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Christianity Etc › Re: "How Can One Witness To A Jehovah's Witness?" by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:24pm On Nov 02, 2025
OLAADEGBU:
Are Jehovah’s Witnesses really Jehovah’s Witnesses? The Bible’s answer is clear: No. Their witness is not of Jehovah, but of man.
Jesus's answer is clear:

By their fruits you will know them! Matthew 7:16

Bring out members of Deeperlife and members of Jehovah's Witnesses in any location to see who are living by Bible standard and those living by man's standard.

Kumuyi is already facing backlash from members of his own church today while those who don't want to be Jehovah's Witnesses are crying outside the camp! wink
Christianity Etc › Re: Which Story Comes To Mind From This Book? by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:27am On Nov 02, 2025
obi4eze:
Jehovah's Witness. May God have mercy on those guys.
By their fruits you will know them! Matthew 7:16

If Jehovah's Witnesses are this productive then you should cover your face in shame!😂
Christianity Etc › Re: Which Story Comes To Mind From This Book? by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:33am On Nov 02, 2025
When next you meet Jehovah's Witnesses in your neighborhood ask for a copy it's not for sale but if you wish to contribute to the ongoing global education anything you have is acceptable!

Christianity Etc › Re: Which Story Comes To Mind From This Book? by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:31am On Nov 02, 2025
The newest version is more colorful and easy to understand!

Christianity Etc › Re: Which Story Comes To Mind From This Book? by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:18am On Nov 02, 2025
Thobby02lawbar:
Sincerely I will pay anything amount to get this book. I've searched everywhere around me. They didn't have it.. The story that comes to mind is Samson and Delilah
We no longer print this books because we have published a newer version of it so when next you see Jehovah's Witnesses in your neighborhood ask for your own copy of our book entitled:

Lessons You Can Learn From The Bible!

Christianity Etc › Re: How Much Do You Spend Monthly Averagely On Church Matters by MaxInDHouse(m): 9:11am On Nov 02, 2025
After observing the hypocritical way that many often give money in the temple with their showy display {Luke 21:1-4} Jesus taught his own disciples never to let anyone know what they are giving in support of pure worship! Matthew 6:3-4

False religions may have caused pain for many that is not enough reason to stop giving in support of pure worship and it shouldn't be made public!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Which Story Comes To Mind From This Book? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:49am On Nov 02, 2025
As a child i felt it's just a Christian book but now i know better because it was published by the only organization that's preaching and teaching the truth!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:30am On Nov 02, 2025
If not because Satan initiated falsehood after the death of the Apostles which spread throughout the earth today who are Muslims to raise their tongue against the only true religion?

The only thing Muslims can say against Christianity is found in false religions claiming Christians apart from that when they meet the true Christians they become confused as true Christianity beats all forms of righteousness from all other religions on planet earth! Isaiah 54:17🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:14am On Nov 02, 2025
Qasim6:
Ok, I don hear you.
It was all good between Paul and the Apostles. It was just one happy big fellowship of Christ.
Are u happy now?
Whatever rocks your boat Mr Muslim.

Go and solve the problem in your religion as Muslims are killing Muslims due to politics and racism yet your people are always claiming its a religion of peace!🤔
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:07am On Nov 02, 2025
Qasim6:
Guy if you don't know that 2peters authorship and authenticity was seriously doubted then I'm sorry for you.
Early church fathers like Eusebius and Origen doubted 2nd peters and there are good reasons to. How it eventually made it into the canon sef nobody knows, because it almost did not make it. If you want to know what was going on in early Christianity, read letters of Paul and read it carefully. Galatians 1:8 was Paul throwing Jabs at the Apostles.
Mr Muslim your story doesn't add up if you don't believe in the Bible as a whole so keep your lies to yourself.

Meanwhile what God intended to do with inspired writings is found in the Bible book of Isaiah 2:2-4 & Micah 4:1-3 which no religion except true Christians are fulfilling throughout the world today!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 8:04am On Nov 02, 2025
I remember back then as a Muslim all the imams i've ever met says wearing of hijab is found in the Bible but what killed their argument?

These funny people will seriously quote Paul's letter written to the Corinthians as this is the only portion throughout the Bible where covering of head could be found! 1Corinthans 11:13

But at the same time they will condemn Paul's letters vehemently because he spoke against their prophet {Galatians 1:8} they eager seek authentication for their religion but then the book they are using as back up for their religion they want to condemn!😂
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:47am On Nov 02, 2025
Qasim6:
Galatians 1:8 was against the original apostles, if you read Paul letters carefully you will figure.
So it's not only Muslims that see Paul as fake, the apostles Jesus hand picked himself did too, you guys are just not paying attention.
It's only among Christendom that you will find anyone against the letters written by Paul.

This is what Peter one of the twelve Apostles wrote concerning Paul:

Furthermore, consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you according to the wisdom given him. 2Peter 3:15

So it's confused Christendom and Muslims like you that's against God's inspired words written not true Christians!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:43am On Nov 02, 2025
AntiChristian:
How did Paul become Jesus disciples when Jesus didn't meet him before he left? Don't give me what Paul or his companion wrote. Galatians was allegedly written by Paul. Acts was written by Luke a companion of Paul. And Luke wasn't an apostle of Jesus.
Did Jesus made a mistake in selecting the twelve?
Did the disciples made a mistake in selecting Matthias to replace Judas instead of choosing Paul if truly Jesus did nominate him?
Paul became a disciple through criticism of pure worship though he was a man of sound conscience who thought Christians are delusional just as you too have been doing due to the religion your parents handed over to you. So after his supernatural encounter with Jesus (a spirit king) Paul was convinced that Jesus is no longer dead but a living being.
That's how he became a disciple.
Whatever is written in the Bible is God's inspired word and as for apostles only Matthew and John were Apostles Mark and Luke were disciples too so don't think Jesus or God gave the authority to write Jesus' story only to Apostles.

Jesus chose twelve Apostles to gather anointed Christians something beyond your understanding but Paul he chose as an Apostle for other Christians who are no part of the first set! John 10:16🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Reply To 10 Things Catholics Do That The Apostles Didn’t. by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:06am On Nov 02, 2025
Translation of God's word was done by humans like you and i but it's the fruit of each religion that proves whether they are for Christ or against Christ {Matthew 7:16-18} if a translation is pure those using it should be able to fulfill what God promised in the Bible book of Isaiah 2:2-4 and repeated in the Bible book of Micah 4:1-3

In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s Temple will be the highest of all mountains. It will be raised higher than the hills. There will be a steady stream of people from all nations going there. People from many places will go there and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob. Then God will teach us his way of living, and we will follow him.” His teaching, the Lord’s message, will begin in Jerusalem on Mount Zion and will go out to all the world. Then God will act as judge to end arguments between nations. He will decide what is right for people from many lands. They will stop using their weapons for war. They will hammer their swords into plows and use their spears to make tools for harvesting. All fighting between nations will end. They will never again train for war.

This is what students of the Bible need to do with the books if they understood its message for real!
Penguin2:
If Jesus was referring to Him being Christ as the Rock, why did He first identify Simon Peter before talking about the Rock?

Again, need I remind you that you are arguing based on the English translation of the Bible.

The Bible (New Testament) was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic.

Then it was translated to Greek.

And then it was translated into Latin (the Latin Nugget) by St Jerome.

Then from Latin it was translated to English.

Now, when people who have studied the Bible through all of its translations are telling you what a passage means, you are grandstanding based only of your understanding of what King James translated and handed to you?

OAM4J
Christianity Etc › Re: Reply To 10 Things Catholics Do That The Apostles Didn’t. by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:59am On Nov 02, 2025
Penguin2:
Now, justify how Jesus Christ could have been without Original Sin if the woman that bore him had Original Sin.
As one of Adam's BIOLOGICAL children Mary is a sinner but the child in her womb is holy because she didn't conceive through natural procedures.

Jesus himself answered this question:

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman with the people there called out to him, “Blessings from God belong to the woman who gave birth to you and fed you!” But Jesus said, “The people who hear the teaching of God and obey it—they are the ones who have God’s blessing.” Luke 11:27-28

From the above we realized that Mary was not holy in fact she took Jesus' siblings along to accuse Jesus of madness {Mark 3:21} she kept taking them up and down to stop Jesus from living a life that doesn't make sense to her and the family! Matthew 12:46-50

But she later became part of the holy ones when she became a believer in her son because she declared faith in Christ Jesus after remembering all that happened during Jesus' birth and what the scriptures said about the Christ of course the rest of her children abandoned her because that's what the Jews concluded doing for anyone who professed faith in Jesus {John 9:22} that is why Jesus later told John to cater for Mary as his own mother in the faith! John 19:26-27

It was after his resurrection that Jesus showed himself to his brother James who later became a disciple too along with Judas another brother of Jesus {Matthew 13:55} the rest of Mary's children never became believers!
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:39am On Nov 02, 2025
AntiChristian:
I think you should focus and tell us how Paul was among Jesus's 12 appointed disciples! Tell us where Jesus appointed Paul before he left the world! Not the story written by Paul himself or by Luke, Paul's person!
Jesus never wrote any book so it's what his disciples wrote that you and i are reading therefore if the story says Jesus later chose one man to serve as apostle to the nations {Act 9:15} you either believe it as part of the story or reject everything all together.
You can't reject some parts because it involves someone who outrightly made a statement that exposed Muhammad as fake:

However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond the good news we declared to you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:8

The above is what makes Muslims hate Paul with passion because that statement finished Muhammad who came to preach something totally different from the Apostles!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Reply To 10 Things Catholics Do That The Apostles Didn’t. by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:32am On Nov 02, 2025
Penguin2:
Who/what is the ROCK referred in verse 18?
The statement:

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Matthew 16:16

Is the foundation stone upon which pure worship (Christianity) will stand so let all know that God has given mankind a model for us to follow who is Jesus the Christ.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Will God Judge Those Who Never Hear Of Him? by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:22am On Nov 02, 2025
God gave mankind a model for all of us to follow him {1Peter 2:21} so it's this model man that true believers right from the time of Abel till our time were eagerly anticipating to meet in person or know about. But since he only lived once as a man the judgment regarding true righteousness starts from the moment each person hears what he did and taught {John 3:19} there has never lived a man worthy of being a model for mankind because he is the most wonderful counselor of all time {Isaiah 9:6} and all the qualities needed in a model man are complete in him! Galatians 5:22-23

Now back to your question:

How will God judge those who never heard of him?

The scriptures answered:

For all those who sinned without law will also perish without law; but all those who sinned under law will be judged by law. For the hearers of law are not the ones righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared righteous. For when people of the nations, who do not have law, do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves.  They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them, and by their own thoughts they are being accused or even excused. Romans 2:12-15

God's standard is holy (pure) {Psalms 119:142} forever and ever mankind can't find a better standard than what God set but when we don't know his righteousness then as an individual each person is allowed to set his own and live by it this is what we call conscience which accuses or excuses us each time we speak or act, we must never allow anything or anyone to kill our conscience because it's like a compass God infused in everyone to keep guiding us until we know His righteousness therefore whoever ignores or rejects the silent voice of conscience has proved to be evil so when God is bringing back dead people for purification {John 5:28-29} such evil ones will not be remembered! Psalms 9:17

Because of His love God promised to give each imperfect humans 1,000 years of uninterrupted life with sound health in Paradise on earth {Revelations 20:1-3} during that time there won't be any false religion except Christianity that's why it's called 1,000 years of Christ's reign himself and anointed Christians who has been taken to heaven with him will see to it from there that the earth is in perfect condition! Revelations 20:4

That's the time all those who never heard of Christ will be given the opportunity to learn about God's righteousness but whoever shuns God's righteousness and chooses to practice his own righteousness at that time will only be allowed to live for 100 years as a youth no sickness no oldage then after a hundred years such a person will die without growing old or getting sick {Isaiah 65:20} because God has shown him or her enough mercy. Those that welcome Christ's way of life will live for 1,000 years until they become perfect humans under a perfect condition then Satan will be released to test perfect humans just as he did with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. At that time there is no excuses again all the questions that makes people feel unwanted or unloved would have been resolved as we have tasted what God wanted for mankind under a perfect condition. So whoever chooses to follow Satan at that time will be destroyed for good along with Satan. Revelations 20:10

Wait a minute!
Did John say they will be tormented forever and ever?
But the true God detests tormenting living creatures! Jeremiah 7:31
So what is the meaning of John's statement in that verse?

Well it simply means we will continue to remember all what Satan did and caused during his lifetime and those who followed him but the thought will forever continue to bring fear into our minds as we live without such ones and continue to tell generations after generations the story of Satan and evildoers, what they turned life to when God permitted them! smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: Naija Pastors Are Scammers. Just Like A Typical Average Nigerian by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:14pm On Nov 01, 2025
Abeg calm down everyone is with him or her own problem!🤔
Christianity Etc › Re: Ex-Hamas Wife, Daughter Of A Hamas Founder, Leaves Islam After Meeting Jesus by MaxInDHouse(m): 10:08pm On Nov 01, 2025
Meedon:
What is your idea of heaven like? Is it in sky?
According to God's word (Bible) heaven means the spirit realms where Jehovah created for Himself and His spirit sons to dwell so humans living or dead have no business going there.
Jehovah's Witnesses is the name our God called His true worshipers because while Satan is cunningly blackmailing Jehovah creating false religions to malign our God we will help whoever is willing to listen to know the truth! smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: Why Wasn’t Paul One Of The Twelve Apostles? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:29pm On Nov 01, 2025
AntiChristian:
Paul became an apostle mainly by what he and his disciple wrote in the Bible!
Luke wrote Acts of the Apostles and he was alleged to be the physician and traveling companion of Paul.
If you think it's whatever is in agreement with your parents religion that you want the Bible to say then you are deceiving yourself because Allah is not the same as Jehovah so both of them thinks differently! wink
Christianity Etc › Re: JW 050 How First Century Christians Sold All Their Riches And Gave To The Poor by MaxInDHouse(op): 6:42pm On Nov 01, 2025
When an atheist feels like talking about faith in God!😂
Christianity Etc › Re: JW 050 How First Century Christians Sold All Their Riches And Gave To The Poor by MaxInDHouse(op): 5:59pm On Nov 01, 2025
Real atheists don't believe in symbols or idioms they just live their lives free from burden of whatever anyone thinks as beliefs.
So stop deceiving yourself young man!🙂

Fenrir:
Fella, im neuro divergent so I can out think you any day of the week just not when im angry. But my good dear igbo wife has taken the anger away.

😊 another song for ya

Sail to the Fjords


The longships rise on the morning tide,
axes gleam where the gulls still hide.
Drums like thunder, hearts like flame,
men of the north seek endless fame.

They sail through mist and biting rain,
to lands of gold and battle’s gain.
The raven circles, black and still,
it feeds on glory, blood, and will.

Sail to the fjords!
Ride through the storm!
We carve our names
where legends are born!
Sail to the fjords!
Cry out the call!
For honor or death —
we’ll answer it all!

The kings of the south cry out in dread,
their temples fall, their priests lie dead.
Yet not for spite do the northmen fight —
they chase their fate through endless night.

When steel meets flesh, and sky turns red,
the old gods smile on the newly dead.
No heaven awaits, no hell to flee,
just mead and song for eternity.

Sail to the fjords!
Ride through the storm!
We carve our names
where legends are born!
Sail to the fjords!
Cry out the call!
For honor or death —
we’ll answer it all!

The sea will claim our bones one day,
the wind will sing where our shields decay.
But until that hour, till the dawn runs dry,
we’ll live like thunder across the sky!

Raise your horns, ye sons of frost —
No soul is damned, no deed is lost!
Through clash and storm our tale endures —
Run not from fate — sail to the fjords!
Christianity Etc › Re: Ex-Hamas Wife, Daughter Of A Hamas Founder, Leaves Islam After Meeting Jesus by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:57pm On Nov 01, 2025
Meedon:
Aha! The witnessers of Jehovah's brutality against mankind.
What do you mean?🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: JW 050 How First Century Christians Sold All Their Riches And Gave To The Poor by MaxInDHouse(op): 5:40pm On Nov 01, 2025
Fenrir:
Thats what people say when they clearly lost, but on the other hand, i rewrote an entire song in the time it took you to think 4 words

The Devil Came Down to Valhalla

The Devil came down to Valhalla,
he was lookin’ for a soul to claim.
He’d heard the halls of Odin rang
with warriors of fame.

He came upon a young skald’s fire,
a harp across his knee.
The Devil said, “Boy, your songs inspire,
but none sing loud as me.”

The skald said, “Name’s Eirik, fiend,
and you’re a fool, I’ll swear.
For if you think you’ll best my tune,
then pull up that smoky chair.

You say you’re bringin’ battle songs,
that your music burns like sin?
Well I’ve got oaths and thunder gods—
now let the clash begin!”

The Devil tuned his shadowed strings,
and fire filled the hall,
His melody like chains and screams,
a serpent’s hiss and call.

But Eirik grinned and struck his chords,
his voice like storm and flame,
He sang of gods and heroes’ swords,
and called each by his name.

He sang of Thor and thunder roads,
of longships on the sea,
Of wolves that chase the winter’s moon,
and men who die set free.

The Devil’s song turned weak and cold,
his rhythm lost its might,
For truth will melt the lies of hell
like dawn unmakes the night.

Then Odin rose and laughed aloud,
and slammed his golden cup,
He said, “By Hel’s own gates, young skald,
you’ve shown that fiend what’s up!”

The Devil snarled and fled the hall,
his fiddle scorched and torn,
While Eirik drank his mead and sang,
‘till rise of golden morn.

So if you hear that demon’s tune,
come whisperin’ through the flame,
Just raise your voice and sing it loud—
and send him back in shame.
Fenrir:
But hey, I’m just an atheist.
You are confused atheists don't believe anything called Satan or Devil! smiley
Christianity Etc › Re: Ex-Hamas Wife, Daughter Of A Hamas Founder, Leaves Islam After Meeting Jesus by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:32pm On Nov 01, 2025
Meedon:
Your own side of Christianity is quite different from what I see around.
Well this is what Christianity truly means but as i told you earlier Satan killed all the apostles and initiated another group through a Roman emperor this is what spread throughout the earth in the name of Christianity using weapons to force their religion rulership on people everywhere they go it was later that those oppressed started protecting that's why they called them protestants.

But true Christianity cooled off for almost 2,000 years until early 1900 when Jesus began ruling in heaven that's when he visited the earth to restructure his group.

So all what i'm telling you today was gradually discovered between 1900 and today though it took imperfect humans more than 100 years to get things right again but so far so good pure worship has been restored at last.

We are everywhere today preaching and teaching in all your neighborhood that group name "CHRISTIANS" was a borrowed name not what the true God wanted to call His worshipers He actually promised to call His true worshipers by another name in the future when false religions have stolen the borrowed name "CHRISTIANS"

Today we are known globally as Jehovah's Witnesses! Isaiah 65:15🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Ex-Hamas Wife, Daughter Of A Hamas Founder, Leaves Islam After Meeting Jesus by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:06pm On Nov 01, 2025
Meedon:
Well pastors has been hammering on sinners going to hell for ages, that some are paralyzed with fear and anxiety because of that.
Whenever you see anyone attaching a religious title to his name know today that they are enemies of Jesus not his friends!

According to Jesus a believer must not blow a trumpet for people to know his relationship with God rather it's through our words and actions that people will know that we are different.

In my neighborhood most of my Bible students would like to call me "PASTOR" but i always tell them it's a curse and not a blessing!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Can Pastor Chris Remarry? Would It Be Right Biblically? by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:02pm On Nov 01, 2025
Fenrir:
“You’ve swung your tongue like a dull axe at a giant’s helm, little one. Next time, choose a foe of your own stature, not an atheistic demi-god carved from wit and northern frost!”
Just say you love being atheist and that's all but claiming you know the Bible ọmọ that's a big lie because you know nothing about the Bible!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: JW 050 How First Century Christians Sold All Their Riches And Gave To The Poor by MaxInDHouse(op): 5:00pm On Nov 01, 2025
You talk too much!🙂
Fenrir:
You speak of the rich ruler who walked away sorrowful when told to sell his goods and follow the Master. The passage is not a law against wealth, but a mirror held up to the man’s heart. Jesus saw that his gold owned him, not the other way around. The call was personal, not a universal command for every soul to live as a beggar.

The scriptures themselves never condemn being rich. Abraham was rich in flocks and silver (Genesis 13:2) and still called righteous. Job, after his trial, was twice as wealthy as before (Job 42:10). Joseph of Arimathea, who gave his tomb for the Lord’s body, was “a rich man” and yet a disciple (Matthew 27:57). Lydia of Thyatira sold purple cloth — luxury goods — and hosted the early church in her house (Acts 16:14-15). These were not cursed for their means; their faith was measured by their deeds, not their balance.

As for Jesus himself — he was no beggar wandering in rags. He was called Rabbi, and in that time a man could not bear that title unless his family was provided for. By custom, one had to retire his parents before taking up rabbinic duty. A rabbi was a teacher, not a mendicant. When the Romans crucified him, the soldiers cast lots for his clothing (John 19:23-24). They would not gamble for tatters; his seamless tunic was valuable, woven in one piece from top to bottom — a mark of high craftsmanship and priestly dignity.

Historians and scholars estimate that a good tunic in first-century Judea cost around 12 to 25 denarii. But a seamless one such as his could fetch 30 to 50 denarii, perhaps more. A denarius was roughly a day’s wage for a laborer, so his garments alone could equal nearly two months of a working man’s pay. In modern reckoning that would be around £5,000 – £6,000 (about $7,000 USD) — a fine sum, the kind soldiers would not ignore. That tells you his possessions were not worthless scraps; he was clothed in the dignity of his office.

The Bible’s message is not that holiness demands poverty. It teaches that the love of money — not money itself — is the root of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). Proverbs 10:22 says, “The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.” Ecclesiastes 5:19 calls wealth a gift from God when rightly enjoyed. The danger lies in serving gold as a god, not in possessing it.

When Jesus told that ruler to sell all, he spoke to that man’s sickness. Other disciples had homes, trades, and means: Peter owned a house in Capernaum (Mark 1:29); Matthew hosted a banquet (Luke 5:29); women like Joanna and Susanna supported the ministry “out of their own means” (Luke 8:3). The early believers shared their goods to care for one another, not because poverty was holy, but because compassion was.

So the truth stands: the scriptures nowhere command believers to be poor. They command hearts to be free — to use wealth as a tool of mercy, not an idol of pride. Jesus was not destitute, nor did he scorn those who had. He warned against greed, not against gain.

That is the weight of it, friend — the sound of scripture when the dust of misreading is blown away. Wealth is neither sin nor salvation. It is only metal, waiting to see whose hand wields it well.

But hey, I’m just an atheist.
Christianity Etc › Re: Unlike Other Messenger ,did Jesus Christ Killed Anyone While Preaching? by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:59pm On Nov 01, 2025
Fenrir:
You speak of Christ’s patience, yet you turn a blind eye to those who twist His teachings into a license to harass.
This is the command from God's word to all true believers:

Let the one who is unrighteous continue in unrighteousness, and let the filthy one continue in his filth; but let the righteous one continue in righteousness, and let the holy one continue in holiness. “‘Look! I am coming quickly, and the reward I give is with me, to repay each one according to his work" Revelations 22:11-12

So true Christians only preach to those who are willing to listen we must not lift a sword to settle differences because Jesus promised to come and settle the matter himself!🙂
Christianity Etc › Re: Can Pastor Chris Remarry? Would It Be Right Biblically? by MaxInDHouse(m): 4:58pm On Nov 01, 2025
You talk too much!🙂

Fenrir:
You speak of Moses and Jesus, of law and holiness, and say that the Israelites were given divorce only because their hearts were hard, that holiness was shut to humankind until Christ opened the gate. But when I take up the old scrolls and turn them beneath the torchlight, they tell a different tale.

Jesus, in Matthew 19:8, said that Moses allowed divorce because of hardness of heart — yet he also said, “From the beginning it was not so.” He does not strike down Moses; he strikes at the people’s cruelty. Moses’ permission was a shield for abandoned wives, not a license for men to cast them away. Jesus recalls God’s original intent in Genesis, where two become one flesh, to show divine order, not to condemn the entire Mosaic law as false. The contradiction is that the man’s message condemns the law, while Jesus himself affirms its justice but calls people back to its heart.

He warns that if death were the only way to be free of marriage, men would kill their wives. Yet the same law thunders, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). The Torah treats bloodshed as defilement of the land and a crime demanding life for life (Numbers 35:16–21). No man could kill his wife and be blameless. The divorce command in Deuteronomy 24:1–4 required a written certificate, not to make divorce easy, but to protect women from being cast into the street without record or provision. What he calls cruelty was meant as mercy in a hard age.

He claims the laws were given only as a bridge until Christ, using Deuteronomy 18:18–19 about the prophet to come. But in that same breath God affirms the people’s duty to obey His commands now. The promised prophet does not erase Moses; he continues his line. The psalmist declares, “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul” (Psalm 19:7). If it were merely a flawed placeholder, it could not restore anyone. Here, the scripture he uses turns back on him, saying that the law itself was holy and alive.

He quotes Isaiah 35:8 about the “highway of holiness” to prove holiness began with Christ. Yet Isaiah wrote of his own time, when Israel would be redeemed from exile. That road already existed for those who walked with God. The prophet’s song is about restoration for the faithful, not the first appearance of holiness centuries later.

He brings John 4:25, where the woman at the well speaks of the coming Messiah, and John 14:6, where Jesus calls himself the way, truth, and life. Those verses do proclaim the fullness of revelation in Christ, but they do not erase what came before. Jesus himself says in Matthew 23:2–3 that the teachers of the law “sit in Moses’ seat,” and he tells the crowds to “do whatever they teach.” He condemns hypocrisy, not the Torah. So his own words contradict the claim that the old law was worthless.

He points to Matthew 11:11, saying no one born of woman was greater than John the Baptist, and from that he argues that holiness began only then. But the same verse says, “Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” This speaks of position in history, not moral rank. John stands at the turning of the ages — the last prophet of the old order and the herald of the new. That does not make the old unholy; it means a fuller light had dawned. The verse marks transition, not exclusion.

Throughout the old writings, men and women are called righteous: Noah was “blameless in his generation” (Genesis 6:9), Job was “upright and feared God” (Job 1:1), David was said to have “a heart after God’s own” (1 Samuel 13:14). Leviticus 19:2 commands, “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.” Such words have no meaning if holiness were impossible. They show that holiness, though difficult, was real before Christ ever drew breath.

The psalms sing the same tune. Psalm 119 is a long love song to the law: “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.” The writer finds joy and holiness within the law, not despair beneath it. That stands in open contradiction to the claim that the old way was only darkness.

And about his notion that men could simply kill wives to be free — the law itself chained such violence. Exodus 21:18–19 says that if a man injures another, he must pay for the loss and healing. The entire legal code guards life with blood-price and judgment. The Torah’s intent was to limit cruelty, not to bless it.

So when he says the law was a cruel bridge, the old texts themselves roar back. They show holiness as attainable, divorce as restricted, the law as good. The prophets cried not that holiness was absent, but that Israel had abandoned it.

You, who call yourself an atheist, have asked not for faith but for truth. I answer you with the weight of the words themselves. The contradictions are not between Jesus and Moses, but between the preacher’s reading and the scriptures’ own voice. The old covenant never taught that holiness was sealed away; it shows people who reached toward it through obedience and faith. Jesus brought fulfillment, not invention.

So here stands the verdict, hammered on the anvil of reason: the man’s message condemns the very law his Christ upheld. When the scrolls are read whole, they show a God who called for holiness from the first, who forbade murder, who gave the law to protect the weak, and who walked with the righteous long before Bethlehem’s star. Holiness did not begin with Christ — it found its crown in him. The light was not born from nothing; it rose from a long dawn already breaking.

That is what the scriptures themselves say — ancient, unbending, and still speaking, whether one believes in them or not.

But hey, im just an atheist

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