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The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 19, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: [...]
@Iroscato I don't know the ins and outs of how it works. I am still in the process of understanding that. So in the meantime I will do what God has told me to do.

No. You will do what other people told you God told them to tell you to do...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 19, 2015 at 12:49 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:
(June 19, 2015 at 12:44 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: I think she doesn't like me :c

And all I did was say I'm having sex with satan....

When the hell did my first wife travel to Bosnia?!?

Ummm.....I can confirm it definitely wasn't your ex wife Tongue

(June 19, 2015 at 12:52 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(June 19, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: [...]
@Iroscato I don't know the ins and outs of how it works. I am still in the process of understanding that. So in the meantime I will do what God has told me to do.

No. You will do what other people told you God told them to tell you to do...

Dumbception Big Grin
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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 19, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: @Mental Outlaw You make a lot of statements here but how did you draw these conclusions?

@chad your are right I am not my father. Still God is something totally other than what we are I was trying to explain the concept that if Jesus says he is God son then He is saying He is God.  Therefore the Jews assumed he was blaspheming.

@Iroscato I don't know the ins and outs of how it works. I am still in the process of understanding that. So in the meantime I will do what God has told me to do.

If he's saying he's god's son, he's saying he's a demigod. On par with Zeus' kids like Hercules. Hercules is Zeus' son, birthed by the same means that Jesus was, yet he was not Zeus.

We already have terms for these things, because there have been stories like this before Jesus came along.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
(June 19, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: @Iroscato I don't know the ins and outs of how it works. I am still in the process of understanding that. So in the meantime I will do what God has told me to do.

No shit. So how does this 'god' chap communicate with you, exactly? Does he still go in for the burning bush routine?
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He's got a batphone.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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I remember seeing shows about tribal people sitting at a campfire, throwing something in, and reading the smoke. Or maybe breathing the fumes and seeing visions. I know this isn't exactly how they show it on Prince of Egypt, but I wonder if that's really what the bible meant about a burning bush.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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Unlikely, the authors were aware of that practice (and engaged in a version of it themselves).  Had they wished to communicate that to us, they would have done so. The burning bush got the mans attention. It steps us out of this world, and into the "otherworld", he was having an experience of the divine, an immediate and simply understood demonstration of the power of the causative agent. It burned, and yet was not consumed.

We are supposed to feel what he must have felt, when we consider this. It places -us- in the narrative, and this is required for the narrative to be effective.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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@abaris Jesus had a bodily death but He did not cease to exist because God is Spirit.
@Neimenovic I don't dislike you I just to have anything to say to you.
@Chad Read John8:58 then read Ex 3:14
@Iroscato I speak to God trough the Holy Spirit that I received when I repented and was forgiven of my sins.
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(June 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: @abaris Jesus had a bodily death but He did not cease to exist because God is Spirit.

And if you would reflect on that a little more, you might see the problem with the sacrifice story right there in your post.
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(June 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm)Rekeisha Wrote: @Neimenovic I don't dislike you I just to have anything to say to you.

You could say you're praying for me. I have so many more comments about sexual activity with the devil to make Angel
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