And yet you believe in death. Isn't this a paradox?
Not at all. What do you believe to be in all these graveyards around the country. It is our physical bodies, which die. Jesus the Christ also came as a child, and lived as a man for a time. With a physical body. You can reject that all you want, your problem. He also was hung on a cross(which as you know is very offensive to some because they do not care to understand it), but He conquered death. As I shall also, not because of anything I have acomplished, but because of His sacrifice, which satan did not recognize or he would have never allowed it to happen. Nor would you.
You believe that Jesus was in heaven, was put into the body of a man, came to Earth, then returned to Heaven. Jesus was the same in the beginning, and in the end. Did he die, or do you simply frame what you believe he was from your Adamic perspective of the body?
SEE "frame" below:
Phil 2: ( by Paul I might add )
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
How can you receive eternal life if you continue to believe that you are your body, and that you can be killed in an instant? If you remove that belief, you will see that you always had eternal life, but chose to believe in the body and death over it, and Jesus was the vessel of God that reminded you. Might it also be that a belief in Heaven as a delayed reward to come after much suffering is all that separates us from creating Hell, and seeing Heaven on Earth, as God promised?
I hope you are passing around some of what you are smokin.
Again my "frame"
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
If I did according to the word of Darrin, that would read:" Dan acknowledges Dan before Dan, Dan will acknowledge Dan before Dan in Dandom"......etc. Sorry, NO GOOD.
To believe in his message is to believe in life, not death. LIFE is the New Testament.
This is a true enough statement. As I have told you. Without Jesus the Christ as the sacrifice, you have no life.
Might it be symbolic that man is indeed Christ, and needs to burn away and consume his belief in his own body, in an internal fire of Christos, or Christ? Isn't this the nature of letting "This little light of mine" burn as brightly as it can?
Here your mumbo jumbo begins again. The communion is a very clear statement.
23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."
25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me."
26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
I am privileged to be able to take communion often, IN REMEMBRANCE OF JESUS. It keeps Jesus death and resurection on the front of my mind. NOT ME ON THE FRONT OF MY MIND.
What is someone called who is not of the middle ground, isn't he called an extremist?
Exactly, which is what Jesus was. He knew the middle ground to be "lukewarm" ground and not fit for the kingdom.
You wish to divide us all into the blessed, and the unblessed, the righteous and the wrong, where your Jesus would only see those as different stages toward the same truth, or looking upon the same thing from different directions
Wrong again. My "wish" as you put it, is not the point. It is God's wish that all be saved, and according to His word, that can happen. He will be the Judge, not me. Jesus was focused and knew His path, and did not stray from that path to "see other directions" as you put it.
Are you sure there is no standing upon the middle ground?
Rev. 3:
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
16 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
21 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
Do you still choose the middle ground?
And no I do not hate you, or anything in you. I hate sin. Even when I sin I hate it. Thank God for the very real blood given for me.
dan
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