Post by P+BarkerOn Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:57:51 +1100, Michael McLean
Post by Michael McLeanPost by P+BarkerPost by Dr. WhoPost by P+BarkerPost by Dr. WhoPost by P+BarkerPost by MattbThat to those that truly follow Jesus it has always been a sin and a
crime, but to those that follow the Church of Pope Francis seems that
isn't so.
<Yawn>
It was always a crime...
Without a law their can be no crime. Without a law there is no sin.
There you go again, ... being stupid.
Sin is a deliberate offense against God.
And you should know the two greatest commandments.
You can sin against your wife by your thoughts and or deeds. You cannot be
forgiven of that unless you confess your sin to her, and she forgives you.
Examples please.
Unless you are claiming that my watching a show of Miss America is a
sin against my wife. Even if she is watching with me?
Miss America...Mmmmmmm.
Doh!!!
My wife and daughters used to watch with me to see the gowns, listen
to their stupid answers, and see how my state is represented. The
last time I watched with my daughter, I commented that a particular
girl was good looking. My daughter turned to me and said: "Dad, I am
older than she is." Knocked the stuffing out of me.
Oh, Patrick, I can just see the righteous indignation dripping off you.
I hope you enjoyed the "gowns".
Post by P+BarkerPost by Michael McLeanFor the record, it is not required that your wife forgives you. That is
on her.
No forgiveness required.
Of course.
Post by P+BarkerPost by Michael McLeanAll that applies, of course, if you want to live under the law, and not
faith.
What a stupid statement.
It is not one or the other.
If you wish to live in society, you must follow its laws.
Faith in God is something different.
Would you like a lesson?
If you want to live, full stop, it is faith in God, Buddy.
Post by P+BarkerWhen we say we have faith in people or material things, it’s because
they have proved themselves in the past and we expect them to do the
same in the future. But that’s not faith. It’s belief.
Belief is natural. It requires evidence. Faith is supernatural. It
does not.
You're wanking humanistic dichotomous waffle.
Faith is faith, and it is trusting something or someone to be true,
physical and/or spiritual.
Post by P+BarkerFaith is total trust in God or complete trust or confidence in God. In
our topic today, we will be talking about 10 reasons to have faith in
God. Some people feel because they have all they need in life they do
not need to have faith in God, some may have even trusted in God
before but due to one reason or the other they lost hope in trusting
God, hence the topic to write about these few reasons to have faith in
God. Therefore, listed below are 10 reasons to have faith in God: He
knows all things: Another name of God is Alpha and Omega, Alpha means
He is the beginning and Omega means He is the ending. God knows
everything from the beginning of our lives to the ending, He has
already mapped out our lives from the beginning to the end, nothing
takes Him by surprise. Whatever happens to us in life, He already
knows about it, He does not say oh my child let me go and think about
what to do, He already knows what is going to happen to us in another
minute or years to come. Hence, we must have faith in His purpose and
plans for our lives. We must be courageous enough to trust and have
faith in His plan for us. He has never failed before: From the
beginning of the creation that we read in the words of God till the
ending, we have never seen, heard, or read where God failed before.
Hence, we must have faith in God. God is the only one that makes a
promise and fulfills it, He has never lied nor gone back at His words.
People make several promises and at the end of the day they fail to
keep to their promises, even all other small gods that the unbeliever
trusts fail them. God never lies and He has never failed, nor will He
ever fail. He said, He honors His words more than His name. He will
never allow His name to be put to shame nor dragged into the mud.
Whatever He says, He does it, therefore, having faith in God must not
be something we should ever doubt or stop doing in our life. Faith
builds our confidence in God: Faith boosts our confidence in God. With
faith in us, we can tell of His goodness to the world, unashamed and
unapologetically. We can proclaim to the world of His greatness and
mighty acts. That is the work of faith in us. When you are so sure of
something, you are confident without doubt in your heart about it,
then you can tell others about it to come join you. All things are
possible with God: Matthew 19: 26 says’ But Jesus looked at them and
said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things
are possible.” We must have faith in God because, all things are
possible with God, absolutely NOTHING is too difficult for God to do.
He brings back the dead to live, He heals the sick, He makes way when
all roads seem blocked, out rightly, there is nothing He cannot do,
therefore we will do ourselves good by having faith in Him. We cannot
please Him without faith: As a Christian, we cannot claim to love the
Lord or walk in His ways without having faith in God. We cannot obey
someone we do not trust. In a relationship of two people, trust must
be what is binding them together, if not they cannot achieve anything
meaningful, that is, one party will be going A, while the other party
will be going in opposite direction which will make the relationship
sour in a jiffy. When there is no trust or faith in a relationship
there is no reason to continue, therefore, in order for us to please
God and for Him to love us too, we must have faith in whatever He
instructs us to do. Faith birth miracles in our lives: It is only when
we have faith in God that miracles can happen. Therefore, faith is a
birth miracle. The bible says in “Matthew 17:20 that” So Jesus said
to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if
you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move
from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible
for you. Faith brings creation, just like we read now in Matthew
17:20, it is only when we have faith that miracles, signs and wonders
are guaranteed. We can call those things that are not as though they
were through faith in God. God understands what He is doing: Most
times we can only map out plans for our lives and just project things
from our own perspective, but we must have faith in God and trust His
will and plan for our lives especially when the plan is not going as
planned by us. God knows what He has in store for us, He understands
what He is doing. Sometimes when the situation looks so difficult to
bear and understand, for example Joseph in the bible, he was betrayed
by his own blood brothers, thrown in the well, sold as a slave, from
there to the prison before he was brought to the palace to become what
God planned for him as a minister. We can see from Joseph’s story
that he kept holding onto what God promised him even though what was
playing IN his life does not look like what was happening to him at
that point. We must never lose sight of faith in God, because though
it may tarry, it will definitely come to pass. Faith brings about
expansion in the kingdom of God: When faith is at work in our lives as
a ministry or as a body of Christ it brings about expansion in the
body of Christ both spiritually and physically. He is the only sure
hope we have: Another reason we must have faith in God is, He is the
only sure hope we have. Psalms 60:11 says’ Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is useless. Even your family member will fail you,
God is the only sure help we have, we must have strong faith in Him to
see us through and to even have a close relationship with Him. Without
faith we cannot receive anything from God: Faith is the utmost tool
needed as a believer to receive from God. To confess and receive Jesus
into your life as your Lord and personal savior, you must do it in
faith. Without faith you cannot confess the Lord as your savior,
without faith, you cannot receive from God.
Copyright (c) Bible and Prayers
https://bibleandprayers.com/10-reasons-to-have-faith-in-god/ .
More self-aggrandizing religious waffle.
Let's make it simple: faith is trusting in who God is.
Mike
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Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."
"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."
"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance of God."
"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do, it is what you are."
"Compromise will condemn you."
"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."
"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."
"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"
"The way of truth is the testimony of life."
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."
"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."
"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."
"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."
"You cannot be free with guilt in your heart."
"Priority is everything."
"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."
"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."
"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."
"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."
"Wait, rest, be still, and know."
"No man can wash his own hands!!!"
"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."
The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"
"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."
"Man is not the centre of being."
"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."
"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."
"Man has no greater idol than his own will."
"Where is God hiding? He isn't."
"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."
"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."
"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."
"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that you could play God."
"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."
"The Bible cannot baptize. No one was ever saved by reading the Bible.
Mechanical or methodical salvation is just more Pharisee bureaucracy.
Men are saved after their conviction, death sentence, and resurrection
in baptism--the baptism of the Holy Spirit." - Nightbulb
"No one in heaven is better (or higher) than what makes it heaven."