Oh, they are contradictions for all of humanity, ok? The fault lies with your set. Please make major adjustments, and test every adjustment. And of course, please recognize that customer service is doing their best, but they are after all minimum wage phone reps, and your best source is the original manual and experience. If you seek for the answer in the manual, you will find it in your experience; please note that you must experience, or they like to say around here "are you experienced?" not sure why, but that's what the master growers I'm reading say with a smile. You cannot find God all by yourself (your ship should be at sea). You have to find God all for yourself, and you are surrounded by Him right now.
Presuming I need to find God. Of course.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Oh, I just assumed you were feeding me another leading Q ; ) I of course mean the collective you, which is actually "we," but, being as how I'm pretty much as sick as everyone else...(ha, special, double~entendre.)
Oh, I just assumed you were feeding me another leading Q ; ) I of course mean the collective you, which is actually "we," but, being as how I'm pretty much as sick as everyone else...(ha, special, double~entendre.)
You/we = every human? Are assuming the everyone needs to find God?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
You/we = every human? Are assuming the everyone needs to find God?
Everyone has free will, and the truth is not obscured, at least not for long. I no longer make assumptions for others, or try not to. Christ never cornered anyone, never "witnessed" in the manner a Christian would find acceptable today. I've learned the hard way that for me to have "life, more abundantly," I need Christ, not Christianity. "If your eye offends you, you better pluck that puppy out" speaks directly to this, for me. Of course, maybe for you this means to literally pluck your eye out, but see another possible interpretation for "eye." Gotta run! Peace!
Everyone has free will, and the truth is not obscured, at least not for long. I no longer make assumptions for others, or try not to. Christ never cornered anyone, never "witnessed" in the manner a Christian would find acceptable today. I've learned the hard way that for me to have "life, more abundantly," I need Christ, not Christianity. "If your eye offends you, you better pluck that puppy out" speaks directly to this, for me. Of course, maybe for you this means to literally pluck your eye out, but see another possible interpretation for "eye." Gotta run! Peace!
Christianity is the belief in, and trusting in, and loving, and following, and obeying Christ. IMO. What do you think it is, and what's wrong (for you) with being a Christian?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Christianity is the belief in, and trusting in, and loving, and following, and obeying Christ. IMO. What do you think it is, and what's wrong (for you) with being a Christian?
Sic em! ARRARARARA!
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1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Christianity is the belief in, and trusting in, and loving, and following, and obeying Christ. IMO. What do you think it is, and what's wrong (for you) with being a Christian?
Well, mostly the symbol it has become. Sad to say, but I've learned to run from most people who make it a point to tell you that they are a Christian 5 minutes after you meet them. But more than that, I realized that "Christian" as presented in the West anyway, just got off to a death-centric start with Augustine's musings, which even he would deny should be doctrine, http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-the...ristian-Models
prolly unless it would cost him the archbishop-ness that he received, hmm. And sitting through the funeral that defined "church" for me just verified it, which is not to say that there aren't great churches out there.
Anyway, to a non-American I would ID myself as a Christian, but in the US the term has just taken on a meaning that I do not ID with. I've just learned that "belief in, and trusting in, and loving, and following, and obeying Christ" can all be accomplished without the politics. Your def of Christianity would be great if it only contained these things, but it does not.
Well, mostly the symbol it has become. Sad to say, but I've learned to run from most people who make it a point to tell you that they are a Christian 5 minutes after you meet them. But more than that, I realized that "Christian" as presented in the West anyway, just got off to a death-centric start with Augustine's musings, which even he would deny should be doctrine, http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-the...ristian-Models
prolly unless it would cost him the archbishop-ness that he received, hmm. And sitting through the funeral that defined "church" for me just verified it, which is not to say that there aren't great churches out there.
Anyway, to a non-American I would ID myself as a Christian, but in the US the term has just taken on a meaning that I do not ID with. I've just learned that "belief in, and trusting in, and loving, and following, and obeying Christ" can all be accomplished without the politics. Your def of Christianity would be great if it only contained these things, but it does not.
Well, I probably shouldn't have tried to define it. What came over me? There are as many definitions as there are denominations. (At least!)
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Yup. Truth never changes, except when it does. I try to approach definitions from God's pov, which I think is part of discernment. This actually causes me quite a few problems, I'm now seeing, hmm...
But if the average guy on the street were to close his eyes, and hear you say the word "Christian," the more or less collective image in the common mind, is the def of Christian, in one sense; in another it is the theology I come from, but I am comfortable with that; Christian is man's best attempt at Bible, it is not Bible.
There are as many definitions as there are denominations. (At least!)
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