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GOOD KILLS
“I’ve seen it all in my brief and pointless life—here a good person cut down in the middle of doing good, there a bad person living a long life of sheer evil. So don’t knock yourself out being good, and don’t go overboard being wise. Believe me, you won’t get anything out of it. But don’t press your luck by being bad, either. And don’t be reckless. Why die needlessly? It’s best to stay in touch with both sides of an issue. A person who fears God deals responsibly with all of reality, not just a piece of it.” (Ecclesiastes 7:15-18, The Message Bible)
We all know evil kills and we all try to be good. We teach our children to be good children. We try not to swear, watch inappropriate shows, etc… We all want to be good. When we get right down to it the moral fiber that runs through out our lives and heritage is not a bad thing there is just one problem.
Often Christians like you and me get attached to the good in life and not the God that rules over our lives and it drains you of life. We attach ourselves to the promises, to the healing, to the church, to our faith; to whatever we think will get us through. We are living in The Kingdom but what good is the Kingdom if we have forgotten the King! What good are our prayers and our songs and sermons if we run around all week long in the Kingdom doing good things all the while forgetting about the King? Loving ‘good’ and not the God who loved you first will kill you! Saul was the poster child for this behavior, he was tall handsome and a great military leader and leader in general! God gave him victory after victory and all that goes with it, the spoils of war! The prophet comes along and says God wants you to go and win this battle with him and do one thing different take nothing away from this no spoils! Saul wins and he takes just select things! Well the prophet says, “what have you done?” For this disobedience your line will not rule Israel ever again! And so it was the Saul lost the most important thing to him the ability to have a generational line of kings from him the first! He did good and worked fro the Kingdom but forgot who the King is and broke his trust with Him!
We all know evil kills and we all try to be good. We teach our children to be good children. We try not to swear, watch inappropriate shows, etc… We all want to be good. When we get right down to it the moral fiber that runs through out our lives and heritage is not a bad thing there is just one problem.
Often Christians like you and me get attached to the good in life and not the God that rules over our lives and it drains you of life. We attach ourselves to the promises, to the healing, to the church, to our faith; to whatever we think will get us through. We are living in The Kingdom but what good is the Kingdom if we have forgotten the King! What good are our prayers and our songs and sermons if we run around all week long in the Kingdom doing good things all the while forgetting about the King? Loving ‘good’ and not the God who loved you first will kill you! Saul was the poster child for this behavior, he was tall handsome and a great military leader and leader in general! God gave him victory after victory and all that goes with it, the spoils of war! The prophet comes along and says God wants you to go and win this battle with him and do one thing different take nothing away from this no spoils! Saul wins and he takes just select things! Well the prophet says, “what have you done?” For this disobedience your line will not rule Israel ever again! And so it was the Saul lost the most important thing to him the ability to have a generational line of kings from him the first! He did good and worked fro the Kingdom but forgot who the King is and broke his trust with Him!
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just so anyone who cares knows, I'm in the process of trying to change my screen name to red panda
INSANITY IN CALI
CALI BISHOPS LOOSE THEIR MINDS AS THEY DESTROY THEIR CHURCH!
Without using a defense from Scripture, as those who lead in “The Church” (all Christian denominations) must do, they have chose to use secular generalizations and language that is from Scripture but not the actual Scripture itself. We find the Episcopal Bishops bringing about the destruction of the Episcopal Church in the US. If they wish to go against church teaching then by all means start your own church, the US is full of cults and you will fit right in with them. The following is what they have pronounced from the pulpit.
“As Episcopal Bishops of California, we are moved to urge voters to vote “No” on Proposition 8. Jesus calls us to love rather than hate, to give rather than to receive, to live into hope rather than fear. On Tuesday, November 4th, voters in California will be given the opportunity to vote for or against Proposition 8, which would amend the state’s constitution to reserve marriage as only between a man and a woman. Since the California Supreme Court’s ruling in May that civil marriage should be provided to all of the state’s citizens whether the genders of the couple are different or the same, faithful gays and lesbians have entered into marriage as the principle way in which they show their love, devotion and life-long commitment to each other. Furthermore, marriage provides these couples the same legal rights and protections that heterosexual couples take for granted.
Proposition 8 would reverse the court’s decision and withdraw a right given. Proponents of Proposition 8 have suggested that this amendment to the Constitution would protect marriage. We do not believe that marriage of heterosexuals is threatened by same-sex marriage. Rather, the Christian values of monogamy, commitment, love, mutual respect and witness of monogamy are enhanced for all by providing this right to gay and straight alike. Society is strengthened when two people who love each other choose to enter into marriage, engaged in a lifetime of disciplined relationship building that serves as a witness to the importance of love and commitment.”
The Bishops see homosexual relationships as fully moral, yet no generation of previous Christians have found this to be anything other than sin! Monogamy is defined within marriage alone and between a man and a woman period! Note that the bishops simply refer to “two people who love each other.” Once marriage is transformed from the union of a man and a woman into a union without respect to gender and on the claim that marriage is a “fundamental right” how can the number two be anything but arbitrary? What is next marriage between animals and humans and don’t think that with this new liberal insanity pedophiles are far behind. In Europe Muslims are making case law to have arranged marriages between 30 something’s and preteens. They cannot consummate the marriage until the girl reaches the appropriate age in each country (some as young as 15) but that will change with the power base as Muslims dominate the populations and gain voting seats in the respective houses that make the laws.
Without using a defense from Scripture, as those who lead in “The Church” (all Christian denominations) must do, they have chose to use secular generalizations and language that is from Scripture but not the actual Scripture itself. We find the Episcopal Bishops bringing about the destruction of the Episcopal Church in the US. If they wish to go against church teaching then by all means start your own church, the US is full of cults and you will fit right in with them. The following is what they have pronounced from the pulpit.
“As Episcopal Bishops of California, we are moved to urge voters to vote “No” on Proposition 8. Jesus calls us to love rather than hate, to give rather than to receive, to live into hope rather than fear. On Tuesday, November 4th, voters in California will be given the opportunity to vote for or against Proposition 8, which would amend the state’s constitution to reserve marriage as only between a man and a woman. Since the California Supreme Court’s ruling in May that civil marriage should be provided to all of the state’s citizens whether the genders of the couple are different or the same, faithful gays and lesbians have entered into marriage as the principle way in which they show their love, devotion and life-long commitment to each other. Furthermore, marriage provides these couples the same legal rights and protections that heterosexual couples take for granted.
Proposition 8 would reverse the court’s decision and withdraw a right given. Proponents of Proposition 8 have suggested that this amendment to the Constitution would protect marriage. We do not believe that marriage of heterosexuals is threatened by same-sex marriage. Rather, the Christian values of monogamy, commitment, love, mutual respect and witness of monogamy are enhanced for all by providing this right to gay and straight alike. Society is strengthened when two people who love each other choose to enter into marriage, engaged in a lifetime of disciplined relationship building that serves as a witness to the importance of love and commitment.”
The Bishops see homosexual relationships as fully moral, yet no generation of previous Christians have found this to be anything other than sin! Monogamy is defined within marriage alone and between a man and a woman period! Note that the bishops simply refer to “two people who love each other.” Once marriage is transformed from the union of a man and a woman into a union without respect to gender and on the claim that marriage is a “fundamental right” how can the number two be anything but arbitrary? What is next marriage between animals and humans and don’t think that with this new liberal insanity pedophiles are far behind. In Europe Muslims are making case law to have arranged marriages between 30 something’s and preteens. They cannot consummate the marriage until the girl reaches the appropriate age in each country (some as young as 15) but that will change with the power base as Muslims dominate the populations and gain voting seats in the respective houses that make the laws.
I'm a Baha'i
Raised in and former member of a Protestant denomination, I'm a long-time member of the Baha'i Faith. We Baha'is believe that all revealed religions are like chapters in the book authored by the same, one God, that they all have the same spiritual truths, and that they have been revealed successively (Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Krishna, Buddha, Muhammad, Jesus, and for this age, Baha'u'llah) to meet the changing needs and capabilities of humankind. Our central purpose is promoting unity in diversity. We believe in the independent investigation of truth, and do not believe in proselytizing.
I'd enjoy sharing with whoever wants exchange ideas!
Jill
I'd enjoy sharing with whoever wants exchange ideas!
Jill
help?
Now that the true political season is upon us. i would like to know if anyone can efer me to a book or writing by a biblical scholar on the topic of the "antichrist" This term is already being thrown about. May be i am wrong but my hunch is folk who use this 1. do know know the details of what it means or 2, have a lousy vacabulary and aer unable to articulate their extreme dislike so rely on this term like an obscenity.(plus this might offer lots of fun for me)
yichel (probably an antichrist two)
yichel (probably an antichrist two)
the irish and the bible
Would anyone know why were the Irish in the 1850's so much against the St James veresion of the bible? I enjoy reading it. I like the "thes and thous" although it is in conflict with the bible verson I use, the Plaute The Irish dislike was another piece of kindling in the Know Nothing hatred of Catholics
yichel
yichel
