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To: Kolokotronis
Really? Here's mine:

Oh, really? Does Jesus have wings now? Regardless, my God is the only, true God. He says his name is "I AM" - YAHWEH or JEHOVAH in the Hebrew. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He is Almighty, all-holy, all-knowing and all-powerful. He does not dwell in temples made by hands nor pretty pictures either. And he humbled himself and became a man (Jesus, just in case you were wondering). He lived a perfectly sinless and holy life and gave that life upon a cruel cross after allowing sinful men to unjustly judge him, strip him, beat him, scourge him, spit on him and mock him. He allowed them to jam a crown made of thorns upon his head and to nail his hands and feet to a rough wooden cross to suffer what was, at the time, the cruelest and most horrible form of execution. He hung there for hours struggling for every breath and, even though at any moment he could call on ten thousand angels to release him and kill every one of his tormentors, he chose instead to hang there and suffer and endure the shame.

When he finally died and they took him down from his torture device, he was wrapped in burial clothes and laid in a tomb hewn out of rock. A great stone was rolled in front of the opening and a legion of Roman guards were stationed before it. On the third day the guards were terrified when a great light shown and the stone rolled away. The big, strong, fearless and mighty soldiers ran in terror like little boys. No tomb could keep him. He rose again as he said he would.

This same man named Jesus, who was Almighty God incarnate did all this so that all our sins would be paid in full. When he said, "It is finished." he meant that payment for sin was complete. He died in our place, for us, so that his righteousness covered us. He paid the penalty for sin that we could not do for ourselves. And he endured it all because of love. " For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.".

I do not enjoy playing games when it comes to who I trust and believe in. He is my savior, my redeemer, my hope, my life, my all and all. I love him and strive every day of my life to serve him and honor him out of gratitude for his amazing grace. No manmade idol or god can ever take his place, I am his alone.

3,392 posted on 11/27/2010 7:09:29 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums
"Oh, really? Does Jesus have wings now?" That's sort of sad...snicker. Sorry; I can't help it! :)
3,393 posted on 11/27/2010 7:16:12 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: boatbums; Kolokotronis
Oh, really? Does Jesus have wings now?

There is so much more (Old Testament) theology in that icon I can't even begin to tell you.

3,398 posted on 11/27/2010 8:01:49 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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