Very nice. I already adore Him.
Like Kierkegaard, I believe Christ is the savior of this world; He is the truth of existence, and His realm is the eternal. We have the privilege of bonding with Him while on our sojourn in this temporal realm. The price to be paid for this union: Righteous faith, accepting Him and his Holy Spirit, and not following the whims of this world.I thought it might be nice during this season where we celebrate the birth of Christ that those who have posted in this thread and call themselves "Christian", tell us what the Christian faith means to them.
How about you start off by telling the readers of this threads what it means to "adore" Jesus Christ.
In the New Testament the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ, represents the situation thus: The way that leads to life is straight, the gate narrow-few be they who find it!
Every true Christian carries Him within him; not in a symbolical meaning, but in life and reality. . . . every town ought to have a shrine to honour the dead , and Christ alone should be worshipped with God Himself.
Like Kierkegaard, I believe Christ is the savior of this world; He is the truth of existence, and His realm is the eternal. We have the privilege of bonding with Him while on our sojourn in this temporal realm. The price to be paid for this union: Righteous faith, accepting Him and his Holy Spirit, and not following the whims of this world.
As Kierkegaard reminds us:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4055004&postcount=2206Right, like I really care.
I change my quotes to suit myself.
Were you too thick-skulled to notice all my Kierkegaard quotes and avatars in the beginning?
I wasn't exactly trying to keep it secret.
I am proud to be a Kierkegaard scholar and not some Kentucky back-woods cop.
Kierkegaard is a highly respected Christian thinker, and I don't care what a bumpkin like you thinks.
I post here for the politics, not religion, btw.
What's creepy is that you know LaBarbera thinks you're too dumb for him to pay any mind to.
You actually had to look up both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard---
where'd you go to college, eh???
Thanks for posting that-- I still feel exactly the same way, you big lummox. :chuckle:(Sigh, quite the follower of Christ ole GFR7 is).
Thanks for posting that-- I still feel exactly the same way, you big lummox. :chuckle:
Right, I am a follower of Christ - and far more so than are you. It will all come out in the end.
Yes, Kierkegaard and Gustav Fechner are great Christians. :wave2: Scot says, "buh-BYE, aCW!"
You're a literal-minded dummy and first class idiot. :wave2: I guess you do need to find a new religion. :think:Of course you do. Your posts haven't changed since you wrote that several months ago.
If you can find somewhere in Holy Scripture where it says that followers of Christ should idolize the words of atheist philosophers, moral relativists and homosexuals, then I'll acknowledge that you're a "follower of Christ" and I'll find a new religion.
You're a literal-minded dummy and first class idiot. :wave2: I guess you do need to find a new religion. :think:
He stopped being amused by the thread.While I'm looking, I'm sure others are asking the same question as I am:
What happened to Scot? Is he "long gone" because of the new medication that your doctor put you on, or did Scot really exist and he found greener pastures elsewhere? (he met someone new at a bathhouse).
He stopped being amused by the thread.
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Has it occurred to you that no one wants to post what Christianity means to them here, because they know you'll be nasty to them? Would Jesus approve of the things you say to people, and the lies you tell about them; the insults that you hurl? I'm sure he would not approve at all.Since no one wants to take me up on my offer to explain what Christianity means to them (I can't believe that Christians don't want to speak up about their faith in a Christian website), I'll briefly talk about what Jesus Christ/Christianity means to me:
Jesus' two greatest commandments are constantly on my mind and always in my heart:
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:36-40
"Loving the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" of course means acknowledging that His Word as seen in Holy Scripture is the Absolute Truth. Loving His Word means also loving His institutions that He created and doing everything in your power to protect them.
'Love your neighbor as yourself', isn't always that easy when it comes to loving those who proudly embrace evil, but Jesus didn't finish Matthew 22:36-40 with the following words:
"The above is open for debate"; so if I am to be a follower of Christ, I MUST be obedient to His Word.
As I've shown throughout this 3 part thread, one of the ways to love your neighbor (who has strayed from the path of righteousness) is to legislate righteous laws based on the Word of God.
Unless anyone else would like to post their testimonial, I'll talk more about theology in the segment entitled:
The 3 tenets of atheism.
Has it occurred to you that no one wants to post what Christianity means to them here, because they know you'll be nasty to them?
Would Jesus approve of the things you say to people, and the lies you tell about them; the insults that you hurl? I'm sure he would not approve at all.
If you keep those two commandments constantly in your mind and heart, and yet still manage to call people fags, to tell them they are sodomites when they are not; to tell them they had no wife and have no child when their family all are still grieving and still worried about the son; to blast people with all kinds of insults and cutting barbs - well, you must be doing something wrong.
aCultureLiar said:You and your fellow homosexualists should be ashamed of yourselves for what you're doing to your fellow man and the institutions that God created. Hopefully my sarcasm has opened up some eyes of the people who have been lying to themselves all of these years. Because I am sarcastic towards those who proudly embrace immoral behavior, doesn't mean that I don't love them and want the very best for them (i.e.repentance of their sins and accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior).
That being said: If I were really your enemy, I would join the camp that wants your kind hung (again, Jesus spoke of redemption, so I MUST be obedient to His Word).