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In my Tuesday men's fellowship, a brother said this.  So is this what the Christian life is about?

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And you said; Yep, with ice cream for all!

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Rules are good. Just need have awareness of positive ones to enjoy, as much as negative ones that say do not enjoy, stating with enthusiasm the do's, the can do's. 

Can't hardly get enough of them can do's!

Can do's and the secret handshake - what a deal eh?

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We only had one rule to follow in the Garden of Eden, and we ignored it. 

You can see the result to this day, so maybe those rules are a good thing to follow and a bad thing to ignore.

There just may be a purpose for them that is beyond our immediate understanding.

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53 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

In my Tuesday men's fellowship, a brother said this.  So is this what the Christian life is about?

Fig-Leaves .... man loves laws. Man must have some sort of standard by which he can be measured and justified. But please .. not God's standard ... . While God shows a Nation overcome by Law, the Christians are looking for more laws.

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6 minutes ago, FJK said:

We only had one rule to follow in the Garden of Eden, and we ignored it. 

You can see the result to this day, so maybe those rules are a good thing to follow and a bad thing to ignore.

There just may be a purpose for them that is beyond our immediate understanding.

Or.... we can believe Romans Chapter 7 and thank the Lord that the whole Law was nailed to the cross (Eph.2:15)

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Laws are what define what sin is. 

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7 minutes ago, AdHoc said:

Or.... we can believe Romans Chapter 7 and thank the Lord that the whole Law was nailed to the cross (Eph.2:15)

So what do you say that means?

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1 hour ago, Vine Abider said:

In my Tuesday men's fellowship, a brother said this.  So is this what the Christian life is about?

This sounds like a pretty unenthusiastic view of the Christian walk. Not exactly sure where he is coming from in saying this?

Is he coming from a strict religious system or making an observation in a more general sense?

I would hope the things we are supposed to be doing we enjoy doing, and the things we don't enjoy doing the Lord leads us along to see the wisdom in those things, while some of the things we enjoy doing are of the flesh and will lead to destruction, like eating too much ice cream :)

 

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1 hour ago, Vine Abider said:

In my Tuesday men's fellowship, a brother said this.  So is this what the Christian life is about?

I once saw a video from a funny preacher. I can post it elsewhere maybe. He said: I was not comfortable with love. He had to have the best church, most souls, best this best that. And not get up at 6 to pray an hour. No get up at 5 and pray 2 hours. And to illustrate it he asked a guy to come to the front and with every thing he had to do he gave him a huge plant that was standing there. So in the end you couldnt see his face. He carried loads of plants and almost fell over. And then he helped him and put em away and said: Who has felt like this guy?

He said: What they taught me in Bible school wasn't bad, like pray and read the Bible, but they didn't think about the filter system. Do this do that or else God hates you. And he was already set free from sins he used to do. It was not about that.

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