In a sense we are.
We are one with Christ.
How can I ansewer150 questions even I have a limited amount of time on here.
Evil is allowed free will. Now you have the illusion of free will.
But only for a short time and only now here on Earth.
Even the Hindus have some of it right they know of the soul and have explained how to achieve out of body so check it and see.
I took no ones word on that and checked myself to see.
Paul thanks for the compliment but 14 is way off.
I was hoping you could read my mind when I said worst of the worst don’t make me spell it out.
Ah what the hell a pedophile is molesting your child what would you do if you caught him in the act of that?
Responses like this only go to confirm my own convictions that some (not all) Christians are simply at the height of arrogance.
While you are supposed to value humility, I find none.
What tremendous ego it takes to believe that there is a supreme being who cares about the banalities of your life, yet, would allow the horrors and atrocities that occur daily in this world continue. Yes, Jesus loves you and cares about the prayers you send about your first world quality existence, while he either ignores or "says no" as some pastors would say, to the starving, the tortured, the enslaved.
I'm truly sorry that you cannot grapple with the truth of your own mortality, like everyone must. It saddens me that you believe you have a monopoly on truth, and that all religions that came before and after you (especially Judaism of the old testament, who said the Messiah would be a king who ruled on the throne of David, that he would enforce--not negate--the law, that taught human sacrifice was not an acceptable atonement for sin, and that anyone who says they are dreamers of dreams and prophecies such as PAUL were false teachers) are hogwash.
There is nothing meek about strutting your righteousness and exclusive salvation as if you can never be questioned.
I am not a "hater" or "tool of satan". I have deeply meaningful friendships with Christians of every flavor in the homeschooling community, and I spent many, many years sitting in churches with an open heart and mind. That open mind led me out of them eventually, unable to ignore the disparity and contradictions in both scripture and church goer behavior any longer.
I would certainly hope you examine the issue of ego. Not the haughty kind, but the kind that does not accept an unavoidable terminus. Look at the vastness of the world, the cultures, human behavior. Ask yourself why you are more important than anyone else, why you were "chosen" and so many have not been. When you are (hopefully) counting your "blessings" that you were born where you were, not into a hellish existence somewhere else, perhaps you can understand what I am trying to say. You are a human being like the muslim girl in the middle east who is has her throat slit by her father in an honor killing as a result of her being raped. You do not deserve heaven more than she does not deserve the hell you prescribe for her, nor the hell that was her short life. Move away from your insulated perceptions for just a moment and ponder that one. Why are you so much more important than her? (Tip: You're not)
