WATCH AND PRAY SO THAT YOU DO NOT FALL INTO DIVERSE TEMPTATIONS
James 2:14-26 King James Version (KJV) What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
We as believers are taught faith with works. I suppose you have the ability to see into your future so can plan to avoid bad situations right? If this were possible then even the rich would not be feeling the heat from the world recession and people would not be sacked without reason and babies would not be born without deformities and nobody would die through accidents ....
afterall planning is all they needed right?
Thread is DOA.
This is a manifestation of how nonsensical religious beliefs are.
Life thrives on challenges. Challenges are precursors of inventions and creativity.
That's what religion kills in people.
It's arrant delusion of religious mind, to hope and crave a life devoid of challenges.
firstking01: You pray because uncertainties are certain in life, and also because your plans are prone to failing you so you ought to pray for God to clear every obstacle that will hinder your plans from actualizing…or you need bible proves??
And with all your praying without seasons, DON'T YOU FOLKS STILL EXPERIENCE FAILURES?
Prayer (from the Latin precari "to ask earnestly, beg, entreat" is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.
Prayer can be a form of religious practice , may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words, song or complete silence. When language is used, prayer may take the form of a hymn , incantation, formal creedal statement, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.
There are different forms of prayer such as petitionary prayer, prayers of supplication, thanksgiving, and praise. Prayer may be directed towards a deity , spirit, deceased person, or lofty idea, for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance , requesting assistance, confessing transgressions ( sins) or to express one's thoughts and emotions.
Thus, people pray for many reasons such as personal benefit, asking for divine grace , spiritual connection, or for the sake of others. .................................................................................................................
Back in the days, in school, it was common to pray for examination success in this format:
* We prayed for spirit of understanding, * retentive memory, * anoint pen and fingers, * command the lecturer to come under the influence of the Holy Spirit, * bind the spirit of forgetfulness, * bind the spirit behind lost answer booklet, * bind the spirit of error etc
Now, i look back on those days of religious idiocy, and can't but chuckle, and ask myself - what was that crap!
Prayer is such an arrant gibberish, that portrays those who practice it, as someone beside themselves.
Prayer is variant of soliloquizing, with a significant characteristics of schizophrenia, dementia and delusion.
If not,
* how can someone be asking for retentive memory, when the memory is known to function that way normally?
* How can someone be praying to God of fertility, when the land will naturally be fertile?
* How can someone be praying for a job, when the process of employment is known?
* How can someone be praying for success, when the principles that govern success is known?
* How can someone be praying for good governance, when that responsibility rest on the leaders and followers?
It's a pitiable site to behold, when folks, alone or congregate to waste their time and energy, by indulging in: *shouting, *crying, * moaning, *hysteria, *shaking of head, hand etc
All for nothing. Other than for the purpose of religious self fooling.
naijadeyhia: Well I believe that all opinions are welcome when rational and Faith to a Religious folk is Rationality. Its like trying to say ice isnt water because it is solid or to say daylight isnt a part of the sun because we do not see the light as it travels from the sun to the earth.
Faith is the evidence for the believer while science is the evidence for the unbeliever which is why even the unbeliever would not be able to deny God eventually in judgement. Faith or lack of would condemn or approve one. The HOW is for you while i hold on to my WHY.
Now you have become terribly incoherent and deductible.
jonbellion: Religion divides more than it unites It's because of religion this argument is being put up And a lot if disposable acts throughout history was approved by religion Was it atheists they ordered the Salem witch trials Or Diests or pantheists Nope Slavery was justified by religion, women's rights where suppressed. After all isn't it a disgrace for a woman to speak in church according to Paul. I think religous people are just sad cuz they aren't allowed to have thier way as much as before The society has started to have sense
It's the pillar of reason, being put to unfettered use by humans, that is fast collapsing a crumbling the pillars of primitiveness and ignorance that religion is built on.
"According to the Eurobarometer Poll 2010, 18% of Swedish citizens responded that "they believe there is a god".
45% answered that "they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force".
34% answered that "they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, god, or life force".
What this means is that Sweden has a population of 18% theists, 45% deists, and 34% atheists. Deists aren't religious, they are as secular as atheists, meaning that only 18% of the Swedish population are religious.
Denmark also has similar statistics.
This is the link to the page. You should read it and educate yourself.
It's never the culture of the religious folks, to read and understand, all they are conditioned to do is just believe (be it trash or filth), they just believe.
No question, no criticism, nothing. It's all about blind faith and blind trust, as far as religious folks are concerned.
naijadeyhia: Your rage is the reason nobody takes you serious anymore. Fix it then maybe we can take you down from the shelf we have placed you and dust you off.
Now you are copying/quoting me without acknowledgement.
I once posted that i have classified felixomor and naijadeyhia as "ignored species", but that they keep falling off, from the museum shelf, whenever tourists are around.
You certainly will have to be running from me, because you know that i will always burst your bloated religious bubbles.
You should sure feel safe, in the company of folks who can indulge your rathole rebuttals.
Nations where religions have been severed from from influencing the state, have made significant departure from these evils that religion introduced into human existence.
KingEbukasBlog: For logical reasons like infinite regress the intelligent designer is eternal . But the fact still remains that the universe has a cause and a beginning - this completely shows without doubt that it needed a creator .
Even if the universe is eternal , it does not impugn the existence of the creator . In philosophical propositions like panentheism , the universe is like the material manifestation of the creator , the creator serves as its soul .
The simple task of proving this your outrageous and unfounded claims, is what you have not been able to do, since you have been on NL.
Where is the uncaused cause of the universe?
Why don't you take a break, and go read all the empty stuff, that you have unintelligently posted on this platform.
naijadeyhia: Religion has been a mainstay of the world for as long as it began. various religious traditions have played a major role in the evolution of society. This is a look at some of the benefits that the world has received from religion.
Religion has often been viewed as a vehicle for intolerance and fundamentalism; religion has been used as an excuse for persecution and terrorism. But, religion in its purest form has provided many benefits for humanity.
Teachings of goodwill and the golden rule
“We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.” – Swami Vivekananda
Within all religions there are teachings of goodwill to humanity. The golden rule of religious teaching is to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. At the World Parliament of Religions (1993), a declaration towards a Global Ethic was made. This principle was endorsed by 143 leaders from the major faiths. The simple declaration read:
“We must treat others as we wish others to treat us” Two passages from Gospels quote Jesus Christ in espousing the Golden Rule.
“Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.” – Matthew 7:12
This principle is often neglected by votaries of religion, but without ethical teachings propagated by religions, there would have been even more conflict and division in the world. Religious ethics, such as the Golden Rule do provide a reason and foundation for encouraging better human behaviour.
Role in promoting ethics in political life
It is true many adherents of religion have ignored the salient religious teachings of goodwill, and equality. But, a higher yet deeper message of religion is that man is equal before God. This principle has inspired some religious reformers to campaign against injustice. For example, in the Nineteenth Century, many of the opponents of slavery were motivated by a belief that racism and slavery were incompatible with religious teachings on the inherent divinity of all men. For example, the Quakers, and Christians like William Wilberforce sought to end slavery because they believed slavery was incompatible with Christian charity.
Inner strength
Religious faith has often been a folcrum for courageous action. For example, many who opposed Hitler’s Nazi ideology were motivated by their religious faith; this includes people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maximilian Kolbe and Bernhard Lichtenberg. Religious faith can be a motivational force of courage to fight oppression.
The message of forgiveness
Some of the world’s great acts of forgiveness have been driven by a religious ethic and faith in the importance of forgiveness. For example, Martin Luther King, frequently used Christian language to preach a message of peace and forgiveness. Other great leaders inspired by religious teachings on forgiveness include Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the 14th Dalai Lama.
Man’s Thirst for the Unknowable
The religious desire to discover more about life has never departed from man. From primitive civilisations to the acme of Western civilisation, there have always been people unsatisfied with a purely materialistic interpretation of life. This has encouraged people to give priority to an inner life of prayer and meditation as well as outer achievements. Religion can give an opportunity for man to attain the ‘peace that passeth understanding’. Religion holds the promise of ultimate enlightenment.
Selfless Service
Religious teachings always lay emphasis on the need for serving our fellow man. The loftiest teaching is to do this selfless service without expectation of reward or praise, but to work with a feeling of oneness and identification with others. In its purest form, religion can inspire people to serve the welfare of others, not out of pride, but out of a sense of divine duty. This principle of selfless service is found in all the main religions and has led to the foundation of many charitable works.
Religious Music
Within the context of religion, some of the most profound, moving and sublime music has been created. Even a non-religious person can appreciate the divine sacred music of Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. In other religions there is a similar strand of richly devotional music, that has enriched human culture.
Religious Art
Pieta by Michelangelo During the Renaissance, it was often organised religion which was the greatest patron of the arts. The Catholic church patronised some of the greatest works of Michelangelo such as the Sistine Chapel and the Pieta. The purest form of religion encourages the highest expression of the Divine through artistic form.
New thought
Religion is often linked with long-standing beliefs, but religious and spiritual movements often start off as dynamic movements, which put in place existing political, cultural and religious norms. Religious teachers, such as Jesus Christ challenged many social norms, such as caste systems and ossified social customs. Religion can become old and ossified itself, but religious leaders and new spiritual movements have the capacity to think outside the box and offer different paths for people to walk.
Conclusion
Within every religion there is outer imperfection. But, there are also teachings and a culture which can help lift up man to live a better, more fulfilling and more selfless life.
It is true that man has often misused the ideals of religion for their own selfish and wicked ends thereby making Religion a source of pride and conflict because man has acted badly in its name but these actions though erroneus do not in any away strip Religion of her true value because in the midst of all the rot there are many saints and religious figures who, inspired by religion have made a significant contribution to the world and still do of which i am one and i am Christian, Born of the Spirit of God and love it!
“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality – ceaseless and unending.” – Rabindranath Tagore
Another compilation of crapy and cracked pillars.
Golden rule or filthy rule?
I certainly will not allow myself, to be treated by a schizophrenic folk, who treats himself in schizophrenic realm.
You guys(atheistic hard-pressed to reason black African contraptions and all other associated hangers-on fueled by pseudo-education and lacking the right measurements for what they hate but cannot explain, who are still feeding off the wisdom and knowledge religious people and will continue to do so until Christians redefine science and squash their stupid Hawkins inspired brainwashed state) aren't logical.
Warning! You are talking to yourselves henceforth.
Atheism is dying! Currently on life support!
This is about the second time, you're announcing this your defeatist fizzling.
PDBonline: While waiting for your reply, akintom, I should add that if someone is experiencing something, he can conceive an idea that he is not(probably because of ignorance of details or because he is in denail). It remains an idea or concept in his mind but it doesn't change reality.
"Seun I HONESTLY believe God is real. In fact, I know He is my Father. I don't understand what you meant by "honestly believe" but I'll like you to discuss with me because , by dictionary definition, I have no doubt I do. Awaiting your response to my questions"
KingEbukasBlog: Corollary means the natural consequence or result that naturally follows . You may not know the consequence of your actions now but God's prescience can reveal that to you .
Those two instances you mentioned have a really long interpretation and explaining it to you is otiose since you are an atheist . I've learnt my lessons from my question and answer thread - I know when its appropriate to respond to you and when to just ignore your ramblings .
How is your God's double, unstable and contradictory behavior, pass as Corollary?
Is lie a Corollary of truth?
How is lie, a consequence of truth?
You're too arrogant to admit your buffoonery, when it's pointed out to you.
Your God has only succeeded in REVEALING one thing, and that's the making of folks to be idiotic. Who ordinarily wouldn't, if God virus had not infected their cognition.
If God changes his mind , then it contradicts His Nature as an omniscient being who knows the end from the beginning . God "changing His mind" means changing how he relates or works with humans to achieve the same ultimate plan as an omniscient being .
Its like having a plan and knowing its corollary as an omniscient being and choose to achieve this plan a thousand different ways . It does not impugn your omniscience.
What a puerile thinking. Corollary in an opposing cause and effect matter?
Where did you learn the use of English from in particular?
*God said i will punish sin from the head of the sinner, to his 4th generation.
*God turned 360° and said, not anymore, the sinner WILL now be punished ALONE.
DoctorAlien: "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet..." Matt. 10:14
"...he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of GOD." Jn.3:18
Bro, GOD isn't gonna plead with you forever.
This your God is dumbly ridiculous. Pleading for love and worship from humans!
When it didn't get it, it goes berserk and delusional. Too bad for God.
Tellemall: The deeper you go the more you ascribe these wonders to God.
You are one of those black Africans who think that all people of the western world are atheists because they are educated and have unraveled what you think are the mysteries of God.
You're wrong.
Science and religion can never be compared. So all you atheists can stop trying to use science explain away religion, when religion metaphysical. One is physical and one your science can't even explain.
Science is simply a standard of education. It is attainable to all men. It is not equivalent to disproving God.
If you want to do that, use metaphysical evidence. You are trying to measure Angstroms with a specimen in a Petri dish. Use the right apparatus.
I'm done with the ones who say they're rational.
Naijadeyhia, kingebukasblog and all of the nice Christian posters, please, don't mention me on these religious threads with atheists.
They aren't the most logical people you will find. Neither are they intelligent. Their rationality is limited to the things they can attack because they are scared of the others.
Imagine a situation where atheists say witches don't exist, but they are told how to meet them and they refuse to because they actually believe in them and are scared of them(I don't have time, more arguing without addressing all questions to them or quietly ignoring posts). These are the same people who subscribe to collecting data and behaving as if everything must be tested and proven, when they are scared to test and prove things except swallowing the scientific research of others. Lol. A funny bunch.
Until the atheists here take on investigation they remain the epitome of frustrated Christians with a scientific educational background.
I used to take their main man as an intellectual, until he proved himself to be merely armed with a data subscription.
You're simply disgusted, because you're disappointed that all your craps, have been dumped where they rightly belong - illusion waste basket.
Get to meet real scientists and stop your pseudo-educated babble.
Science is education. Everybody is educated.
Until you understand that your mental limitations will keep dragging you into gullibile assumptions about theists who have contributed to the science you so much revere, you will continue to post like you've just done.
Good bye. Your atheistic ideas aren't sound when they are put under scrutiny.
This is my last ever post on anything religious that has to do with pseudo-educated blacks that claim to be atheists. For example, you. You're mentally retrogressive.
Oh oh oh... Too bad for you.
It's the usual path of fizzling out for your likes.
You're as ignorant as the very idea, that created your amoebic God concept.
Tellemall: In your null set mind, you believe that Christians aren't scientists. That's why you're explaining of all things extrapolation. You think that because you don't think there is a God that it has automatically made you more rational and logical than theists.
Your epistle is over something that highlights the stupid way atheists regard religion. If you can't see God he doesn't exist. If you can't see the data for yourself it doesn't exist, going by that "rationality".
You are delusional for believing that atoms exist when you have never seen one. You are delusional to think that theists are deluded.
Continue extrapolating.
I'm sure it will explain a lot of life to you.
As far as the establishment, of the proof of God existence is CONCERNED, theists are not SCIENTISTS, the closest any theists has moved, is being a mere Pseudoscientist (a fraudulent and quackery version of scientist).
When you have succeeded in proving the existence of your God, according to the scientific research methodology and design, then your covetous craze for the title of scientist, will be awarded to you.
KingEbukasBlog: Facts prove atheists are indeed angry at God .
On January 1, 2011, CNN reported:
People unaffiliated with organized religion, atheists and agnostics also report anger toward God either in the past, or anger focused on a hypothetical image - that is, what they imagined God might be like - said lead study author Julie Exline, Case Western Reserve University psychologist.In studies on college students, atheists and agnostics reported more anger at God during their lifetimes than believers.
Anger is an emotion characterized by antagonism toward someone or something you feel has deliberately done you wrong.
Anger can be a good thing. It can give you a way to express negative feelings, for example, or motivate you to find solutions to problems.
But excessive anger can cause problems. Increased blood pressure and other physical changes associated with anger make it difficult to think straight and harm your physical and mental health.
Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology
I had previously advised you, to be careful with use of words. Especially when you are trying to gloat ignorantly.
Anger is a VITAL component, of the homeostatic mechanism of NORMAL mental function. Without which, the brain and life normal function will be IMPOSSIBLE.
Religion and religious beliefs, had and still have humongous WRONG effects on normal human mind functions. And these wrongs, are deliberate acts of religious obscurantists.
It's the discovery or realization of these religious wrongs, by atheists, that stimulate the angry response to its continuous effects.
Rational mental existence, is only possible when humans consistently respond, to ideas that suggest idiocy, illusion and delusion.
One can just say I have faith that if I blow myself up and kill some unbelievers, I will get to paradise and be rewarded with...
You ask such a person how do you know that, they say Faith. They just believe.
In all the history of human existence, nothing has been more viciously dangerous and terrorising as religious faith.
Science has since inception, been actively containing this infantile idiocy, without which, the world would have still remained at cavemen civilization.
The crazy part is to be awake as early as 3 am , 4 am still raging against someone that does not exist ?! Isn't that madness bikonu ? I fear for their mental health , it must be hell for them living like that - I think that's the penalty they pay for not acknowledging God .
Like Seun said, the responsibility to liberate religious folks from mental littleness, can't be more urgent.
The religious mind had taught you to go to bed at say 10pm after night prayer, and wake up at about 5:30am, to do routine morning prayer.
People of mental worth and value, are not meant for time, but time is made for them.
They control the use of time, to their best use. With all the cacophony of ranting by religious crying and weeping houses around, what better quiet time, than when deluded and illusioned folks had exhausted themselves?
Even your religious leaders (eg bishop oyedepo), stay up to read and write, what to feed you folks' void minds with.
Some years back, i learnt the mechanism by which a belief system, can be influenced for change, in one of the books of Anthony Robbins.
A religious belief is a mere strong feelings or feelings of certainty about something to be true (all tied to emotions, minus rational thinking). Albeit without empirical facts supporting such beliefs.
To influence change of what a religious folk feel strongly or certain about, all you need to do is - cast DOUBT on the specific fundamental aspects of the religious beliefs.
It's like a pin hole in a tube, if repeated over time, a total deflation of the tube might be achieved.
Rational atheism is effectively and gradually containing religious beliefs, just as virus is contained.
I observed that some theists on NL, have withdrawn to being spectators now. They are kind of shocked into lack of what to write and deflated in ideas.
They are griped with morbid caution, before they post thread nowadays.
Gift101: ATHIEST, are we so lucky on Earth that everything Coincidently worked inorder to favour Man and Animals?
Examples:
1. The Air We Breathe, why is it not carbon dioxide ?
2. The environment we live in
3. The discovering of things like medical cures and technological advancement
4. The water we drink; why is it not acidic enough to kill us, why is it perfectly made for us to drink ?
5. The dreams we dreamth of
6. Earth being in possition 3, making our planet not too hot or too cold for us to live in.
7. Water available for fishes to live in, why was water made available for them ? Why didn't they live on land like any other animals ?
8. Earth floating in the air, what type of power in the universe makes it to float ?
9. How did the universe form itself from nothing ?
10. Can robots or machines create themselves ? Don't they have inventors and creators ? Wait, maybe they just created themselves like the BIG BANG THEORY.
Please i need answers.
How did you KNOW it was God that created the universe?
PDBonline: I actually asked a sincere question since you've been using those words. Knowing how you interpret them could help me see from your perspective.
I obviously didn't create those two words. Your understanding of them, as they relate to the subject matter - God, faith and beliefs.
naijadeyhia: You can be so abrasively irritating with this your superiority complex. People like you see yourself as never wrong, unable to be corrected, egotistically rooted and such traits drive violent outbursts as they feel they must always be heard and not to be taught.
smh very ludicrous.
Hmmmm......... Another belated dose of anti rabies has occurred.
However, I have a problem. At 4:32 she spoke some words which I don't understand: "bo shadada vandasanda". After singing some more, at 4:52, she sang these words "o rerererebo shande yama zeke allelu," which I don't understand either. When I asked for the translation, I was told she was speaking in tongues which, fortunately, can be interpreted by those who have the gift of interpretation.
I hereby call upon Nairalanders with the gift of interpretation of tongues to interpret those words for us so we can fully appreciate the song.
Interpretation
"bo shadada vandasanda" - thus Saith the spirit of God, Pst Chris will be divorced by Pst Anita.
"o rerererebo shande yama zeke allelu" - but as i liveth, Saith the Holy ghost, i Sinach, would have been married by then. So Pst Chris don lost him chance and hope, for my side.... Hallelujah !
Sanchez01: Perhaps, some of them don't. The same pattern play out on most of them, and that is the fact that they tend to rub whatever it is they have come to accept off other people's faces. They were at some point 'gullible' and crass silly before they attained the status of God. I just see no reason why they won't just stay still and keep their wisdom to themselves. Laughing at what you term the folly of others is indeed not wisdom on one's part but foolishness.
As a Christian, I do not consider myself better than an Atheist or a Muslim. We have what we lean towards and we have our convictions and stick to them.
You're wrong, you extremely consider yourself better than atheists. Except you don't believe and practice your Bible.
You're Bible calls atheists the following:
* foolish * sinner * condemned * will burn in fire * lost * wicked * evil * satanic * will perish * immoral * unloving etc
You Christians are sickly hateful and judgemental of atheists.
But if there's any atheist, that shares this base attitudes of Christians, such atheist is ignorant and alien to atheistic ideologies and concepts.
PDBonline: Lol.. I am not in an ego fight. Just concerned for you. But you are chatting with someone who knows something about the point he raised. Never brag about what you know when chatting with someone you don't know.
I don't have who you are in mind, when am writing, it's your idea or claim that concerns me.
You can keep your concern for the reality or rationality of your ideas and beliefs.
FreshGreen: ....I had an accident in which I died. As death came over me, I felt everything become dark. I found myself walking through a dark tunnel, and some kind of being was taking me. While we walked in this cold and dark tunnel, I began to hear horrific screams and moans, and an intense fear was growing inside of me. I knew that, although my body was already dead, I was somehow still alive in this place.
I saw large snakes moving all around, and all the people were crying out for water. Soon we arrived at an open plateau, which had many chambers and divisions, each contained different people inside. I began to cry out with terror, begging God for mercy. "Lord, remember my life! Have mercy!" Sheer terror was gripping my soul, and my whole life was passing before my eyes. As we approached some door, I shouted again, "Have mercy on me my Lord; have mercy on me! I beg you to help me! Help me Lord!!"
We then went to a place where I saw a woman was sitting in a rocking chair. There were still terrifying moans coming from all over that place. At first, she seemed ok, but then her body transformed into a witch, and she screamed in agony, burning in flames. She begged for mercy, but the Lord said to me "The wages of sin is death, and those who arrive in this place will never get out again." (Romans 6:23)
The Lord showed me many disobedient people, many who were once part of a Christian Church. They were crying out and begging for mercy, but there was no mercy. Mercy could only be found while a person is still alive on Earth. Once people are dead, mercy cannot be reached anymore, as it says, "it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27)
Jesus also showed me a place with some kind of boiling oil, and there were people suffering inside, burning in flames and trying to get out. But demons would throw them back in. We walked until we came to a place with people that had once listened to the word of God, but never wanted to repent. I also saw a missionary in Hell. He was there because he asked for money to open a mission in Africa, but he kept half the money for himself. Now he begs for mercy and another chance to return the money that wasn’t his. When he saw that Jesus could not help him, he cursed Jesus.
I saw people that were once inside the church praising God. Now they only cry out for mercy for their un-repented sins, they lost their chance to repent after they died. I saw pastors there who robbed tithes and offerings from their churches. They also begged to undo all their bad works, but there was no more chance.
Those who die without Jesus Christ go to hell, and those who die with Jesus Christ go to Heaven. Many people believe that dying is just stopping this existence. (Annihilationism) But at death, your real life begins, either in God’s Glory or in everlasting condemnation and shame. (Daniel 12:2) You are making that choice right now. We must all carefully meditate on where we will spend eternity. Do you want to spend eternity in Hell or in God’s glory? It’s your choice.
The Road to Hell The Lord said, "Look at this wide street." I saw a street where a multitude of believers were walking, and they were even carrying bibles. I saw some praying and others were singing praises.
Many Christians have some hatred or bitterness in their heart toward their brothers; and may even skip church because of that brother. But when the pastor asks the church, “How many of you love the Lord?” They say "Amen!" But the Bible says that those who hate their brothers are like murders, and no murder can come in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is written, anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell. (Matt 5:22) These brothers will deeply regret that when the Lord returns.
The Bible tells us, Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:17-18) It’s so sad when those serve the Lord, don't make it into Heaven. You need to seriously meditate on this and ask, “Am I ready for the Lord? Am I really doing the will of God? Is my life pleasing to God?” You still have time to turn your heart to God and escape Hell. Some people don’t care about where they are going, they only want to enjoy this life. But I tell you, spending time with Jesus, not some woman is enjoying life. Spending time in the Lord's house, not a bar, that’s life. We need to ask God for Mercy for those who are still waking on the road of death and sin.
In Hell, we saw many who thought they were living holy while on Earth, but now they were just begging for mercy and another chance. My soul ached so much for them. We saw a woman who was acting like she was reading the Word of God, and preaching about John 3:16. She said: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus said she was there "Because she could never forgive her husband; she never managed to forgive her husband." (Matt 6:14-15) This woman had been shepherding an evangelical church for 35 years, but now in Hell, she is begging for one more chance to forgive her husband.
The bible warns us, settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. (Matt. 5:25) and Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matt. 5:7) Forgiveness is something special, and that woman never forgave. After 35 years of hard work for God, she lost it all in the end. Meditate on this, and make sure you forgive all. How do you want to spend eternity?
Lying to God It might sound crazy, but many Christians wind up in Hell because of lying. Christians often just nonchalantly lie in Church, and think nothing of it. The pastor may ask them a question, and a member just lies to them. But we must remember that a simple lie is what caused God to kill Ananias and Sapphira while in Church. (Acts 5:3-10)
If you're a lukewarm Christian, backsliding, or living a double life, bow you head right now before God, and beg for forgiveness, be willing to turn away from evil deeds. If you don't know Jesus, pray now, and ask Him for forgiveness, ask Him into your heart, accept Him as your savior.
Many of us stand before the altar of God full of pride and vainglory. Many, who sing praises to God, begin to be full of pride. Many of God's servants who preach the word, and are used mightily by God, begin to think that they are overly important? Many people who work in deliverance also get full of pride? I want to tell you that God see all, and knows your heart.
We continued walking until we arrived at some a kind of waiting room. We saw a demon that was shouting, and other demons were presenting themselves before him. Two of them were in the form of beautiful women. Their job was to destroy ministries, and lead ministers into sin. Those who serve the Lord, must be careful of satan’s traps. satan wants to destroy your life, and he can use those people who are close to you, those who do not walk close to Jesus. They can be instruments of satan.
Satan also has demons that are disguised as men. They go into churches in search for young ladies and even married women, to lead them into sin, destroying marriages and lives.
Children in Hell Even today, I still feel pain and terror in my soul when I remember that there are even young children in Hell. I saw some between the ages of 12 and 14 years old. They also regret many things they did while on earth. Many Christians ignorantly say that children can never be lost, because they are so young. But I tell you, if a child can distinguish between good and evil, and they are not walking in the ways of the Lord, they also can arrive in that place of torment. (Prov. 22:6)
In the bible it says "I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.” (Rev. 20:12) All persons that can comprehend between good and evil will have to stand before the Lord; nothing is hidden from the eyes of the Lord.
We continued walking until we came to a place that was similar to stadium. There were demons there laughing at lost souls. They were mocking them, and tormenting those who were made in God's image.
The people there desperately thirst for water, but there is none. They regret even the day they were born. But the worst feeling is for those who knew Jesus, but then walked away from Him. If you have walked away from Jesus, if you no longer follow His ways, today is the day to come back! Don't be ashamed of what your friends or anyone else may say. You must know that just because you claim to be a Christian, you can still be unclean before God, if you keep sinning. I was personally being used by God, but still had vainglory in my heart. (Matt 7:21-23) There is still time to repent and renew your heart and mind.
If you're a lukewarm Christian, backsliding, or living a double life, bow you head right now before God, and beg for forgiveness, be willing to turn away from evil deeds. If you don't know Jesus, pray now, and ask Him for forgiveness, ask Him into your heart, accept Him as your Lord.
It is time for you to run to the presence of God; and look for salvation. Do not look for a church that makes you feel good; look for a church where the Spirit of the Lord moves and repent of all your sins! It is time for deep repentance; time to cry out to the Lord and run to Jesus. If you have sins that you haven't stopped, your soul is in DANGER, because the Bible says that Jesus will come as a thief in the night, (1 Thess. 5:2) Are you ready or not? - Carmelo Brenes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My dear friend, why will you go to hell because of the pursuit of this world? Because of the pressure of this world? Because of position of this world? Because of popularity, ego, fame or possession of this world? Do you want to play so stupid and fooled by Satan that you will live how many years on earth and spend more than 1 billion years in torment of demons and forever? You don't want to face the shame of men but you are ready to face the shame of demons? You don't human, temporal pain but you are ready to suffer demonic and eternal pain? Because of money? What will you gain this life that you will loose your soul forever and ever and ever and ever, never to see light, never to see joy, peace, ever thirsty and never get a drop of water, urine or sweat to drink? And you want to be that stupid because of this present passing world? WHAT WILL JUSTIFY YOUR GOING TO HELL? YOU URGENTLY NEED TO TOTALLY SURRENDER ALL TO JESUS NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Dear Christian, you have the knowledge of God, but where are you standing? You are a Christian and sinner at the same time, you are god fearing and ungodly at the same time, you are up and down, hot and cold Christian and worldly. You think those things do not matter? Satan is telling to bother less about your eternity, that "it is by God's mercy, so till then" Don't you know that you need to settle and surrender all now? You want to cover the sin, postpone the restitution, keeping doing that because your pastor does not against it? You don't want to face the shame? You need to be wise and surrender before Satan will waste in hell after all your knowledge and serving God!
Beloved, you have experienced salvation and serving God, but that little stain of unconfessed sin, unforgiveness, hated, care of this world, that little lie, anger, etc will now take you to hell after all your spiritual experiences and service to God? Will you be that fool?
Let's settle all now before it is too late. People are dying everyday without notice, Some people were on facebook last month, read our messages, but rejected, postponed and died. Now, no single second for a second chance. Will you allow that to happen to you? Rapture can happen any second from now and what will be your portion? Why now settle everything now?
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Christianity Etc › Re: Why Pray, When You Can Plan by akintom(op): 8:42am On Nov 20, 2016
is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.
…or you need bible proves??