[babdah]

Re: a year old christian

It sounds as though you are saying that the Bible is a myth. Please explain how both of the sentences of yours that I've quoted can be true.

No i am not saying that the bible is a myth i said maybe they took the stories from other pagan myth to incorporate it into there own to prove a point and explain what had happen.

[Oliver Brendan Hayve]

Re: a year old christian

Now why cant I hear God, I prayed, i lived true to the Bible, and everything but i just cant hear him talking to me. Why? I have been an excellent servant.

What you've posted so far suggests to me that deep down, you know the answer.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: a year old christian

I'm not to sure, maybe they used the myths to formulate something of there own to explain the disasters of there day and age. I not saying that the bible is a myth it is still useful to God to get his message across to the people.

It sounds as though you are saying that the Bible is a myth. Please explain how both of the sentences of yours that I've quoted can be true.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: a year old christian

to be quite honest I am a student of religious studies but not one religion, it is actually Religions of Americas and integrated studies at UNC. which doesn't go into detail of the passages. Besides I came for help not some one looking to derail me on my verses knowledge.

And help is what you are receiving. Put away all this heretical nonsense that's confusing you, pick up your King James Bible and read it so you truly understand what you have to do to be a True Christian and be saved.

[babdah]

Re: a year old christian

Matthew 11 16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Oh look, in context this is part of a rebuke to people who whine and moan about two totally opposing acts in the same way. It's not saying that God wants to be your friend.

A true student of divinity and not some googling troll would, of course, know this.

to be quite honest I am a student of religious studies but not one religion, it is actually Religions of Americas and integrated studies at UNC. which doesn't go into detail of the passages. Besides I came for help not some one looking to derail me on my verses knowledge.

[Zechariah Smyth]

I'm not to sure, maybe they used the myths to formulate something of there own to explain the disasters of there day and age. I not saying that the bible is a myth it is still useful to God to get his message across to the people. Now why cant I hear God, I prayed, i lived true to the Bible, and everything but i just cant hear him talking to me. Why? I have been an excellent servant.

Maybe He's talking and you aren't listening?

(1 Thessalonians 2:13) "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe."

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth
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[babdah]

Re: a year old christian

Then how do you explain the similarities?

I'm not to sure, maybe they used the myths to formulate something of there own to explain the disasters of there day and age. I not saying that the bible is a myth it is still useful to God to get his message across to the people. Now why cant I hear God, I prayed, i lived true to the Bible, and everything but i just cant hear him talking to me. Why? I have been an excellent servant.

[Didymus Much]

Re: a year old christian

...Luke 16:9
Mat 11:19

Oh, very good, you found the word "friend" in The Bible. Now try again, and see if you can find something actually relevant to the question I asked you.

Luke 16 is the parable of the unjust steward, which tells us that God wants you to fulfill your duties to your earthly masters with the same diligence with which you would serve God, hence:

Luke 16:11 "If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?"

Nothing to do with God wanting to be your friend.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: a year old christian

Mat 11:19

Matthew 11 16But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. 18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Oh look, in context this is part of a rebuke to people who whine and moan about two totally opposing acts in the same way. It's not saying that God wants to be your friend.

A true student of divinity and not some googling troll would, of course, know this.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: a year old christian

Luke 16:9

Let's put that into context.

Luke 16 9And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

10He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Seems to me that Jesus was talking about something other than "God wants to be your friend." Seems He was talking more about how it's important for people to do the right thing and that God's law is more important than what people want in their lust.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: a year old christian

Yes, but i reject that idea because there is no way to "Pre-steal" ideas. How can you "presteal" ideas that haven't formed yet?

Then how do you explain the similarities?

[babdah]

Re: a year old christian

Dear friend, in your religious studies, have you come across the concept of diabolical mimicry? It's been known almost since the beginning of Christianity that the devil pre-stole aspects of Christianity to make pagan cults look suspiciously like the holy revelations that God would later give to us. Early Christians used the concept to answer the God-mockers who compared Christianity to existing pagan myths.

Yes, but i reject that idea because there is no way to "Pre-steal" ideas. How can you "presteal" ideas that haven't formed yet?

What makes you think God wants to be your friend? Support your answer with Scripture, please

Luke 16:9
Mat 11:19

[Didymus Much]

Re: a year old christian

... I talk to God like a friend and still nothing...

What makes you think God wants to be your friend? Support your answer with Scripture, please.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: a year old christian

I cannot hear God he hasn’t spoken to me any. I have been reading some things lately about the epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story and also the similarity in the book of Ecclesiastes. Then I read about the Norse’s Gods and Horus. I also read about the Sumerians and the ten commandment look similar to the Hammurabi’s Code, from the 19th century BC.

Dear friend, in your religious studies, have you come across the concept of diabolical mimicry? It's been known almost since the beginning of Christianity that the devil pre-stole aspects of Christianity to make pagan cults look suspiciously like the holy revelations that God would later give to us. Early Christians used the concept to answer the God-mockers who compared Christianity to existing pagan myths.

[babdah]

Re: a year old christian

this is why it is so important to know what is tempting you

I dont know, I pray for guidance and direction but i see nothing. I talk to God like a friend and still nothing.

You are looking for excuses to dismiss God's Word in the KJV1611 as the real truth that it represents

I am not! I am looking for reasons to stay a believer.

Reading heretic gibberish and demonic prattle in an attempt to discount the gift of Jesus Christ.

How so? I am a Religion Major working on my PHD on Christian studies. How is this heretic gibberish and demonic prattle?

Will you let Him save you?

He has and I still haven't heard his voice.