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Is it Christianity that seems to be under attack? Or is it merely political factions within Christianity that make it appear that way?
This is what happens when the wrong side of a coin becomes the predominant voice. This is the worldly side of the coin of religion acting in worldly ways that...
Christians have a tendency to believe that the doings of God is all about us, that Jesus was all about what is in it for us. That may be true of the religion but not so of God. In fact Jesus said just the opposite, it is not about us but about the Father, what He wants and about the good news...
There was a choice once given to Adam and Eve, but it was an uninformed choice. It gave the consequences of either choice, but not the reasoning behind each one. Once those first humans decided to take it upon themselves to follow their own will, the millennia of discovering whose will was...
Jesus set an example of what was expected of us according to His Gospel of the Kingdom. He did nothing of His own accord but only the will of the Father just as we would be expected to do when God establishes His governance over us, once again living among us (thy Kingdom come, thy will be done...
Consider that Jesus said He would send the Holy Spirit to those ( his original Apostles and disciples) who were teaching His Gospel of the Kingdom, in order to guide/keep them on the path of the Kingdom. The HS was a shepherd for those who knew and accepted the ways of the Kingdom/governance of...
You may find...
That life is not about what you make of it but how you handle what it dishes out..
That no matter how hard you try, your good may never be good enough..
That your good intentions can and will be misinterpreted..
That others will continually twist the truth to suit themselves...
People have said that the Bible is about salvation from punishment as a result of sin, about we His church of grafted heirs (and even brides) which make us a special new creation.
Sure... ok, that is a watered down version, and that has described our self perceived appearance, but not what is...
If we see ourselves as good or righteous (even though Jesus asks who is good) we lose sight of the fact we are self serving humans who often seek gain at the expense of others. In remembering who we are by nature until death, we see what a futile world we have made in our own image, and can more...
It is hard for the world of man to admit that we have it all backwards, so it foolishly just keeps trying to improve itself while driving in reverse.
Luke 16: 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly...
What good is all the theology in the world if we don't show the contrast between the 'self' serving will of man and the 'other' oriented will of God... the clash and counter-culture between Kingdom and world of man? What is the good of talking of all sorts of sins when the only and original sin...
Many people make the claim that they are included as the ' bride' of Jesus. Rev 21:9-10 and beyond makes it clear that the bride is not man. That 'bride' misconception by humans is a result of Christianity setting aside the Kingdom for self interest instead, seen in the governance and theology...
I was recently driving from the summer place back to the winter one. Along the way I had made numerous split second decisions such as taking an alternate scenic route, not stopping for the usual coffee, passing a slower vehicle, even slamming on the brakes to stop and take a sudden photo op...
Living outside the box is a statement against the ways of man in itself. You have heard of being in the world but not of it. Living outside the box is living outside the world man has built upon our own image, living instead in the counter-culture to the culture of man, the Kingdom. Jesus said...
The ONLY gospel Jesus taught was the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, both a place and a governance. The Kingdom represents a culture contrary to the world man has made in our image. His early followers came to be know as 'haters of man' for their refusal to adhere to the system which man has...
God knows how to use rebellious man for His own purposes, which He has done and still does. There was a movement which was to represent an opposite way to the ways of man. Once upon a time in the fourth century, a power hungry faction of the movement whored itself to the ways of man and...
Have you considered that the return of the Father to dwell among man and to govern over us was Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom... and also of prime importance in the beginning of the Lord's Prayer? The rest of the prayer addressed our time and needs here in earth and asks we be delivered from the...
We interpret according to our understanding of the moment, be it self discovered or more often the result of input of the ideas of others. This second matter was what prompted Jesus to speak of the blind leading the blind.
What Jesus said was that we needed a solid foundation to work out from...
We either follow the will of God, or we follow the will of man. One nature or the other. We are a combination of the two, yet the will of man is our baser biological instinct, the one we use in order to survive. We as humans, in comparison to our mammalian family, go a step beyond in developing...
Jesus summed up the purpose of His being, and thus what became Christianity, in the Lord's Prayer by way of what He said in regards to the Father. "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven". Rather than focusing on the return of the Kingdom of God and His actual governance...
Jesus said to cast seeds. They will fall where they may, good soil and bad soil. Each will find their own set of conditions to struggle with. It is not up to the sower to determine how those seeds grow. That is not our job, for in doing so we contaminate the outcome with our own weed gene of...