rebellious of the elohim He created long before mankind. It is they that rule all this world. God of course chose his own people, and in BC times He gave them their area of land which He took away from those...
Ever since the Garden people have focused on self; self absorption, self interest, self justification, self determination, etc. God says to us over and over, His will before the will of man. Care for all others. It's that simple. And His will is simple (Jesus summed it up in His two...
In deciding Jesus is Lord, we too will also put the will of the Father ahead of our own just as He did. Unless we share the same will, it is impossible for the Father to interact with us as we are nothing but adversaries (little satans by Hebrew definition) when pursuing our own will. The will...
What was the whole point of Jesus' two commandments? Put God's will ahead of our own thus loving all as self. We humans have been known from the very beginning for our selfish self serving self absorbed ways. It infiltrates everything including religion and ruins any chance of living free of the...
This recent October war with Israel and Hamas (to start with) was bound to happen sooner or later (actually a few previous times also this year alone). Provocations from both sides, this shelling of course, and from the other side a few greedy Israeli settlers continuing to bulldoze their way...
The Lord's prayer was assembled by Jesus from bits and pieces from the OT. God's will from the start was that we put His will ahead of ours and scripture says Eve was the first to break that commandment. Man ever since (with examples throughout the Bible) has made putting our will first as our...