JesusFreak1986

Thank you for your responses. Please continue to post them. i'm just concred why books are left out of the bible. My friend wonders if there i a reason why the bible wasn't put together the way it is now. Until everyone who wrote the books was out of the picture.

Why are books quoted in the bible, that are not in the bible. In the new tetement, as well as the old testement, there are quotes, that are not from biblical books. example: Jude 14 quotes from the book of Enoch. The book of Enoch is not in the bible. Now one of my friends thinks that in his book, Enoch exposed or revealed something that the people who put the bible together, did not want the public to know. So it was rejected. This is weighing on my brain so I'm just looking for clarifaction.

I don't think that depression is a sin, but the result of constant sin. Aslo many people have ilnesses where the only medicene has side effects including depression. But depression can teach you a very important lesson. Lean on the Lord for he is always at your side.

The reasons Mormons pratice this goes along with their belief in three seperate kindoms of heaven. They belive that if they preform baptizmes for the dead, than that person's sprit can enter the highest kingdom. But the scripture says otherwise.

The bible say's that God speaks to us through dreams, and he can even misister to us that way. However, Satan can give you dreams too, so be aware.

Well Mecaj, personally I wouldn't distance myself. Jesus instructs us to love others in the same way that he does. Which means we love with no regard to circumstance. I don't think many people can accomplish that task. But , if God constantly tries to woo unbelivers back to him, why shouldn't we do the same?

Hate and dislike are actually very diffrent. For example if you dislike someone, that just means that you perfer not to be around them. Dislike is basically saying that you and someone else just approach life diffrently but that all OK. Hate on the other hand is where you dispise a person inside and out. If you hate someone, you would probably want nothing more than to hurt them bad. A lot of times hate goes beyond feelings, and people actually act on their violent urges. Hence, that is the reason that Jesus warns us about it in the bible. It can destroy you similar to acohol.

Well pizza, I have a few comments. First I don't think that many birth control methods are wrong, for example: A man and his wife have been married for 5 years, they show their love for each other very often. However, they are not mentally ready, or finacially ready for a child. So the man uses a condom, and his wife takes the pill. This way they can express their love & attraction for each other, without throwing their life into turmoil.

Thanks Eddie, I had never thoguht of it that way. You cleared up the confusion that I had. I was wondering if you think that someone can get into heaven without repentance. Very recently, the Lord called someone close to me home after a eight month struggle with cancer. I know she belived in God and Jesus, she told me she had accepted Christ as her Lord and savior. However, I never saw repentance. I think the faith she had was all she had. If I read the scriptures right, her acceptance of Jesus should have saved her soul. I would like to know what you all think.

When I hear you guys talking about repentance is nessacary for salvation, I'm confused. I know that by grace we are saved, not of works. There is nothing we can do to earn salvation. When you say that to recive salvation, we must repent, it sounds like you're saying we have to earn it. I was taught that " Salvation is a gift, you cannot earn it." If you must repent, then why did Jesus say what he did to the theif on the cross? That guy didn't have time to repent.

Has anyone ever wondred if they would be Chritians if you were subject to the same brutal persecution that the Romans used against the first followers of Jesus? Over in the middle east people are. You should conisder your feelings of your faith if it could get you thrown in jail or even excecuted.

We are not punished for anyone's sins execpt our own. We have very little if any control over what our parents do. The bible also says that every man/ woman is accountable for their own actions. I can't recall the scripture that well, but even if we aren't punished for our parents sins, we still need to ask for forgivness. "There is noe righteous not even one...All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Romans 3: 10,23

Yeah, that's one of the many awesome things about God. He's universial. He can be related to in so many diffrent ways. It's nice to know that even if some of the thinking methods are strange, they still prompt people to have a relationship with the lord. In my mind, that a win no matter how you slice it.

Good points Luke, but still I think it's best to refer to God as our father. Because that is the way the bible describes him hundreds of times. Besides, if he created all of us, how can we not be in a sense, his children?

Every Church I remember being to has had more than one pastor. Sure they have the senior pastors who run the church. But in almost every church you find today you have pastors, youth pastors, senior pastors, and childrens ministries. Which are usually led by yet another pastor.

Wow. I had never thought of the Trinity that way. The only connection I had made between God and the Matrix, is that the Holy Trinity shares it's name with a hot character. I have to say I have a hard time thinking of god as a computer geek. But, it is a pretty clever idea!

God knows our hearts and minds better than we do. Very true God knows people in way we cannot. It is impossible for someone to hide who they truly are from God. However, a friend of mine says he knows a man who is walking around with a 9 mm bullet in his brain. He tried to commit scuiside but it didn't work. Which in my opininon goes to show you, that God has control over eveything including life, and death.

You make many good points OLD SCHOOL. I have met with many missionaries, they never told me any of these things. The big thing they tried to get me to do was be baptized into their church. They said that it was a matter of athourity. Other churches don't have the authority to preform acts in God's name. But they do because they can trace the geneology back to apostles, who recived the athourity form Jesus himself. They told me if I did not do this. I could not recive salvation. They used John 3:5 to prove their case "Assuredly I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the sprit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Have you had experinces with Mormons that made you uneasy OLD SCHOOL?

I had thought that Mormons were Christians. They say they belive in God, Jesus, and the fact that salvation is centred around his attonment. But, if they really belive that Joseph Smith holds the keys to the kningdom of God, I think they're in for a big suprise. The way of salvation is clear in the scritures here's 3: " I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6 ".... Belive on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. You and your household." - Acts 16:31 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has risen him from the dead, you will be saved. - Romans 10:9

Something that I'm unlcear of is, If Mormons believe in God, they belive in Jesus Christ as the son of God, and accept him into their hearts as their personal lord and savior, how can they not be Christians?

Something that I'm unlcear of is, If Mormons believe in God, they belive in Jesus Christ as the son of God, and accept him into their hearts as their personal lord and savior, how can they not be Christians?

I for one, believe that God can definetly speak through dreams. How else would you describe people who have had preminnisions. They see the future in percise detail in their dreams. Who else has the power to show them that execpt God?

I for one, believe that God can definetly speak through dreams. How else would you describe people who have had preminnisions. They see the future in percise detail in their dreams. Who else has the power to show them that execpt God?

Somwehere in the bible it says, once saved, you could not fall away. Even if you could, there would be no coming back. For to do so, Jesus would have to be on earth and crucified again, putting him to open shame. There is no way that God would allow that. Once was enough, Once and for all.

No Natt, I don't still go to the Mormon church. And I'm very positive that I never will again, Mormons have never been anything but nice to me, but I could not follow beliefs that Undermine Scripture.