tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post116378715956258498..comments2023-10-16T06:56:56.418-06:00Comments on Religion's Crime Against God: #176: Joy and ContentmentJChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01909940646703586254noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164650341572558672006-11-27T10:59:00.000-07:002006-11-27T10:59:00.000-07:00Anonymous, thanks for your questions. There are ma...Anonymous, thanks for your questions. There are many that claim to be Christians but are not. It is not certain if that verse means them; although, I doubt it. The more probable answer is there are many who are called and start to live the Christian life but give way to the many of life’s subtle and pleasing temptations; thus, falling away from the faith. Read Mark 4:15-19. They are the ones described in those verses that are called but not chosen. <BR/><BR/><BR/>As to your second question: that passage about being born again is in John 3:3-8. Born again means to be born of the Spirit of God. When a person truly desires to believe, live and obey all that is required in New Testament Scripture, at that time the Holy Spirit comes into a person via his/her brain and starts to loving coax that person to live a life that is pleasing to Jesus Christ. That is the new spiritual birth. And if that person continue in the faith, she/he is one that God has chosen.<BR/><BR/><BR/>As to your last question: at physical death, regardless if a person is burned to death until there are no physical remains, or a person receives a ordinary burial, it makes no difference to God. At death the body is useless. Therefore, it doesn’t matter how they die or what is left of them. <BR/><BR/>Here is the answer to the second part of your question: contrary to popular belief, when anyone dies, their spirit sleeps until the judgment day. Then the spirit will be gives some form of a body and stand before the judge. They will be either condemned or justified by the life they lived. Concerning the sleeping of the spirit at death, there are many New Testament verses to verify that belief. althinkerJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01909940646703586254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164573480915950722006-11-26T13:38:00.000-07:002006-11-26T13:38:00.000-07:00For many are called, few are chosen. Is this verse...For many are called, few are chosen. Is this verse directed at christians only or the entire world, where in the bible does it explain what, born again, means or is. Christians say that human beings are spirits that live inside a body, when the body dies it goes to where it came from, and the spirit goes to where it came from, does this mean that these spirits were angels before being now inside bodys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164560804623555562006-11-26T10:06:00.000-07:002006-11-26T10:06:00.000-07:00Thanks for your inquiry, In the sixth century a ma...Thanks for your inquiry, In the sixth century a man named Mohamad who claimed to be a prophet of Allah (god) did some writing and called it the Qur’an. Where he got the information to write it, I am not sure, but since some of his writings are similar to the Christian Bible, he may have had some form of an old Biblical manuscripts to refer to. And his interpretation of what it taught, ended up being the holy book of the religion called Islam. <BR/><BR/>I personally believe the people of that time in [that] region knew very little of the True God Jehovah/Yahweh, therefore, could not refute what Mohamad wrote, thus accepted it as the truth. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Again, there are several Islamic teaching that are dubious, if not down right false, but the most ungodly is no emphasis for love of neighbor, rather to hate them. althinkerJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01909940646703586254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164510956565478112006-11-25T20:15:00.000-07:002006-11-25T20:15:00.000-07:00I have a question, does Islam and the Koran come f...I have a question, does Islam and the Koran come from the God of the bible, if not, who and where does it come from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164134462590175112006-11-21T11:41:00.000-07:002006-11-21T11:41:00.000-07:00Al: No disagreement about us being spiritual being...Al: No disagreement about us being spiritual beings with a body. That’s the way God made us. It’s on us if we choose to be Christ like in spirit or go with the anti- Christ spirit. The question I had was the way you said potential gods in parentheses, I was hoping you were not in the belief that we are little god’s as many misinterpret John 10:34 <BR/>Thanks for you quick reply… JayJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15735274312736540063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164126180416454462006-11-21T09:23:00.000-07:002006-11-21T09:23:00.000-07:00Jay, thanks for your question, I am certain others...Jay, thanks for your question, I am certain others may also need a further explanation. First, I ask you this rhetorical question: was Jesus Christ a man with a spirit or a Spirit man with a body? <BR/><BR/>Being created in the image of God (Jesus Christ) we as Christians, have the potential ability to also become spiritual beings with a body. All genuine Christians are active extensions of Jesus Christ, to continue the holy work He started. <BR/><BR/>I assume you all believe the New Testament (N.T.). I mean believe to a point where we actively desire to live as he did. There are many N.T, verses that tell how we will/must live as Jesus did. I will present you only three.<BR/><BR/>John 14:12. “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing . He will do even greater things that these because I am going to the Father.”<BR/><BR/>Philippians 2:5. “ Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:”<BR/><BR/>1st John 2:6. “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”<BR/><BR/>Since my words may not mean much to some; therefore, this elaboration may not be sufficient, I will continue to let the Bible speak. It could be, you or others do not have the Spirit of Christ. As Romans 8:9. explicitly says, “And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”<BR/><BR/>1st Corinthians 2:14-16. “ The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned . . . . But we [genuine Christians] have the mind of Christ.” <BR/><BR/>Jay, I hope and pray you have the Spirit of Christ, of course, your life will always tell the truth.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your inquiry. AlthinkerJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01909940646703586254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13053053.post-1164092927190991532006-11-21T00:08:00.000-07:002006-11-21T00:08:00.000-07:00Al… Can you please elaborate on your interpretatio...Al… Can you please elaborate on your interpretation on Genesis 1:26. I believe the part about us that says , fundamentally all humans are spiritual beings The part I would like you to clarify is, (potential gods) with physical bodies, and not physical beings with a spirit. Thanks JayJayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15735274312736540063noreply@blogger.com