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Aaron-Aggie said:just sharing the wisidom of a wise irish man and a few other gentleman i am lucky enough to assocaite withGlad I finnaly tracked down my new coincle
Rising_Suns said:you're new coincle?
Aaron-Aggie said:ignore aarons bad spelling should have be council. I went to me first kofc meeting up here in dc since I moved J
Rising_Suns said:ok, just wanted to make sure. I was beginning to think that there was a bunch of Catholic terms that I somehow never learned.
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Jonathan David said: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.
.Ampmonster said: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"
this man is a gem!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
tulc said:If forgiveness was easy it wouldn't have required a cross.
Allye
Starscream said:Well forget special agents and agencies and committees, I'm getting all my intelligence reporting from the crack team on ChristianForums.com!
Me!Anyone else think we should have a quote thread just for seebs?
raphe said: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.
didaskalos said: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(well put bro!)AngelusSax said: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.
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