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Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:29pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
My much-beloved sister, how are you? I'm sorry that I have not been much on hand to help you as you have learned the Lord. I wish that I could be. Recently, I have been communicating a great deal with people on nairaland and I started to reread a history of Christianity. I began to yearn greatly to reach out to you to know how you are going on with the Lord. I feel that you must be beginning by now to realize that belonging to Christ is not a very popular theme. I feel that by now you must already have come upon some very deep questions about the Lord, about life and about walking with Him in today's world. I myself faced a bunch of those and still do. They are the stuff of the Christian's development. Eternal Life is knowing the Only True God and Jesus Christ. So the journey and life of the Christian is filled with questions and wonder as they are answered. Have you begun to see this yet? I hope so. Allow me, my dear sister, to encourage you to persist in asking questions. May I also beg you never to accept answers that leave anything to be desired? Prove all things by the unction that you have. Compare Scripture with Scripture and stand firm on the Truth. Do not waver. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. You cannot grow into things you do not yet know if you do not test the things you do know. Live what you speak. Do not say one thing and do another. Be honest. Let your life not be a lie. As Father grants you understanding in Christ, live according to your understanding. Do not be intimidated or bullied into contradicting what you believe in the way you live. Your heart should naturally yearn for other Christians now that you have been born again. You will and should worry if some whom you accepted as believers reject you. But remember that not everyone who calls upon the Lord is known by Him. So, while you reach out to them and your heart remains open for fellowship with them, examine their rejection of you to see if it is because you in some way contradict Christ or if it is because you remind them too much of Him. When you have difficult matters of understanding, remember that in the mouths of two or three witnesses, every word shall be established. We Christians are made to need one another. Do not shy away from sharing your difficulties with other Christians. Be willing and ready to be rebuked. Be willing and ready to rebuke as well. Only one thing counts, one thing alone matters, and it is Christ. Judge all things by Christ. How much Christ does the thing or person represent? Receive nothing if you see a contradiction of Christ in it, no matter by whom or what or from whom or what it is given. Be strong, my sister. May the Lord keep you till the day He comes. 1 Like |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:41pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
One to a young Hindu
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Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:42pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
Letter to a young Muslim
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Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:44pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
My point: Isn't it funny how all religions tend to be 'humanistic' once their core teachings are attacked? |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:44pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
musKeeto: One to a young Hindu Ok. |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 3:44pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
Allow me, my dear sister, to encourage you to persist in asking questions. May I also beg you never to accept answers that leave anything to be desired? Prove all things by the unction that you have. Compare Scripture with Scripture and stand firm on the Truth. Do not waver. Do not be afraid to make mistakes. You cannot grow into things you do not yet know if you do not test the things you do know. seriously By the same person who launches tirades at other Christians who ask questions |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by MrAnony1(m): 3:51pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
musKeeto: My point:Actually, no they are not. Not from what I read. |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:02pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
musKeeto: My point: I see that Mr Anony has answered you, sir. @Frosbel, would you say that my annoyance with you is rather not that you refuse to have your positions examined? You insist on debating with me while ignoring questions that I ask to show that your position leaves a great deal to be desired. I launch tirades against disrespect of Scriptures. It's something like how Jesus was with the Sanhedrin. |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:11pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
Ihedinobi: On the contrary, You will discard all evidence to hold unto a point even though the foundation is built on straws. Remember also, Jesus was harsh on the Pharisees, the know it alls, but he never used tirades or snides to make his point, in other words he was not condescending or rude. The mark of a true follower of Christ is humility. Anyway to stay on point , your article is excellent !!! |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:15pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
Ihedinobi:I see that frosbel has answered you. It will be fruitless arguing anyways. We'd have to define humanism, then morals, and blah blah blah. No need to, is there? Or Jesus wasn't humanist? |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:21pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
Do not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false - Sikh 1 Like |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:39pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
frosbel: Why, thank you, sir. It was really a text message actually. It wasn't constructed for nairaland. It just so happens that it suits the atmosphere here as well. As to the matter of Christian debates, once anyone attacks the foundation of Christianity while laying claim to its heritage, I take off the gloves. If you say Jesus never "launched tirades" or was "rude" and "condescending", my, you really don't know Him or why they crucified Him And no, I won't give you passages, sorry. I want you to do a little real work and find them for yourself. What's more, I'm avoiding a firestorm of interpretations. If the believer will ask questions, he must have standards by which to judge the answers. If the questions are instead arguments against the very standards, then, the question arises, "what does he say he believes?" @musKeeto Dear sir, I have never minced words about my wholesale rejection of the definition of Christianity as a religion. I also do not see any evidence of an effort toward pleading Christianity's humanity (or even humanism, for that matter) in those shared personal communications. |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by Nobody: 4:50pm On Sep 10, 2012 |
@musKeeto I don't know about the Qur'an or the Vedas, but everyday the Bible proves itself true to reality. If the others are true too, good, no loss to me. If they are not, too bad, no loss to me either. You feel free to test them for yourself. |
Re: Long Text Message To A Young Christian by tpia5: 3:28am On Sep 12, 2012 |
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