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Should We Follow the Majority?

Pipiripi

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
Trailblazer said:
Many Christians believe they are the remnant people, but obviously they cannot all be the remnant people because 29% of people in the world are Christians, and that is more than a remnant.

So who is to say who the remnant people are?
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God is the one to say WHO is His remnant church. Revelation 12:17 and 14:12. I know that your problem is that you are not keeping the fourth commandment. That's why you tried to defend your believe.
 
Pipiripi

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
Trailblazer said:
During the time of Jesus Christ, only the few had the truth.

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

It says that few find the small gate and the narrow road that leads to life.
But 2.4 billion people have found Jesus because that is how many Christians there are in the world.

I believe that those verses applied to Christians of 2,000 years ago when few had found Jesus but those verses are do not apply to Christians of today. Given 29% of people in the world are Christians many have entered through that gate so it must be a wide gate and a broad road, not the narrow gate that few find.

In short, the narrow gate was Christianity thousands of years ago when Jesus uttered those words, because few had found it Jesus, but Christianity is no longer the narrow gate because Christians are not few anymore.

Christianity is the world's most practiced religion in 2019, and experts estimate that it will remain as the largest religion in the world for many years to come. Mar 21, 2020
Largest Religions in the World (2020) - Swedish Nomad

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I believe that whenever a new Messenger of God appears, He is the narrow gate by which we can attain eternal life.

I believe that in every new age, the religion at the narrow gate is the new religion God wants us to find and follow, because it has the message and the teachings and laws that are pertinent to the present age.

I believe that in this new age, the narrow gate is the Baha’i Faith and it is narrow because only a few people recognize God’s new religion in the beginning. That is why the Baha’i Faith is still relatively small.

“The Book of God is wide open, and His Word is summoning mankind unto Him. No more than a mere handful, however, hath been found willing to cleave to His Cause, or to become the instruments for its promotion. These few have been endued with the Divine Elixir that can, alone, transmute into purest gold the dross of the world, and have been empowered to administer the infallible remedy for all the ills that afflict the children of men. No man can obtain everlasting life, unless he embraceth the truth of this inestimable, this wondrous, and sublime Revelation.” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 183

The religion at the narrow gate is the gate that leads to eternal life. But it is not that easy for most people to find this gate because most people are steeped in religious tradition or attached to what they already believe. If they do not have a religion, most people are suspicious of the new religion and the new messenger. If they are atheists they do not like the idea of messengers of God or they think they are all phonies.

Jesus told us to enter through the narrow gate, the gate that leads to eternal life, and He said few people would find that gate... It is narrow, so it is difficult to get through... It is difficult to get through because one has to be willing to give up all their preconceived ideas, have an open mind, and think for themselves. Most people do not normally embark upon such a journey. They go through the wide gate, the easy one to get through – their own religious tradition or their own preconceived ideas about God or no god. They follow that broad road that is easiest for them to travel. That is human nature.
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My friend it isn't to compare with denominations. It us about to have the COMPLETE TRUTH. Read Matthew 25:31-46. Revelation 12:17 Revelation 14:12
 
Pipiripi

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
Trailblazer said:
Many Christians believe they are the remnant people, but obviously they cannot all be the remnant people because 29% of people in the world are Christians, and that is more than a remnant.

So who is to say who the remnant people are?
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The remnant people is written in Revelation 12:17 and Revelation 14:12.
Read Matthew 25:31-46
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Pipiripi said:
The Bible interpreted itself. Does those verses need interpretation? I so, I will write about the three angels messages later.
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The Bible cannot interpret itself. It is just a Book on a shelf until people open it up and read it and interpret it.

People read and interpret the Bible. The reason Christians do not all agree is because they interpret the Bible differently.
 
Pipiripi

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
Trailblazer said:
The Bible cannot interpret itself. It is just a Book on a shelf until people open it up and read it and interpret it.

People read and interpret the Bible. The reason Christians do not all agree is because they interpret the Bible differently.
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My friend why do you arguing with something that you don't know? Who has told you that the Bible cannot interpreted itself? If it so, follow the Bible exactly how it is written. Do you think that God let us in confusion?
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Pipiripi said:
My friend why do you arguing with something that you don't know? Who has told you that the Bible cannot interpreted itself?
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Logic told me that. A book cannot interpret itself, that is logically impossible.
Rather what we do is read a book and as we read it we assign meaning to it.
That is called interpretation.

Interpretation: the action of explaining the meaning of something. interpretation means - Google Search
Pipiripi said:
If it so, follow the Bible exactly how it is written. Do you think that God let us in confusion?
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How you follow the Bible would all depend upon how you interpret what is written in the Bible.
I do believe that God allowed lots of people to be confused, yes.
 
Pipiripi

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
Trailblazer said:
Logic told me that. A book cannot interpret itself, that is logically impossible.
Rather what we do is read a book and as we read it we assign meaning to it.
That is called interpretation.

Interpretation: the action of explaining the meaning of something. interpretation means - Google Search

How you follow the Bible would all depend upon how you interpret what is written in the Bible.
I do believe that God allowed lots of people to be confused, yes.
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That is Satan work not my God
 
McBell

McBell

Unbound
Pipiripi said:
That is Satan work not my God
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Biblically the word satan is never used as the given name of an entity.
Satan, like the word lucifer, are always used as a title.
Or a description.

So what is it that you mean when you use the word "satan"?
 
exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
columbus said:
Adding Revelation to the Gospels and Epistles was one of the ancient church's biggest mistakes.
Tom
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I'm inclined to think so too. But in fairness who, in those days, could have foreseen the obsessions of certain c.20th sects with it? :rolleyes:
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Twilight Hue said:
I'm convinced its shrooms or something.....
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I once read an article about a species of psychedelic mushrooms that could be found on the island of Patmos, where John apparently wrote his stuff.
Mushrooms are curious things.

I've no idea how accurate it was.
Tom
 
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columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
exchemist said:
I'm inclined to think so too. But in fairness who, in those days, could have foreseen the obsessions of certain c.20th sects with it? :rolleyes:
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I don't even think that the ancient Christians had the same attitude towards Scripture that relatively modern people do.

I strongly suspect that they had a more pragmatic, Greco-Roman-Jewish attitude towards it. Inspired, but not magically, word-for-word, true in an objective sense of "true".

Tom
 
ppp

ppp

Well-Known Member
columbus said:
I once read an article about a species of psychedelic mushrooms that could be found on the island of Patmos, where John apparently wrote his stuff.
Mushrooms are curious things.

I've no idea how accurate it was.
Tom
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Whoever the writer was, there are psychedelic mushrooms everywhere. :)
 
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