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Not dead yet. Just not on often.
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I should change that, though. Got plenty of time now...
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No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.
(Jesus said this to Nicodemus and the Holy Spirit moved John to record it in his gospel. The reference is John 3:13-21)
Now to give you a bit more insight into what God is saying here, because we know assuredly that what Jesus said that is recorded in the Bible (as well as what His Spirit moved His chosen prophets and apostles to write) are the Words of God. The word for “believe” in the Greek is pisteuō which means “I.to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in.” And we know from James that belief is not mere mental assent. For example, even the demons confessed that Jesus was the Son of God and knew that it was true, but that doesn’t mean they have everlasting life. For “faith without works is dead.” (James 2:14-26) The angels who do have everlasting life are those who “excel in strength” and who “do His Word, heeding the voice of His Word.” (Psalm 103:20) James also said that we, likewise, are to be “doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves.” (James 1:22) So we cannot stop at just believing that it is true what God said, though it is true, and some people take a while to even come to that conclusion, calling the Bible “a book of myths” or “a book of lies.” But that is not enough to save us, we also must do what God said to do in His Word, “purifying our souls through obeying the truth”, as Peter said in 1 Peter 2:2, or even as Jesus says here, we must be those who “do the truth, that our deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” As for the angels that sinned, Peter points out in 2 Peter 2:4 that “God did not spare them, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.” This is also the fate of unrepentant sinners, and of those who “turn from the holy commandment delivered to them” (1 Peter 2:21.) So I am just writing these things to you in case you didn’t know them, that you could repent of your sin, and start walking in accordance with God’s Word, because that would be of eternal profit and value to you.
With all the love that is in Christ Jesus, and with full faith and assurance in His Word,
Tiffany.
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Hi there! Remember me? We had a really long conversation a few months ago on my post "have you ever thought about the fact." I'm back now from the discipleship training program I was in. How have things been for you? Have you thought anymore about Jesus and how His blood was shed for your sin?
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I've been really busy, actually. Over the course of the last 7 months I've lost two close friends of mine, but I've started guitar lessons due to the sudden influx of guitars in my life. So I've decided to get a bit more serious into science, music, philosophy and maybe a bit of writing and history.
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I know how hard it is to lose close friends... 
So what are some of your favorite things you've been learning?
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Well, I'm practicing that really awesome part of "Eruption" by Van Halen.
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Thanks for sharing that with me. I hope is okay if I share something with you (... I just was hoping to talk to someone about these things... hopefully that is okay...)
I have been thinking a lot about the purpose of life, where we came from, and... about what happens when we die, where we are going (partly because my grandpa died a few months ago) and I see more and more my need for God, to realize He created me, He has a purpose behind my life. I see people as so precious because they were made in the image of God. I was thinking today about Hitler and the Columbine Killers and you know what? In reading read the journals of one of the Columbine Killers and comparing it to the thoughts Hitler expressed, I noticed that one of the main similarities is a total disregard for the Ten Commandments. Hitler called the Ten Commandments "the curse of Mount Sinai" and Eric Harris in his journal had no respect for the Ten Commandments, he believed he ought to be able to kill, lie, steal, rape, and continually he referred to himself as a god, idolizing himself... Its really scary, what people can become when they try to take God out of the equation. Something I thought that was even freakier was how in the zero hour documentary... a certain man tried to justify the behavior of the Killers... instead of condemning it as evil. Hitler was a wicked man. The Columbine Killers were wicked. We all are wicked, though, because we all have broken God's law. And... thinking about hell, about how we all justly deserve it, and we all try and rationalize our sin rather than repent of it... There is absolute right and wrong. If there is not... then what do you call what Hitler and Eric and Dylan did? Partially wrong? Relatively wrong? No... it is absolutely wrong. Don't you see your need for Jesus? For His righteousness?
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Well, first off, don't go equating me to the columbine kids or Hitler. I can't trace my family history past my great grandfather due to the holocaust. Secondly, I don't remember Hitler being an atheist in the slightest, but I do remember all of those videos of preachers yelling about the uncleanliness of the Jew and their despicable greed. People are people, and from the drunkard to the holy man, all men can be evil and impure of heart.
And of course, one can dismiss these people as "not following the true path," when yet these treatments are biblical, of slaves, of foreigners, of men.
And yes, there have also been men swayed by the word of God to do evil, and unlike Abraham, no angel was sent for members of the KKK and The Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. There stands no more faithful man and no more true believer than one that dies for their beliefs, no matter how shrewd.
So I believe men of any faith or creed, to any cause no matter how noble, may fall to evil. And there's no "No True Scotsman" fallacy to dodge it, to say they are not real Christians or Mormons or Catholics or Muslims or Hindus or Buddhists in any attempt to separate yourself from them. But there also stands no need to feel guilt, nor apologize for the actions of your fellow man. No one man can bear the weight of a church on his shoulders, Jesus himself struggled to bear just the cross.
And so I believe us all individuals, free to weight our beliefs and values on whatever we may choose, and to suffer whatever burdens that may bring. It is one's own responsibility to their sins, not any devil or demon, and it is one's own right to their virtues, no God to blame for it. I carry my beliefs lightly, and I am unashamed when I am proven wrong. But it is no silver tongue nor golden cross that shall sway me, for only that which exists and can be shown, observed, whether I believe it to be true or not. For the universe does not care what I believe exists, the stone may sit atop the mountain no matter how much I believe it not, and it may crush me no matter how much I believe myself invulnerable, but I can be brought to the rock and shown that it exists, and thus be proven wrong. And so I believe what I am shown.
What is wrong, however, is what strikes against our rights as a human being. We, uniquely, come into this world with but a name and ourselves. And it is on the actions of one individual if whether their name is remembered with scorn or with great dignity. For to be hated forever and have your grave spit upon for all eternity, that is what truly defines who is wrong. I wish to be remembered admirably, to be accredited in many books for my achievements and to be thought of as a man of history, of an admirable man, a good person who carried his weight with dignity and integrity. I treat my fellow man as I would prefer to be treated, no matter what they believe. Hitler's name is remembered as a tyrant, a great enemy, an antagonist of history and a murderer of millions. It is in that which people hate him so that I do not wish to be remembered as..
And so, I don't follow the man who yelled at an innocent fig tree until it died, in an act of wrath. (Mark 11:12)
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Mark 11:12-14 says, and I quote "Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, 'Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.'
Mark 11:20-22 says, and I quote "Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig true dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, 'Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.' So Jesus answered and said to them, 'Have faith in God.'
You are misrepresenting Jesus by calling Him 'the man who yelled at an innocent fig tree until it died, in an act of wrath.' For one thing, He spoke one sentence to the tree, and the Scripture gives no indication that that one sentence was 'yelled.' Secondly, He walked away from it before it showed any indication of dying, it was only when they came back the next day that they found it dead. Thirdly, there is no indication in Scripture that He did it out of an act of wrath. Thirdly, a fig tree is basically an inanimate object, so it doesn't much make sense to label it guilty or innocent. For example, say a farmer invites you over to his house to have some bread that he made through crushing up the wheat which he worked all summer to grow in his fields. Would you say to him "I don't eat dinner with a man who crushes up innocent wheat plants until they die, in an act of wrath." Would not the farmer say, the purpose I grew the wheat is that I may make bread out of it.
Really, you're whole fig tree comment reminds me of Jonah's plant comment. In Jonah 4:6-11 And the LORD God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant. But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered. And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said "it is better for me to die than to live." Then God said to Jonah, "is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said "it is right for me to be angry, even to death!" But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Ninevah, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left- and much livestock?'
And so, Jesus, being the one who grew that fig tree in the first place, for His own purpose (for the Bible says 'of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things') can do what He intends to do with it. I believe He is using that fig tree as an illustration, that if we do not bear the fruits worthy of repentance, we likewise will be cursed and perish. (Matt 3:8, Luke 13:3).
Now for the other points you made, Luke 16:15 says He said to them 'You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.' Luke 6:26 says "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." Psalm 49:12 says "Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain, he is like the beasts that perish."
You say that you want to be honored, to be remembered well by men after you die. Yet, even if you were honored and remembered well, you are still like the beasts that perish, and you will be forgotten sooner or later. There will come a generation that no longer remembers you just like there came a Pharaoh that no longer remembered Joseph, the man who had saved the entire nation form perishing in the 7 years of famine by the wisdom God gave him. That Pharaoh that did not remember Joseph actually worked to kill off all of Joseph's descendants and relatives that remained on the face of the earth. So there you go, you could actually be the reason an entire nation keeps from starving, and yet, generations later, one of the rulers of that nation had saved from starvation could turn on your generations and seek to oppress and enslave and kill off all of those who bear your name.
I don't care about being honored or being remembered well by men. What does that matter if men honor you, if you burn in hell for all eternity? You should seek rather the honor that comes from God, and to live in such a way so as to be with Him for all eternity in heaven, where there is fullness of joy in His presence and pleasures forevermore at His right hand (Psalm 16.) We all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and that includes you, as well as me. But I have assurance of salvation because I have believed in Jesus and seek to follow Him. You, however, are spurning your only means of salvation and eternal happiness by saying "I will not follow a man who..." and making a big fuss over a fig tree, of all things, when you would never make such a fuss over a farmers wheat field. I would rethink that if I were you.
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Do you not think that killing a fig tree to make a point, a fig tree which, at the time, had no business bearing figs, as it says it was not in season, that yelling at it and having god kill it is not an act of senseless wrath?
Do you not believe that there may not have been ANY other possible miracle God may have performed that would've gotten the "have faith" lesson across? The man asked to partake in figs that he had, in one sense, no right to, as it states, it was not in season.
I read a teaching a while ago, as to why god made atheists like me.
It said that when somebody who believes in God goes to commit charity, the glory of heaven sits in the back of their mind as some sort of reward for it. Or, they would believe that God would not allow harm or further suffering to befall the person in need, that they would rely on God to help.
But when an atheist helps someone in need, they do not do it because they believe they are going to heaven for it. They do not do it because somebody is watching. They do not do it because they will be judged. When an atheist helps someone, it comes from pure human compassion and empathy. A reward for it, holy or not, is nowhere in their mind. They do it not to be good because good things will happen. They do good things to be a good person, end of story.
As for me, I just don't get it. That's all there is to it. I don't think it has any more weight than any other religion, nor a book any more holy, nor a heaven any sweeter or a hell any hotter than any one I'd be going to if I followed any other religion. Whether or not I believe in God, the world shall still turn, and I can still do good work.
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Who am I to question the God who made all things including me? I don't question anything in the Bible. God has good reason for all that He does, and Jesus, being one with God, is only doing what He has seen the Father do, He didn't do anything of Himself.
I don't get why you keep calling it a "senseless act" though. Buddy, it's a fig tree. I've seen people cut down trees for many reasons. Jesus is the reason for any tree being there in the first place, so who are we to ask such ridiculous questions?
As for "pure human compassion and empathy" you've got to be joking. And as for "I can still do good work," not according to the Bible you can't. (Isaiah 64:6 says 'but we are all like an unclean thing and all our righteous acts [or good works] are like filthy rags.") A person who doesn't love God is so blind to good and evil that they call evil good and good evil at times. For example, if I asked you 'abortion: good or evil?' Or if, I asked 'homosexuality: sin or alternative, acceptable lifestyle?' what would you say? Now, think, is that what God would say according to the Bible? What is your standard, anyway? Your own thoughts? You decide what good is, what evil is? What compassion is? What selfishness is? There is no such thing as "pure human compassion and empathy" there is only perversity in our hearts apart from God. Want proof? Have you ever looked at a woman lustfully? Have you ever lied? Have you ever dishonored your mother or father? Have you ever taken God's name in vain by using it as a cuss word? Have you ever hated someone? "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (Matt 5:8) "But your iniquities have separated you from God and your sins have hidden His face from you." (Isaiah 59:2) If you've done any of those things, your heart is defiled in the eyes of God and though "each man proclaims his own goodness" (Proverbs 20:6) "There is none righteous, no, not one, there is none who seeks after God, they have all turned aside, they have together become unprofitable, there is none who does good, no not one." (Romans 3:10-12)
Christianity is not a religion, it is the truth. And on judgment day, if you have not repented and put your faith in Jesus and followed Him, you well see how hot hell really is.
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"It is not a religion, it is the truth"
culteducation.com/warningsigns…
- The group/leader is always right *CHECK*
- The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. *CHECK*
- Followers feel they can never be "good enough". *CHECK*
- Former followers are at best-considered negative or worse evil and under bad influences. *Looks up from clipboard* "If you have not repented and put your faith in Jesus and followed Him, you will see how hot hell really is." *CHECK*
I'd be careful about faith, friend, you might be in a cult.
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Lol! I literally mean "the Truth." "The faith." Yes sir, I agree that if it were simply "a truth" or "a faith" without any way to test if it was "the truth" then I might be in a cult. Or if I didn't test it actually against what the Bible said, yeah, it could be a cult easily.
But I'd be careful about doubt to... because Scripture says in James 1:6 (the second part of the verse) 'he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways." Speaking of doublemindedness James also says in chapter 4 verse 8 "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded."
If you want to call God a "cult leader"... uh... I wouldn't want to be you on judgment day. Yes, God is always right, and because He knows all things, He is the only one who can always be right. In Psalms 147:5 it says "His understanding is infinite."
Also, I do apologize if it sounded like I was threatening you. I didn't mean it like "you are going to hell!" I meant it as a sincere warning because I don't want you to go to hell. I remember looking at a guy who was a self-proclaimed atheist who I used to work with, and I couldn't help but weep at the thought of him going to hell. I beg you, friend, from the bottom of my heart, to repent and to put your faith in Jesus, and to follow Him; because there is a fate worse than death, and I don't want you to find out about it the hard way.
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Thanks!
... I just noticed that it shows birthdays as a notification. Huh.
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You've got a very unique art style, what can I say? (Also your butt Dino is awesome.)
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Oh my, I'll have to thank you again! It's really good to hear as an artist! 
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Butt seriously, it's a good art style! I keep guessing at what it reminds me of, because it's got this oil-painting, pastel, watercolor feel to it but not quite, I can't put my finger on it! It's all very quality! (And the amount of time it must've taken to draw the buttosaur. That's some dedication, that buttosaur must be like your baby!)
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I really appreciate hearing that! 
(I spent like 1,5 hours on it, been practicing to draw fast. If I go over to "perfectionist" mode the painting seems so artificial and dull for some reason. Butt yes, buttosaur is still like my baby, haha! 
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1-5 hours? With a result looking like that? That's fast, dude!
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Holy shit! (I only realized the pun after I made it, it made me laugh, so it's staying in there.)
The day after Bastille day? Nice! That's the day after the peasantry raided the armory of the Bastille and began the French Revolution, after the Nobles tauted their stance as being "God-given riches" and how "God made them wealthy, therefore they deserved to rule." (Name's Jacob, wrestling with holiness is in the name.)
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Are you saying that your name is Jacob?
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Well then, I'm not core so I can't change it. Huh.
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I'm pretty sure that what you are saying is that your name is 'Jacob' so that is the name I'll use for you in prayer. If it isn't, God still knows who I'm talking about.
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Jacob... I'm sure I'm going to weep many tears over you in prayer. Especially if you keep talking/thinking like you do. I used to think like you think. And it took me to some very dark places that I never want to go back to again. I want you to come to the Light, the true Light (Jesus Christ, in Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge). Not the false one of so-called "men's knowledge." How can a mere, finite man know anything when there is an infinite Creator Who made him as well as the universe and everything else? We know nothing. He knows all things. And if you think you know anything, you know nothing yet as you ought to know it, as it says in 1 Corinthians 8:2.
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I am a smart enough man to say that I do not know enough, and a wise enough man to know that church on sundays is time I could be spending reading about astrophysics. No man shall live to know everything, I just hope to learn enough to make things objectively better. Or would you have all of our medical scientists give up their pursuit of a cure for cancer to become priests?
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The cure for cancer has already been found: it's called Jesus Christ and I would have all men give up all their pursuits to preach Him!
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I mean, tell that to Bonnie Parker. She gave all she could to the faith and prayer, even forsaking medicine to pay money to churches, and she died of cancer, leaving her daughter nearly nothing.
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Why would she pay money to churches?
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Because that's what her church asked her to do. To plant a "Seed." "Your donation to the faith is sure to come back to you tenfold, in fortune and luck and miracles, etc." kind of church. She was a good woman, had complete faith in God and Jesus. She believed so much so that she was willing to sacrifice so much and forsake medicine because the preachers told her so, that God would cure all, that science would only serve to poison her and Jesus would heal all ailments, that if she TRULY believed, God would want her to give money to the church. So, she gave money to the church and prayed. She died of cancer, and left her children with whatever she had left. In the meantime, Gloria and Kenneth Copeland, the heads of her church, live in a tax-free 6.7 million dollar villa and own two private jets, because they're all registered to the church.
So, those with complete faith in God and Jesus, without a single shred of doubt towards their church or it's doctrines. Must feel really nice to be fooled once in a while, because the Copelands have yet to have any comeuppance or justice. They still live in luxury, despite it having been YEARS. It's all legal business, because the government can't interfere with a church or its practices, and if the Church believes that God wants your money to go to the church, as a sign of faith and vigilance? Can't do anything about it. Yes, they tout the same book and quote the same passages, talking about a daily personal sacrifice to the lord, because after all, isn't enlightenment worth all of the money in the world anyways?
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Those are false doctrines! They are using the idea of 'Jesus' to make a profit. Makes me sick. They are hypocrites and Jesus never did take kindly to greedy hypocrites, that's what the scene of Him in the temple overturning the money changers tables was about. But just because there are evil men out there using religion to take advantage of people, doesn't mean you should want nothing to do with God. They've misrepresented Him and they will pay for that. But God ... Whether you see it or not, you desparetly need God.
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False doctrines, sure, but what's there to stop people from believing in them? Even to their deaths, people will remain loyal to the things they might believe, and the members of such churches might see churches without this doctrine as wrong as well. Fun thing with religion, when you have multiple churches all claiming to be the authority on what God wants, without any more reason to believe in one than the other.
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The Bible is the stand alone authority on what God wants, and not the Bible that is cut up and taken out of context to suit a man's agenda, but the Bible that a man loves and heeds even when it cuts him to the heart with conviction and he has to change everything he thought was true to line up with it.
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Funnily enough, that profiteering fits under "sacrifice a bull each day to God." It's a modern version of that verse in Exodus, basically to the letter.
It's also not exactly new either. In the Renaissance era, it was common belief that when you died, you'd go through purgatory and be tortured based on your sins before you went to heaven. Priests would go to grieving family members, and get them to hire them to pray for their dead family members so that maybe God tortures them less before they go to heaven. This was one of the things in Martin Luther's theses, before he got the boot from the Catholic Church. So, what's the correct response to when you recognize profiteering and false doctrines in churches? You make a new religion! Sounds reasonable, right? It's what started the baptist, anti-baptist, Lutheran, Protestant, etc. churches...
So on that new religion, I'm open for ideas.
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No, Luther did not mean to make a new religion, though a group of people decided to take it that way after he died. He wanted to bring back the stuff of true Christianity as found in the Word of God. The problem is that people just always get their eyes on a man like Luther and turn to him instead of going to the Word of God directly for themselves to see how it says they should live.
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At that point, the "Word of God" was with the catholic church, whose priests wanted money.
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No, the Word of God was still there, but the 'priests' wanted it to be hidden from the lay people because if the people were able to read it for themselves, they would see that what the 'priests' were doing was all a scam.
You should read the Word of God for yourself. Read for yourself the prophecies and see them fulfilled in Jesus... see how no other man could have ever have fulfilled those Messiah prophecies. If you did, I dare say it might even make a believer of you. The proof is all there. You've just never taken the time to wrestle with it, Jacob!
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If I wanted to wrestle with biblical language and ambiguous text, I'd just log on to fanfiction.
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Okay. I'm not going to say anymore about it. I'll just pray about it.
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Wish you the best of luck. May god carry you over troubled seas to safety.
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Thanks. I know He will! And may God lead you out of the complex labyrinth of human reasonings into the simplicity that is found in Christ!
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