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Keep seeking then.I’m seeing a lot of claims but not a lot of evidence.
Except there is little evidence of the increased frequency of earthquakes, at least big ones.Cancer will be eliminated when Jesus gets back. Some people I know prayed and were healed, others ( including devout Christians) died of cancer. Disasters like cancer and earthquakes are a symptom of a broken nature. Really the solution is to completely rebuild creation which will happen at the second Coming. Dying is also not normal and a symptom of the same brokeness but given that Jesus rose we know that it is also not the end and so it is nothing to fear.
I have watched atheists moan all their way to the grave and Christians smile despite their pain.
The increased frequency of earthquakes is a symptom of brokenness. Of a system running down. We can believe that things are only going to get worse or that whether by miracle or recreation there is a fix out there waiting to happen. I choose hope.
It seems you suffer alot. I'm not going to argue with you on this. A huge reason people suffer is they are overworked in the work place. Not much i can do for you except send you positive thoughts and pray for you. I don't have alot of money but i do have stuff. I wish you the best.
Cancer will be eliminated when Jesus gets back. Some people I know prayed and were healed, others ( including devout Christians) died of cancer. Disasters like cancer and earthquakes are a symptom of a broken nature. Really the solution is to completely rebuild creation which will happen at the second Coming. Dying is also not normal and a symptom of the same brokeness but given that Jesus rose we know that it is also not the end and so it is nothing to fear.
I have watched atheists moan all their way to the grave and Christians smile despite their pain.
The increased frequency of earthquakes is a symptom of brokenness. Of a system running down. We can believe that things are only going to get worse or that whether by miracle or recreation there is a fix out there waiting to happen. I choose hope.
Were you saved at one time?No. I'm so much more fulfilled and happy without my belief than I was with it. The world makes more sense to me without a god. Thanks!
We can believe that things are only going to get worse or that whether by miracle or recreation there is a fix out there waiting to happen. I choose hope.
Were you saved at one time?
Good question.Do you have some thoughts about my salvation or lack thereof? Do you think I'm still saved or ever was?
Good question.
I'm an optimist when it comes to people giving me their testimony; and couple that with the fact that I believe in eternal security, I would say ... offhand ... that you will spend eternity in Heaven.
Again, just my opinion.
HOWEVER ... I would like to ask you something I ask everyone who claims they were saved at one time:
What made you give up all this:
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Hebrews 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
... for atheism?
Perhaps you simply need to ask God to:
Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
God bless!
You act like this is a joke and you meant it that way... but you also knew that Jesus would, in fact, not return in the next 10 minutes. So much so that you were able to make a light-hearted joke about it. There are other things about God and Jesus you know as well. For instance, if I asked you and all Christians around the world to pray together to end all cancer in the world there is no part of you that actually believes that would happen. You might hope, you might say you have faith, but deep down you know it wouldn't happen. You might rationalize the reason for it (not all Christians prayed for the same thing, or there were evil forces working against God neither of which is actually a satisfactory answer as to why you know it wont happen), but you can't really know why in the context of your belief. There is one possibility, however, that fully and completely explains why you know it won't happen.
So to the best of your recollection, you did not go through a translation process?Give up all what?
So to the best of your recollection, you did not go through a translation process?
Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Have a good day, sir!I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. I suspect that you mean some kind of transformation washing over me. At the time I certainly thought I felt all that and I acted accordingly. I also, suspect you're trying to judge with your own understanding whether I was really saved or not, the negative of which will make you feel secure in your own salvation.
I choose action.
I’m seeing a lot of claims but not a lot of evidence.
Nope.What I said was true but you have not recognised it as truth. That is the issue you actually need to wrestle with.
Except there is little evidence of the increased frequency of earthquakes, at least big ones.
Are large earthquakes increasing in frequency? | EarthSky.org
What is true is that in an ever crowded earth the costs of earthquakes will exponentially increase.
We can believe that things are only going to get worse or that whether by miracle or recreation there is a fix out there waiting to happen.
Except things have been far worse already. Again, I point to the Black Death where half of the entire population of Europe died. That was far worse than anything happening today.
Why wouldn't that have been an indication of the end times?
Well it was more local than truly global and only 50 million died compared to 85 million as a result of ww2 and another 37 million from ww1 and maybe a 100m in the disaster surrounding the civil war in china. At the time black death seemed extreme.
BUt Revelation talks in terms of a third of the population of the planet being wiped out by asteroids, plagues, earthquakes and assorted "natural disasters".
Of course nothing compares to the flood which wiped out 99.9999% of the worlds population.
To be honest this is not happening yet, kind of thankful for that! But there has been a statistically significant increase in the frequency and energy release of earthquakes in the first decade of this century.
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