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Thattallgirl:The willingness to do the will of God is something anyone can decide from anywhere. Receiving jesus as lord and personal saviour is all about obeying his teachings. You can only call him lord when you follow his way. It's not about stating a formula, it's about the state of your heart and how you desire to start living a life of faith ( which is the true life of righteousness). The teachings of christ teach us to strive for the narrow way ( be different), to forgive even 70 times 7, to press on, and this is the faith that pleases God ( not necessarily quoting the formula of accepting jesus as lord). It is not about what you feel or quote with your mouth, but what you desire to do and how you desire to become. Desiring to do the will of God does not start with accepting jesus as lord and saviour, rather it starts with Hunger and thirst for righteousness. Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. |
Thattallgirl:What commandments are you talking about? Loving my enemies the way God loves his enemies and doesn't remove his sun from the city of the wicked, but rather makes it shine on all nevertheless? I desire to love that way and I do my best to be that loving exactly like my Heavenly Father in that context. What other commandment? clothing the homeless and feeding the hungry? ( Matthew 25v41)? I can't totally judge myself, but I know that the commandments have been given for me to keep. Tell me why would God give us commandments he knows we can never completely keep? He wants us to obey his teachings in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. |
Thattallgirl God has given us the teachings of jesus and the Holyspirit to boost in order for us to strive to live out those teachings of the kingdom of God. These include the beautitudes ( Matthew 5) and several other teachings scattered throughout the gospels. Jesus wants you to obey his teachings and he knows that you can obey them "Why do you call me lord, lord, and not do what I say"; |
Thattallgirl:What is important here is desiring to do the will of God, if you desire that then the spirit of christ would come to you to show you the way to God and christ, he would help you along the way, but the decision and willingness to keep the commandments lie in you. The commandments of jesus are not impossible to keep, they were given so they can be kept else why would christ waste his time teaching them in the first place. |
Thattallgirl:What do you mean by obeying the commandments through jesus? Jesus has given us principles and commandments to obey if we want to do the will of God. Anyone who is willing to obey the commandment is already in jesus. The first step for anyone is to desire to do the will of God, and then God automatically brings the person to jesus, this is why the scriptures say "They shall be all taught by God". Read John 6v44-45 |
Thattallgirl:It seems you don't read the gospels of jesus christ. Jesus told us to do works to enter his kingdom. Matthew 25v31-46, Matthew 5, etc. |
sonmvayina:is that Noah flood story literal or figurative? |
sonmvayina:You are just making matters complicated. Christians, Hindus, etc could also say their stories are metaphorical. There are Christians who do not accept that jesus was born of a virgin, they say these stories are metaphorical too, why don't you pay attention to them? |
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Lukuluku69:Very good question, sonmvayina this is a question to you. |
Xmuslim:I get what you mean and I have such questions too. However as far as I'm concerned, the moral law is still eternal and jesus did not come to change the moral laws but the ceremonial and civil laws. Those civil laws for ancient Israel were no longer important in the grand scheme of things. |
sonmvayina:How do you know they are God's law and statutes? Old testament books were also written by unknown authors. Jesus did not come to abolish old testament moral laws. |
sonmvayina:Lol if you can interprete the old testament and all the battles figuratively, why not do same with the new testament? Also those laws and behaviours in the old testament were not perfect, they were also quite violent and the new testament has given us a better framework and more peaceful example in christ jesus than Elijah, Moses, etc. |
Killertune20:I'll advice you uninstall everything, then start the process all over again with a video. Since you are so new to programming, follow the video step by step. Make sure after installing Git, you add it to your PATH in environment variables. |
sonmvayina:If you believe and follow the Torah and Tanakh, then you should have no problem with Islam, almost all the problems with Moses and the old testament are present in islam. Islam is more of rebranded Judaism. This is why I'm surprised. The old testament has so much violence and problems, the new testament ( in my opinion) is much better, but you muslims and jews have decided to stick only to the old ways. |
sonmvayina: |
[quote author=sonmvayina post=94468178]First and foremost he did not write anything.so we don't know what his mission was.if he was a jew then he would have known that the Torah is Gods laws and no one has the right to alter itIt was more of an oral culture, and even Socrates did not write anything. Weak arguement there. Secondly there is no writting from anyone who knew him personally..the four gospel are written by unknown authors and written in the third person..His closest followers were mostly uneducated Gallilean fishermen, and so historians are not surprised that they wrote nothing. Thirdly all the stories about him and all he said where all thought by sages before him..there is nothing original about him ..This is not true, his parables were mostly unique, his golden rule ( Matthew 7v12) was different from that of Heliel ( a pharisee who lived 100 years before him), also love your enemies is unique in the context he taught it. 4thly There is no where it says god have a son from a human mother,is that even possibleJesus was not a physical son of God from a mother, but he was Israel ( the spiritual son of God). The book of Matthew made this clear. I agree however that Luke ( a Greek author ) may have had a different idea as he tried to show that jesus ( that holy thing) from a virgin shall be called the son of God. However Christians do not generally interpret the virgin birth as God mating with Mary, only that jesus came through mary because he existed before, and could not come through the sperm of a man. For me personally, jesus is the son of Joseph, and people who read the gospel of Mark only (the first gospel) would arrive at no other conclusion or an idea of a virgin birth. |
AntiChristian:Hebrews 1v1: God who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke to us through his prophets have in these last days spoken to us by his son through whom also he made the worlds. John 1v18 The law came by Moses but grace and truth by jesus christ. |
sonmvayina:lol, why not read mainstream scholarship on this matter, I mean even atheists scholars. You are reading blogs and the likes, and if this was done by a Christian you would object. You are telling me that paul never existed and a book like the book of Galatians for instance is fake? How do you prove all these? Give me your strongest arguments from whatever blogs or conspiracy theory you have. When you want to argue based on Scholarship, read and quote true historians and scholars on this matter, only then can you be taken seriously. No professor of history say jesus never existed, not even atheist professors and they have their arguments why they strongly claim he existed, have you taken your time to study those arguements? |
sonmvayina:Do you believe paul existed? |
sonmvayina:Showing us what God truly is. Not Moses, Elijah, etc. The law came by Moses but grace and truth came by jesus christ Without knowing the message of jesus, we cannot really say we know God as we should know him. Jesus is described as the true representation of God all over the new testament( not just a prophet), this is where Christians got the misunderstanding that Jesus himself is God. |
sonmvayina:Yes God is one lord ( john 17v3, Matthew 12, Mark, etc) |
sonmvayina:That's the problem, what story are you talking about? Matthew interprets Isaiah 7v14 to say jesus was born of a virgin, john and Mark do not say so in their writings, and paul had some of the earliest writings of christianity, where do you see this virgin birth story in paul's writing? You are deliberately focusing on irrelevant things. The new testament does not say either that jesus is messaiah because he was born of a virgin, in all books when jesus was told to prove he is messaiah or son of God, he never said he is son of God because he is born of virgin. You actually know nothing in this matter, and not willing to just read the gospels yourself, so I think I would allow you be. |
sonmvayina:lol, jesus was never called a demi god. I know where your confusion lies. Also son of God both in Tanakh and new testament can also be a servant of God. The new testament calls jesus a servant of God several times and even in the book of john, jesus called himself a man sent by God. It seems you've not read the new testament for yourself, your knowledge of christianity is based on hearsay, shallow criticism of christianity, conspiracy theorists, and what you perceive to be new testament christianity from other Christians. I see that you don't know much about the new testament writings. Read the gospels for yourself and critical scholarship surrounding the jesus story, then make your arguments from there not from hear say. |
sonmvayina:Lol, isaiah 49 is about Isaiah? are you Kidding me? In Isaiah 49v3, that servants' name was also called Israel. ..He said unto me, you are my servant O Israel in whom I would be glorified. Isaiah 49v3. When did Isaiah become Israel who raises up the tribes of Jacob and becomes Gods salvation to all the world? Isaiah never gathered isreal or restored the tribes and he never had disciples or followers who did that in his name or proclaimed that he would do that, so Isaiah cannot be the servant in Isaiah 49. Note that the servant in Isaiah 49 is thesame servant in Isaiah 42v4. He will not fall nor be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth, and the coast lands shall wait for his law Isaiah 42v4 The coastlands never waited for Isaiah's law and Isaiah had no new law to give to the gentiles. So this servant was to be a law giver who upholds justice for the world, he was a man like moses. Isaiah as the servant is again ruled out in all of these. As for Isaiah 53, that passage is quite clear to me. This is clearly about a man whose visage was mared more than any man or the sons of men, that prophecy fits jesus better than isreal, I have tried not to be biased on this passage, but I just don't see how isreal fulfills this scripture. To fit in isreal here rather than this referring to a single man who suffered all these things and bore the iniquity of God's people ( isreal) is a stretch. Read again... For he was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgression of my people he was stricken (Isaiah 53v8). Please explain to me how Israel was stricken for the transgression of the gentiles, when the Torah always made it clear that God would punish isreal and send them into exile because of their own sins? You reason am nah, my guy. |
sonmvayina:There were different servants in the book of Isaiah. Israel and the messaiah ( representing Israel) were linked together in Isaiah as God's servant. For example the servant of God in Isaiah 49v6 is clearly not Israel, as everyone can clearly see, because that servant was supposed to lead Israel to God, so also the servant in Isaiah 53 because he was stricken for God's people isreal and he had done no violence. Isreal in the book of Isaiah had done violence, they were sinners and a people of unclean lips. Therefore, it is common sense to conclude that both Isaiah 49and 53 are not talking about isreal as God servants in context but about another servant closely linked with isreal or carrying the burden of isreal. |
sonmvayina:If I show you Rabbis in time past who believed Isaiah 53 was about Messaiah, would you agree with me that you are simply ignorant of Jewish interpretation of messaiah in time past? |
[ author=sonmvayina post=94370129] The Jewish idea of a messiah or anointed is a man that would be anointed as king with a special oil just like david and saul..the prophet also says that the scepter will not depart from Judah meaning the kingship must be from the line of david and solomonI agree with you in all of these, and jesus also is supposed to reign as Jerusalem's king. He was crucified because he claimed to be king of the jews ( Mark 14v62). ..geneology is only transferred from father to son..so the messiah must have a human father from the lineage of solomon ..Jesus did not fulfil that since the story says he has no father ..which is not part of jewish religion.the idea of god mating with humans is greek/roman..you have watched clash of the titans..ok I get where you are coming from, but jesus according to one of the writers Luke is not just king of the Jews but also the true son of God. Luke was telling his Roman readers that caesar who was called son of God and rumoured to be born of a virgin is not the true son of God but jesus. In Luke's gospel jesus is the wise king of the world not just the jews, this is why Luke believed the rumour of the virgin birth. Ancient heroes always had rumours been told about them by their followers, it doesn't mean they were not heroes or didn't exist simply because of that. Mark( the earliest gospel) has no virgin birth, and no trace of jesus genealogy but still for Mark, jesus is Messaiah from the house of David. In Mark's gospel, the jews called jesus the son of joseph the carpenter and he was also called son of David ( descendant of David). For John, the beginning of jesus goes beyond his physical beginning and to the very beginning of time in accordance with the Torah in Micah 5v2. John also drew his inspiration from the book of proverbs about the wisdom of God which was with God in the beginning (Proverbs 8v1). For john, the messaiah is from everlasting. Only Matthew takes it personal but even he traced jesus genealogy from Joseph. So the story of jesus is not jewish..it is at best a romam or greek mythology..or outright fabrication..Well anyone who reads the gospels for themselves would see that their theme and characters are Jewish. Judaism today cannot be compared to the Judaism of the 1st century. The Judaism of the first century believed in a whole lot of things about messaiah and interpreted scripture in different ways. Many jews believe isaiah 53 is about messaiah, and only after the 2nd century do we begin to see jews who reject that interpretation claiming Isaiah 53 is about Israel. Christianity was born almost single handedly from the interpretation of Isaiah 53, and the last time I checked the Roman's didn't write that book. |
sonmvayina:Interesting, african religions didn't practice human sacrifices? are you sure about that? Well if there was no christianity prior to Nicea, that means all the historical christian writings dated before Nicea are from planet Pluto, and the likes of Iraneus, Pappias, and early church fathers who lived and penned down guidelines for the church in the 2nd and 3rd century must have come from space. Also early christian document that are so Jewish in nature such as the Didache that dates to the late first century, as well as Christian bible manuscripts dating to early 2nd century are all a mirage, according to the foremost historian sonmvayina. |
smile11s:There are so many similarities between Christianity and Buddhism, and even Christianity/Taoism, just that the christianity you know is Roman catholic christianity and her protestant children. |
sonmvayina:So your knowledge of christianity starts with Constantine? There was no christianity before constantine? Have you read the Didache( written around AD 70-100)? Also concerning human sacrifice, if you are an adherent of African religions that also has a history of human sacrifice in the tenets like in most of the world, then how does this click with the Tanakh and Torah? |
sonmvayina:lol, your understanding of christianity is very shallow indeed. Anyhow I'm quite busy now, would reply your points later but this your talk of human sacrifice is hilarious. Even if you are correct that christianity demands human sacrifice ( of which I don't know where you got that from), what about the human sacrifice demanded by your African traditions? |