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Mystery Of The Gospel

The reason why churches do not teach about the Mystery which is Christ in you the hope of glory-Col 1:27 is because it would totally destroy the churches that taught it. Every believer is the church and makes up the body of Christ who is the head. No one in the body is more or less important than the other. The institutional church of today does not reflect what the Apostle Paul taught according to the revelation of Christ.

Why Is Faith So Important
	> I don't understand how you can say > Scripture is ... not inspired by God. i said it was written by humans. maybe god told them what to write, maybe he didn't. and if he did tell them what to write, i dont know how much the stuff coming out of the sausage grinder of translators resembles what went in

Why Is Faith So Important
	> Ty, writers from scripture YES, modern day writers NO! what's the difference? still humans

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	On what factual basis do you so confidently write this? short answer: Hebrew -> Greek -> English long answer is more complex. Hopefully you already know the pedigree of your translation of choice

Why Is Faith So Important

kathr says: "as YOU eat that meat YOU will be able to discern between good and evil, truth and lie." why do so many wholesome, devout christians come to differing conclusions about what is true? kathr says: "."well, so and so said this or that"...I just took their word for it". It won't fly!" i like how you think. but don't we regularly cite writers from scripture? aren't we expected to accept those men as authorities and "just [take] their word for it"?

Why Is Faith So Important
	> Faith is believing what GOD said as being TRUE. believing god would be easy enough, if we knew what he said. all we have are self-proclaimed experts who disagree with each other on how to interpret 3rd generation translations of ancient men who claimed to speak for God. the end result is countless sects and religions with varying degrees of tolerance/hostility for those who believe differently.

Why Is Faith So Important

"if someone says they are Christian but rejects all or some of the fundamentals are they still Christian?" i suppose that's what judgement day would be for, warwick. jesus said there are only two fundamentals - to love god and neighbor as one's self. i think somebody who meets these two fundamental commandments is a christian. i think those who obsess about other things are more like pharisees. but we digress - this thread is supposed to be about faith.

Why Is Faith So Important
	"I ask you, again: If God isn't creator did matter create itself or is it eternal?" i have no idea. but if god can be "uncreated," then so can a rock.

Why Is Faith So Important
	"If God did not create is matter eternal or did it create itself?" i'm not here to debate evolution. sincere people who want to follow god end up wandering in confusion and disagreement. wouldn't it be kind of nice if god would show us all the same strait and narrow way? until then, only those who believe what warwick believes can be saved, and those in "liberal churches" are lost.

Why Is Faith So Important

warwick i just re-read your 6/6 post that says every christian mostly agrees except that mormons, jehovah's witnesses, liberal churches, and people from other cultures don't count. you prove my point that this system is confusing. you profess to be a follower of christ yet you condemn and exclude those who understand scripture differently such narrow-mindedness and pride leads to crucifixions and inquisitions

Why Is Faith So Important
	"Easier to believe God made it than it made itself." if something as complex and wonderful as a child couldn't come into being without a creator, then something as complex and wonderful as god must have a creator too. or did god create himself?

Why Is Faith So Important
	"if you believe there is no Creator God you must believe that everything made itself." by that logic, if you believe god has no creator, you must believe that god made himself.

Why Is Faith So Important
	Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Is Faith So Important

why did god arrange things like this? there's a slew of religious texts with overlapping and opposing ideals, thousands of religions, millions of churches, and us mortals have to choose amongst the confusion. even devout christians in this very discussion thread disagree with each other and diss other interpretations and denominations. wouldn't you think god could come up with something "testable, repeatable, observable" for those people who don't want to re-crucify him?

Why Is Faith So Important
	"Faith has absolutely nothing to do with believing a lie without quilt." It has everything to do with believing something that may or may not be a lie. It may be that "God's Word is Truth", but what is God's word? How do you know what you think is God's word isn't a lie?

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	warwick, isn't god immortal? kreid says "listen to that inner silent voice". what does that mean, listen to silence?

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	> If you mean operational science-testable, > repeatable, observable-there is no > disagreement [between Science and > Christianity]. so is prayer testable, repeatable, and observable? every morning, could i ask god to immediately send rain to a drought-stricken state, and expect repeatable results?

Why Is Faith So Important
	deb said "God doesn't make it confusing. People do". i think god makes it confusing. this is his system, isn't it? wouldn't it clear things up if god hung around in a temple in Jerusalem and let us line up to ask him questions?