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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11377)	2/28/2002 10:33:52 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

LOVE 1 Corinthians 13 1 If I speak in the tongues [1] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, [2] but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 John 4:7-21 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son [2] into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for [3] our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11377)	2/28/2002 10:37:38 PM
From: Grandk	Respond to of 28931

Why the hang up with eternal damnation? The way I see it, eternity is just the extension of your life on earth. If you sowed seeds of love and life on earth, than you will reap the harvest due to you. God judges the heart. If you truly are a sincere person and understand what it is to love another with their best interests in mind and with no regard for yourself, more power to you.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11377)	2/28/2002 10:46:57 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Not a whirlwind tour of a brief 3 yrs of a ministry , but for nearly 1/2 century. This "whirlwind tour" was for a very specific purpose. God is love. Through Christ the doors of heaven have been opened and we may all experience the love of God. Love is the answer 2MAR$. Love in righteousness. Love in truthfulness. Love is an action not an emotion.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11377)	3/1/2002 6:20:44 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

from what i've seen, buddhism really yanks the proverbial chains of both christians and moslems alike. now why is that?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11377)	3/1/2002 11:36:02 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 28931

Turning the other cheek and walking the extra mile were child's play compared to the forgiveness and goodwill required of buddhists... "Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will -- abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves." --Majjhima Nikaya 21 accesstoinsight.org