Wrong. The Bible makes no such statement. Nowhere in scripture is the Sabbath, the 7th day of the week, equated with Sunday, the first day of the week.
I have no problem whatsoever with his meanness. I do, however, have a very serious problem with his lack of presence.
God doesn’t hate everyone; He just hates you.
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Before Christ we were so steeped in the sin and He had to deal with the problem directly Himself. Then Christ took it all on His shoulders and He decided to step back. Remember, He incarnated into Christ so he now understands all the more our failings. Before that He didn’t fully understand what it was to be human.
None that I have ever read. YHvH's commanded day of rest is Shabbat alway was always will be. Sunday worship is a Pagan myth promulgated by the Roman church What "Bible" are you reading ?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
in the fourth century.
Feel free to choose which one you'd be willing to give us insight towards...
How about;
Are you Swank? An assistant? Paid? Not paid? A fan of his? (that would be ok, nothing particularly the matter with that) But please, help us out...anything actually towards answering these questions could be good PR (public relations) for Swank.
Not answering, of course, would be bad PR. The choice, is all your own...
Because the main stream media wont give Him a break. Now if he were a Liberal Democrat, he would have no problems with public relations.
This guy needs to read the Gospel where Jesus and his disciples technically violate the Sabbath in a narrow legalistic way. Jesus points out that “the Sabbath was made for man,” not the other way around. Some masters would have been happy to work people 7 days, but the Sabbath gave them rest, and a chance to thank God.
What moron wrote this?
If we read the article, we see it well explained that God is not “mean.”
For those responding without reading the article, particularly those with a complaint, I say:
God is not mean. He is just.
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son. Has anyone on this board given his only beloved son’s life for an enemy? No, and none of us would.
God did not wink at sin. Because He is just, the penalty had to be paid. Because He is merciful, He paid with His own blood.
God is not mean. There are however, mean spirited people who claim to speak for Him.
God is not mean. There are however, mean spirited people who claim to speak for Him.
ok..so whose been mean to you that you equate God as being mean? Perhaps?
How you’re framing this question reminds me of a child wondering why his parents discipline him or withholds something he wants which is harmful to him, or not yet ready to handle. Children can think their parents are mean as you know.
Actually all and everything you see that’s good, right, lovely, kind, compassionate, caring, and the list goes on.. comes directly from and is God to an undeserving world.
It is mankind who brings much harm, hurt, and meanness by the decisions and choices he makes.
Maybe you should clarify what you mean as mean?
We are imperfect and willful creatures living in a world that is broken and vexed by our sins. God is not mean. We are.
It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.
Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.
Pastor Bob Enyart has an excellent article on why God approves of the death penalty, entitled "God and the Death Penalty": " The punishment side of God's criminal justice system in the Mosaic law is directed to governments who were commanded to execute the criminals, it was not directed to individuals. Thus, individuals who used these laws to justify their own lack of forgiveness were misapplying the law. Jesus here repealed neither the prohibitions against murder and adultery nor the command to love your neighbor. Rather, He was correcting misinterpretations. Thus, in the same way Christ was not repealing "an eye for an eye" but explaining the right heart attitude of a believer." http://www.theologyonline.com/DEATH.HTML
If you are fearful of God, or if He is an angry God, you have some work to do on yourself.
My God is a God of great love.
Why did he allow children to be murdered on this past Christmas Eve?
I'm not trying to be smart or anything, all I'm trying to do is get a grasp on why God allows such things to happen to innocent children.......
because He is mean.... and just.
WHY DOES MY EX APPEAR SO MEAN?!