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Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 24, 2014 at 5:05 am)Godschild Wrote:
(May 24, 2014 at 2:33 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If a person is a true Christian then he can do all of the things Jesus did and much more. If you haven't done those things then you aren't a true Christian.

Please reference the material that proves your statement, I would believe the only place that could supply such references would be the Bible.

GC

By your command:

John 14:12-1 (CJB) = "12 Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever trusts in me will also do the works I do! Indeed, he will do greater ones, because I am going to the Father. 13 In fact, whatever you ask for in my name, I will do; so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me for something in my name, I will do it."
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...V;NET;NKJV

I kindly suggest that as a believer you should read and understand the fairy tale that you profess to believe in.

This is an interesting passage because Jesus clearly states that believers who trust in him can do all of the things that were attributed him. So give it a try. Walk on water on a nice summer day. Lay your hands on the sick and paralyzed and cure them. Cast out demons. That guy who just killed those people in California could have used your help in ridding himself of the pesky demons that infected him. Make a spit ball of mud and cure a blind person by placing it on his eyelids. Go levitate a mountain. Go resurrect a corpse that has been dead for four days.

Now, if you can't do those things and more how can you trust Jesus when he said that he will give you whatever you ask for in prayer?
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.

Wacky U mad Bro?
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.

No.

You helped yourself become better and then delusionally attributed it to a fictional character.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.

Wow, you had real demons living inside you? Were they angry gargoyle looking demons that were so often pictured by the medieval christians in their artwork? Got any pictures or scientific evidence?
Did you leak Ectoplasmic ooze like on ghostbusters?

Why couldn't you get rid of them yourself, didn't you have free will?

Why doesn't everybody have their own demons? Didn't god make enough for everybody? How would I go about testing for demons? Do the instructions written by King James, yes THAT King James!, still hold?
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.

Where did the demons go after they left you? Did they go into some handy pigs or did they go into some earthworms? I'll bet that if they went into another person he standing by he got really pissed at you.
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.
Were the demon's doing god's work or satan's? Were you doing sinful things at the time of your possession so that the demons were torturing a sinner as god would want or were the demons trying to educate you about the evils of god as the devil would want?

Did the demons ever communicate with other demons or satan while they were inside you? Did they use voices when they conversed or did they have to look for vague signs and funny feelings to get messages from satan? Did they get down on your knees and pray to satan and just have to believe that he heard them?
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
I'm pretty sure by demons he means bad characteristics and by drove out he means he corrected himself (with gods help of course!).
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
Are you sure it wasn't indigestion?
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RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
(May 25, 2014 at 11:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Jesus drove out my demons. He promised and He delivered.

You be trollin' they be hatin' . . . .


if you're not trolling please seek mental help
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