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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: goodlife Ordered by Date |
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1 | C harles Stanley abusing the Bible? | 1 Tim 3:2 | goodlife | 75917 | ||
If one chooses to apply the bible to matters purely objective then one would be best to refrain from consulting the bible at all. And yet it is equally as foolish to go into scripture seeking to affirm and substantiate any thought that you have created that was not first inspired by the same. In essence the bible is subjective and this is what makes it relevant, but its subjectivity entends only into its timeless qualities and ability to be clearly understood by any man woman or child who first seeks to understand it. The single greatest attribute of scripture is its ability to be flexible in the context that it can be applied to any problem man confronts in his life, and yet this flexibility is not gained by shedding the absolute and uncompromising substance of its content. At any rate I think this evangelist would do well to go a bit deeper in his references, and at least consider the account of government and mans role relative to it as given in 1Sam:8, "Isreal Asks for a King", as well as considering Jesus own treatment of the "higher powers of this world". It is to say the same then to say that only by considering what comes first should one then go on to grapple with what comes next. It is for this reason, "this reason" being many contemporary christains aparrant apathy towards the old testiment that much of the true power and sharp discernment found in the gospel and in pauls written works is all but completely lost, as it is severed, by those who make it the center of their faith, from its root and history--that being the old testiment. Do not make the mistake of coming to the conclusion that what jesus is and what his life stands to be remains apart from anything said or done by the God of the old testiment, for they are one in the same, just as grace does not usurp the law so any of the old testiments content is not usurped but rather reinforced and reiterated by the new. thank you for your time. |
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2 | What is wrong w/Women speaking in church | 1 Cor 14:34 | goodlife | 75914 | ||
There is not a thing wrong with women speaking in the church, just as women have the undeniable right to even lead a congregation. There is nothing at all in the bible that would argue against a womans right to speak in the church. Any reference one makes to biblical edicts or commands against this is made by one who does not understand exactly what has happened. It is true that in a traditional sense women are not allowed to speak as well many other customs are then equally as relevant--the pastor who stated women are not to speak in churches would do well then to observe every last of the awkward and demanding customs, commands and laws presented to Isreal in the time of moses and etal, for in doing so is the only possible way he can claim to retain any viable pretext of correctness in his insane statement, for again is he calling for us to adhere to only one of a myriad of laws and customs without even adressing the fact that we should then also be observing passover and burning moldy clothes and not eating animals that have claws and on and on and on and on. I would go even further and state that his line of reasoning and any possible justifiable excuse for his subsequent comments would be found in that he still subscribes to the notion that by the observence and strict adherence (which has been proven impossible and futile to even try) to these archiac and fundamentally superfluous laws and traditions one can then grasp salvation and come to please God. This is dangerous water the pastor is seeking to tread, and like peter he will sink, unlike peter he will find christ is not there to pull him out, for by invoking these laws and traditions he is asking christ to kindly leave him to his own devices. I thank you for your time. |
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3 | Are there any "people" created by Satan? | Gen 2:7 | goodlife | 75909 | ||
continued-- Still not even close to considering what I say to be relavent? how about we then consider whaat kind of god satan is, how about we consider what it is man has come to expect from his God. Let me ask you why is it you think christ was murdered, why is it that men wanted nothing more then to shut Him up? Becasue christ promised to completely destroy and incinerate the very last of mans hopes, in christ we find the the very foundation of all our sinful hopes and all our selfish aspiration of glory are sinply laid to waste. After all here we have christ a vagrant, a bum, a worthless no account vagabond--and yet he tells us that he is God, he is not the great and mighty spectacle we seek to have, he is not a God that will satisfy our void like appetites and he is not a God that inspires us to find great passion and love for ourselves, he is a God without pride, he is a God who speaks simply, he is a God who walks softly, not the arrogant and loud screaming fire breathing monster we seek to see. But let us take a closer look at satan if we would dare! What we find is that satan is in fact the embodyment of every last thing man has come to adore--satan is big, powerful, larger than life, all knowing, deceitful, cunning, smooth, provoking, awe inspiring, wrathful, vengeful, full of lust and greed, non compromising in his way. And in all this satan is the type of God that will in fact give to man whatever it is he asks for. By this I ask you to further consider what really happened to Isreal in the desert on their great exodous. Why did they roam around for forty yaers in a wasteland? It is because they rejected the land offered to them by God, they rejected it for the simple and undeniable reason that they did not trust God, specifically they did not understand how God could even begin to understand what it is they wanted, much less then move to give to them the same. And so they freely took the desert wasteland instead of the land of milk and honey, they took the desert becasue they knew it was not from God, and while in the desert they quickly found out that it was not a place they could bear to live in, so what did they do, what is it theri pride forced them to do--they did what they could to make it bearable, they turned to satan, the god of their own hand. This brings me to the temptation of christ--for christ too went into the same desert, christ was there a day for every year that isreal wandered, and christ was confronted by the notion, the manifestation of satan. What did satan immediately offer to christ, a way out of the desert--no no no, instead satan offered to make it bearable for christ so that christ may stay there and call it his kingdom--and as we all know christ flat out refused the offer basically declaring that the desert already has a god and that the desert has no need for a ruler, and that only a fool would seek to call upon the wind swept sands as his subjects. I think I have said enough for now--if anyone would like to further discuss the issue of satans nonexistence I would be more then happy to accomodate them. Thank you for your time. |
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4 | Are there any "people" created by Satan? | Gen 2:7 | goodlife | 75907 | ||
In the book of Job when satan approaches the Lord how is it that the Lord addresses satan? Does the Lord give any indication at all that He in fact is even remotely prepared to recognize satan as a valid and real entity of life and substance? Does not the Lord ask satan who he is and where is it he has come from--does this not imply that the Lord has no knowledge of satan which further implies that satan then cannot in fact truely exist--is it not true then theat the Lord only addresses this satan for mans own benefit so that man might see plainly what satan truely is--that being "No One" and "Nothing"? This is not the only instance we find in scripture where satan and the Lord converse--yet I challenge you to find any case in which the Lord validates satans existence in any way! Time after time you will find that yes even as the Lord does address satan, the Lord does so in a way that boldly defies and outright denies that satan has any substance at all. Satan and all things apart from God and unknown to God are by FACT not alive, not real and have absolutely no power what-so-ever. Do not be fooled, satan is a creation of man, satan is the idol man has made to bow to rather then live with the Lord-in this satan is evil, and in this we find the seed of our guilt and root of our sin. If I have not even begun to convince you then I ask you to consider then Jesus own testimony regarding satan. Did not Jesus call satan the prince of the world, or the prince of darkness. Does this not go on to not only imply but to say about as directly as possible that satan performs a service? Is not a prince under a king? Who then would accuse God of anything at all, who would be so bold as to accuse God as being the Lord over satan, who then would go up on a high plain and shout into the heavens the great accusations habbakuk voiced in his time, who then would not be completely leveld and ground into the dust by the humbling responce from above! HOW DARE YOU SEEK TO VALIDATE ANY JUDGEMENT OR ACCUSATION THAT YOU FORM AGAINST THE LORD YOUR GOD! The LOrd your God is not the king of sin, nor is the Lord your God the master of the servents of evil, who is left to take the throne, who is it that claims to be the master of the world, who is it that has made his dwelling, indeed his kingdom on the face of this earth? Not God, I can tell you that right now--man, man has done this, man is the king that governs over the prince of darkness, it is man who has claimed the earth to be his plunder, it is man, and only man that stands between himself and God! continued |
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5 | Are there any "people" created by Satan? | Gen 2:7 | goodlife | 75906 | ||
Much to my angst and dismay there are many many folks that perpetuate and stubbornly advocate the accusatory notion that "satan" is in fact not only a being that lives but that he has the ability to create things in the way that the Lord can. To be clear and to be completely uncompromising I must say that it is my firmest conviction that although satan does in fact exist he is by all means (rational or otherwise) without life and dead, as such satan is an entity that cannot create something capable of living. I would go even further and present to you the notion that it is absurd to think that satan can shape or form anything of any substance at all! "ABSURD!" I can almost hear the roaring and bellowing of the church in reply to what I have just said, absurd yes, but oh how true it is. How can any man woman or child who has seen the word of God not only in print but in life as well then turn to the belief that there is in fact another realm, one that is apart from God in that it is in fact against everything God stands to be a manifestation of and direct substance of, and that this realm is as real, relevant and substansitative to the human condition as the one that was created by the Lord? I ask you as christains to consider the reality that satan did not create himself, and that God being not the God of sin nor the God of death is not responsible for the existence of satan either, leaving none other than man being the one whose hand had formed from the proverbial clay, thus breaking the sabboth, the day of rest, the day no more was to be created, and fashoining for himself an image so that he may bow down and worship it. That image, that lifeless idol being satan in every circle of understanding possible. Is this so hard a concept to understand? Is it so nonsensical and preposturous as to discard it and completely scoff at it? I mean think about it real good, read the bible, read what has happened here, there is a mountain of mountains of evidence indicating that man did create satan. I present to you the following scriptural references to satan and ask that you be the judge: continued |
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