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To: smvoice

Do you believe you are alone, that what you do has no effect on others and what they do has no effect on you? What of the prayers of the righteous? What of our intercessions according to St. Paul?

We are not saved as a group, but we are not alone, ever. Unless we separate ourselves in our pride, or in thinking we have to figure it all out for ourselves as individuals.

No, as Christians, we are one body. What we do, good or ill, affects the whole body. How we treat each other, what we do or do not do for each other matters. This is as Christ taught us. He emphasized it in His commandment. It matters. It has significance.

If you stand before Christ having lived your faith as if it were all up to you alone, solely your self in your individualism, then I believe you will truly be alone in that moment. I don’t wish that on anyone.

It is not your task to take Scripture and decide what the Christian religion or your religion is. This is not what Christ intended for His Church.

You are not alone with the task of determining what it all means, what is the true faith, the ‘correct’ decoding of the Gospel; Holy Scripture is not a puzzle each person must solve for themselves.

Again, this is a sad and needless choice you are putting yourself into on your own, to create or discover your own religion. I know, I have been there.


907 posted on 11/28/2011 4:22:31 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
You are not alone with the task of determining what it all means, what is the true faith, the ‘correct’ decoding of the Gospel; Holy Scripture is not a puzzle each person must solve for themselves.

The bible is a puzzle, to those who are not the children of God...For those of us who are, God gave the commandment to 'study'...To prove all things...To search the scriptures, as the Bereans did...

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

God didn't write all that stuff just to take up space on the page...

So without the scripture, how are you to know the 'true' faith??? You think you have the true faith...Muzlims think they have the true faith...Mormons, the same...And what do you all have in common??? You turn to religion instead of the bible...

And the bible condemns all three of these religions...

All three of these religions take snippets from the scriptures and add their own recipes to create and justify their religion...

And again, the bible says to prove all things...By what standard??? The bible of course...

1,055 posted on 11/28/2011 7:23:44 PM PST by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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