Jon-Marc

I wouldn't want to behind a dung powered anything.

I wonder if they are giving that money thinking it will get them into heaven. I have often thought how many of the poor could be helped by the super rich giving generously, and by all the billions wasted on space exploration also going to help the poor and the elderly who can't make it on their meager pension. Then there is all the money wasted on foolish grants for silly and useless "scientific experiments"--like one I read about where someone was given a grant to study the sex life of a an insect. Then there is the foolish waste where the government pays tremendous amounts for things that you and I could get for a LOT less.

I live alone and love it, but actually I am never alone. I have the Holy Spirit dwelling within me, and I am watched over by angels. My Lord has promised never to leave me alone.

A diabetic should know better than to drink alcohol which has a lot of sugar in it. When I was diagnosed four years ago with diabetes, I gave away my sugar and started buying everything that either low sugar or sugar-free. I've seen the results of diabetes in too many people not to learn something from it. I saw an old man missing a leg because of diabetes, and I knew a pastor who died at age 38 from diabetes. I drink tons of sugar-free soft drinks and water, and I bake all my "sweets" without sugar (I use Splenda). I gave up drinking alcohol because I was afraid it would destroy my testimony. Of course, with diabetes I couldn't drink it anyway.

Well, I guess Arnold Schwarzenegger will no longer be one of my favorite action actors.

More than likely Abraham could hear the racket the ram made in trying to free itself. I doubt that it quietly stood there trapped.

I was baptized after I was saved as an act of obedience and to show to others that I was now a follower of Christ. It had nothing to do with me being saved or keeping my salvation--just as works have nothing to do with being saved or staying saved. We do works not to BE saved but because we ARE saved. When Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished", He was referring to the finished work of God's plan for our redemption. He did all that way necessary, and our feeble efforts to help Him save us are at best offensive to Him. What gall for anyone to think that God needs our help to do anything--including save us or keep us saved. If we had a hand in our salvation (other than asking for forgiveness), then we could stand up in heaven and boast about how we helped the Lord to save us, because His power wasn't enough to do it alone Such audacity that some people have to believe that they are righteous enough to help procure and to preserve their salvation when God said, "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." They are also calling God weak, because they obviously believe He is not all-powerful since they think He needs their help.

Unfortunately, having "religious beliefs" doesn't guarantee that one is born again and will spend eternity in heaven. Jesus said, "Ye must be born again." He did not say, "Ye must be religious." The most religious people of Jesus' day were the Pharisees, and they were the most hypocritical. They boasted on their own goodness and all they did for the poor. They boasted on all the money gave. Jesus called them hypocrites and other derogatory terms. For a while before realizing I was lost and turning to Christ, I was very religious and a hypocrite. I'm quite that most of that 85% have never been born again and are just trusting in their religion and their own goodness, but God says that "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags."

Jesus is definitely the Rock on which the church was built--NOT on Peter. Jesus is the Rock of ages, the Corner Stone of the church. The name Peter does not mean "rock"; it means "stone", and Jesus was referring to Himself in that verse.

"In our image" does not mean that we LOOK like God since "God is a Spirit." However, He has always been a triune God--God the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. Later, the Word became Jesus the Christ on earth--God in the flesh. So now we say, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.