BenTheBeliever
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It is called the holy spirit. When you are born again you are filled with the holy spirit or some call it the holy ghost.
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It is called the holy spirit. When you are born again you are filled with the holy spirit or some call it the holy ghost.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I remember the feeling of being filled with it, and how my life was so miserable then.
I also remember serving it an eviction notice, and how great it felt, and how much better off I've been since then.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
Right, I understand that. But, how do you differenciate the voice? Or is it even a voice?
BenTheBeliever
Active Member
I know what life was like before I came to know him and I was lost and almost killed myself. When I found him things changed
leibowde84
Veteran Member
Sounds like Shadow Wolf had the opposite experience. Who's to say who's right?
BenTheBeliever
Active Member
It sounds like your own voice. He speaks to your heart or for me does. When I feel him telling me to say something or to help someone I learned to do it.
Marisa
Well-Known Member
I love that word, tittle.
Marisa
Well-Known Member
I looooooooooove Bea Arthur as Maude!Thor will get you for that.
Ben, this is not the kind of board for personal stories of how God helped you. There are all faiths here and none. Marisa, who is my friend I dare to hope, is one of the none. You need to understand that people here all have sad stories and some are devout atheists.
Marisa
Well-Known Member
I would be most proud to call you friend, Jo.
BenTheBeliever
Active Member
Then I just might not belong here then.
1. I don't like overly solicitous remarks that smack of knowing me off this board. That said, I am NOT your 'buddy' nor am I a 'buddy' at all. I am a woman.
2. I don't like people who insult me with no reason. I have been polite, albeit strongly opinionated. That you resort to ridicule to myself and others means you are no longer worthy of my time.
Back atcha woman!!!I would be most proud to call you friend, Jo.
That is up to you Ben. It is a great board and we have lively discussion but no one can protect anyone here nor should they. There are no kids allowed, at least younger ones, and all types of opinions, and people. Like Marisa who is an atheist and I believe in God but we get along great because we respect each other's opinions. I would never tell her to believe in God because of something in my life. Its just not up to me.
You cannot post things like this. Its against forum rules. You might want to go read those.
Question: "What does it mean that there is no condemnation in Christ (Romans 8:1)?"
Answer: “No condemnation” can be defined in courtroom language. To have “no condemnation” declared means to be found innocent of the accusation, to have no sentence inflicted and no guilty verdict found. By the grace of God, believers in Jesus Christ will not face the condemnation of God. “We have passed from death to life” (1 John 3:14).
The Bible teaches that every human being will be brought before the judgment throne of God for an ultimate and decisive judgment (2 Corinthians 5:10), and Christ Himself will be the judge (John 5:27). We are all naturally under the condemnation of God: “Whoever does not believe stands condemned already” (John 3:18b). But Christians will not be found guilty on Judgment Day (John 3:18a; Matthew 25:33–34).
However, the “no condemnation” involves more than acquittal on Judgment Day. In Romans 8:1 the apostle Paul speaks in the present tense, as evidenced by the word now. Also, notice the word therefore, which points the reader to the previous passage of Romans 7:21-25. In Romans 7 Paul describes his struggle against the sinful nature—a struggle that every believer experiences. Paul writes, “Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me” (Romans 7:21) and, “What a wretched man I am!” (Romans 7:24). Paul is expressing his hatred for the sinful nature which continues to war against his new nature in Christ—Paul hates the sin he commits, but he is also thankful because he has been set free from slavery to sin. He now has the ability to do what is good because Christ has delivered him (Romans 7:25).
Paul takes this a step further in Romans 8 when he teaches believers are not only free from bondage to sin, they are free from the inner emotions and thoughts that tend to bring feelings of condemnation to the Christian when he does commit sin (Romans 8:2). Christians are free from the “law of sin and death,” which means, although they will commit sin, the Law no longer has the power to condemn them. We are not under the Law’s condemnation because Jesus fulfilled (“filled-up, completed”) the expectations of the Law perfectly, and believers are “in Christ” (Romans 8:3). Because believers are in Christ, they have the joy of being counted as righteous, simply because Christ is righteous (Philippians 3:9). Paul also points out that genuine Christians, although they struggle, will not live “according to the flesh”; that is, they will not persist in a constant state of sinful living (Romans 8:5).
Paul encourages us that we need not fear condemnation because we can come to God as our loving, forgiving Father (Romans 8:15–16). Christians who live in shame and guilt over past failures are needlessly condemning themselves when they ought to be “forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead” (Philippians 3:13). Fear can be paralyzing, “but perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18). As Christians, we must understand that our justification is found in Christ alone—in His finished work on the cross—not in what we do or don’t do (Romans 3:28). Believers can find solace in the assurance that we have been adopted into God’s own family and have been made heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). Nothing can separate us “from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:39).
BenTheBeliever
Active Member
And I can't deny what God has done in my life. I cant and will never keep quit on that. You should know that by now. Asking me to do that is like asking me to hurt my love ones. I can't do and won't do it.
BenTheBeliever
Active Member
Then I will only stick with the Christian groups then
izzy4games12
Member
I'm actually a very nice and very giving person. But I don't believe in gods. If that's a problem for you, it's of a personal nature.
Not my problem
izzy4games12
Member
I mean...He made life...He takes away...He literally is the essence of life