Keep reading your Bible, you will find the answers there. Just read it without looking at it through any doctrine, but let it form your doctrine for you. The seeming contradictions are easily reconciled if we are willing to take God's word as a whole and not isolate portions of it
Sock...where do you get :
Christians happily give money to not only the Church but to missionaries, the poor, outreach programs, rehab programs, homeless..etc.
We are instructed to give (tithe) so that we can learn to give and be happy about it. But it's not about just giving money. We give time and personal resources too. But giving doesn't get you in...you give after you are saved. Clergy have NOTHING to do with being saved. In fact, most of the people led astray from truth are BECAUSE of improperly trained clergy. If a person sits down and reads the Bible from front to back...they have all the answers to life right there. Then you get a minister who was misled by some PHD in seminary school who was misled before him and it propagates. There are many legitimate, honest, faithful ministers in the world working their tail off to do the will of God. They will get into heaven but not because they were ministers. Yes, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter and Paul were faithful to the Lord and are probably in heaven. But sarcasm such as having to write a gospel is not even worth a defense.
Name ONE bad thing today that Christians do to others? They burden women for killing their unborn children? They try to keep marriage as it always has been? They think they are just so perfect? It is a fact that Christians are now the number one persecuted group in the world. Why is this? Could it be that they make unbelievers uncomfortable confronting them with morals? truth? that would make their conscious hurt because they would have to give up the pleasures of the world...the sin they love so much? Or is it that Man needs no yoke...no supreme boss to tell him/her what to do...that man has grown so proud and boastful that he is his own god? Pride cometh before the fall they say. I thank God every day we have a choice and you should too. This choice NO ONE can take away...not a goverment, a parent, peer pressure, not even God Himself. He gave us a will to understand the consequences. Don't be so blind that you don't even lift a finger to do a personal investigation yourself. Surely the all powerful man can check out the facts to see if he will have a future.
If you are comfortable knowing that if you accidentally got killed this afternoon in a car wreck and know the answers...so be it. Enjoy your choice.
Peace.
Sock...where do you get :
Quote:you have to write a gospel, join the clergy or give money to the Church to get in.?
Christians happily give money to not only the Church but to missionaries, the poor, outreach programs, rehab programs, homeless..etc.
We are instructed to give (tithe) so that we can learn to give and be happy about it. But it's not about just giving money. We give time and personal resources too. But giving doesn't get you in...you give after you are saved. Clergy have NOTHING to do with being saved. In fact, most of the people led astray from truth are BECAUSE of improperly trained clergy. If a person sits down and reads the Bible from front to back...they have all the answers to life right there. Then you get a minister who was misled by some PHD in seminary school who was misled before him and it propagates. There are many legitimate, honest, faithful ministers in the world working their tail off to do the will of God. They will get into heaven but not because they were ministers. Yes, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter and Paul were faithful to the Lord and are probably in heaven. But sarcasm such as having to write a gospel is not even worth a defense.
Name ONE bad thing today that Christians do to others? They burden women for killing their unborn children? They try to keep marriage as it always has been? They think they are just so perfect? It is a fact that Christians are now the number one persecuted group in the world. Why is this? Could it be that they make unbelievers uncomfortable confronting them with morals? truth? that would make their conscious hurt because they would have to give up the pleasures of the world...the sin they love so much? Or is it that Man needs no yoke...no supreme boss to tell him/her what to do...that man has grown so proud and boastful that he is his own god? Pride cometh before the fall they say. I thank God every day we have a choice and you should too. This choice NO ONE can take away...not a goverment, a parent, peer pressure, not even God Himself. He gave us a will to understand the consequences. Don't be so blind that you don't even lift a finger to do a personal investigation yourself. Surely the all powerful man can check out the facts to see if he will have a future.
If you are comfortable knowing that if you accidentally got killed this afternoon in a car wreck and know the answers...so be it. Enjoy your choice.
Peace.
Quote:edit... Remember that laughable picture...plueeeze! I want everyone to remember that PIX showed how funny Hell was whether it's tomorrow or a 1000 years from now....please remember it.