Christians be honest with yourselves. (Christians only)

[angellous_evangellous]

Christians be honest with yourselves.

A Christian believes Jesus is God, and the bible is God’s written Word.

A Christian is *obviously* whatever you say a Christian is, because you alone have the power to define it.

You beautiful human being.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

The human mind can twist the written Word of God to mean whatever he or she wants it to say.

Pathological self-centered egomania.

 

[sojourner]

The written Word is an insufficient way of communicating, and that has been proven to be true by the Churches down fall.

Downfall? I was in church last Sunday, and it was alive and well.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Downfall? I was in church last Sunday, and it was alive and well.

I think he is realizing that most churches don't agree with him. That's the "downfall."

 

[Johnlove]

I would hope the following scripture would irritate you so much that if you don’t live God’s Word it will start you on your way to live God’s Word.


(Galatians 1:7-8) “Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ; and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned.”


Notice if your church the following scripture it is condemned. A Condemned Church can only pretend to be alive.



(Matthew 5:44) “But I say this to you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;”


(Matthew 5:39) “You have learnt how it was said: ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance.”


(Matthew 6:19) “Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal.”


(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”


(Luke 14:33) “So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.”



(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”


(Matthew 5:48) “Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”

 

[Thanda]

I would hope the following scripture would irritate you so much that if you don’t live God’s Word it will start you on your way to live God’s Word.


(Galatians 1:7-8) “Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ; and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned.”


Notice if your church the following scripture it is condemned. A Condemned Church can only pretend to be alive.



(Matthew 5:44) “But I say this to you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;”


(Matthew 5:39) “You have learnt how it was said: ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance.”


(Matthew 6:19) “Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal.”


(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”


(Luke 14:33) “So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.”



(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”


(Matthew 5:48) “Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”

Like I told you John. No one understands what you are trying to say. It reminds me of the time Jesus preached about being the bread of life. They all kept asking him to give them real bread. They asked him how they could eat him. Eventually they just went away and left him. Mark 4:12 "That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."

 

[Johnlove]

Like I told you John. No one understands what you are trying to say. It reminds me of the time Jesus preached about being the bread of life. They all kept asking him to give them real bread. They asked him how they could eat him. Eventually they just went away and left him. Mark 4:12 "That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."

I am a prophet, and my ministry is to give a word.


My wife used to tell me that Jesus has me give a word to people, so they can’t say on the last day, but I never heard that.


I also believe much of what man believes as science is God’s way to continue to preach in parables.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I am a prophet, and my ministry is to give a word.

Pathological...

 

[Johnlove]

Pathological...

Yes people need to believe something to be able to continue to accept blindness.

 

[sojourner]

I am a prophet, and my ministry is to give a word.


My wife used to tell me that Jesus has me give a word to people, so they can’t say on the last day, but I never heard that.


I also believe much of what man believes as science is God’s way to continue to preach in parables.

Then, by all means, let's have your "Thus saith the Lord," and get it over with.

 

[Thanda]

May I take the liberty of clarifying what I think the OP is all about.

If you are a christian and believe you have been saved by your faith in Christ then why do you still sin? The scriptures make it clear that the effect of true faith in Christ is that one is endowed with the power to forsake all sin. One is filled with and motivated by the love of God. And one puts his best efforts at establishing the kingdom of God on earth

 

[Johnlove]

Then, by all means, let's have your "Thus saith the Lord," and get it over with.

My witness upsets you?

 

[dawny0826]

Christians be honest with yourselves.

A Christian believes Jesus is God, and the bible is God’s written Word.


(John 1: 1) “In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.”



The following is God’s Written Word. Do you truly believe the bible in God’s Word?


(Matthew 7:21) “It is not those who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, who will enter the kingdom of Heaven but the person who does the will of My Father in Heaven. When the day comes many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, cast out demons in your name, work many miracles in your name?’ Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you; away from me, you evil men!”


(1 John 3:8) “Whoever lives sinfully belongs to the devil, since the devil has been a sinner from the beginning. This was the purpose of the appearing of the Son of God, to undo the work of the devil.



(1 Corinthians 6:9-19) “You know perfectly well that people who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God: people of immoral lives, idolaters, adulterers, catamites, sodomites, thieves, usurers, drunkards, slanders and swindlers will never inherit the kingdom of God.”



(Romans 8: 4) “He did this in order that the law’s just demands might be satisfied in us, who behave not as our unspiritual nature but as the Spirit dictates.”


(Matthew 5:39) “You have learnt how it was said: ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance.”


(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”


(Romans 6: 11) “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ... “


(1 John 3:9) “No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God.”


(1 John 2:6) “But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did”


(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”

I'm a Christian and am aware of my beliefs. What are you hoping to accomplish?

 

[Johnlove]

I'm a Christian and am aware of my beliefs. What are you hoping to accomplish?

That is nice you know what you believe? Do you believe what the apostles taught?


If you don’t believe what the apostles taught, and teach a different gospel, then you are condemned, per Apostle Paul.


(Galatians 1:7-8) “Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ; and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned.”


I am not trying to accomplish anything. It is just my way to give a word.


I don’t know of any church that teaches what the apostles taught.


All churches that I know of fail to teach that a Child of God can’t sin.


(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”

 

[dawny0826]

That is nice you know what you believe? Do you believe what the apostles taught?


If you don’t believe what the apostles taught, and teach a different gospel, then you are condemned, per Apostle Paul.


(Galatians 1:7-8) “Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ; and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned.”


I am not trying to accomplish anything. It is just my way to give a word.


I don’t know of any church that teaches what the apostles taught.


All churches that I know of fail to teach that a Child of God can’t sin.


(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”

I believe in what Christ Jesus taught. I've been instructed to love my neighbor as myself. I've been taught in scripture that love is the ultimate fulfillment of the law. I cannot be lost as I belong to God.

 

[sojourner]

My witness upsets you?

I don't know if it does or not. I haven't heard your "Thus saith the Lord" yet. That's why I invited you to give it. Since you're a prophet.

 

[sojourner]

All churches that I know of fail to teach that a Child of God can’t sin.

All the apostles that I'm aware of taught that all people sin. (BTW: if we don't sin -- what do you think forgiveness is for?)

 

[Johnlove]

I believe in what Christ Jesus taught. I've been instructed to love my neighbor as myself. I've been taught in scripture that love is the ultimate fulfillment of the law. I cannot be lost as I belong to God.

Love is a gift from God. To love God one needs to live God’s Commandments.


Love is a verb. To love your neighbor means one will live God’s Commandments. Not ever sinning is truly loving one’s neighbor.


So do you Love?


(John 14: 23) “Anyone who loves me will keep my word and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.”


(John 14:21) “Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.”



(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”


Love is so easy to say.

 

[sojourner]

Not ever sinning is truly loving one’s neighbor.

We're also fully human and do not love perfectly.

 

[Johnlove]

We're also fully human and do not love perfectly.

No without God one can’t truly obey God. That is why Jesus gave us his Holy Spirit.


If I am not right then Scripture is wrong.


John says a Child of God can’t sin. Jesus called us to be perfect as the Father in Heaven is perfect. If Jesus told us to be perfect, then you know he gave us a way to be perfect.

(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who is a child of God sins because God's seed remains in him. Nor can he sin, because he is a child of God. This is what distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil: whoever does not live uprightly and does not love his brother is not from God.”


(1 John 3:5-6) “Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin, and that in him there is no sin; anyone who lives in God does not sin, and anyone who sins has never seen him or known him.”