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Subject: Re: Once you get the Word

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tim

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Date Posted: 13:05:26 03/15/10 Mon
In reply to: tim 's message, "Once you get the Word" on 10:09:29 03/01/10 Mon

you could 'assume' it, but you know what assumptions can do to you and me. It just so happens that I was discussing this very issue today with the Lord, so I appreciate as always my visitors inquiries and especially those who have a familiarity with Scripture, as you do Shane. And these questions, from my study of Christianity, go way back to before Augustine's time when so-called followers of Christ argued with one another over issues of truth. Well, whatever is not truth IS a lie. If it can't be backed up in Scripture and carried to a subsequent conclusion then it must be thrown out and not even discussed amoung those who truly follow Christ, hence the name Christian. If you cannot identify yourself boldly without shame, guilt or condemnation to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, there is no point in further discussion on matters such as these.

Because being a Christian is a matter of the heart and a personal decision that is between the individual and God Himself, there is no judgement allowed between those who boldly confess and those who beat around the bush. I believe this is what differentiates being a Christian from being a part of something called, Christianity. Just as in Jesus own day, it was those proclaiming to be 'in the know', or as bob puts it, in the club and those who were not yet fully convinced to join that created all the hoopla. Jesus came to put the religious ones in their place and through His death and resurrection opened the Way to everyone, including those who had already died witout Christ. This made Judaism just as dead a religion as any other, before or since. Jesus, as Messiah, opens the Way for all who would enter to the Kingdom of God.

It is Christianity itself, not the Christ of Nazareth that allows infidels membership. Jesus proved, as a man that perfection (not flawlessness but maturity of faith) was possible. in the letter to the Collosians, Paul wrote that it was Christ in him that was his only hope of glory. Without the Christ in us, none of us has a chance at heaven.

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Author: Shane [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:34:36 03/15/10 Mon Good response, but you skirted the original question. If perfect love casts out all fear then there is nothing left but love. Infinite patience yields immediate results or put anothe way - when you are sure of the outcome then the waiting becomes effortless. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]