How can we get rid of our sinfulness?

[RomSpaceKnight]

Only someone insecure at the fundamental level of the fabric of their personal identity would choose belief over reason. When the world isn't the way you think it should be...I'll bet you pray to your god to fix that sore...don't you? This imaginary Harvey friend of yours, that's whom you believe will provide the guiding light your sinful wicked nature (which you were given by your creator by the way) requries...but unlike the Islamists there's no virgins waiting in heaven for you are there...?

Hocus Pocus left to itself is just fine with me...

Flooding this website with banal and sometimes voyuristic crap and then using it as a platform to sell your goods....entirely similar to the con the hoodwink...the bait and switch...and this is your morality.

Inquiring minds want to know. What if reason cannot or till now has not answered the fundamental question of the fabric of reality itself not just individual identity? Why are we here? Is there other life out there? Why does the universe exist? Will it always exist? Why did the universe evolve in to the thing that it is and not something else that could not support trhe formation of galaxies, stars, planets or even life itself?

One day we may know these answers but till then we must use faith to postulize theories. Even now physisist are working with philosophers to answer some of the fundamental questions concerning reality, space and time that math has not yet calculated the answers too. Is there not space somewhere in amongst the scientist and philosophers for those who seek similiar answers through faith?

 

[look3467]

rofl
My mind is not a pump nor is the reverse true. Separate critters and neither contain any fantasy of the other. Yep, blood being aerated is a treasure; one that no-one can do without and yes, in that blood is my DNA which, of all the people in the world, only I have: it is me and it does detail me. But there is no church in my pump, take my word for it.
Learn anything yet, or you just going to spew more prose?

Gilbert is a pump, a heart.? Or, Gilbert is a kind man, a gentle man, an honnest man.
How can anybody tell who Gilbert is? Would looking at his pump define him?

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

 

[talloola]

No insecurities to speak of, sorry to dissapoint. I am quite comfortable and content in the faith

Are priests reasigned to new parishes after a determined amount of time, just like many other
professions, or do you have a choice or can you determine where and when you move about
from one parish to another.
It's not easy to "just" move on every once in awhile and start over again, or, do you enjoy the change.

 

[sanctus]

Are priests reasigned to new parishes after a determined amount of time, just like many other
professions, or do you have a choice or can you determine where and when you move about
from one parish to another.
It's not easy to "just" move on every once in awhile and start over again, or, do you enjoy the change.

Depends on the situation. Usually it is a combination of factors, but you always have a choice to refuse. This time it was a combination, I was requested to take on this new posting and I accepted.

 

[sanctus]

Sounds more like the words of someone who is pretty smart. He may have been a little harsh in his wording, but in many ways I agree with him.

Sooooo...what exactly IS the real truth of christ?

Jesus Christ Himself came into this world to teach and to preach His divinity. He went up and down Palestine, gathering crowds around Him, to imprint on their hearts the plan of God for their salvation. He went further. He allowed Himself to be nailed to a cross, there to preach salvation from sin through His death. When He ascended into Heaven, He sent others to preach and teach His gospel, His good news. He left His Church to carry on this same mission of saving souls. That Church, the Catholic Church, has never ceased to preach and to teach that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came into the world as the Savior of all men. That Church has never ceased to preach belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It continues to preach that He died for all men, because His Father "so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that those who believe in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting" (John 3:16).
The question of the divinity of Christ therefore is not a question to be discussed only in dusty theological volumes or by learned scholars of the Church. It is THE vital question of every man. "Who do men say the Son of Man is?" is the most important question anyone can ask himself. It is the necessary question everyone must ask himself, for the answer is the answer of eternal salvation.

 

[look3467]

My rendition of "what exactly IS the real truth of Christ?" is: pardon me if I capitalize the c in Christ.

Christ is the second Adam, second creation, and a new Jerusalem.

He was from the beginning of the first, to the end of the first, and the beginning of the second of which there is no end.
His kingdom is not of this world, but heavenly.

Therefore, in order to be part of the heavenly Kingdom of Christ, one must be born of the second Adam to become a "new creature" in His new creation.

That is the sum of all things new.

The fight then is between the old Kingdom thought, and the new Kingdom thinking.

The old has the laws and the flesh, the new has the Holy Spirit and grace.

The good news is this: That Christ died for all mankind and invites all who would come to Him for salvation while they are yet alive in the flesh.

The question now is: "Will you come".

One verse if you please: Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

The water of life is Jesus, and if you thirst, He invites you to take of it "freely" no conditions required.
If you should decide to take of the water of life (Jesus) while as you are, He will change you from the inside out.
He will create a "new Creature" out of the existing one fit for the kingdom of God.

There! You see, very simple and not hard to understand. It only takes a desire in your heart (as like thirsty for Him) to gain access to this wonderful Kingdom of His, and at the same time make your life rich and full while still on this earth.

That's what I have now, and I wouldn't give it up for the world!!!!

Peace to all who would seek this new city, the New Jerusalem of God: Jesus!

AJ:love9:

 

[talloola]

Depends on the situation. Usually it is a combination of factors, but you always have a choice to refuse. This time it was a combination, I was requested to take on this new posting and I accepted.

Thanks for reply, when I reread my post this morning it seemed "very nosy" didn't mean to be.
Good luck in your new position.

 

[sanctus]

Thanks for reply, when I reread my post this morning it seemed "very nosy" didn't mean to be.
Good luck in your new position.

Ask any question, nothing is too personal that I won't consider supplying an answer

 

[mapleleafgirl]

dude just read the bazillion posts sanctus already made. we can't bear to hear it all over again.

so if you dont like whatever sanctus says, why the hell are you reading his stuff? i notice lots of people complain about his stuff, but theyre reading it.like dont they know how to skip threads they are supposedly not interested in. thing is, he posts interesting stuff

 

[mapleleafgirl]

Words from a man lost in the sea of sin and confusion, absent from the real truth of Christ.

are we really in a sea of sin and confusion without christ/

 

[sanctus]

so if you dont like whatever sanctus says, why the hell are you reading his stuff? i notice lots of people complain about his stuff, but theyre reading it.like dont they know how to skip threads they are supposedly not interested in. thing is, he posts interesting stuff

Thank you Maple. Don't entangle yourself with them. It's a waste of your spiritual time.

 

[sanctus]

are we really in a sea of sin and confusion without christ/

Yes, even when we do not know it. Christ is the centre, and without that centre, we have nothing solid to rely upon.

 

[look3467]

Yes, even when we do not know it. Christ is the centre, and without that centre, we have nothing solid to rely upon.

I agree with you 100% on that!

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

 

[marygaspe]

I agree with you 100% on that!

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

Sanctus lost his mother today, for those on this thread that may have missed it. Can we pray for him and his family?

 

[look3467]

Sanctus lost his mother today, for those on this thread that may have missed it. Can we pray for him and his family?

As of this moment, my prayer is voiced. Any my deepest sympathy to my brother Sanctus and to His family.

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

 

[snfu73]

I don't think there are any cut and dry, black and white answers. I believe that if someone believes in god or jesus or whoever, and that belief provides them with something positive...then, hey, great. But, the idea that if you don't believe, you are wrong is bull****. I don't think we know the answer...is there god? Maybe. If you believe, then sure. If you don't, then maybe not...but, who knows. So, when someone tells me that they know the "truth", all I can say is that is bloody crap.

 

[look3467]

I don't think there are any cut and dry, black and white answers. I believe that if someone believes in god or jesus or whoever, and that belief provides them with something positive...then, hey, great. But, the idea that if you don't believe, you are wrong is bull****. I don't think we know the answer...is there god? Maybe. If you believe, then sure. If you don't, then maybe not...but, who knows. So, when someone tells me that they know the "truth", all I can say is that is bloody crap.

You don't have to believe in God or Jesus if you don't want. That is strickly up to the individual. But as for me and my house, They will know who God and Jesus is. After that, they can believe whatever they want.
But I can tell you right now, that they will never depart from what I thought them about God.

I am blessed knowing God and I bless as I know.

In your case, I will love you regardless of your belief, yet it would be nice if you believed as I do.

I don't condemn you nor does God.

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

 

[L Gilbert]

Gilbert is a pump, a heart.? Or, Gilbert is a kind man, a gentle man, an honnest man.
How can anybody tell who Gilbert is? Would looking at his pump define him?

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

rofl. You sure lose context easily. I am me. My heart, the pump, is only a piece if me. My mind is another piece, the intangible piece (at least it's intangible until I express myself somehow). In my heart one would find DNA which is at the least the defenition of the physical me. My mind contains the definition of my character, personality, etc.
Anyway, back to my point, my pump cannot contain churches of any sort. My mind can, and actually, it can contain anything not physical that I want or need it to contain.

 

[look3467]

rofl. You sure lose context easily. I am me. My heart, the pump, is only a piece if me. My mind is another piece, the intangible piece (at least it's intangible until I express myself somehow). In my heart one would find DNA which is at the least the definition of the physical me. My mind contains the definition of my character, personality, etc.
Anyway, back to my point, my pump cannot contain churches of any sort. My mind can, and actually, it can contain anything not physical that I want or need it to contain.

The intangible piece is what I am referring to. That mind of yours contains a heart which deciphers between love and hate, good and evil.

You’ve heard the cliché: “Cold heart”? That defines ones heart (or mind) of what it is.

That’s the part of the psyche that God touches.

Peace>>>AJ:love9:

 

[talloola]

so if you dont like whatever sanctus says, why the hell are you reading his stuff? i notice lots of people complain about his stuff, but theyre reading it.like dont they know how to skip threads they are supposedly not interested in. thing is, he posts interesting stuff

Anyone can read or post to any thread they desire, and it's not up to you to judge if they should or
shouldn't, anyone could say that to anyone they disagree with, that is the point of this forum, is
to read and either agree or disagree, that is what makes it interesting and (well, sometimes
informative) and sometimes irritating and sometimes quite enjoyable.