All of them if we truly repent? I've been struggling with this question for years and I've sometimes wondered if it's to
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bizerta — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 02:28 PM)
If your repentance is sincere? Absolutely. But considering the manner in which you ask the question, I am not sure there would be a genuine sincerity in your heart.
The question was sarcastic, but let's assume the repentance were sincere. So you're willing to give a rapist and murderer a free pass just because he repents? What about the poor little girl that was murdered? Supposed he murdered a 2-month old that had never been baptized? He goes to heaven and she doesn't. -
bizerta — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 06:15 PM)
Where do you get that the baby doesn't go to heaven?
Because she does.
When my niece was born, the minister told my sister that the niece was full of sin until she was baptized. The fire-and-brimstone rant implied (if not directly said) that niece would not go to heaven if she died before baptism. I wasn't buying it, but my sister scheduled the baptism for the next available Sunday. -
bizerta — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 06:14 AM)
Because there are so many versions of Christianity, I am reluctant to pick one as I might be wrong and God may punish me for picking the wrong one after I die.
Because there are so many different religions, I am reluctant to pick one as I might be wrong and God may punish me for picking the wrong one.
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Melanie000 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 08:00 PM)
Because there are so many versions of Christianity, I am reluctant to pick one as I might be wrong and God may punish me for picking the wrong one after I die.
That's an atheist meme. No 'versions' disagree as to the essential things which come down to as Paul said "Jesus Christ and him crucified".
http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-2.htm
New International Version
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
New Living Translation
For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
GOD'S WORD
Translation
While I was with you, I decided to deal with only one subject-Jesus Christ, who was crucified.
Commentary
Matthew Henry Commentary
2:1-5 Christ, in his person, and offices, and sufferings, is the sum and substance of the gospel, and ought to be the great subject of a gospel minister's preaching, but not so as to leave out other parts of God's revealed truth and will. Paul preached the whole counsel of God. Few know the fear and trembling of faithful ministers, from a deep sense of their own weakness They know how insufficient they are, and are fearful for themselves. When nothing but Christ crucified is plainly preached, the success must be entirely from Divine power accompanying the word, and thus men are brought to believe, to the salvation of their souls.
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Melanie000 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 10:05 PM)
I assumed you would be more familiar with something filmed in your neck of the woods.
I am not. Most of what's shown on TV here is American, but I don't watch it. However, your movie quote was not an adequate answer to whatever the question was - all the days later after your distraction, who knows what that was?
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PoisonedDragon — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 03:48 AM)
Oh, but she
does
watch it. She only affects unfamiliarity with it as a way of disparaging it, and to deflect from having to comment meaningfully on it.
But she tacitly admits to watching it all the time. Like her crack about seeing collection plates on the Simpsons, on this thread. (The gist of her remark is that collection plates don't actually exist in churches; just in churches depicted on American television.
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Melanie000 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 05:11 PM)
But she tacitly admits to watching it all the time. Like her crack about seeing collection plates on the Simpsons, on this thread.
PD lies again. "Tacitly" (i.e., PD's interpretation) isn't my saying something.
I don't watch he Simpsons, and haven't for 8-9 years since my last child grew up and left home, and I didn't have to watch it any more.
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Progressive-Element — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 05:27 PM)
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bizerta — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 08:45 AM)
your movie quote was not an adequate answer to whatever the question was
The question was, "Who?". The answer I should have given was that Colonel Jessup was a character in the American film, "A Few Good Men".
For what it's worth, "Top of the Lake" is a TV show filmed in Queenstown, NZ. Beautiful scenery, BTW. That, coupled with a fuel stop in Aukland on my way to Sydney, makes me want to visit there. -
Melanie000 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 05:08 PM)
The question was, "Who?".
No, it wasn't. This is all a silly distraction from the fact of your attempting an insult which fell flat because American movies are so forgettable.
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