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bloodofthelamb:Please blood, don't think. Check the evidence on this thread instead. I have stated that claiming righteousness is an act of hubris. Hubris is when one boasts about one's works, and Jesus specifically preached against it. |
Maximus69:The evidence for this is replete on here. Many claim they believe, but their actions are contrary to what they claim to believe. And that is precisely why I am against "believe", after all even demons believe, so how could it be a virtue, especially when there are many verses that state that God prefers undemonic behaviour? |
Maximus69:I hope by "entrenched" you mean more than mere believing but what I do with the Word in my mind. Maximus69:There you go. By what one does and not just "believing", or "Lord, Lord", as some do. |
Just so you are clear where I stand, ihedi, God has not predetermined who would go to hell. If God had predetermined who would go to hell then it wouldn't matter what one did since ones destiny is already written and God wouldn't have bothered to send God's only begotten son to change what had already been predestined. Each of us chooses to go to hell by our own God given freewill. And those who choose not to do so choose of their own freewill. Whether one does God's will or not is up to oneself and is in no way predetermined or determined by God. |
Ihedinobi3:According to you I guess. Or where in the Bible is one asked to respect the Bible? Just so you know though, what you have to say is not important at all. I'm interested though. Ihedinobi3:I'm certain it can very easily be determined if one lies about what is written down and which anyone can go and check. So go on, blow! Ihedinobi3:Well, that explains you, I guess, trying to twist predestination to fit in with freewill. But you wouldn't be the first to think your own understanding is the Word of God. buda ain't buying it though since I haven't found anything to support your claim. Ihedinobi3:Well, when you ask for a book to be respected I can't but assume you'd like it revered and worshipped too, but the Bible is not God so need not be worshipped or respected even, but read and learned from. |
TATIME:The Bible is very clear on what one must do to please God, Tatime, and I can read. |
Ihedinobi3:You don't know what is written in the Bible Ihedinobi3, so no, I'm not taking lessons from you. All you have, like us all, is your own understanding of it, and on this particular topic, you haven't a clue. You are right though, that I lack respect for the Bible, though wrong about not caring what's written in it. Unlike you, I don't worship images of a very jealous God who said one should not bow down or worship graven images. Besides, my respect is for humans whom I see and not for unseen things. For in as much as I do for those I see, my God seems pretty pleased with me, or so the Bible says. |
TATIME:Imagine some claiming the "book of life" already has the names of the saved in it because God had predestined those who's name would be in it! That's like regardless of how hard one tried, those predestined to go to hell would go to hell and those predestined for heaven go to heaven and what one does doesn't matter! That's just evil, in my opinion, and a belief that I will fight against because it can not possibly be of God! I am not evil because I am predestined to be evil. I am evil because I choose to be evil with my very own God given freewill so I am responsible for my evil and God did not in any way decree that I would be evil. If I had any sense I would use that God given freewill to choose otherwise. |
bloodofthelamb:I watched a program yesterday that claimed William Tyndale, in translating the Bible into English, added "by faith alone", to oppose papal doctrine regarding works (buying indulgences, praying so many times a day and worship of the saints). Martin Luther is claimed to have done the same in German. To claim justification by hearing is just so lazy and unbelievable. Even you would hesitate justifying quite a few people whom you sit in church with and who hear with you. Except I hope you are better than that and would rather concern yourself with your own forest in your own eyes. |
Solite3, this is an example of a 'believer' who is 'righteous', and by his works. My position is that the righteous do not claim righteousness because righteousness is like an honour that only God bestows on one and bestowing it on oneself is very unrighteous indeed. It's called hubris, and it leads to nemesis, and it is the lesson clearly taught in the [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A9-14&version=KJV]Parable of the tax collector[/url]. |
Ihedinobi3:Words, show what and how one thinks Ihedinobi3. They are like windows into the soul. If one's thinking is all over the place, one's words would be all over the place, and if one is evil it shows in ones words. I can only say we are lucky that all your neighbours believe as you do or God knows how impatient you'd be with the ones who are unbelievers, or atheists. I'm just thankful Jesus is much more patient than you. You might understand whom I'd rather be taught by. You can't possibly believe the above. If you do believe it then you are suggesting you are not a creature, and are on the same higher plane as God or you wouldn't be suggesting you would teach buda the things on God's higher plane. Do know that buda does not fall for the ancient trick of "if you look on the face of God you shall die". buda goes up the mountain with Moses and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel and does not wait for others to come back and tell me their own understanding and claim it came from God when the truth is they remained at the bottom of the mountain worshipping a calf made of gold whilst claiming "God exists on a much higher plane than creatures do". It's the well known trick that some use to elevate themselves above others that does not work with buda! Or are you not a creature too? So, back to predestination. Eve. Imagine God predestined (or decreed) that the serpent would deceive Eve and Eve would deceive Adam. By your reasoning, all this was bound to happen exactly as it happened because "God's Own Sovereign Will decrees it" to happen exactly as it happened. The following was Eve's punishment: To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” And Adam's, “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” If human action was decreed, as you suggest, by God, then Adam and Eve did not have a choice in the matter since they had no freewill to chose other than what God had decreed they choose. So why should God punish Adam and Eve for what "God's Own Sovereign Will decreed" they should do? Doesn't that sound like some evil god to you? |
Why this bridge can't just stay in one country amuses me. I'm sure it was in Nigeria just last week. There was a thread about it in fact. Next week expect it to be in Egypt, or South Africa! |
Ihedinobi3:I'd love to understand what you say Ihedinobi3, but I don't really think I am capable. Even you say you are not as clear as you want to be so, if you'd be more patient. Predestination is a doctrine in Calvinism that claims God "freely and unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass." The second use of the word "predestination" applies this to the salvation, and refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal damnation for all their sins, even their original sin. The former is called "unconditional election", and the latter "reprobation". In Calvinism, people are predestined and effectually called in due time (regenerated/born again) to faith by God. Ihedinobi3:If some are "predestined to Heaven", then it is not by their choice but by God's choice, and it's Calvinistic. But you then go on to say "He designed such people and creation around them so that they would choose to be saved". I wonder if you are not mixing God's omniscientness with predestination? Imagine Jonah, told to go to Nineveh but buggers off elsewhere. Did he choose to bugger off or did God predetermine he would bugger off? If people "choose" then it is not predestined. And if it's predestined, it's not choice! Ihedinobi3:This must be one of your "not as clear as you wanna bes"! What you call "election" is really choice. I'll explain. When I'm sticking my finger up shouting all over the place, "there are no gods", God probably wouldn't elect me. But when I repent and say "God, I see you", God might elect me. I must choose to accept God to be elected. None of this is predestined however. God, in my opinion, may know (omnisciently) that I'll stop saying "there are no gods" and start saying "God, I see you" but God has not predestined me to sin, nor repent. My sin is my choice and not something God has predestined me to sin though God knew what I would do. It's like you watch a kid and know its going to fall. Your knowing did not predestinate the kids fall though, you were just omniscient about the kid falling. Ihedinobi3:By choice, right, and not that God had predestined one's "persisting in rejecting Faith in Christ or failing to embrace it" ? |
CAPSLOCKED:I agree! |
johnydon22:I wouldn't know johnydon22. I know pockets of it are better than most and some are worst, but I'm a realist, and limited to my own might and lack experience creating an worlds. Iean, if I were omniscient, why would I bother creating humans, to start with? As pieces on my chessboard?. To watch them stumble about for the fun off it? Wouldn't that make me omnibad and omnievil? I doubt you had that in mind. So, without limitations, I'd send all human beings to heaven! They all want to go there anyway so they can all just go already and leave my perfect very interesting earth alone to its earthquakes and thunders and tsunamis and all. Stupid people who think they are the only things I created and can't consider that is how I have created earth to give praise to me it's maker! Hopefully, the new spirit I put in you all on the way to heaven will make you behave better to one another or I'm sending you all to hell! I think I'm just no good with omniscience, me and my vast limitations. I'm a realist, see, so my ideal can't but be tempered by reality. And besides, I started with the world as it is and not the clean slate omnis have. Within those limitations though, give me free education for all at reputable uni level and libraries every two streets and the world would be as perfect as can be, for me. |
orion7:New Zealand actually showed how so imbued with Christ New Zealand actually is once you get past the lone devil who shot up mosques. https://www.nairaland.com/5091971/christchurch-prayers-al-noor-mosque And London is very welcome as seen by its electing a Muslim Mayor when less than 13% Muslims live there. |
johnydon22:My concern would not be the natural factors since I've created living things imbued with an ability to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth". If my being was Yahwehlike, I'd just send them a better teacher, most likely my own self taught son and other teachers, to teach them to do it better, except, done that already. If only I had more than one son, I'd likely send him now, though I'd prefer if she were a daughter so she can be called my only begotten and teach science (except, already done that too!). |
"The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".
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Anduku:He might have confessed and pleaded for mercy with tears in his eyes and they felt very sorry for his sad ass and let him off with a fine. |
My bubu, you got to tell these schools to stop discriminating against peoples headwear! |
ChristianNorth:I don't think DISTRICT GRAND MASTER of the ENGLISH MASONRY Ikpeazu SAN is the sort of person anyone intimidates. Not even the FG. And to be honest, asking us to take the word of Atiku's poor equivalent of the BMC is somehow, at best. |
HigherEd:You do mean "love your neighbour Christian", "Turn the other cheek Christian", and, "The Lord is our Shepherd" Christian, the sort that "fears no evil", right? You are correct. Londoners are not the taliban! |
MylezKayn:Yes, amongst many other things. |
eyeview:Peacefully? Don't 4 out of five of them own oil wells? |
I kind of like the world as it is myself. I think its just about the best possible world one can get unless one wanted it flat. But then, where would you put the oceans, the mountains, Venus, Mars and the Sun? It would be odd if earth were flat as paper, and most likely wouldn't work. The people though, I'd change. My ideal world is a world that's full of people who use their brains. School would have to be good, of course, with lessons that educate the mind and not indoctrination. If people use their brains, this world would be full of smart people and very close to my ideal. |
HappyPagan:1000th post |
HigherEd:Not quite. Londoners are the same though. We took off the head of a whole King who wanted to impose on us the people, and we tore down churches when they too tried it, or have you not heard of King Henry VIII and his new fuq? We would gladly do the same with anyone who tries to impose on us, and can elect Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan because we have nothing to fear.
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In an era of heightened hostility towards Muslims, it's worth repeating that women from Islamic regions can hold positions of power and work and live modern lives This week, in the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attack on a mosque in New Zealand, five Birmingham mosques have been vandalised. Clearly, Britain and the rest of the west’s scepticism of Islam has grown considerably in recent years. Sharia (”the way” in Arabic), is interpreted in many ways around the world. In some cases, it is used in undeniably oppressive ways, yet my conversations with these women demonstrate a more complex reality. It should go without saying, but women of Islamic republics are educated, hold positions of power, work and live modern lives. Freedom from religion is not necessarily the antidote to oppression. Instead, we should be encouraging the ways in which freedom of religion can overcome inequality. These women, like countless others we don’t always hear from, are helping along the growing understanding that not all women of Islamic republics are silent. How women from Islamic republics fight gender inequality all over the world |
You very funny, op. It's London, yeah. Even Christians can't impose Christianity so I wonder how Muslims could possibly fair any better. #fakenews! |
HardMirror:This is true! If I go about thinking my version of humanity is good and other peoples' is no good, I am going to go to hell before those I judge. For Christianity that is good ought to include "[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-3&version=KJV]judge not[/url]", "[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-40&version=KJV]love my neighbours[/url]", "[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A9-14&version=NKJV]O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner[/url]", and "Lord forgive me, because it would appear that I am very ignorant indeed", to say the least, and if it doesn't, then spiritually speaking, I eat "raw meat", and "raw life snake" and I'm "ridden like donkey by pastor" and my "breasts, along with my God given mind, are being grabbed", but not by God as I might think, but by Satan by whom I must be being deceived that I am righteous when the truth is that I am truly wretched but ignorantly haven't got a clue how truly wretched I might actually be. |
Gandollar:Ask questions and op will respond. |
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