::sings:: I’m so glad - Jesus set me free…
I’m so glad - Jesus set me free
I’m so glad - Jesus set me free
I’m so glad - Jesus set me free
singing Glory Hallelujah! Jesus set me free!
After reading the comment from Ichabod about coffee, tea, and meat being verboten in a Seventh-Day Adventist magazine he’d looked at, I was moved to say a few things.
Now, I have nothing in particular against the Seventh-Day Adventist church in general. Rather good folks. I think their focus is a bit off, but they might say that about me in return. 
I also don’t have a problem with folks who believe that eating this, that, or the other thing is unhealthy. Some say it’s chocolate cake, others say its rutabegas. :::shrugs:::
I do have a problem with folks saying, “Don’t eat this and that because the Bible says…”
Rubbish (with a caveat).Jesus said that what goes into a man does not contaminate him. (Mark 7:18-20) Peter’s vision in Acts 10 reflects this. Food does not make us unclean. The Apostles gave the following restrictions to the Gentiles: “abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well”(Acts 15:29, 21:25).
Paul and James also admonished believers that if they deemed they were required to keep one part of the Law, they were then debtors to the whole of the Law. The Law hasn’t been nullified, it’s been fulfilled (Romans 7:6, Gal. 5:13, James 2, etc.) If you’re really into this stuff, check out The Law and the Christian and Does the NT contradict… both fairly technical but worth reading.
I wonder what God thinks of us. He’s given all of humanity a great gift - bought at the greatest price - yet many refuse it outright. Those who do accept the gift are afraid to take it out of the box and impose all sorts of restrictions that God never intended.
I’m so glad to be walking in the freedom of Jesus!!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:10 am
“I wonder what God thinks of us.”
Sinners! Sinners in the hands of an angry God! And He holds you over the flames of Hell like you would a spider or some other loathsome insect!
Your happy thought for the day!
February 21st, 2008 at 5:57 am
Does He? ::arches eyebrow::
Or does He gently reach out to rescue the moths dancing far too close to the flames?
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:22 am
Bi-polar at best, He is……
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 am
“After reading the comment from Ichabod about coffee, tea, and meat being verboten in a Seventh-Day Adventist magazine he’d looked at, I was moved to say a few things.”
You shouldn’t do that! I’m a bad influence!
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:47 am
And since I’m feeling wordy this morning…
“Or does He gently reach out to rescue the moths dancing far too close to the flames?”
And He created those flames, didn’t he?
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 am
He didn’t create them for you.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 am
“He didn’t create them for you.”
Really doesn’t matter, does it? You yourself admit He created them. And why? Eternal torture.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:41 am
I was actually praying about this just a few minutes before you posted that last comment.
I have a question for you. What makes you think that you should be rewarded by God, rather than punished?
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
“I have a question for you. What makes you think that you should be rewarded by God, rather than punished?”
Why does it have to be either?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
Let me get this straight. You expect neutrality?
For just you, or for everyone?
February 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 am
“Let me get this straight. You expect neutrality?”
Benefit of the doubt, perhaps? And what’s wrong with neutrality?
And you never really answered a previous question - why isn’t death enough?
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Can someone who knows everything there is to know about you give you the “benefit of the doubt”?? That’s something reserved for something you’re unsure about. For example, I gave you the benefit of the doubt when I invited you to come and visit sometime… trusting that you’re not an axe murderer
But God, who knows EVERYTHING, can’t give the benefit of the doubt… He knows.
What’s wrong with neutrality is that neither justice nor mercy is possible within it. There’s no good, there’s no evil; everything becomes acceptable and nothing is praiseworthy.
Why isn’t death enough? I’m not sure why you think it would be…
But maybe it is “enough”.
We tend to see death as an ending, because to those left alive it marks the cessation of contact with the departed.
Some pass from life into death. Some pass from life into life.
What do you want? To die forever, or to live forever?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
“What do you want? To die forever, or to live forever?”
Well ma’am, all I can say is this: I’ve read the Bible, and other Christian books. Despite what they say, what you and other Christians say, the picture painted of God (yours) is not very flattering. And if it came down to kissing ass eternally (living forever) or the grave being IT, I’ll take the grave.
“Why isn’t death enough? I’m not sure why you think it would be…”
Once again, why not enough? Even being the nasty old (47 almost) pagan that I am, I don’t kick a man when he’s down, nor do I take vengence.