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Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by TheBrother
The Worlds, which you can't with literal understanding, how can you claim understand the spiritual word of God.
Dude, you've been tricked into believing the whole story is spiritual and not a combination of historical, literal, spiritual, and allegory. Yes, it takes the indwelling and power of the Holy Spirit to decipher some of the meanings of the scripture and parables, etc. But it's not NEAR as complicated as your church brothers have led you to believe it is and it is NOT all about each individual. It is a story about why and how Jesus came to live on the earth and what it means for us and our eternal lives. It's filled with prophecy about Israel that is still being unfolded on a daily basis. The Bible tells us that when Jerusalem becomes a burdensome stone for the whole world, and every nation turns against it, that he will step in to correct the situation. That time is coming. It won't be pretty, but it will lead to the age of the Millennium in which Jesus will control the earth for 1,000 years just so we'll know who he was all along, from the days of old. He'll give the Jews a second chance to accept him instead of rejecting him during that time.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by TheBrother
Regarding Hebrews 11:3...
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
I believe that God/Jesus spoke this world into existence. I believe sound created everything. I also believe the end of this world will end the same way.
edit on 27-8-2013 by Deetermined because: (no reason given)
Read it again it says worlds not world.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by TheBrother
In the meanwhile, you need to realize that Jesus did indeed physically heal the sick and perform miracles while he was here on earth to prove who he was. He even stated that he performed these miracles to prove that he was from God.
I just want to add that you DO NOT need someone to lay their hands on you to confirm that you have the Holy Spirit. I have no objection against the laying of hands, if someone wants to use it in an effort for healing, but it is not being used properly if someone is using it to make a spectacle of proving whether or not someone is filled with the Holy Spirit. Once you sincerely repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit is there and will reside in you. Your relationship with God and the Holy Spirit is a personal one and does not require that you prove anything to anyone by making a public spectacle of it.
They believe only their religion ...and don't know in God.
Originally posted by usertwelve
reply to post by TheBrother
Thank you, TheBrother.
Most tend to hide behind riddles and double talk when asked to expose themselves. Many are intent on arguing about their own interpretations. I have no authority to judge you, your church, or your beliefs. You seem to have come here with love and is evident by your focus on that which is most important. That's good enough for me.
Welcome
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by Rex282
They believe only their religion ...and don't know in God.
Religion has nothing to do with it. Just because you don't believe in the Bible doesn't mean that I'M the one that doesn't know God.
Where in the Bible does it talk about a sin debt? Even if there was such a thing as a "sin debt", how would that create a wall of separation?
He destroyed the mounted wall of Debt humanity could not ever hope to pay in not possibly meeting the Obligations of the Law perfectly. Your misinterpretation AGAIN totally ignores the statement below by our Messiah in scripture you have chosen to dangerously ignore.
Matthew 5:17-18 (CJB)
17 "Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. 18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah -- not until everything that must happen has happened.
Earlier you were saying that I was coming to false conclusions, referring to how I was not, according to you, picking up up on how certain scriptures were "implying" that there was a "payment", as you put it, in regards to a supposed sin "debt". My conclusion has not been changed by what you have presented in way of an argument against my observation that the scriptures make no such implication to there being either a sin debt or a payment for such.
And what do you conclude now? Rhetorical.
I am just making a statement of something that I consider to be a fact, which is that someone reading the Bible on their own, without any human influence, cannot come to the conclusion that there is a sin debt that Jesus had to pay for in order to maintain God's righteousness.
One's assumptions of belief of my knowledge being based on what someone has told me is ignorance and rudeness of a high order.
it's really more like the opposite of what you just said. I believed in the "whole Word" thing for fifty something years until a year and a half ago when I realized that approach is wrong.
Your wordings through our discourse demonstrate a bias against the 'Old' testament which reveals you are still early in your path of Aligning in Holy Spirit Leading through the Word as a whole.
My interpretations are scripture lead, once I was able to finally become freed from the human theories that had blinded me to the truth. I think that people have an emotional attachment to doctrines that make them feel good, which makes them difficult to let go of, even after seeing the evidence against them stated in the Bible. I hope that you eventually realize that these imagined "implied" suggestions in the Bible are really suggestions coming from people trusting in man-made theories.
I will leave it at that as I am not at all interested in misled interpretations.
Hopefully some day you will realize that what you are mistakenly taking for "wisdom" is just being fully versed in theories that makes them only appear to be smart. I have pointed out to you that what you are believing in is only theories with no support from the Bible and actually contradicting it.
You have not proven yourself worthy as my teacher by what you ignore, distort and omit repeatedly, and I am a willing student to the wise.
Originally posted by TheBrother
I only have a few rules for this thread if you wish to participate:
1. Do not respond to other members replys on this thread, please do that elsewhere if you wish to discuss or answer with another person. This is to not only avoid one question spiraling out of control into flames and or off topic but also keep the information here pure, valueable and clear for others. I am not interested in learning what others have to teach me, I am here to serve not be served. I am here to break bread out of peace and loving service to you brothers and sisters that desire and seek to know the truth, which is the word of God not man.
2. I will respond in respect and courtesy and would expect the same in return. Accusations or non-contributing comments will be ignored. I am not here to argue with anyone. Take what you understand put it beside what I bring and decide in the quiet of your mind which do you want to believe.
As it is in the place where you die, that perfect way of God can be here now while u are alive in a body. When you are a servant of God and others vs just yourself and do his will, "all the other things will be added unto you."
Evil is the tester, God is the teacher.
Whenever the scriptures talk about the comming or returning of Christ, this is the Christ gift and spiritual mind that will come.
I am a member of that Body of Christ that you are speaking with. and If you reject the things I say, you not only reject me, but you reject Jesus and the Father who has sent us all as it is written.
Anyone who confesses that God is comming back one day can not help you anymore than a doctor who isn't there today to fix you.
It is part of the rules of our order not to video or tape any of our services or church events. Even if I told you the name of my Faith, you will find only a small write-up that isn't even accurate on the net.
You have been getting a write-up of it, what we preach and who we are. It took me a long time to find answers to the mysteries of the scriptures through this faith, I am serving them to you here on a silver platter, silver because it is all out of love, the unadulterated teachings of Christ.
Even if this were true and you were given these amazing bodies, what good would it do if the inner man wasn't change?
Many are intent on arguing about their own interpretations.
Originally posted by ctophil
Originally posted by TheBrother
I only have a few rules for this thread if you wish to participate:
1. Do not respond to other members replys on this thread, please do that elsewhere if you wish to discuss or answer with another person. This is to not only avoid one question spiraling out of control into flames and or off topic but also keep the information here pure, valueable and clear for others. I am not interested in learning what others have to teach me, I am here to serve not be served. I am here to break bread out of peace and loving service to you brothers and sisters that desire and seek to know the truth, which is the word of God not man.
2. I will respond in respect and courtesy and would expect the same in return. Accusations or non-contributing comments will be ignored. I am not here to argue with anyone. Take what you understand put it beside what I bring and decide in the quiet of your mind which do you want to believe.
Let me ask you a question. If you are not interested in learning from others, are you saying that you deny a teaching coming from God? Please realize that all of us are extensions from God's mind. And that you can't find all your answers from the Bible as evident here in your thread. What you are presenting here is your understanding of the scriptures. I do understand that you are sincerely trying to teach what you believe as the "truth." The absolute. The final answer. I've been there before. So I am telling you with experience that you should look deeper within yourself, and know that you must go beyond the Bible AND think outside the box. You must get to know yourself some more, mediate on it, and then find God within your consciousness.
Originally posted by PrimeLight
reply to post by usertwelve
Many are intent on arguing about their own interpretations.
You mean upholding the Word that others intend to tarnish?
Do not be snared by anyone's manner of 'politeness'. The road to hell is paved with good intentions as the expression goes and many wolves too are dressed in sheeps clothing, especially in these latter times.
The Holy Spirit Alerted me that a false prophet was in the midst at the outset and he is revealing himself moreso as he preaches an abundance of heresy against the Word known by those who cleave to the Gospel of Salvation and the Prophesies of Revelation unfolded and further unfolding that he denies...
The word "heresy" in the Bible just meant a difference of opinion.
So all this is just metaphor and not your heresy?
Paul was saying that in the context of the Old Testament law, which is not capable of making anyone righteous.
Do you deny the fallen nature in flesh?
. . . . . .
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23
Rather than saying that everyone is bad (including Jesus himself), he was saying that he was God.
"Why are you calling me good? No one is good except God!
They were saying that they actually were righteous, but that righteousness was nullified by the sins of the people.
When we put on our prized robes of righteousness we find they are but filthy rags."
You can't see how the contradict each other?
Our Father is the ultimate tester for He has deliberately Allowed evil to perform it's functions upon will in Determining who is to be counted Worthy of the Kingdom by Grace.
"And Lead us not into temptation".
Like Joshua? That is what you are saying, do you realize that? To answer the question, if Moses or Aaron anointed Joshua, to take that role when Moses died, then our brother here could be too.
So you imply your words, understandings and knowledge are infallible? You equate your understandings on par as an "anointed" like Yehushua Ha'Mashiac?
So, is this "Rapturing" something only known now by a special "end time" revelation? None of that even makes sense, and much less will ever happen. Jesus is here for us now, and his teachings are for this life.
The Son Returns and there will be a Rapturing of those Deemed Worthy as many faithful have had it Revealed to them by the Holy Spirit for these end times Fulfillment's that you reject by your counterfeit 'Christ consciousness' without the Return of Yehushua Delivering on His Promise for the end times.
There is no such thing as a "Christ's Mercy Gift of Salvation" outside of a coming to a state of righteousness in this life. A supposed rapture does nothing for a person'r righteousness".
---and you bear a folly in your teaching, being carried along by an unfaithful mind that suggests like the serpent 'ye shall be as god' without Christ's Mercy Gift of Salvation, deserting a plethora of Prophecy along with all the Divined Promise in the process of a literal Return.
None of which needs to ever happen in the next billion years according to what is said there. There was a hypothetical Judgment Day that people believed in before Christianity came into being, and the writer of 2 Timothy is saying that they are hopeful about it since they see Jesus, apparently, being the judge.
2 Timothy 4
Sort of overselective, don't you think? That only the people who attain a state of righteousness at one particular historic moment in time will be "salvaged".
Those Deemed Worthy are Salvaged from the state of this fallen dominion to sin which incorporates none of the corruptions of the flesh.
All well and good in your little hypothetical scenario, but does nothing as far as achieving the state to be eligible for this supposed "rapture".
We need to have a complete change to make us suitable for our new environment.
None of this has anything to do with this life.
The statement characterizes the resurrection body as one completely filled and governed by the Holy Spirit ...
Pray tell me how The Holy Spirit, which you claim to have, alerted you of this? Also, how is it that you recieved the Holy Spirit in your life?
Originally posted by PrimeLight
reply to post by TheBrother
Pray tell me how The Holy Spirit, which you claim to have, alerted you of this? Also, how is it that you recieved the Holy Spirit in your life?
The Holy Spirit is a Station of 'frequency' and what I detected in you was a non-Recognition of Aligned frequency and the way you handled the address of Buddha confirmed such. Anybody moreso who bears an Imprint of the Holy Spirit Written into them would have been strongly opposed to the breach of the first Command by Knowledge instilled of all those masses that bow and worship to that graven image of a human. You did not steer and uphold according to a deeper aligned faith with the Word that you testified you would. You went with a worldly position aligning Buddha with the one at the Right Hand, which is directly aligned with the doctrinal dominion of legion promoting both on equal footing as 'ascended masters'.