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Originally posted by autowrench
Greetings, IAMIAM, I will be happy to respond. I do not write empty words,
Originally posted by autowrench
in fact, some of what I say I really wish were not true, but it is.
Originally posted by autowrench I practice what I preach,
Originally posted by autowrench
so to say, in that I think and walk the Path I have chosen, Harming none, Helping all, and educating all who listen.
I am a seeker. I seek information, any or all of it, on most any subject matter you can think of. I try to get others to read, study, and research, everything. I take nothing on blind faith. I am a born septic in many things, and can see the conspiracy wherever it may be. I see no Establishment as Infallible, or above the Law, or above Reason and Logic.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
I'm struggling with how I can prove anything to someone else on the internet.
This is my point. You cannot prove anything to anyone with words.
With Love,
Your Brother
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
I'm struggling with how I can prove anything to someone else on the internet.
This is my point. You cannot prove anything to anyone with words.
With Love,
Your Brother
Okay, we agree on that principle. So what are you looking for in this thread. It could go 70 pages and all you'd have is people's words. If I were to give an assessment of my walk with Christ I would give myself a failing grade. I can always think of more I could have done, or I'm convicted when I miss the mark. But then again, if any of us could do it perfectly then He wouldn't have had to die for us. We're imperfect entities. But I thank God that we won't be judging ourselves, I wouldn't pass if I were the judge.
So, I realize you claim that you cannot trust what anyone says, but my answer to this thread would be one of wanting/lamenting that I have failed to live up to Christ's perfect standard.
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Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
I'm struggling with how I can prove anything to someone else on the internet.
This is my point. You cannot prove anything to anyone with words.
With Love,
Your Brother
Okay, we agree on that principle. So what are you looking for in this thread. It could go 70 pages and all you'd have is people's words. If I were to give an assessment of my walk with Christ I would give myself a failing grade. I can always think of more I could have done, or I'm convicted when I miss the mark. But then again, if any of us could do it perfectly then He wouldn't have had to die for us. We're imperfect entities. But I thank God that we won't be judging ourselves, I wouldn't pass if I were the judge.
So, I realize you claim that you cannot trust what anyone says, but my answer to this thread would be one of wanting/lamenting that I have failed to live up to Christ's perfect standard.
edit on 17-12-2011 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
My sentiments exactly. We could never measure up to him no matter how hard we tried, but at least we can try. Trying is better than doing nothing i suppose, we could do like some and be overtaken by a spirit of apathy.
Let me put this a different way my friend. If the legal definition of a Christian was declared to be, as you often say, "Little Christ's" meaning they held themselves to walk in Christ's foot steps, and to be declared would result in the death penalty, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Yes, absolutely. But that doesn't mean that I wish I had even more faith, even greater self control, even more humble an attitude, et cetra. I hope I can be a better Christian tomorrow than I was today. Hopefully next year I can support more charitable causes than I did this year.
There is great room for improvement.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Yes, absolutely. But that doesn't mean that I wish I had even more faith, even greater self control, even more humble an attitude, et cetra. I hope I can be a better Christian tomorrow than I was today. Hopefully next year I can support more charitable causes than I did this year.
There is great room for improvement.
What will increase your faith?
What does it mean to you to be a better Christian? How can I help you attain this goal you have set for yourself?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
And the Christians "heavy artillery" is prayer, just pray for me is the best thing you can do for me.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by IAMIAM
"Best" makes Christianity sound like an Olympic sport. Please pray I'll be a much more faithful Christian.
Thank you regardless.
I am not picking on you my friend. Just using your post to further illustrate how difficult it is to actually line up what one says with what one actually believes.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
I'm struggling with how I can prove anything to someone else on the internet.
This is my point. You cannot prove anything to anyone with words.
With Love,
Your Brother
Okay, we agree on that principle. So what are you looking for in this thread. It could go 70 pages and all you'd have is people's words. If I were to give an assessment of my walk with Christ I would give myself a failing grade. I can always think of more I could have done, or I'm convicted when I miss the mark. But then again, if any of us could do it perfectly then He wouldn't have had to die for us. We're imperfect entities. But I thank God that we won't be judging ourselves, I wouldn't pass if I were the judge.
So, I realize you claim that you cannot trust what anyone says, but my answer to this thread would be one of wanting/lamenting that I have failed to live up to Christ's perfect standard.
edit on 17-12-2011 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
Romans 7:14:25
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold [m]into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the [n]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in [p]the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner [q]of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from [r]the body of this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
Have the faith that a true separation of your spirit and flesh is possible, like what you imagine happens when your spirit leaves your body at death, only believe that it can happen now, before your physical body passes away. Have faith that God can do what he promises in these passages, and he will do it.
Ephesians 2:1-10
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 8:12-13
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
1John 3:1-10
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.