Cool CF quotes

[tulc]

It's not that intellectual assent to the claim "Jesus was God" helps me love my fellow man. It's that there is something in the universe which helps me love my fellow man, and I believe it is reasonable to guess that this entity is what people mean when they talk about "God", and that, when I read the Gospels, I recognize Him.
-seebs (of course! )

 

[faerieevaH]

just loved this conversation...

just sharing the wisidom of a wise irish man and a few other gentleman i am lucky enough to assocaite with Glad I finnaly tracked down my new coincle

you're new coincle?

ignore aarons bad spelling should have be council. I went to me first kofc meeting up here in dc since I moved J

ok, just wanted to make sure. I was beginning to think that there was a bunch of Catholic terms that I somehow never learned.
(...)

 

[faerieevaH]

*G* Loved this one...

Of course... if I passed on something other than what you wantd me to pass on, then what you wanted passed on still isn't passed on and I passed on something that you may not have wanted me to pass on.... or something like that.

 

[Miss Shelby]

I was playing hockey last night. And some kid on the other team wasnt getting passes. he's like, "pass it to me for the love of God!" so i skated past him and said, "God loves you"

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[tulc]

I understand following Jesus to involve doing as he. So I say him as prototype and exemplar of what a Christian might do, as well as everyhting else he was.
So: Jesus loved others as himself, and in God; and this love redeemed, or proffered redemption to those he so embraced.
I understand that we are called to do the same: where, in being in God through faith; we can call on Christ to carry us through this work.
We continue to do what Jesus did: we are called to be agents of the redemption of others; where this will involve us in the trials of Jesus.
Each of us can accept this work, where we will be spiritually crucified in the doing: as we become agents of Christ work, as others are redeemed in return to God; where, if we refuse such crucifixion, as we freely can, then God cannot manifest in redemptive Christ work.
Each of us can thus serve God in very different ways: our persons and our biographies, load us with God breathed stuff; allowing for singular deployment in God's manifestation, and singular redemption for others, in the redemptive Christ work that manifestation sustains.
I'm here talking about what I can only sense: the evidence and data is not mine; and is only a little available as I surrender to God.
Take it as poetry between friends.
-Existential1

this man is a gem!

 

[tulc]

If forgiveness was easy it wouldn't have required a cross.
Allye

 

[faerieevaH]

If forgiveness was easy it wouldn't have required a cross.
Allye

Why is it that some people can capture a world of wisdom in a single sentence???

 

[tulc]

My duity is to protect the choices of the individual no matter what nation they call home upon earth. We are all citizens of the universe lets not forget. Surly if you think that there is a single creator of the universe. The we are all, this creators children no matter be you 90 years old no matter be you ten years old you are a child intellect.
I recgonize no duty to protect any nation, only individuals.

 

[praying]

Inerrancy in my view need not mean understanding the Bible as an infallible history or a scientific account of the origins of the natural world. It does however entail that the fullness of scripture- including the Letters of Paul and the Old Testament- are to be regarded as a true representation of the Divine presence in our lives. It also entails that, rather than disrespecting scripture by interpreting it according to our own particular view, we seriously endeavour to discover the intent of the original writers first.

Solomon

 

[tulc]

Jesus was not left-wing neither was He right-wing or anything else-wing.Jesus was God`s Spirit,born by Mary a virgin,to fulfil a prophesy in the old Testament.Jesus suffered and died for all humanity.He is the Way back to God again,where we really belong.And since OUR Maker gave us free will to choose for ourselves,it is thanks to our Saviour Christ,that whosoever will,may come back to the Father.I say this in humility and thankfulness.Greetings Emmy,a sister in Christ
-Emmy

 

[praying]

Well forget special agents and agencies and committees, I'm getting all my intelligence reporting from the crack team on ChristianForums.com!

On the Iraq Al Qaida connection

 

[elanor]

Faith is when you accept something you can't prove, not when you accept something you can disprove.

Anyone else think we should have a quote thread just for seebs?

 

[tulc]

Anyone else think we should have a quote thread just for seebs?

Me! ME! I think so too!
tulc(plus you should be able to rep their posts as often as they write!)

 

[Blessed-one]

Its always best to believe the best about other people's experiences. It's hard to not envy others that seem to have been touched by God, but we are not to envy, but have faith. I wouldn't mind a complete electrical discharge from head to toe - shock treatment that would energize me away from sin and closer to God, but I've not been that blessed.
Love believes all things, but this does not mean the skeptics are evil. They can be skeptically in doubt, as Thomas was, but should hold their tongues from saying anthing ill towards another's experience. We do not want to camp with the mockers and scoffers for a minute.

a quote thread for seebs, and one for raphe too!

 

[Blessed-one]

more..

Everybody is a fundamentalist something. Even a fundamentalist atheist!

Everyone believes that what they believe is the absolute truth... if they did not, they would change what they believe.

People have no choice but to believe the truth that they come across. They do not decide to believe one thing or another by rational means or force of will. You cannot wake up one morning and decide you are going to start believing or stop believing anything. You are quite at the mercy of the truth that you discover. Belief is determined not by the believer, but by the source of the information and the integrity of that source.

Faith happens... there is nothing that you can do about it.

Welcome to the fundie camp!

 

[tulc]

(when a poster said women shouldn't be allowed to vote)


I think you really mean that. I once would've worshipped in a pew next to you and almost have tried to agree, but decided about 15 years ago to choose love over law. Have never regretted it. ....And guess what, love really is the fulfillment of the law (Rom 13:10). So according to the next chapter I've got to cut you some slack. I believe you're horribly wrong, but by grace can just leave it at that.
-Allye

 

[alaurie]

Okay, tulc, you posted before I modified it to 'and almost have tried to agree'. Women were allowed to pray informally, but that was about it. No formal prayers or women leading bible study with men in the group- even adult women teaching teenage boys.

 

[tulc]

when asked: "Would Jesus a liberal or a conservative?"

As for me, I say neither. It's not what Jesus fits into (lib, con, whatever), but which of our stances best fit in with Jesus.

We needn't ask what Jesus is. We need ask what we are.

tulc(well put bro!)

 

[tulc]

Without tolerance, we have no hope of learning who is right or wrong. With intolerance, we find out only who is left standing - and who is, necessarily, wrong on at least one very important issue.
-seebs(of course 2)

 

[tulc]

in the Am I A Conservative Liberal, Or A Liberal Conservative?

"Seriously though,get your head into the bible and read it cover to cover.Let it soak into you and pray your way through it. Its the only thing we have left in this age of "Ive got it all right and the rest of you are going to hell" mentality!"
-oworm