It tells me those people are living peaceably in their lives and enjoying common grace. Their earthly reward is evident.
Whatever a man sows into this world, he will reap in this world.
The second sentence tells me they do not walk by faith. They're not concerned or have use for God or care about living eternally with Him anyway,
so God won't force them to do that.
There are no more sacrifices or earthly deeds or "tricks" to perform in order to gain eternal salvation.
We can not earn our way to God. That would be pride. We're all sinners, only saved by faith.
God said that he would make the offer of salvation so simple that even the "wise" of this world would stumble over it.
His kingdom is not of this world.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Bill (04-20-2019)
Never mind the fact that JESUS was a Hebrew......so which HEBREW sect was right, Jesus and is orthodox group of Jewish fundamentalist (i.e, His followers/disciples) or those He called out and pointed out as deceivers of the Hebrew faith? As per the actual record found within the pages of the pages of the Holy Scriptures.....Jesus was the fundamental orthodox HEBREW not the radical you and the liars of Christ's day that were attempting to declare Jesus as the crazy radical. In FACT......all Christians were Jews for the first 10 years of Christianity.....the first gentile conversion did not occur until a decade after the Cross.
Look at the actual record. Jesus was a Jew from birth "......He came to His own and His own did not receive Him." -- John 1:11 Jesus declared that it was the Jews of His day (the deceivers) that did not belong to God, they did not believe He was the actual Messiah of prophecy....but their beliefs did not stop reality from existing, "But you (the deceivers pretending to be righteous Jews) do not believe because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you." -- John 10:26
Jesus came to fulfill Jewish Law and the Prophets.....not to destroy them. "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (the requirements of the old covenant...i.e., THE LAW)." -- Matt. 5:17
Jesus pointed out the hypocrisy of the Jewish leadership of His day....they were not the orthodox Jews they were pretending to be....they were the one's teaching their traditions to the people instead of actual Jewish Law.....He told them straightforward.....You demand others to do what you yourself refuse to do, follow the Law -- Matt. 7:12
Jesus taught His disciples to be INTOLERANT of the lies taught by the Jewish leadership of His day.....not because Jesus was the radical, but because the leadership was teaching their own traditions the traditions of men, not the actual Laws of God -- Matt. 16:6 and Matt. 16:12 Matthew 23 points out why Jesus called them deceivers instead or righteous men of God....to their faces He called them "....hypocrites, serpents, a brood of vipers.....full of lawlessness, He said they devoured widows and made long prayers just for show. He said they set aside the Laws of God in order to follow the traditions and laws of men (Matt. 11:22)
Jesus was not the radical.....in everything He did, He did so according to the Old Law of Moses, He was born under the law, born of a woman (Gal. 4:4). Jesus, was born a Jew of orthodoxy, He practiced orthodoxy His entire life, observing all that is in Jewish law, down to partaking of the sacrificial lamb dinner at the Passover (Luke 22:7-8).....sinning not one time under orthodox Jewish Law. He lived a perfect Jewish life void of sin. He was not radical....He came to nail the Old Law to His sacrificial cross, to fulfill the requirements of the old law in order to usher in a New Law a New Covenant between men and God, the covenant of grace where a sacrifice has already been made to God for the sins of all mankind.
Last edited by Ralph; 04-20-2019 at 12:30 PM.
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USFREEDOM911 (04-21-2019)
God has no icons.......I think he has emojis though.....Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
Obviously, the Christian god did not protect one of his/her/it’s major icons from destruction.
yep.....
nope.....Isaiah 53 clearly [and ironically] refers to the Jewish people
IS 5:
and....5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
when did the Jews take on my sins for me?......12For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
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