Are you as forgiving as God is? - Page 5

houston · #41 01-13-2012, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Timmy

OK, OK, it's unsnipped! Happy?

love it

Timmy · #42 01-13-2012, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by houston

love it

Jermyn Davidson · #43 01-13-2012, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by bbyrd009

but, you know the end from the beginning? and, your very presence can lead people to repentance-that's how it works, I would say. The only way it works.

GOD knows what I know times infiniti.
I don't know what GOD knows.

All I can do is forgive the way I know how to forgive-- but I can't forgive as GOD forgives.

bbyrd009 · #44 01-13-2012, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

GOD knows what I know times infiniti.
I don't know what GOD knows.

All I can do is forgive the way I know how to forgive-- but I can't forgive as GOD forgives.

Amen.

bbyrd009 · #45 01-13-2012, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Timmy

And God will (in the future!) love us, even as He is throwing us into the lake of fire. Cool.

(Don't even try to say He won't do that; that we will send ourselves to hell. That is utterly absurd, and it isn't even in the Bible!)

While I lean more toward a unitarian viewpoint myself, if this is not acceptable for you, you should at least seek in ways other than this obviously death centric view of Christ and God, that were given to you. God is your loving Father, and

"In the beginning was the Creative Energy:
The Creative Energy was with God
and the Creative Energy was God.
It was with God in the beginning.
Through it all things came to be,
not one thing had its being but through it.
All that came to be had life in it
and that life was the light of persons,
a light that shines in the dark,
a light that darkness could not overpower...
The Creative Energy was the true light
that enlightens all people;
and it was coming into the world.
It was in the world
that had its being through it,
and the world did not know it...
But to all who did accept it
it gave power to become children of God...
The Creative Energy was made flesh,
it pitched its tent among us,
and we saw its glory,
the glory that is its as the only Child of the Creator,
full of grace and full of truth."
John 1:1-5,9,10,12,14

should speak to you. "See that, virtually every time you have heard a Christian message in the West, it was
"Christ died-
Christ died for your-
Christ died
Christ died
Christ died for your-" well guess what that only took three days. You should run screaming from this.
'The fall/redemption spiritual tradition is not nearly as ancient as is the creation~centered one...' "
http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-the...ristian-Models

This has really freed me, and made Christ much less abstract; I hope it serves you, but if not, "seek your own salvation" means that you don't have to find God anyone else's way.

Timmy · #46 01-13-2012, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bbyrd009

While I lean more toward a unitarian viewpoint myself, if this is not acceptable for you, you should at least seek in ways other than this obviously death centric view of Christ and God, that were given to you. God is your loving Father, and

"In the beginning was the Creative Energy:
The Creative Energy was with God
and the Creative Energy was God.
It was with God in the beginning.
Through it all things came to be,
not one thing had its being but through it.
All that came to be had life in it
and that life was the light of persons,
a light that shines in the dark,
a light that darkness could not overpower...
The Creative Energy was the true light
that enlightens all people;
and it was coming into the world.
It was in the world
that had its being through it,
and the world did not know it...
But to all who did accept it
it gave power to become children of God...
The Creative Energy was made flesh,
it pitched its tent among us,
and we saw its glory,
the glory that is its as the only Child of the Creator,
full of grace and full of truth."
John 1:1-5,9,10,12,14

should speak to you. "See that, virtually every time you have heard a Christian message in the West, it was
"Christ died-
Christ died for your-
Christ died
Christ died
Christ died for your-" well guess what that only took three days. You should run screaming from this.
'The fall/redemption spiritual tradition is not nearly as ancient as is the creation~centered one...' "
http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-the...ristian-Models

This has really freed me, and made Christ much less abstract; I hope it serves you, but if not, "seek your own salvation" means that you don't have to find God anyone else's way.

Now you're talking! Except that it seems that this makes Christ more abstract, not less!

In fact, I have sought and found my own salvation.