Dear friends!
I was given a link to this website by a fellow believer, and thought I'd take a look.
Firstly, I'd like to congratulate you on your large community. It's really nice to see a large group of believers getting together and encouraging one another. Furthermore, I see you have some very interesting Bible studies. As a fellow lover of the Bible, I must say I'm impressed, as far too often these days, I see church communities where the Bible is an extra addition, and only brought out when everything else fails. It's fundamental that we remember the word of our Almighty Father and His Son, through the Holy Ghost.
It's also good to see that you appear to have such passion and love for fellow believers, again something that is vital, for as in Mark 3:24:
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And also in John 13:35:
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Undoubtedly, you've read in the scriptures that love is of such huge importance. We read:
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
In 1 John 4:16.
Now please, brothers and sisters, understand this. If we claim to follow Christ Crucified, we must be in love. For us to dwell in God, and for God to dwell in us, we must first dwell in love.
Now, what does it mean to dwell in love? Jesus Christ himself in Matthew 5:44:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
I have heard that you have much hatred within this particular forum for certain groups of people, such as Muslims, Athiests, and other Non-Christian groups. Now, while these groups are, by this verse in Matthew, considered our "enemies", and moreover, very often they make themselves our enemies, that we are not to show hatred to them. We are not to hate them back. We are to love them. To pray for them lovingly, and to bless them.
Let's skip on a few verses to verse 47:
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
How can you possibly justify hatred? We should love those people who hate us. We should remember that the group who persecutes Christians the fifth most is OTHER CHRISTIANS. Other people, who claim to be followers of Christ, but are clearly without love. 1 Corinthians 13:1:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
If we, as followers of Christ are without love, we are simply making a lot of noise. Unnecessary noise. If a person has true love, they are not loving to some people, and yet hate others. That would mean they are inconsistent with their own teaching.
No doubt you'll pick me up on this, but if we replace the words for enemies in Matthew 5:44, we basically get the following:
But I say unto you, Love the athiests, bless the Muslims, do good to the unsaved, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Do you not see? You may claim to love the Bible, you may claim to love Jesus, but if you do not love even the least of humankind, Jesus doesn't even know you. Jesus says that even calling somebody a fool is deserving of the fires of hell, and that unless we change our ways, we are not saved.
I am not the one to pass judgement on you. Jesus is the one who'll do that, but if you're not loving everybody, even those you label "scum", you're in danger. (I've seen it, some of you label anybody who isn't labelled a Christian, as scum. Did not even Jesus eat with prostitutes. He spent time with the labelled scum of that day. Could you do that?)
Let's talk prostitutes for a second. You know most of them are born into it? They're not given the chance for anything else. We're supposed to rescue them from that, not condemn them to hell.
Are you not familiar with Jesus' teaching on "whoever is without sin throw the first stone"? Don't judge lest ye be judged. Sound familiar? It's there in that book that we've been given from God.
Do you know Jesus Christ? I do, and I know a large group of truly loving believers, who will do anything to help people. They genuinely love people. They wouldn't see a man dying in a street, and first have to find out if he is a Christian or not, before they decide whether they should help him. Would you honestly leave a Muslim bleeding to death? I know I could not, and neither could Jesus.
You might claim I don't know the "true" Jesus. I don't know "YOUR" Jesus (Cos apparently you're YOUR Jesus' favourite church... when'd he tell you that? As I see it, his favourite church is his bride, the united church of the entire world of true believers... but anyway...), but by the looks of things, "your" Jesus has no true power. The Jesus I know works miracles in the lives of those around me. I see healings and absolutely radical miracles weekly. Now, before you label me a "witch", I'd liek to point out I believe in witchcraft, and I believe it is serious and damaging, however you have nothing to fear in me, I am in no way a witch.
Now, I'd like to conclude as I started. Unfortunately, I cannot. You probably cannot understand how I love you. I say these things out of love for you, and our of love for Almighty God. I shall be praying for you.
God Bless you all.
Lots of love,
toxic-inferno
I was given a link to this website by a fellow believer, and thought I'd take a look.
Firstly, I'd like to congratulate you on your large community. It's really nice to see a large group of believers getting together and encouraging one another. Furthermore, I see you have some very interesting Bible studies. As a fellow lover of the Bible, I must say I'm impressed, as far too often these days, I see church communities where the Bible is an extra addition, and only brought out when everything else fails. It's fundamental that we remember the word of our Almighty Father and His Son, through the Holy Ghost.
It's also good to see that you appear to have such passion and love for fellow believers, again something that is vital, for as in Mark 3:24:
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And also in John 13:35:
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Undoubtedly, you've read in the scriptures that love is of such huge importance. We read:
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
In 1 John 4:16.
Now please, brothers and sisters, understand this. If we claim to follow Christ Crucified, we must be in love. For us to dwell in God, and for God to dwell in us, we must first dwell in love.
Now, what does it mean to dwell in love? Jesus Christ himself in Matthew 5:44:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
I have heard that you have much hatred within this particular forum for certain groups of people, such as Muslims, Athiests, and other Non-Christian groups. Now, while these groups are, by this verse in Matthew, considered our "enemies", and moreover, very often they make themselves our enemies, that we are not to show hatred to them. We are not to hate them back. We are to love them. To pray for them lovingly, and to bless them.
Let's skip on a few verses to verse 47:
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
How can you possibly justify hatred? We should love those people who hate us. We should remember that the group who persecutes Christians the fifth most is OTHER CHRISTIANS. Other people, who claim to be followers of Christ, but are clearly without love. 1 Corinthians 13:1:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
If we, as followers of Christ are without love, we are simply making a lot of noise. Unnecessary noise. If a person has true love, they are not loving to some people, and yet hate others. That would mean they are inconsistent with their own teaching.
No doubt you'll pick me up on this, but if we replace the words for enemies in Matthew 5:44, we basically get the following:
But I say unto you, Love the athiests, bless the Muslims, do good to the unsaved, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Do you not see? You may claim to love the Bible, you may claim to love Jesus, but if you do not love even the least of humankind, Jesus doesn't even know you. Jesus says that even calling somebody a fool is deserving of the fires of hell, and that unless we change our ways, we are not saved.
I am not the one to pass judgement on you. Jesus is the one who'll do that, but if you're not loving everybody, even those you label "scum", you're in danger. (I've seen it, some of you label anybody who isn't labelled a Christian, as scum. Did not even Jesus eat with prostitutes. He spent time with the labelled scum of that day. Could you do that?)
Let's talk prostitutes for a second. You know most of them are born into it? They're not given the chance for anything else. We're supposed to rescue them from that, not condemn them to hell.
Are you not familiar with Jesus' teaching on "whoever is without sin throw the first stone"? Don't judge lest ye be judged. Sound familiar? It's there in that book that we've been given from God.
Do you know Jesus Christ? I do, and I know a large group of truly loving believers, who will do anything to help people. They genuinely love people. They wouldn't see a man dying in a street, and first have to find out if he is a Christian or not, before they decide whether they should help him. Would you honestly leave a Muslim bleeding to death? I know I could not, and neither could Jesus.
You might claim I don't know the "true" Jesus. I don't know "YOUR" Jesus (Cos apparently you're YOUR Jesus' favourite church... when'd he tell you that? As I see it, his favourite church is his bride, the united church of the entire world of true believers... but anyway...), but by the looks of things, "your" Jesus has no true power. The Jesus I know works miracles in the lives of those around me. I see healings and absolutely radical miracles weekly. Now, before you label me a "witch", I'd liek to point out I believe in witchcraft, and I believe it is serious and damaging, however you have nothing to fear in me, I am in no way a witch.
Now, I'd like to conclude as I started. Unfortunately, I cannot. You probably cannot understand how I love you. I say these things out of love for you, and our of love for Almighty God. I shall be praying for you.
God Bless you all.
Lots of love,
toxic-inferno
i thinks it betterer to give a bible than to give foods to poor folks cuz if they reads the bible an get saveds then they gonna stay saveds,
but if you gives them a bible an also some foods then they live longers 




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