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461 | Answer the Question | OT general | Norrie | 14309 | ||
Brian, you ought to be able to say as far as you know, they say you must do, believe whatever to be saved. As far as salvation goes, my church which is So. Bapt. believes salvation is exactly as the Bible describes it to be. We teach the kids the ABCs in vacation Bible school-ADMIT you're a sinner, BELIEVE that Jesus is the Son of God who came to earth, died on the cross for our sin and rose again on the third day, CONFESS Him w/your mouth. Now that's the simplified children's version, not getting deep where you get into repentance and what that means. :) Surely you can give a simplified version, what do you tell your kids? | ||||||
462 | God protected Cain from whom | OT general | Norrie | 14304 | ||
I'm sure many people here can testify to needing protection against relatives, even siblings, I know I can. :) | ||||||
463 | Answer the Question | OT general | Norrie | 14303 | ||
Brian, I haven't really been here too long, maybe just before you, maybe?, I don't know, I doubt it's been a month yet, but maybe, so I don't know who belongs to what demonination to say. I know I'd sure be interested in hearing what the Cath say since it's been 30 yrs since I listened to them. I know a few years ago, my mother finally left the church when her priest told her life's a gamble, you gamble on heaven or hell. What exactly are they saying now? | ||||||
464 | Answer the Question | OT general | Norrie | 14295 | ||
I copied this off of my church's website. It's not an indepth anything just a general note from pastor, will this help? Greetings! Billy Graham was once asked, "If you had your ministry to do over again, what would you do differently?" to which he replied, "I would preach more grace." After a lifetime of ministry, the great evangelist concluded that grace is the issue. This is the starting point for all we do. Cottage Hill Baptist Church seeks to be a "grace place" where people can come and experience the forgiveness of God and the life-changing power of His Spirit. Our mission is to be grace people "shedding the love of God abroad." We are a conservative Southern Baptist church that believes God has given us His word, clear, concise and inerrant. Our task is to read it, meditate upon it, proclaim it, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, apply it in our lives. We would be honored to have you visit with us any Sunday. Cottage Hill is a church with a great heritage whose greatest days lie ahead. Until Jesus Comes, Allan Lockerman, Sr. Pastor. I have a booklet here on what So. Bapt. believe, but it's too much to print. :) |
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465 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13980 | ||
If my drug-induced kill spree was because I was slipped some drugs and acted out of a lack of control, I may noy have sinned technically but I'd still be going to jail. :) I guess these are just things you can debate and not get any where. Maybe when we get to Heaven, God will tell us. :) |
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466 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13973 | ||
I think God is smart enough to know we might make the wrong decesion, but He doesn't make it for us or "predestin" it. Why would we need a conscience is we we just playing a predetermined script? Doesn't make sense. :) | ||||||
467 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13972 | ||
If you follow that God planned everything, suppose I went to a party and was either by my choice or slipped some drugs, got wacked out and ended up killing someone while I was under the influence, would this be God's will for me? I think not! That would ne like saying God planned for Hitler to kill all the Jews. God doesn't plan things like that, they happen, He may permit it or just not intervene and let you reap what you sow but He doesn't decide that maybe I need a lesson taught and on the way to my car one night I get raped to teach me a lesson. I just can't see God sitting around planning all these evil things to happen to us, sorry! |
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468 | Is Jesus God? | John 1:1 | Norrie | 13963 | ||
The cornerstone of the Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus. We have no hope for this life, or the next to come, without it. It's important to recognize that our belief in His resurrection is based on historical fact, supported by solid evidence, rather than by some religious feeling or unfounded rumor. You may have read about a group of lawyers who met in England in the early 1900s to discuss the biblical accounts of Jesus' resurrection. They wanted to see if there was enough information available to make a case that would hold up in a court of law. What was their conclusion? Yes! They found that Christ's resurrection was one of the most well-established facts of history! G. B. Hardy in his book, "Countdown" offers some very thought-provoking questions about the resurrection: "There are but two essential requirements: 1. Has anyone cheated death and proved it? 2. Is it available to me? Here is the complete record: Confucius' tomb - occupied. Buddha's tomb - occupied. Muhammad's tomb - occupied. Jesus' tomb - empty! Argue as you will, there is no point in following a loser." The resurrection of Jesus is a fact. Historical evidence and countless changed lives testify to it. I pray that you have put your hope in Christ, and that you will bear witness to these facts as you share the hope found Jesus with someone who has never heard it. (Source: Daily Bread) |
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469 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13934 | ||
I was trying to think of the answer for Bob, but I guess I'll just go for it here, you can both tear me apart. :) I think there is God's will that is predetermined that will come to pass regardless, like the promises and prophecies in the Bible, including Jesus coming to die for out sins and Him coming back again, the laws of nature, physics, etc. He made and unless He steps in and does something, what is predisposed to happen will happen. But then you get to each person's life. God desires each person to be saved and spend eternity in Heaven w/Him. But that doesn't happen all the time. God made a perfect plan for my life, but I did not follow that plan. We are free will creatures, we eventually follow our own plan, sometimes no matter how dedicated we are and try to follow God's plan. God did not have in his plan for me to be a druggie or a boozer or promiscuous or to lie, cheat, steal, etc. but I did it anyway. He may not have intended me to marry whoever I married or He may not have intended me to get a divorce, but He let me do all these things. This is the permissive will of God. He permits you to make wrong choices. These wrong choices then mess up the perfect plan God had for me. But at any time, I can repent and come back to God, then God will take me, whereever I am, and start a new plan for me, it's not His original plan, but it will still work. Then let's say I'm going along good for awhile, but then I mess up, say I get involved w/someone at work and the gang is going out for drinks or I go to a party and get carried away and make a fool of myself, whatever, this is not God's plan for my life, it is my plan, however I can repent and come back and God will make a new plan for my life. Say I ended up in prison, God can still take my life where it is and turn it around to where I'm doing His will. Now that doesn't mean I should go out and do those things and keep expecting God to forgive me all the time, like I'm using Him. That just means I'm human and I have failings and I mess up, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally, maybe I might accidentally get involved w/something I shouldn't, maybe I may make a wrong decision of where to work or where to live or who to marry, but that doesn't mean God planned that for me, I made a dumb decision and in His generousity and goodness will forgive me and start me on a new path. Even if I never accepted Jesus as Savior, it was still God's will for me to be saved and He had a good plan for my life, I just decided to follow my own path instead and God let's us do that. This is what I think is the permissive will of God. Maybe you disagree, but that's what I think anyway. |
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470 | But aren't they mutually exclusive? | Gal 2:17 | Norrie | 13899 | ||
I guess there's a lot to read here, but is this about the soverign will of God vs the permissive will of God? Is this kinda like God has a plan for our lives, but sometimes we don't follow that plan, so He has plans B, C, D..... | ||||||
471 | Early church support for Peter as Pope? | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13761 | ||
Brian, I think it's more everybody is really concerned about you, not that they are attacking you. You do seem to have a blind spot for the Cath church. I understand that, when I was growing up and was still a Cath, I was the same way. But things started happening to make me start thinking maybe I was being decieved and I evenrually left. Then after my bout w/heathenism, I got saved, then became involved w/the faith movement big time. I was as zealous over Copeland as you are the church. But I eventually found out I was being deceived again!!! So, I just chucked that and now go strictly by the Book. I will not let any man or church keep me from Heaven or doing God's work. Maybe you should consider that maybe you have been deceived. Maybe God put you here to let you know and you're fighting Him. Maybe He wants you to open your eyes and see where the RCC is wrong and get out, that could be why you're here. Pray about it, OK. We just might be the answer you're looking for. :) |
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472 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13721 | ||
Ed, obviously you don't understand a hundredfold. A "fold" is 100 percent, thus a return on 10 that's 100 is tenfold, to be a hundredfold, it would be 1000. If we recieved that returned, we'd be giving all the time. :) I know I'd be rich by now! | ||||||
473 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13671 | ||
We got a new pastor at our church about a year ago (we were 3.5 yrs w/interim). I worked w/children's choir which was during the Wed night svc so I'd get tapes of the services to listen to. I remember this one where he mentioned at end of message about how he was listening to this faith preacher on TV one day and obviously the guy hadn't preread the letters, the message he was giving was God gives you the desires of your heart. Pastor didn't say who the preacher was tho, just that this happened, he didn't want to slander anybody. So he reads the first letter and it's about being delivered from alcoholism and he says if you want to be delivered from alcoholism, then God wants you delivered from alcoholism. Pastor said nothing wrong there, being delivered from alcoholism is a good thing. Second letter is to do w/healing so he says if you want to be healed, God wants you healed too. Pastor said nothing wrong with healing. But the third letter was the one the guy obviously hadn't read, the request was for a Harley, the guy looked kinda baffled for an instance then says if you desire a Harley, then God desires for you to have a Harley. Pastor said that was where he had real problems, when you reduce God to a motorcycle! Seems like all people want from God is what can You do for me??? If You don't deliver, I'll find another God. This is wrong! We should be asking what can we do for God, not what He can do for us! That seems to be the basis of too many TV ministers. God is not a magic formula where you do this, you confess this and this will happen. Believe me, I bought into that line and tried it, you do get some victories but not like they promise you will get-oh, but you didn't have enough faith, you didn't give enough, you didn't confess enough-there's always some excuse! Then my huband would raise hell at me for sending them money too. It was my tithe, I'd just break it up and send part to this one and that one, etc. But I'd hear how they're just taking your money, you're just giving it to them so they can have bigger houses and fancy cars and designer clothes. I'd say it costs money to be on all those stations and send out all that meterial. Maybe my husband was right. After all, how much "blessing" can one person receive? Where you going to draw the line of what's being blessed and what's living off the excess? You have to admit, why do 2 people need to move into a bigger, fancier house? Exactly how many cars does 1 person really need? I know that when you give the money w/a right heart, God credits it to your acct and the person who is scamming has to answer, but eventually I quit it all and now the only one I give to is my church. Anyway, I didn't get my healing, but that's not to say that God hasn't been working miracles in my life, it's just in another direction than I thought it would be. I'm disabled as a result of that, but I met a bunch of wonder people, had my finances taken care of on most of the hosp. bills, I witnessed to many people and didn't get bitter and presented a good attitude in spite of everything which many people have commented on, saying how that helped them get thru what they were going thru. Now I'm on disability and a stay at home mom instead of traveling around the country letting my mom raise my daughter, plus I get on forums and meet wonderful people here, have a chance to give my testimony-God is Good!!! Who's to say I'm not better off now than what I would be if this had not have happened? I know for a fact that God turns things that seem bad into good and that's worth a whole lot! I thank Him for everything He has done for me!!! But be careful of those TV preachers, they can lead you astray-been there, done that! Gee, I guess the people who've read some of my different testimonies of what I've been thru, first w/Cath, now w/TV preachers say this is some gullible person! Oh well, at least I learned and lived to tell about it. :) |
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474 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13669 | ||
What you had was a 10 fold increase. :) You sound exactly like a sounded a few years back, I would have wrote practically the same thing you did, almost word for word, but something changed in my life. I had been following Copeland since 1980 and thought he was an excellent preacher, I bought all his tapes, went to several Believers Conventions, bought tapes of all his buddies too and I could practically preach a sermon from listening to them so much. I have experienced healing and financial miracles, my daughter is a direct result of a prayers during the Anaheim Believer's Convention in '91. Then on NY Eve '98 I broke my arm rollerblading. Right before Christman, I had a job out of town for a week so I recorded all the preachers while I was gone. It just so happened I had a room w/a vcr, that is the only room w/vcr I had and I had a lot of hosp. rooms thru this. My first stay was 12 days and I had 5 surgeries, I had a dozen surgeries altogether, rest were one at a stay tho. :) Anyway, I got that tape and I played it practically continually. It had all kinds of messages related to my current need including Gloria's Healing School. I had Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar on there and everything was good! I absorbed myself in the Word, it would be playing when I'd go to sleep and when I'd wake up (which in the hosp is pretty regular), I'd restart if it was over. I confessed healing to everyone I came in contact with and being in hosp, there was planty of contact. :) I heard that Copeland and Oral Roberts were going to be in Creflo's church the next month, I made plans to be there. Plus I was involved w/all these ministries, I was on more mailing lists, I was getting them all to agree with me that I'd receive my healing. I could see it in my mind's eye, I could see myself giving testimony at my church, teaching them all about the great Jesus Christ Insurance Agency, By His stripes we are healed and here's proof!!! But guess what? I went and didn't get healed. In fact, I had a doc appt that we went to before we went home and my stitches had burst and had to be restitched. I couldn't figure out what happened. I had faith and I was in agreement with all the great ministries, what was wrong? Then after that is when I got online and started joining forums. I'd be still preaching just like you too even tho I didn't get my healing and someone said that Copeland was in apostasy. I didn't believe that, I had been listening to him for years, I was thinking about moving to Ft Worth so I'd be at their church! I'd been partner with them for close to 18 yrs then, I never heard him say anything wrong. I even had some of his partner letters and would share with anyone who would listen about why I broke my arm, it was because I had what I said, I spoke a negative confession for months (when my daughter got skates, I asked Mama why'd she give them to her, who's going skating with her, me? her? that is a one way ticket to the hospital and sure enough...). Then I started being bombarded w/Copeland's apostasy (and other faith ministers too but he's like the leader). I'd hear it on the forums, I'd be given material from people at church, I'd check out these different sites, what they said he said was def. apostasy. I was confused and quit listening to all TV preachers and before, I'd almost listen all day if I could, I'd tape them too to listen again and again. I bought the cassettes and would listen to them in my car, my husband thought I was a nut!!! I started getting turned out when I'd see some of them clips about future meeting, I remember that one about that Leroy something where the people would be going "money to me!" Seems like they were more interested in getting money than worshipping God, seems like God started being on the back burner on most of these ministries and what He could do FOR you was first place. |
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475 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13622 | ||
I'm sure this would have got a response too. :) Maybe tomorrow I'll try to remember everything I put there. Maybe I'll make an email of it, then copy and paste. I know I have a good testimony about this subject because I've been involved in it for years but w/having school kid and going to bed early now, it will have to wait. | ||||||
476 | Divine Healing, True or False? | Matthew | Norrie | 13609 | ||
I want to lodge a complaint here. I wrote this long response here, took a lot of time and effort, then I get this note: You have exceeded the maximum length of a note or question. The maximum length is 5000. Please shorten by at least 33 character(s). Please click back and try again... I clicked back and the whole thing is gone!!! I can't believe this! |
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477 | Please tell me more about Jesus in OT. | Ex 33:11 | Norrie | 13600 | ||
It was a forward, I can't take credit for it. I get a lot of good fwds, I try to pass them on. :) | ||||||
478 | who did cain marry? | Gen 1:1 | Norrie | 13533 | ||
You mean it may have been one of his offspring's offspring? | ||||||
479 | Does anyone really *do* this? | Luke 14:12 | Norrie | 13505 | ||
You make a good point, Joe. The demons in hell believe in Jesus Christ, KNOW Him personally, they KNOW He is the Son of God and they KNOW He was raised from the dead but they don't warrant brotherhood. Knowing all this and trusting Him as your personal Lord and Savior are two different things. I'm not saying that Brain hasn't accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior, only Brain knows this and I'm not saying any Cath. has never done this, I know some that profess this too. I just have a hard time figuring how anybody can profess Jesus and at the same time stay loyal to a church that seems to go against everything He stands for, it just makes no sense to me. When I find out that whatever man or organization is flawed, maybe in apostasy, I get out no matter how many years I've invested there, no man or organization is worth my soul (I'm saying this because not only was a a Cath before, but I also listened to Copeland exclusively for almost 2 decades and found out he has some apostasy too). |
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480 | Does anyone really *do* this? | Luke 14:12 | Norrie | 13486 | ||
Sorry, Brain, but it seems I can't remember any time that turned out to be a victory, pitiful, huh. :( The only ones I ever felt good about were the anon ones like when you see a bum digging in trash can after you just went shopping and try to think what you just bought you can give him (can't be can or uncooked) and all you can come up w/is a pkg of tomatoes or see one laying in a doorway and offer him a pack of raisins because that's all you have on you, but their smiles and thank yous are worth it. :) I know I've given money before and afterwards a lady comes up and says I hope you didn't give that person any money, I live around here and see them take it to the liquor store. I know God see our good deeds and that's treasure laid up in Heaven, but it would be encouraging to have a victory occassionally. I remember we were living in TX and he had some friends he used to hang out with at coffee shop and smoke every day, they really had nothing. He told me they needed groceries, they had kids too (made you wonder what kids did while they hung out all the time). So I went to the store and bought lots of staples, no junk food but I remember I bought a 5# bag of carrots (I don't think I've ever seen a 5# bag since then), brought it over to them and the kids attacked that bag of carrots. I was used to seeing kids attack cookies, not carrots, it really amazed me. What's sad tho is many people don't want to bother to cook the food, they'd rather have fast food that you do nothing to except eat it. My mil has a food bank at her church (so does ours) but she was telling me how so many people don't really want the stuff because they are too lazy to cook, that is sad! I'm sorry but I guess I have more turned out wrong stories tho, I can think of several others but don't want to discourage anybody. :) At least Jesus knows our right intentions tho and that is what counts. |
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