Posted on 07/07/2016 6:50:38 AM PDT by Salvation
I’m proudly a sheep as you call it. And I follow a sheep the “Lamb of God”. I have no problem with what anyone calls me as I am secure in the knowledge of my Lord. I pray you some day find the same. I certainly bear you no ill will.
Odin is my kinsman. I discovered I have a “family” on the other side. Not a desert god of adoption, but northern gods of my blood. They challenged my concepts of strength and manhood and purpose in the world, and encouraged me to challenge them.
Jesus is on a space station sending “I love you” texts to all and sundry, but if He ever gets involved in a person’s individual problems, it is literally a miracle.
By that standard, every time I call on the Northern Gods is a miracle.
I have nothing against Jesus, but I’ll not deliberately make his followers my neighbors, that’s for certain.
God was answering your prayer. You just didn’t like the answer. We don’t always understand why God does what He does, but we have to trust. Just remember the person who gives you everything you want is not necessarily the person with your best interest in mind.
Odin’s companions are ravens and wolves. For they to “baa-aa” and return to the flock would be devolution.
“Mohammed (p!$$ be upon him) claimed an angel came to him.”
By their fruits ye shall know them....
“Satan will respond to your prayers also.
But he is of course a liar.”
Calling everything Satan that is beyond your experience affects your life, not mine.
“God was answering your prayer.”
And He continues to. His name is Odin. And he introduced Freyr to me. His wife Frigga has had her eye on me a long time, because She knew I would come. Ullr came into my life on His own, He’s a hunter. Thor is standoffish, but there when you need Him. ;)
One of His goals is to grow your spirit and I have found that to be more like boot camp than Christmas vacation.
He will push you to your limit and then some.
He has answered my prayers in His way. His way has made me tougher and more mature.
It hasn't been easy, that's for sure. Yet going to the Cross wasn't easy either, but he did that as payment for my many sins.
When He says, pick up your cross and follow Him, he doesn't mean follow Him in a Mercedes Benz at a safe distance.
He means "pick up your sword and get in the battle between Good and evil."
As you know, battles aren't easy, but they are rewarding in terms of growth of strength and spiritual maturity.
And this battle is particularly rewarding because the more we suffer for our growth, the more we appreciate it...the closer we draw to him.
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Churchianity is truly an empty faith.
Worshiping a church or the nicolaitan that runs it is a spiritual dead end.
Read the Acts, and John’s first epistle, and you will get the right answers on the eternal quiz.
“As an aside, God is not a concierge.”
I’m sure your God is a very nice person up there in outer space, concerned with things he finds more important.
You don’t feel as good as I do, and you’re not experiencing the blessing I am. But don’t let that interfere with you putting together chains of very high-sounding words, LOL.
Satan is just a descriptor...may not even be a single entity.
I use that name merely to describe the polar opposite to the One who created the world.
There may be a pagan template that can explain Him. In fact, perhaps Odin or Zeus are the Creator.
That said, I would examine that for myself until I was certain...and not take my ancestors' word for it.
I am a Christian because I have discovered it to be real, not because my ancestors believed it.
Seek the Truth...don't fall into the traps that lay in wait for you.
And evil has many traps waiting for you.
By the fruit of the tree, or another tree’s fruitlessness, I know them. Your scriptural sword has two edges.
Actually, no...he's not a very nice person.
He's more like a drill sergeant in my experience. A very tough drill sergeant.
I believe they are. And with that perspective you can watch Ancient Aliens and see how interactive they’ve been with man over millennia. Delusion, delusion, but dear Giorgio with the wild hair does not see it.
The Muslim god is demonic.
If you believe in the evolution thing. God makes the wisdom of me foolishness. But thank you for the civil discourse It is nice to have a disagreement with someone who does not resort to name calling and insults May your day be blessed
The Koran and Hadith cannot disguise the author’s nature. Nor can the Havamal disguise the Author’s nature. Nor the individual authors of books of the Bible.
What if the “mark of Cain” was pale skin and blue eyes? What if Enoch was “taken away” by God, to the North? ;)
Rather a loving but firm parent.
Judge them by their actions or fruits.
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