I use 'biblehub'.. very helpful.
This is good stuff, good leads. And also the important stuff I began with, the John stuff, which I have read a few times, and must read again, with your verses put in context. Which then leads to the apostles of John again, and I must read ignatious and the further teachings there.
You cannot get it right. Nobody can, but God himself. True faith is the same faith as 'salvific faith' described in Hebrews 11, particularly as verse 1 puts it. Elsewhere we see that this faith is not even from us, or of us, but produced by the Spirit of God in us. It is the gift of God, the work of God. And HE gets it right the whole time, every time.
True, my father never hugged me, and my mother stopped doing that when I bacame a boy, and never did that with the siblings either of course, since all are men. Uncomfortable when I had drunk friends who hugged. Caring is shown in deeds/action here, if you really use words to express something, it must mean something, same with hugging. It has to do with not devaluating the value of such emotional expressions. If you deal it out like thank yous and hellos, there is inflation, and you are kind of giving away the milk for free. Like a streetworker only with emotios that should be guarded better. Like with candy, if you eat candy everyday it does not taste as good, as it does if you only eat it at weekends. I think it is from the bible, about not living in excess, you know, drink but drink in moderation, etc.
Nice little prayer I guess, I do not know any prayers yet, apart from those I have read here and some other places. I think I understood it fully, but I did flunk german in college. Tried to bribe my teacher 1 000 dollars get passing grade, did not work, he was christian. That was a sin, must make a note of that for my prayer. It means this, right?
I do not think there is an orthodox church in my language here. They seem to be for eastern europeans, so only in polish, lithuania, greek, etc, and that is greek to me.. But a little update, after changing searchengine cleaning cookies, I suddenly got better hits and found a nearby shop, pocketbible from 2011 for 20 bucks. That is the kind of bible Jesus would by, why go fancy? All wrong, right?Maybe the Orthodox Church will send you a bible?
There are Churches here in the U.S. that give them away every Sunday.
Once one has faith they recieve His Holy Spirit. Once one receives His Holy Spirit, then the rest of your list can be realized. As for those who live a sinful life with no repentance, they are without the Holy Spirit. Blessings.
I know that, but this book does not seem to perpetuate any of that stuff. Think this is the literature they give out to entice you in, before the next programming might begin. The jehovas witness that came to me, was the neighbours, I think they came to enlighten me and warn me about the woman I roamed with and semilived with. Since it was my landlady, bit of a loose woman. She seemed to be at some sort of war with them, always speaking badly of them and their faith. She also made me hide with her when some christian streetwalkerpatrol came upon us when going home drunk out of our skull after a pubrun, where another lady I knew was a part of it. Think the neighbours were good people. Never really saw them, apart from when they did missionary at my apartment, and she was very upset each time I let them in.
Thank you. I agree. I just cannot realize the rest of the list with unresolved and tumultuos relations in my life, that affects others. Got a family of 2 left, that is of frail health, being used by my chosen family in my past life, that has since used some former familymembers as tools to hurt me. And wear me out, and I could never hurt her or her daughter, so never fought back, and found it unacceptable of my brother to not leave my personal life, after I invited him in for one meeting, because she manipulated me into it, because she said it must be done, while I was on drugs. And I agreed while on drugs, wanting sex and earthly love. So, he stayed, and betrayal. Ivasion of my life. My relation to another. So, I let him stay in my family, while talking to her, being a mess on drugs, while full well knowing she was using it to hurt me, through him, with my family. Then it got hard, and then I was blocked off communicating with my family. When I had quit drugs and could tell them to get out of my life, and that she is not totally truthful. But since it was blocked, and I had to fight or destroy her with her false lies, I did not. So, I went away for 7 years or so instead and waited for death. But became christian in the process. And my mom got sick, my father grew tired from work, she could not help him, so I had to come back. I tried again, and no go. So I cut the familytree and her communicationlines to them. And she says she lost her father and her mother is going soon, so we should get peace now for both families.And her daughter has issues, so not good. Nobody else is to blame for her sinful life, I invited nobody into it, and I cannot give anybody what they want now. I do not betray trust to any of them, even if they want to hurt me, or use my family. They made their choices themselves, and broke the rules. So now the are on their 8th year, fighting a drugaddiction in a person who has not used drugs, and is very much again it, and I cannot tell them that. That is the cross I bear for not going non communicado with them for 8 years, when a desperate sosiopath attack you and use them.
You misinterpret my point about acting christian, not acting it, acting it out, meaning living it.
