[boatbums]

Really well done! I believe it positively must come down to what each person decides to believe about Jesus. Is he truly God in the flesh come down to redeem mankind or was he a liar, poser, deceiver and con man, or simply insane? I heard someone describe Jesus one time as a "good guy who got to thinking he was God but was crucified before he could change his mind". What to do with Jesus??? If we trust that the Bible is God's divinely revealed word, then there is no escaping the fact that it most definitely says that Jesus is God in the flesh - prophesied about for thousands of years before he came, fulfilling EVERY one as prophesied, living a perfect and sinless life, doing miracles on a pretty regular basis and raising from the dead EXACTLY as he said he would appearing to hundreds of people for weeks afterwards before he was seen by hundreds as he ascended to heaven. No one can force another to believe. It comes down to a free will choice - either Jesus IS God or He is an evil man who is responsible for the deaths of millions of people who chose martyrdom over denying Him. I chose to believe He is who He said He is.

Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins. (John 8:24)

[stpio]

Forgive me everyone, I am sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings. I love you all.

We shouldn’t disagree, then argue about our differences. Especially if you believe prophecy, Jesus is going to bring us all to one belief soon. A miracle and another amazing, God put us in this time!!

I came across and saved a brief writing by a non-Catholic Christian. I am not sure the year it was written, it’s beautiful.

The Loneliness of the Christian

By: A. W. Tozer

The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an
ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the
fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate
world.

His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his
kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his
absorptions in the love of Christ; and because with his circle of friends
there are few who share his inner experiences, he’s forced to walk alone.

The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused
them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord himself suffered in
the same way.

The man (or woman) who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual
inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few
who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so
he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk.

For this he earns the reputation of being dull and over-serious, so he is
avoided, and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for the
friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes
and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none, he, like the
Mother of God, keeps these things in his heart.

It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. His inability to find
human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere
else.
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