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originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Raggedyman
whats your opinion on your own question
I don't claim to be a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian then take this challenge: Take one of those statements, change 5 or less words in the one chosen, then write it out as consistent with your beliefs.
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Raggedyman
Christ said the Abrahamic Law had died with Jesus and christians acceptance of him
What Abrahamic law? Circumcision is the only law, all the rest is promise to Abraham. It is written that Jesus said "Before Abraham was I AM." Paul wrote in Galatians that if a person is in Christ, the seed of Abraham, than he/she is of the seed of Abraham even without circumcision.
the truth is the Abrahamic law still stands for those outside of Christ, making atheists more Jewish than christians
Only if they're circumcised. I don't know what women are supposed to do. Make sure their father's and husbands are circumcised? I don't know. I'm not Jewish.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: superluminal11
I just had to make a thumbnail for the sake of those who don't click on links. Hope you don't mind.
How can christians be Jews
Christ said the Abrahamic Law had died with Jesus and christians acceptance of him
the truth is the Abrahamic law still stands for those outside of Christ, making atheists more Jewish than christians
Good try for the thumbnail, kudos, but it shows your naivety (going to say ignorance but it could be deemed as rude) in the subject.
Nachman of Breslov Auto-destructed works
Rebbe Nachman also wrote Sefer HaGanuz ("The Hidden Book") and the Sefer HaNisraf ("The Burned Book"), neither of which are extant. Rebbe Nachman told his disciples that these volumes contained deep mystical insights which few would be able to comprehend. While he dictated the Sefer HaNisraf to Reb Noson, the latter said that he did not understand it at all; later he said, "What I do remember is that it spoke about the greatness of the mitzvah of hospitality and preparing the bed for a guest". Rebbe Nachman never showed the Sefer HaGanuz to anyone. In 1808 Rebbe Nachman burned all the copies of the Sefer HaGanuz and the Sefer Ha-nisraf.
Rebbe Nachman first ordered the two manuscripts of the book Sefer HaNisraf to be destroyed in a bargain for his life during a phase of his tuberculosis which preceded his death by two years. He believed that the illness was a "punishment from the upper-world--for writing a book."
Two years later, from his deathbed, he ordered a chest full of his writings, presumably containing Sefer HaGanuz, to be burnt.
"On the evening of the last day of his life, Rabbi Nachman gave his disciples the key to a chest. "As soon as I am dead," he told them, "while my body is still lying here on the floor, you are to take all the writings you find in the chest and burn them. And be sure to fulfill my request
originally posted by: ReAppollonius
a reply to: Raggedyman
Christ said he fulfilled the Torah, not ended it.
That means he came to live a transgression free existence and has nothing to do with the person of Abraham.
Abrahamic law is not even a thing, this is what happens when you read law and think law when you should be thinking Torah i.e. Law and the Prophets (Torah and the Prophets) because a Jew circa the time Jesus lived considered Torah Law and doctors of the Law are doctors or interpreters (never got the whole doctors translation) of the Torah.
Last time I checked it's still in effect for Christianity and a part of the Bible.
Christ didn't say that.
Is that what the mission of Jesus was all about? Is that what the nearly 2000 years Christian faith was all about? Where is the fruit of that faith in those 20 centuries? How is it it is not seen because of the sinfulness of man? How is it that Jesus didn't repair that sinfulness, as we were told he did with his life, death and resurrection?
He died instead of us so we can live, he didn't come so all of us die for him!
originally posted by: Raggedyman
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Raggedyman
whats your opinion on your own question
I don't claim to be a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian then take this challenge: Take one of those statements, change 5 or less words in the one chosen, then write it out as consistent with your beliefs.
God loves me
Three words and a smiley face
Do I pass your test???
Hey, hey, hey
What if I fail, will you condemn me as a heretic, will I lose Gods love because some random internet stranger decided I failed his test of my faith in Christ. Will I be cast away from my Father, my brothers and sisters in Christ because I couldnt change three, four, or five words to accommodate a silly schoolyard game an atheist internet warrior was playing.
Oh dear me, I might just have to try harder, my salvation hinges by a thread, a skinny insignificant test, a riddle, a game with an anonymous person on the net.
My faith is secure in Christ, secure in His love for me, most of my life has been failed tests, plenty more to come I dont doubt, but God loves me
The naysayers will have their end soon enough.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
originally posted by: Raggedyman
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Raggedyman
whats your opinion on your own question
I don't claim to be a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian then take this challenge: Take one of those statements, change 5 or less words in the one chosen, then write it out as consistent with your beliefs.
God loves me
Three words and a smiley face
Do I pass your test???
Hey, hey, hey
What if I fail, will you condemn me as a heretic, will I lose Gods love because some random internet stranger decided I failed his test of my faith in Christ. Will I be cast away from my Father, my brothers and sisters in Christ because I couldnt change three, four, or five words to accommodate a silly schoolyard game an atheist internet warrior was playing.
Oh dear me, I might just have to try harder, my salvation hinges by a thread, a skinny insignificant test, a riddle, a game with an anonymous person on the net.
My faith is secure in Christ, secure in His love for me, most of my life has been failed tests, plenty more to come I dont doubt, but God loves me
All you gotta do is believe and repent and you will find gods kingdom....
Of course it will be full of rapists, pedophiles, child molestors, murders and every other in disputable monster who was born into Christian societies then found Jesus in prison or on the deathbed.
All the worst monsters are the quickest to convert in prison and tend to be the most devout. When your looking at living in a concrete box for the remainder of your life, you'll buy anything to think it will get better.
We don't realize it today in the secular society, but only before the French revolution 1789 the full political power in Europe belonged to the Church and thru Church-related kings and princes. Even in the reformed part of Europe after 16th century. Indeed, 2 centuries + democracy changed something.
I find it disheartening that there really is no faith today Which points to Jesus Christ soon return
2. Jesus said that He did come to bring peace, but a sword.
*If* everyone could perfectly follow Christ's teachings, then we actually would have God's Kingdom on earth, but as we are imperfect beings,
Eventually, God will have enough and step in. It is clear that if He does not, we will destroy ourselves.