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Are they monks, also?
LoL maybe?. Some of them i dont even know, being all the way in the east and all.
Interesting thing,..........Faith.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen". It is also referred to as ''a gift from God".
We don't have faith in a car that breaks down, to take it out of state. But, If it is solid and reliable, then our faith is more substantive.
The Patriarchs of old would often erect a pillar of stone, when and where God met them at a critical time................They went thru dry times, and probably doubt, But, they could look back to the pillars of stone, and say....... Man - God met me there, He did this then.
For me, My wife turns and says, "we need 50 Dollars, next day, acheck for $51..........heheheheh...ahhhhhhhhh. we were young and broke. This happened three times. I'll never forget.
The times he told me (not audible, you just know), to Liston to the next song..........(wasn't even playing yet)..........Sitting in my car, again, early 20's,......... married!,......... Kids!,......... wondering, What in the F**k to do.
Please excuse me, but that was a particularly tough time for us.
I still remember this song. One by the remnants of Lynard Skynard, first album after the plane crash, the message clearly ~ (capsule) "that - That you know to do, just do it - everything will work out Ok"........... I reflect on this almost daily, because I still need the peace it brings. I'll be 48 in Dec. I'll NEVER forget it. It's one of my pillars of stone. Do I have faith in God?......Damn right. Because He's faithful.
We must ask. "If we ask, we receive" and another "We have not, because we ask not".
What floors me in the Christian community, Is the claim (by some) that ~ Spiritual Gifts ~ are not for today. They don't see them , SO.....They claim that they don't happen today. They change their doctrine due to their own neglected prayers.....It's so freakin simple......... I look up some times and ask for a spirit of prophecy. Some times with tears. Not trying to be emotional here..........The point is: If we don't Ask. Can we bitch?.......and really be intellectually honest about it.
And Peach is right, Its a sermon......
Hey Peach, I hope you didn't misunderstand. I wasn't ranting about your preaching comment. I was just venting myself abit. Thanks,.By the way........your validation is very appreciated.
cool braddog. im glad to see some one else that tokes and believes in god and jesus!. I grew going to a catholic private school till 5th grade. Untell i got kicked out of course because of my crappy grades.
I was also raised christian, not by my parents but my nieghbors, Through all my life ive had nobody. Parents divorced when i was in kindergarden. I got beat by my brother in law through my entire middle schoo because he was on all kinds of drugs and hated me for no reasonl. My dad was never home much. When ever i visited my mother, she was always drunk and getting her ass beat by her bf.
i wont keep going on but my point is one day i realised. I was sitting there depressed and in the dumps and then i realised... the Only person thats been there for me is God and jesus this whole time. From the day i was born, i was taught who god was and who jesus was.
The whole time i hated the world and was so angry. I realised some one has been standing there with there hands on my shoulder for this whole time.
I may not be a perfect person or a perfect christian. I smoke weed, I have a daughter at the age of 22 and im not married yet. I have tons of sins. But even though ill always remember who was there for me. And i will NEVER question my own faith or let any one EVER influence my faith. I know jesus is there. And i know when the time comes that every one else will realise.
I was highly emotional during your post. And, then I thought that you had a 22 year-old daughter, I was like, "RIGHT ON!!!" :stoned:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peach.Optimo.Bluntz
You display faith that a non-believer would need to look up Freud in order to understand. Neil Peart wrote:
Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins
Needles at your nerve ends
Crawl like spiders on your skin
Pounding in your temples
And a surge of adrenaline
Every muscle tense - to fence the enemy within
I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on impluasible dreams
Experience to extremes -
Experience to extremes
Suspicious-looking stranger
Flashes you a dangerous grin
Shadows across your window -
Was it only trees in the wind?
Every breath a static charge -
A tongue that tastes like tin
Steely-eyes outside to hide the enemy within...
To you - is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you - revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
Yeah, you - it takes a little more persistance
To get up and go the distance...
Rush - The Enemy Within (Part I of Fear) Lyrics
Thanks man. What do you mean by freud?
Oh, God.......Your honesty,........ PEACH, This is much of what it means to "walk in the light as he is in the light", (1st John, Ch1). If we are honest about where we are, where we've been, what we are..... buddy, that verse in John continues "We will have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His son, continually cleanses us from all sin".Quote:
Originally Posted by Peach.Optimo.Bluntz
Some times we'll do better, some times - not, But, If we receive His Grace and mercy, we will continue to be changed.
We will have received much forgiveness, we will then contain it to give away.
See His heart. He says ~ look, I Love you Its cool, I desperately want you to receive my forgiveness, so that others that don't know it..........can have some,........ from you, and from me.......and also, by the way..........so your children won't suffer by your hand, as you did from .......your folks.
Its' late, Got to go..........You are an awesome man, look ~ don't sweat anything. Your young, with young, In the prophets........God says, re: these with young (he considers vulnerable), Don't screw with them, for their defender is strong. (Brad, Translation (revised)).
Sounds like more than an asswoop'n to me.
It's a conditioned learning process from when you were very little. Sigmund Freud (who thought that all Our problems were of an unconscious sexual nature) developed a "structural theory". The superego being what you learned when you were very little.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peach.Optimo.Bluntz
And it stuck to you. That's why those song lyrics came to mind.
Here's some Freud:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...osexual+stages
http://www.freudfile.org/
100 years of Sigmund Freud: http://www.positivehealth.com/permit...lar/litt55.htm
thanks guys. you know... its funny how i never really told very many people the history of my life. But i decided to tell a bounch of people on a board on the internet lol. You guys rock!.
That's because, believe it or not, we are rocks. I'm sedimentary and braddog's conglomerate.
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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
You a Geology major there Beach? Had to look this one up.
It takes a very bright person to be as quick as you are with humor. And your metaphors.......if its humor or irony. I can only stand back and admire.
Sunday Pm. was sweet.
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Originally Posted by braddog10
Thank you, braddog. :smokin: I took Geology at The College of St. Rose, in Albany, NY. A few years before, it was an All-Girls Catholic School, when I went there, it was an all-denomination, "bi-gendered" school.
I understand how you feel, But, much of the bible is misunderstood, since in many places, the language used is eather figuative or poetic.Quote:
Originally Posted by hahaitsdoogle
2nd Peter ch3 vs 8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
There's a lot of confusion over this. The Lord perfectly aged the earth in those figurative six days. There's a lot of numerology. God, also instituted a day of rest on the seventh day.
I hope this helps.
Oh, I have heard that secular researchers, now agree with the creationist, that a single cell is irreducible. Basically, a single cell requires the right balance and interrelationships of critical life chemicals, there's DNA, it's really very, very, complex. If any of these are missing, than the cell could not live. It's irreducible. The conclusion is really very simple that it would be impossible for a cell to just occur when the life balance is already sensitive.
They now agree, at least, that there had to be some intelligent designer. They may not agree with the biblical interpretation. But at least, they have conceded to what the creationist have insisted that someone, or "intelligent design" is behind it.
agreedQuote:
Originally Posted by mrdevious
Actually,if you read psalms,it says a day is as 1,000 years and 1,000 is a day in heaven,so it actually took 6,000 years for earth to be created which makes more sense scientifically,when you start from the coolin' of the earth's outer manta (crust) to the creation of Adam. So on the seventh day,(for1,000 years)God rested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solistus
That quotes real and a few people have asked me about it. I think he is saying that the division he's causing could be (for example) in a muslim household. Let's say that the daughter of the family converts to christianity, this of course would create division amoung the family and on a larger scale -as we see whenever we turn our t.v. on- war just for believing that jesus was the son of God.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solistus
I think this is LEFTIST propaganda and is sooooooooooo EASY TO PROVE! YYYYYYAAAAAAAWWWWNNN! Lemme know when ya got somethin' INTERESTIN!Quote:
Originally Posted by Euphoric
AMEN! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsw2
The sciptures don't say 6 days, they say 6 differnt times with a break between each one(loosely tanslated) it could be days weeks or even billons of years between. Has anyone read the whole Bible? I ask becuase I have a friend who preachs but has not even read the book?Does that make any sense.?
BCBUDBOY
There is no mention of a day of rest in any of the oldest sciptures it is belived to have been added by a scribe(the Bible was copyied by hand before the invention of the press)who wanted a day off. BCBUDBOY
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it, thou shalt do no work...'Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
I am by no means a well versed in the Bible , but yet I am puzzled by this small conundrum.
All other commandments start out by saying "Thou shalt not.."
And yet this one, the 4th one, starts with "Remember..."
Why remind someone of somthing unless, somday it may be forgotten.
:question:
Oh really? Do you have copies of these "oldest scriptures"? Besides, even the oldest scriptures were written down after the legends had been passed down by oral tradition for many many centuries, so of course they should be taken with a grain of salt.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
But it seems pretty clear that the ancient Jews did believe the world was created in six days. The world used in the earliest Hebrew writings we can find is indeed yom, which means "day". And the same earliest copies we have do contain lots of references to keeping every seventh day holy—this is no surprise, since a seven-day week was also observed by the Babylonians and it is likely the Jews borrowed the idea from them (and interestingly enough, the Jewish and Babylonian creation myths also have many similarities). The ancient Hebrews didn't exactly have expert geologists and astrophysicists, so there was nothing to suggest to them that the Earth as we know it took billions of years to form. Can you really blame them for guessing wrong?
Or mabey its different because it was written by someone else.The are older writings than the one you quoted and they don't mention the sabbath BCBUDBOY
I belive the Vatican has most of these,I read a book of translations,they took every verse in the Bible and gave 4 or 5 translations 2Greek 1 Hebrew one in the oldest recorded text,and one I don't recall. The chruch has offically changed the Bible twice.There are over onehundread cannonized(accepted as true) sciptures,the bible is made up of less than a dozen of them. BCBUDBOY
So your saying the only thing I can do is Jesus?Quote:
Originally Posted by xsw2
I'm really going to need a credible source before I believe that. The Old Testament is chock full of mentions of the Sabbath, many of which are central to the point of the story. And from what I can find, the Nash Papyrus is the name of the document which contains the earliest known record of the Ten Commandments, dated to about the second century BC, and it seems to include the commandment about observing the Sabbath.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCBUDBOY
http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_...mmands-JQR.htm
Could you please direct me to these older writings of yours? I think I'm going to believe the expert-Biblical-scholar-with-historical-documents guy before the Internet-message-board-posting-rumors-without-evidence guy on this one.
Yes, that's you. I can see your name above your post too.Quote:
BCBUDBOY
It also seems the Dead Sea scrolls (not quite as old as the Nash Papyrus, but just about the oldest biblical fragments we have) mention the Sabbath:
http://www.openscrolls.org/cgi-bin/t...llegro&page=32
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Originally Posted by Mark Bryan
Define a "True Christian" .
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Originally Posted by Solistus
And why did God need to rest? Does he get tired and need sleep?:confused:
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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
How many Americans are Christian? 80% That is an overwhelming majority,shouldn't America be in better shape? and why are 99% of the prison population believers?
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Originally Posted by mrdevious
Look it UP.
Isaiah 45:7 " I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
God creates Evil? check out this site http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.htm
very true religion is just causing warz every single awr is about religion like the war going on now the so called "War on Terrorism" its all about religion the united stats wants to change there views on things and then you got the pakistans fighting back then being called terroist shit id be pissed to if i was getting a gun held to my head and being told to change my beliefs:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Ganja
When I read this post, I couldn't help notice willystylle had 666 posts. hmmmmm....willy, hidin' somethin' from us?Quote:
Originally Posted by willystylle
I'll define a 'true Christian' for you. It is someone who practices what Jesus preached. That is, absolute pacifism, under all circumstances. If someone hits you, turn the other cheek. If someone rapes your mother, turn the other cheek. And so on. He preached that violence against others is wrong, no matter what the circumstances are. Thus, there are really very few true Christians around, because most people believe in self defense and the like. There are many who talk the talk, but few who walk the walk.
Jesus initially refuses to cast out a devil from a Syrophoenician woman's daughter, calling the woman a "dog". After much pleading, he finally agrees to cast out the devil. 7:27 Mark
KJV
Is that righteous?
Ok am i hypocritical or what????
If you are all that is Known to you, Your are all that is IT
It can be anything and everything, its the world the universe....
if you can be part of God, God can be found in you
If Jesus were here, wouldnt he look like you???
Jesus is in all our blood,
Jesus and his relgion of chrisitanity is all a metaphor, you people are closed mind when you say, religion is crap.... all religions have a core teaching....when you think basic knowledge you think Savior of the world., what you dont understand is that "JESUS WALKs" ..... YOU ARE HIM, FOR HE IS WITH YOU ALWAYS.... when you need his conselling you ask
when your nervous, your sad, you need soemthing....., you pray...
when the Lion king didnt know what to do, his father said look to the Skys''heavens' all the great kings are there for your conselling.... Hmmm so Washington, Jefferson.... all of these peoples spirits still co-exist, and well buddha's, jesus, and everyone elses would still be around
We of course are part of ONE SOUL.... we are one soul
If a glass of water is taken from the ocean, will it ever return????
Garden Knowm you should send me a message once i have enough post, you sound very intelligent....
THE BIBLE IS NOT FOR comparing hebrew form rome, or what the pope added....... its all spiritual lessons. Very kindergarden type stuff, but for the WISE
LOVE IT
Dont forget when Jesus said
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law ..."
Doesnt sound very pacifist to me.
what passage did he say that??? Weirdo