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Start small and simple. For bible study set aside a time each day when you will read the bible, use a simple study aid example 'everyday with Jesus or similar and form a habit of doing it. Once this habit is established one can enlarge the time spent reading/studying the bible. Try using traveling time to listen to audio bibles. Memorising scripture. As every youth leader knows bible memory verses are learnt through repition, repition and repition. Make up some cards about credit card size and on these cards writ book chapter, verse and the verse. Along with your bible reading habit start a memorising habit. Pull out your bible verse cards and read aloud the first card, turn it over and reciet it, check the card, read it out loud, turn it over and reciept it. Do this untill you can say it correctly. Move on to the next card and so on through however many cards you have made. Do this every day, when you have 5 minutes to spare. Eventually you will know these verses, so change the daily repition to weekly and start a new set of daily verses.

May I suggest a couple of options. 1/ check out the Christianityexplored web site for churches in your area. Then after looking at them on line try visiting them. 2/ make a list of pros and cons for each church. Nearness to home, friendlyness, preaching is it systematic or just an endless appeals, involvement in evangelism and missionaries, ask minister how accountable the church is on finance and on legal issues. From this list is there any church that stands out. Ask each church leader why you should join that church. From the answers etc pray about which church you should join.

We are not told about the rich man or of Lazarus's judgement, we only see the results of that judgement. The key to this account is found in verses 29-31. Neither the rich man nor his brothers paid any attention to the Talmud, they had no personal faith in God and would suffer the consquences.

From :-https://thekosherhub.com/kosher-vs-halal/ might be better to follow the link as it'll be clearer.

- Top 20 Differences Between Kosher and Halal Aspect Kosher Halal Origin Jewish dietary laws (Kashrut) Islamic dietary laws (Shariah) Religious Text Torah and Talmud Quran and Hadith Certifying Body Rabbi or Kashrut agencies Islamic authorities Animals Allowed Mammals with split hooves and chew cud All except prohibited animals (pigs) Pork Always forbidden Forbidden Slaughter Method Shechita – quick and humane Dhabihah – humane, prayer said Blood Consumption Blood must be drained Blood must be drained Seafood Only fish with fins and scales All seafood allowed Alcohol Forbidden in large quantities, kosher wine allowed Forbidden altogether Stunning Animals Prohibited before slaughter Allowed in some cases Blessings Rabbi recites blessings during slaughter Blessing “Bismillah” said at slaughter Inspection Must be inspected by a Rabbi post-slaughter Inspected by a Muslim butcher Certification Labels Kosher certification labels (OU, OK, etc.) Halal certification labels Mixing Meat & Dairy Strictly prohibited Allowed Meat & Poultry Must be certified kosher Must be certified halal Gelatin Only from kosher animals Must be from halal sources Enzymes Must come from kosher animals/plants Must come from halal animals/plants Processing Equipment Must be kosher-certified No strict rules, as long as halal Kosher/Halal Symbols Kosher: circled K, OU symbol Halal: H in a circle, halal logo Market Availability Common in Jewish markets and communities Common in Muslim markets and communities

So you would have All Christians leave government service, not work with or support any government or government supported charities and let corrupt positions run the government with no opposition from good men. If every Christian believed as you do we would still have slavery, children working in mines and factories, a working day of 12 hours. These are things that Christians changed through government.

Jesus was not accepting flattery and was making a point about holiness. He was not saying he was not ' good ', but was pointing to the sorce of goodness.

In other words get involved in politics.

MKay I make a suggestion. Check out the Christianityexplored web site for churches in your area that are or have run this course and get in touch with the nearest church. ditto the Alpha course. I suggest this simple so you can attend a course on Christianity where questions can be asked and where one can get to know some people from the church running the course. It is a way of getting familiar with people before attending the church.

A heavenly minded man is of the most earthly use ! and give a man a fish and you feed him once, teach him to fish and you feed him for life. What you are advocating is to just feed the hungry and bind up wounds, when true Christian love would teach the hungry how to better earn a living and teach the sick how not to get sick through hygiene etc. It was Christians in politics who brought women and children out of the mines, who limited the working day, establish education for the ignorant poor, stopped the western slave trade.

Where do chapters and verse numbers come from:- "But the chapters in translations of the New Testament used today go back just to the beginning of the thirteenth century, when a lecturer at the University of Paris, named Stephen Langton, introduced major divisions into the Latin Bible. Verse divisions were not to come along for another three centuries. In 1551, a Parisian printer named Robert Stephanus published a Greek and Latin edition of the New Testament in which each chapter was divided into separate verses. These are the verse divisions still in use today. They first appeared in an English translation in the 1560 Geneva Version." from https://ehrmanblog.org/when-did-the-bible-get-chapters-and-verses/ You believe that a Roman Catholic Lecturer and a printer were inspired by God to ' Add ' these to the bible. A question for you. Please read Romans 14:7-13 and explain how you are able to judge and accuse other Christians?

The claim that Christians should not be involved in the world is in direct opposition to Jesus's command to love those who are in the world. Do you deliberately shut your eyes to the evil and suffering in the world and say it has nothing to do with me? If a neighbour is in need would you help them? Do you actually support the preaching of the gospel and are you aware that being saved always is followed by a changed life. That new life affects people, it causes ripples of change. Yet you would have Christians not seek the opposition to evil, the encouragement of beneficial life styles. It is unloving to not tell a sinner about Jesus. It is equally unloving not to tell a people or society of the harm they are doing to themselves. Jesus loved the sinner, do you,

One that has to be mentioned because of its importance is being an active part of the local body of believers. Hebrews 10: 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Our faith. our hope, is linked to our service of others in the local community of Christians, your local church.

Discussion is good, but those making claims have to substantiate their claims with evidence. There is ample evidence from established historian as to the accuracy of the bible and of the resurrection. If someone is still rejecting evidence one has to ask why, what spiritual reasons are causing them to disbelief. It is a spiritual battle that we cannot win, our task is to present Jesus, it is then in God's hands.

The Web site for this is:-https://www.wintershall.org.uk/ They do several p.ays and are in Trafalgar square every year.