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 Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:41 pm
Xiterrose Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. He calls us to help each other out, if someone asks for your shirt, give him your coat. Stuff like that. I know what I mean, but I am not good at explaining stuff. sweatdrop Xi, you explained yourself fine, I do believe thats what exactly the Lord is trying to teach us. Especially the examples he has given us thru his word. For the Lord was always showing compassion to others.
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:08 pm
Speaking about compassion, how many times is that word or words related to it is mentioned in the Bible, and if its was mentioned so many times why is that?
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:12 am
MistyRose Speaking about compassion, how many times is that word or words related to it is mentioned in the Bible, and if its was mentioned so many times why is that? thats a very interesting question there Misty, i'll have to check that out.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:46 pm
MistyRose Ok, now for a different subject. In your understanding of the scriptures, what do you think the Lord is telling us in, Galatians 6:2..Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Why would he want us to bear each other's burdens? And how is this going to fulfil the law of Christ? it means that if a brother or sister in christ is having trouble help them out (its like if you and your friends were hikeing and your frien sprains thier ankle you would let them put thier arm over your shoulder and you would be their leg support and help them walk)
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:18 pm
immanuelkant Faith is action upon trust in God. James 2:17 tell us that "faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." God does not give us faith so that we can marvel at how much faith we have. He has specific plans for us and he is trusting us to do his will. Faith for me is the promise from God that I can do the action he has set for me. i dont think i could have said it better myself, i read the first post and had an idea about how i was going to word this, but then you took the words right out of my mouth...or fingers...whatever.. but thank you anyways.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:21 pm
MistyRose Speaking about compassion, how many times is that word or words related to it is mentioned in the Bible, and if its was mentioned so many times why is that? anyone have an idea??
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:26 am
faith is beleveing in something just because of the promise that it is there.. being able to honestly beleve without any visual proof or physical proof... at least that is what it means to me.. but then again, thats what you asked ^_^
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm
Native_Wolf faith is beleveing in something just because of the promise that it is there.. being able to honestly beleve without any visual proof or physical proof... at least that is what it means to me.. but then again, thats what you asked ^_^ I agree with Native wolf, in that faith is something that we can not see but that we are promised from the bible. I don't need physical proof God exsists although it is everywhere, the trees, our lives the fact we are even here! The scientists don't know why or how the atoms stay together to keep everything on the earth from crumbling. Something has to keep it from crumbling!
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JustinDraco Van Hellsing~
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:13 am
Thank you all for share your thoughts..I am understanding things better from reading all of your posts.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:32 am
mamathing Thank you all for share your thoughts..I am understanding things better from reading all of your posts. I'm glad to hear that this is helping out guys..Praise the Lord.
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JustinDraco Van Hellsing~
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:36 pm
immanuelkant But it doesn't matter what "point of view" sinful humans have about scripture. It matters that God is the supreme ruler of all Creation and truth can only come from him and that our opinion is always fallable. The only way to interpret God's word correctly is to use God's word. I don't abstractly assume that passage mean what I want them to mean, or what I think they mean because of my life experience or intelligence, because I know that in the end all I am is a sinful man. I pray for God's guidance in knowledge of what He meant the passage to mean, and use other verses of the Bible to back that up. It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what God knows. I have to agree, that is why context, context context is what you have to go by when you read the scriptures. You have to analyze the words and the context in which the greek put in(literal meanings) so we can all agree. Also, it takes a long time to read the bible because you have to have knowledge of how life was back in those times... again, context, context, context.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:43 pm
MistyRose MistyRose Speaking about compassion, how many times is that word or words related to it is mentioned in the Bible, and if its was mentioned so many times why is that? anyone have an idea?? Compassion is related to mercy of which God gives us all because we all have sinned. Compassion is also comparative to his Love and to how we should treat others without judgement. God was getting to the point that he is compassionate and tolerant and has mercy on everyone until his wrath. He appoints the chosen ones, us who believe or we are also called saints in his Kingdom so we are not part of this world but of his kingdom.
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JustinDraco Van Hellsing~
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JustinDraco Van Hellsing~
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:47 pm
Kitty_lubber17 MistyRose Ok, now for a different subject. In your understanding of the scriptures, what do you think the Lord is telling us in, Galatians 6:2..Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Why would he want us to bear each other's burdens? And how is this going to fulfil the law of Christ? it means that if a brother or sister in christ is having trouble help them out (its like if you and your friends were hikeing and your frien sprains thier ankle you would let them put thier arm over your shoulder and you would be their leg support and help them walk) It means to edify one another in the name of Christ and help them over come tribulations, that is why we have churches so we can pray and edify and hold fast to the words of God. This fullfills Gods law by his commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. Uphold and love those who fall and keep the faith and the true word going.
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:46 pm
Faith: 1. Believing god can help you accomplish something seemingly impossible. 2. Believing god can provide a way for you through anything. Faith is something that all christians need to have and when their is a lack of it there isn't really anything holding up a relationship with god. Faith is believing without seeing, meaning you don't need convincing and you sure don't need proof that there is a god "up there" you already know that there is a god based upon what's happened to you or what's happened to someone you know. There are somethings that seem unexplainable, but for me God explains most of them and he's who i turn to when i dont' know what's going to happen next or when i feel like im lost without anywhere to turn. My faith in God makes me so much closer to him and helps me develop such an understanding and closeness that no one, could ever convince me otherwise.
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:34 pm
Dessona Faith: 1. Believing god can help you accomplish something seemingly impossible. 2. Believing god can provide a way for you through anything. Faith is something that all christians need to have and when their is a lack of it there isn't really anything holding up a relationship with god. Faith is believing without seeing, meaning you don't need convincing and you sure don't need proof that there is a god "up there" you already know that there is a god based upon what's happened to you or what's happened to someone you know. There are somethings that seem unexplainable, but for me God explains most of them and he's who i turn to when i dont' know what's going to happen next or when i feel like im lost without anywhere to turn. My faith in God makes me so much closer to him and helps me develop such an understanding and closeness that no one, could ever convince me otherwise. Faith is also believing in things you are given knowledge of even when you may not be able to see it.
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