Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Hey!!
Who you callin' WE here?
Luke 7:39
I'm surely a common vessel; no more than a talking ass at times.
While we are like the blind men inspecting the elephant; you've shown the problem of the pachyderm.
GODs baby-mama gonna be MIGHTY frustrated the rest of her life.
AND from Medicare, too, no doubt!
From what?
...this untoward generation.
Not for me, you don't...An advocate maybe, but not a mediator...
Why; if ONLY the non-Christian is there at this 'judgement'?
You want one the new Tbird cups? Picnic attendees all got that and a hat.
And co-redeemers to, eh??? That's quite a gig you got goin' there...
But can we save ourselves. Peter seems to think so.
Uh, NO...Peter said save yourselves from that untoward generation...Peter did NOT say to save yourselves from hell...You can not save yourself...
I am truly amazed! I only had this happen a rare few times! I am not kidding! I just got a confirmation.
A confirmation for telling people to save themselves???
2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
I don’t think so. C.S. Lewis once said that it is not a denial of our nature if we don’t think of making a cup of tea in the presence of Niagara Falls.
gotta have coffee.....;-)
Yep. We live in a mystery the quality of which is that it remains hidden even while it is disclosed.
And one small part of the mystery is over here we have a persuasive perception of individual volition (over which we seem to have as much control as an infant has over a stallion.)
And over there we have the Lord who says (as our lives testify) “Apart from me you can do nothing.”
Still, the humiliation of my bad temper and all the other gifts (koff, hack, wheeze, koff some more) of the Religion Forum, not to mention the new friends (including a snake-drinking, poison-handling psych prof out there in injun country), and the benefit to my own teaching and explaining — all these have been gifts.
Our Father in Heaven turns to Jesus and the Snow-White Dove (who, when you look close appears to be flickering flame) and says, “That Mad Dawg. What is WITH him? He’s certainly got plenty to be humble ABOUT ....”
D00d! Let’s start a club! An ecumenical theological society. We can call it Balaam’s Asses!
So I take it you’re not buying the whole “in” and “abide” thing.
Darn, I thought it was sew kewel!
“If any man sin,we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous ...”
(Interesting how the word “paraclete”is used.)
May God be praised for His generous consolations!
Yep. The words of the WORD to Saul are important.
Well, but I’m going to shuck and jive on what Peter said. The only way to save oneself is to stop even TRYING to save oneself and to turn to the Savior, upon whom we call only when He calls us.
Those who have accepted Christ as their savior already have all sins forgiven and removed as far as the east is from the west. So what will Christians be judged on?
So where is it you think souls go upon ones death?
Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Clearly they are not sleeping as we would relate to sleeping.
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