Recent content by Beanieboy

I never knew this until listening to an evangelical on youtube: Your heart is deceptive, so don't trust it - Psalms something Don't trust your feelings, your emotions, or your instinct. Don't trust your own reasoning. Only trust scripture. I thought - "my heart" is the how God talks me. He...

But would have loved to show him that he was actually born in September, according to scholars. And that Christmas trees are following the Winter Equinox, a pagan tradition. Just saying.

But to answer the question, I think that would be the last concern Jesus had. However, I always remember being told, "It's not about the presents. It's about Jesus' birth." But as a kid, it was about the presents. As an adult, however, it's like celebrating my parent's birthday by giving my...

I was always told Santa was fictional, and because of how religious my parents were, thought it detracted from Christ's birth. So, I thought it very silly when my friends talked about Santa. And always wondered how they felt finding out the truth. One friend joked that when he was told around...

We are to love and pray for our enemies. It is very human to want to take revenge, have some way of going Rambo on the bad people, but rather than loving your neighbor as yourself, you become a judge and jury of other people, and have murder in your heart wishing you could retaliate. In focusing...

Love the video. Don't you wish some monk would be singing like that when something deep came out of your mouth?

It sounds like something a lot of Christians say,"I'm trying to save you from hell." It's like they are warning me that i'm about to drive off a cliff - a cliff they have never seen, one they can't prove exists, but it's there. Rarely, do I hear peopke talking about having a personal...

Exactly. It should be done to edify. But I think one has to really take on honest look at themselves first and ask, "Why do I feel motivated to say something?" Do you approach an overweight person, and tell them gluttony is a sin, and the body is a temple for the HS because you love them? I...

I was watching a youtube video and laughed because I'm probably guilty of it - where we look at someone acting holier than thou, pointing to others and judging "sinner", and then think, "I thank you Lord that I'm not like other people .like those who are modern day Pharisees..." and have...

CF is so odd. One Christian claimed that God made us for his own glory for us to praise him., If I said, my wife and I are planning to have a baby so it will tell us how great we are," it would seem very selfish. If we are to fear God, love casts out all fear, what gives?

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Matthew 7 7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How...

What prompted this is a discontinued thread about the lyrics of I believe by Laura Staigel. The Christian was calling the lyrics anti-Christian because she sings of having self-doubt, of never measuring up, when the gospel says we are lowly sinners in need of forgiveness. But should she be...

i think that forgiveness is actually for the person wronged. I've seen people that hold a grudge, and they keep reliving it over and over. However, if I had a friend that betrayed me, I can forgive but still say I don't want to be their friend because they've broken my trust. But you are right -...

Maybe the problem is the extremism. If you work really hard and graduate with honors, and say you feel proud of your accomplishment, you are accused of arrogance or the sin of pride. In simply referring to loving one's neighbor as themselves, a person said, yes, but that is impossible. Only...