Heavenly Father, I know that I am a sinner and unable to save myself. I believe that You love me and that You sent Your Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins. And, that You raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him at Your right side in heaven. I confess Jesus as my Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead. I thank you for making me a new creature in Christ Jesus.
And Lord, I repent of my sins and ask You to forgive me of all my sins. Thank you for Your forgiveness and cleansing of my soul. I also ask that You help me to read and understand the Bible. To attend a Church that loves You and upholds the Bible as the inerrant inspired Word of God. And, I purpose to yield to thy Holy Spirit to lead me into all Truth and Righteousness. In Jesus name. I pray. Amen!
Heavenly Father, I know that I am a sinner and unable to save myself. I believe that You love me and that You sent Your Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins. And, that You raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him at Your right side in heaven. I confess Jesus as my Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead. I thank you for making me a new creature in Christ Jesus.
And Lord, I repent of my sins and ask You to forgive me of all my sins. Thank you for Your forgiveness and cleansing of my soul. I also ask that You help me to read and understand the Bible. To attend a Church that loves You and upholds the Bible as the inerrant inspired Word of God. And, I purpose to yield to thy Holy Spirit to lead me into all Truth and Righteousness. In Jesus name. I pray. Amen!
The disciples had been puzzled. Is attaining Heaven so difficult? Specific categories were mentioned: adulterers (incl. divorced persons) - eunuchs - murderers - thieves - perjurers - rebels & derelicts - those having great possessions - no Heaven for any of them.
Matthew 19:25-26 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
With God all things are possible. Sometimes it's difficult to grasp what that means. The disciples must have read (or at least heard of) God's commandments and Jesus had cited Moses so someone must have known who he was. The point was that although by their own efforts, divorcées or murderers and others like that could never attain Salvation, for God the impossible is reality. Even degenerate heathens (and degenerate they must be since had they retained God in their knowledge throughout their descent from Adam, they would not be heathens) may be Saved.
Nowadays there's an agenda to establish secular values and offer alternative explanations for what God has revealed. They are strangely inconsistent. On the one hand, Jesus never existed (or if He did but not as described then all we're left with is that "Jesus" is a name which was never in dispute anyway) whereas on the other, He performed miracles which have naturalistic explanations such as post-mortem appearances caused by grief, separation anxiety and group hallucinations. Take your pick.
But always make it as complicated as possible.
My earlier map seems to have flown off into the aether but could do with updating so I'll fix that in asking, "How do you explain Philip's experience? Teleportation? Serendipitous wormhole? Hyperspace?" He had gone from Samaria to the Jerusalem-Gaza road, then spontaneously relocated to Azotus. Let's go with serendipitous wormhole. Its (internal) length is indeterminate, ok, but the distance to traverse in our mundane reality is fixed. Depending on how far along the road the Ethiopian had got, there is a maximum range.
Here is the map –›
They rode along, away from Jerusalem, as Philip explained why Jesus needed to die or more specifically why His blood needed to be drained out and dribble down onto the dirt. That can't happen without death occurring. So Jesus died. And since He was alive during all this He died horribly, jabbed with a spear, agony, despairing and all alone. He said so.
If they'd gotten along 4 miles from Jerusalem, it would be a 20 mile translation to Azotus; the miles from Jerusalem are shown along the road and the distance to Azotus next to the town. The Bible is clear that Philip did not walk there but if he had, you can guess the time it would take from the distance.
And this is where the false paradigm of secularism comes unstuck. Without a serendipitous wormhole opening up under Philip's feet as he jumped down from the chariot, what have they got? Maybe the Ethiopian sold him a teleporting device! Or what about, the chariot had hyperspace capabilities?
For mere humans such things are impossible. But as Matthew recorded, with God all things are possible. Even for the Lost to be Saved.
Thanks For the info and I'll try to be more Satanic. And I'll see everyone in Hell.
That's true. With your attitude, you will see everyone in Hell, and they will see you. Meanwhile we'll be looking down at you from our place beside Jesus and laughing.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but demons have barbed t@11ywh@ck€r$ for a reason.
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I'm glad you have heard the message of Salvation, part of which is the reason why we need it. As we're already in the introduction forum I don't need to direct you there but perhaps in your own new thread you could give us some idea of how you were reminded that Jesus is the only one able to redeem us from the claim of sin. Other than blasphemies against The Holy Ghost, no sin however revolting can prevent God from loving you.
Are people reatarded? I don't get it. It just escapes my ability to comprehend.
God and the Holy KJV Bible is so simple, even the daftest of minds can participate. Follow the Bible exactly how it is written. No need to 'understand this or that', just do what it says. Forget trying to find hidden meaning or Where is Waldo. God is everywhere. Give yourself to Him. Do not block Him from penetrating you, even during the darkest of hours.
Give to the Church. God sees your generosity. It does not matter what becomes of your gift. What matters is how much you give. The more you suffer, the more God knows you care about Him.
Become committed. Do not waver from your devotion. God will test you all the time. Anything and anyone that tries to cause you to deviate from the path to True Salvation™ is God testing you or Satan trying to lure you away from His Divinity. Stay Pure®.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Satan can be pretty sneaky but sometimes so obvious it beggars belief.
Jesus knew the most poverty stricken were able to contribute 100% but a trillion-fold fillip from the latest skanky billionaire would be worth far less by comparison.
$100,000,000,000 ÷ 2¢ = 5,000,000,000,000
Christians have a single purpose in life: to be Christ's agents. Resources are important, but not only for Him. Satan also has an agenda and uses deception to fund it. Satan wants everyone to suffer as much as possible all the time and coopts the idea of sacrificial giving to suit his rotten plan. Assorted self-important cults exist for just that purpose, calling themselves this or that (I don't want to seem prejudiced but do they worship idols? Ganesh: elephant with 400 arms? Garuda: bird with teeth? The Moon: the moon? Mary: female human robed blue with the sky?) these also require funds and there's a simple "acid test" easy to apply.
What are the outcomes.
Does the world in which these other claims for dollars arise improve? or stay the same? or get worse? The reason I don't live in a hole in the ground is NOT because I gave dollars to those other freaks in whose countries nothing changed for centuries. It's because of Jesus.
To most "Christians" The Bible is like a license agreement. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". All those "Christians" will burn in Hell! James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
I have no idea what kind of illegal drugs cause you to type gibberish but I do know you will burn in Hell for all eternity.
Have a nice day!
oh that is gen alpha language
it is cringe but you have to make the younger generations notice
skibidi - some unknown bad thing, watch this to understand even less: [*** LINK TO EVIL VIDEO REMOVED BY STAUNCH MODERATOR ***]
gyatt - a shortened form of "god damn" but it refers to the posterior area
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To most "Christians" The Bible is like a license agreement. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree". All those "Christians" will burn in Hell! James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."
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