I'm not sure what the debate is....
| Posted On: 03/26/09 10:25:59 AM |
Age 62, KS |
I would hope to be your FRIEND and you're not using that term as a put-down. Yes, I am guided by the Holy Spirit which by definition makes me a "Spiritualist." I am a follower of Christ which by definition makes me a Christian...loosely or not.
Everything God does is Love, even the stuff we think is bad. If you're a parent you know that when you punish a child, the child thinks it's bad but it was done out of Love for that child.
All of God is Love.
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Answer
| Posted On: 03/12/09 07:02:15 PM |
Age 48, MO |
Friend: I see that you call yourself a Christian but I think you define the term losely. A Christian is one who follows Christ. Therfore, "What religion is God?" God is the religion (faith, belief, and action) that seeks to please God by His decree. God has laid out His decree in Scriptures and His know and follow them by the Spirit. As you and I discussed before, God is not love as a definition, God is love is a fact; meaning, we would not know love without knowing God. God, however, has done some very "unloving" things, but you wouldn't accuse him of this by your standards, would you? Friend, by your definitions, you are not a Christian but are a spiritualist. Seek God not the supernatural. John
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Seek the commonality.....
| Posted On: 03/06/09 07:50:49 AM |
Age 62, KS |
I always ask and will again in hopes of eventually getting an answer: What religion is God? While I am a fervent Christian, I am open to what other religions have to say including those nasty "new agers." What I've found is that much of what scripture teaches is further enhanced by some of the
teachings and thoughts of others.
When one talks about the supernatural I would hope this isn't in an effort to pooh
pooh it as God is supernatural, is He not?
My easiest summation about God / Jesus is to say that He is Love and Love conquers all.
SIN is often our enemy and to conquer it, we
need to learn Love. I refer to SIN as a
"self-interest nature" with Love being the opposite of SIN.
Christianity makes up about 1/3 of the worlds population. That means the 2/3's are
not Christians. My simplistic feeling is that all good Christians need to stop trying to be exclusive and start trying to live a life that Jesus talked about to His deciples.
Love by example is very powerful.....Love will always win.....always!!!!
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No more shepherds, please!
| Posted On: 03/04/09 10:47:30 AM |
Age 49, OH |
Seems to me that the heretical drift we've seen in Christianity is because we have too many shepherds and are too reliant on them. And those shepherds have too much pressure to come up with "some new thing" to market themselves with.
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He's over there!
| Posted On: 03/03/09 10:45:20 AM |
Age 53, NE |
I share here excerpts from a column I wrote for the McCook Daily Gazette Jan. 7, 2009
The column can be read in its entirety, including online feedback offered at the time at http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1491326.html
"The Gazette receives an average of 60-70 pieces of mail daily. Subscription payments, newspaper subscriptions, the same bills that plague every household and business in America, and of course, press releases from across the nation, all dutifully picked up at the post office and then distributed to the proper departments within the building.
Most of the press releases affect the public in our immediate area, but a fair number are mass mailings, undoubtedly sent to every known news outlet.
A lot of those end up on my desk. Is there a local connection? Is this information we can use? Or are we simply adding to File 13 or the recycle bin?
I didn't think too much about the first one the paper received from Share International. I read through it, referenced the Web site (www.Share-International.org), and discarded the release. After all, there was no local connection and the premise sounded just a bit flaky. Over the holidays, however, I saw the same graphic from my earlier Web site perusal in a TV advertisement. The information shared there was an abbreviated version of what had come out in print form.
Another release landed on my desk this week. It gives a somewhat disjointed vision of a coming large, bright star "visible to all throughout the world -- night and day" which will be followed around a week later by the emergence of one called the Maitreya.
According to the press release, this emerging one is "the Christ to Christians, the Imam Mahdi to Muslims, Krishna to Hindus, the Messiah to Jews, and Maitrya Buddha to Buddhist," all in one. He is reportedly going to bring a message summarized as "share and save the world," and "will seek to inspire humanity to see itself as one family, and to create world peace through sharing, economic justice and global cooperation."
Now, to a Bible-believing Christian, those are ominous words. The literature about this teacher seeks to dismiss those fears through the claims that Jesus, the Christ, is one and the same in this incarnation, and so there is no reason for Christians to fear his emergence, nor the "Masters of Wisdom" that are to accompany him.
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Occultists
| Posted On: 03/03/09 06:21:37 AM |
Age 76, PA |
I have not as yet read your whole article, but I must say that in your first paragraph (I believe) you said that many who participate in the New Age are not occultists - then you say they have many gods. That IS an occultist.
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