Okay, time to put up or shut up. I'm weary of attacks from those that do not proclaim their faith on their profile pages, like terrorists with covered faces.
Dave Smith on Facebook has all my friends, family and affiliations. Find one that is deluding or else I assume you are talking about yourselves by projection.
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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ESV
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 3:14-18 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Ephesians 2:4-10 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Salvation is found only in Jesus, who is the word and the truth, the ONLY Truth.
Anything which disagrees with Him is a lie.
Follow your visions and visitations and feely good experiences and reject the truth of and in Scripture, and you are on the board and easy path to hell. Those occultic experiences you've been having are NOT of God, they are parlor tricks by Satan intended to deceive you and apparently succeeding.
Not having something on our homepage does NOT invalidate anything we have to say on FR. Nor does putting something up ON your homepage validate anything.
Anyone who posts that kind of personal information on the internet these days is a fool
“I’m weary of attacks from those that do not proclaim their faith on their profile pages...”
My profile page isn’t where I’m going to witness. However, I have participated on the religion forum here often enough for a lot of folks to know my belief. And my comment on this thread was to use Panetta as an example of a deluding influence.
However, based on post #1, I’d say you are BEGGING to be deluded, because you seem to care more about coincidences or odd bits of trivia than you do the revealed word of God:
“Last night before seeing this live stream, I went to Church to take Holy Supper to coincide with our Cathedral’s last Sunday. It’s an informal service and was very intimate to me, my wife, one other and Mother Betty. I explained to her that I was ready to launch my healing and teaching lay ministry and talked about offering our Path To Integrity journey program locally using Church facilities - they have the workbook for review. (Joy To The World is now playing on TV).
The story was about the first Episcopal Bishop of CT. The names William and Smith were mentioned. William is my father in law’s name. Concord was mentioned... grapes. I was smiling the whole time (which I don’t do often in Church). We took turns discussing how we related to the story. We took Communion and I received a prayer and Anointing for my path.
Ten minuted after I got home, Rev Rose began speaking on the stream... I had forgotten. I settled in and the Lord showed me such miracles, joys and delights! When ‘let him hear!’ was read, my cell phone rang and there was music playing on the other end! Then as soon I heard about sowing seed in good ground from the parable of the sower, my computer started playing Glenn Miller’s AAF Band’s radio intro - the Air Force theme - Off we go into the wild blue yonder - BY ITSELF! Never happened before. (My computer’s name is Arcana) And the house phone started to ring the same second! Needless to say, this is a very important message for all of us here on the RF.”
Don’t build your life on stuff like that!
“Swedenborg held that God is one person revealed in Jesus Christ, which was later independently expressed by modern day Oneness Pentecostalism. He stated that the doctrine of a trinity of three persons originated in the fourth century with the adoption of the Nicene Creed to combat the heresy of Arianism, but this was unknown to the early Apostolic Church, as shown by the Apostles’ Creed which preceded the Nicene Creed.”
You can preach that garbage, but you cannot expect to preach it unchallenged. And a lot of us will challenge it based on scripture, which is a lot more authoritative than “When ‘let him hear!’ was read, my cell phone rang and there was music playing on the other end!”
Dave Smith on Facebook has all my friends, family and affiliations. Find one that is deluding or else I assume you are talking about yourselves by projection."
I believe you need to re-read the posts. No one said your friends, family or affiliations were a deluding influence. The original remark was made to explain why there were so many crazy groups. I simply said, it might be due to the Holy Spirit sending a deluding influence as in IIThess.
And, if you are comfortable with reducing your understanding of the Gospel to a "profile page", that is your preogative. Mine will be found in the 66 books of the Bible.
Boatbums i know, and some others, but i do not recall responding to you or attacking you, as my posts were in regards to Roman Catholicism as a result of being pinged to a contention about that, and have read little of the rest of the thread.
As for not proclaiming their faith on their profile pages, mine links to my web site which contains an abundance of material which manifests much on what i believe as an evangelical Christian.
As for facebook, I do have an account i reactivate occasionally, but i do not like it.
Excuse me, but just what exactly do you think we have been doing over the last weeks responding to your threads and posts? You call us "terrorists" because we are on an anonymous forum and use screen names instead of our real names and we don't spell everything out on our profiles and link to facebook??? Are you kidding? That ain't how Free Republic works, bub. It's not Facebook!
What you call attacks are pure and simple examples of replying to your wrong-headed comments. You claim to be a Christian but none of the Christians here recognize the doctrines you put forth. If you want to run with the "big dogs" then don't be a whiner when your ideas are shot down. It's not personal.