EmilyD wrote:
A Christian is someone who believes in Christ. If Jesus Christ is not the main subject of their belief (like Buddha is in Hinduism), then they are not Christians.
As Buddhism and Hinduism are two totally separate religions, Buddha has nothing to do with Hinduism.
jSmitty45
Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
Bad Bob wrote:
What kind of rewards do you think you would receive?
There are rewards, or crowns as they are called in the Bible. The Victor’s crown, crown of rejoicing, crown of righteousness, crown of life, and crown of glory..
jSmitty45
Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
RandyBrian wrote:
No one can prove ANYthing about life after death to anyone else.
Everything....math, science, religion, everything we 'know' are inadequate attempts to understand and grasp the Universe God created, and all of them are flawed estimates that are incomplete approximations.
I am a firm believer in evidence. I believe in God with all my heart, and a confident Faith, because I have seen and experienced much evidence within my own life and family that I am convinced of both His existence and His love for me.
But what I have seen and experienced and KNOW is firm evidence would not be accepted or convincing to anyone else. It is personal. That is how God reaches out to each of us. Personally.
Belief systems, whether it be in a church or science or whatever, are ALL essentially 'religions' based on faith in something. Choose wisely.
I know quite a bit about science due to training and a lifelong interest. Science is wonderful and incredible, and is a long LONG history of amazing discoveries that have mostly been proven wrong as we learn more. What we 'know' today is at the top of a mountain of disproven beliefs, and those disproven theories will only continue to grow faster as we learn more. As much as I love and am amazed at what mankind has learned, I have no faith that it has or ever will provide us with all the answers.
So choose where you place your faith wisely. Listen to Jesus as He speaks to your soul.
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Amen, and amen. The Lord has spoken to me so strongly, and at one time he saved my life in a horrible car accident in So Florida when I was a teen. He spoke to me the first time to trade seats with the other teen, and I kind of ignored it, he said it again, and I still didn’t do anything, the third time, he spoke it so urgently, that I obeyed, and traded seats with her, and within two minutes, we went over a railroad track, at 80 miles an hour, and had a blowout, flipped three times, and came back across the median, landed in a ditch, killed two teens, my best friend in the back seat, and my younger brother was sitting in her lap. The girl I traded seats with had to be put in a body bag. There was nothing left to the car, only the floorboard. The Lord spoke to me so plainly, and I am so grateful to him. Had I not known him as my Savior, I probably would have been one of the two killed, or the other two in the back seat who has brain damage. No one can tell me he isn’t real, as I have tasted, and seen his love, mercy, and goodness. My brother only had nicks all over his back from the rear windshield breaking, and he was in shock, and he was only 9. My friend in the back seat was killed, and her uncle was the driver. He got sent to prison, two counts of manslaughter, dui, excessive speed, and failure to control. Will never forget it.
jSmitty45 wrote:
There are rewards, or crowns as they are called in the Bible. The Victor’s crown, crown of rejoicing, crown of righteousness, crown of life, and crown of glory..
And every good thing you did in your life will not be burned up at the Judgment seat of Christ. Did you honor your Mother and Father, did you help the poor, did you treat your neighbors well, did you return a person's wallet back to them even if it had $500 dollars in it? Just some examples.
RandyBrian wrote:
Mikevavelli, I am so very sorry for the damage to your faith and your heart throughout your life.
I, too, have made more than my fair share of mistakes, and to my deepest regret, I have spent times in open rejection of God's will and commandments.
NO one is perfect, except Jesus.
But as I enter the last years of my life, I am doing my poor best to be the Child of God that He has always wanted me to be.
If I can in anyway help you seek to find the Peace of God in your life, please reach out to me through private message and lets have a discussion. I would like few things better than to greet you in Heaven as a Brother, and I mean than sincerely.
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I'm doing well for the first day of daylight savings time.
You're a good man, RandyBrian and I respect your faith with a touch of envy.
My catholic faith was damaged early on by aggressive pedophilic priests and the preponderance of gay men drawn to the seminary that I attended for about 2 weeks and left because I am not gay. The ritual is beautiful, but the corruption within is sin itself.
So, I've built my own church. I am pope of my life, which is, very good in health and happiness and lifestyle.
I see the power of nature and anthropomorphic climate change goes right out of contention.
Something is running it all, and it could be one God entity, but I am sure that God in his perfection, should there be a God, expects nothing of me good or bad. I live, I die, and it's the only bright space between the time before I was born and the time when I die.
A man dead for one second is as dead as a man dead for a thousand years.
The one consolation is that death is a concept of the living. Being dead is nothing.
You are right - The second death wil come at the White Throne Judgement. It means just that. You are burnt up in the lake of fire and gone forever to be remembered no more. Pastor Boyd
jSmitty45 wrote:
There are rewards, or crowns as they are called in the Bible. The Victor’s crown, crown of rejoicing, crown of righteousness, crown of life, and crown of glory..
Who cares about a "crown"?
ziggy88 wrote:
You are right - The second death wil come at the White Throne Judgement. It means just that. You are burnt up in the lake of fire and gone forever to be remembered no more. Pastor Boyd
The soul is burnt up in the lake of fire?
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