Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
Don't worry about your predecessors. You have stated you want justice, not mercy. Then Jesus is not for you. He came for the sick, not the well. If you feel no need of a Saviour, then that is that. It is only people who recognize they need saving from something who will accept the Saviour.
If you want to be judged based on your good deeds in life, then you will be. Personally, I would rather take mercy than justice- but I know I am a sinner.
You see, one sect of Christianity teaches one thing and other sect of Christianity teaches something different about the same subject, and yet both claim to teach the truth of the bible. How are we, as non-Christians, expected to believe either one when Christians seem unable to get the story and scripture straight without contradicting each other? It is most confusing, IMO.
People often use children as a reason for living,
or as a seeming "advantage", (often for money in the usa where they get paid more for the more children they have),
for the attention they get, the 'hope' (often maybe unknown) that they have,
rarely though
bring up children in the right way,
because so few know the right way. This is most sad.
YHWH(GOD) still provides for their healing salvation and forgiveness IF they turn to HIM.
So their lives and the children's lives also, perhaps, may be saved and won't be in vain.
Ephesians 6:4 "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
Christians seek to bring their children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, so they might one day accept Christ as Saviour.
If my wife and I found ourselves naked in a garden talking to a serpent, I guarantee you I would not be swayed by anything it said...Because, substitute any two people- Mother Theresa and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, ANY two people and they would have sinned too. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
WHO has children, all the while THINKING the children ARE DOOMED ?
(it is TRUTH, that most of the world's population is DOOMED, but still, they don't usually know this)
If my wife and I found ourselves naked in a garden talking to a serpent, I guarantee you I would not be swayed by anything it said...
I think there's a difference between unbelievers and nonbelievers...but that would be a subject for another thread.I would say the Pharisees WERE nonbelievers. They did not believe Jesus was the Christ.
Or,Lets assume its not an actual serpent but an entity that is cunning,witty, and just flat our smarter than you. Then you would for sure fall for it. This is no different than outwitting a 3 year old child. Adam and Eve were that 3 year old child who got outsmarted.
Or,
consider this,
(seen years ago on just ONE website; can't find it this year),
what
if
the devil
appeared as an angel of light, as if "pure" , "wise", "beautifyl" and "Godly" but of course completely deceptive,
just like today ....
and
as written in SCRIPTURE a place or two....
Definitely possible. Whichever way he appeared it was in a way that made what he had to say at the very least compelling to adam and eve.
The serpent was said to be just a serpent and nothing more. The only explicit appearance of Satan in the Old Testament was in Job.
I don't think any theologians today would say the serpent was an actual talking serpent. As far as I know serpent was just a way to express slyness or craftiness. I would have to look at the hebrew though.
God gave the serpent the punishment to slither on the ground, so it does sound like a literal serpent. If the Garden of Eden had trees with special effects of granting eternal life and knowledge of good and evil, I think talking animals could be possible there too.
Good.I don't think any theologians today would say the serpent was an actual talking serpent. As far as I know serpent was just a way to express slyness or craftiness. I would have to look at the hebrew though.
You obviously don't believe in a 6 day creation period though do you? so why believe in talking serpents? Not that such a thing wasn't possible then but why would we even need to go there?
I was mainly bringing it up because a lot of people say "Adam and Eve were deceived by Satan" when there not any indication of it in the text of Genesis itself.
WHO has children, all the while THINKING the children ARE DOOMED ?
(it is TRUTH, that most of the world's population is DOOMED, but still, they don't usually know this)
Lets assume its not an actual serpent but an entity that is cunning,witty, and just flat our smarter than you. Then you would for sure fall for it. This is no different than outwitting a 3 year old child. Adam and Eve were that 3 year old child who got outsmarted.
Or,
consider this,
(seen years ago on just ONE website; can't find it this year),
what
if
the devil
appeared as an angel of light, as if "pure" , "wise", "beautifyl" and "Godly" but of course completely deceptive,
just like today ....
and
as written in SCRIPTURE a place or two....
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?