I am back!
on 11/22/08 7:09 am - Slapout, AL
You know what? I NEVER put anyone down and I won't you but.................
You are the most pitiful person on earth it seems. I feel so sorry for you. The bible says that EVERY knee SHALL bow and EVERY tongue SHALL confess that Jesus Christ IS LORD! It may not be now, it may not be in a month, but at SOME point in your life OR during the great judgment AFTER the Christians are ruptured away (yes I believe in God and HIS WORD), but YOU WILL BOW TO HIM AND YOU WILL DECLARE THAT HE IS GOD! I can guarantee this! I love you but you are nothing but a trouble maker and I pitty you. Yes! I pitty you. I am tired of you coming to "YOUR ALABAMA BOARD" only to bash people. You NEVER post or reply to anything good. As "la_cadena" told someone else, you remind me of the bully jumping on the fat kid in school because you feel insecure. Let Brandy post what she wants to post and if you don't like it, jump off this board and stay on YOUR R&R Board. You know this isn't like me, but I am FED UP!! I am about to leave myself because of this mess! God is LOVE and I DO love you, but girl, get yourself a life and leave Brandy's alone! Stop ridiculing her! She IS human and SHE DOES have feelings!! This is a public forum and we are all here for support. Not this kind of garbage. I know it isn't a "Christianity Forum" either, but MOST of this board is made up of Christians and that is the way it is. Deal with it. We don't usually go over to the R&R board posting scriptures and bashing with our bible verses now do we? Most of us have lives. Let's just live those said lives and move on. God love ya kiddo! So do I!
Oh! And yes! God did know that He created Satan, the devil, hatred (that would one day try to rule this earth) and sin. He KNEW that HE would give MAN a FREE WILL to choose too. That free will belongs to all of us. Hell was NOT created for US. When Lucifer, the angel, was created, God made him beautiful. He was so beautiful to look at that he himself thought he was like God and would make himself like God. When he thought himself as equal as God, God threw him out of heaven and created a place of torment for him because NO ONE is equal to God. God knew this WOULD happen, but he hated it. That is why hell was created. God knows evil exist, but in the life to come (after the rapture of the saints) there will be nothing but peace. Heaven is a beautiful place. We have a free will to choose where our EVERLASTING LIFE will be....heaven or hell. The choice is ours/yours. Where will you spend eternity? I can promise you this...it will be one of the 2 above. There is no alternative!!!
WHY won't God do away with evil? This is a very good question. Since evil entered the world through the hand of man rather than God, God cannot be the source of evil. The only way to get rid of evil then, is to get rid of the evil-doers. But this is something God won't do....at least not yet.
Why? Because it violates man's freedom. Man was created with that free will that I just mentioned above! This does not mean that man is free to do whatever he wants. In other words, this freedom is meant to be a commandment to love God and AND our neighbors. Put another way, man is free to obey or disobey God, but obedience leads to life and disobedience to death.
Going back to the book Genesis, God created man for fellowship and communion. This was/is a love freely given between man and God. If this love were not given freely, than the freedom we possess would not really be free. It would be coercion and God would be Coercer instead of Father. BUT LET ME TELL YOU! I call Him Father! LORD! His blood has washed my sins away and I am so glad/thankful that I have the freedom to call him Lord. It helps to understand how evil really works. In theological terms we say that evil has no ontological reality/nature of being. What this means is that evil doesn't exist except as a distortion of the good. The greater the distortion, the more radical the evil. Think of it this way. Evil is like a cancer. Cancer overtakes the good cells. It draws from the life and energy of healthy cells and twists and distorts them. Evil works the same way. How does evil enter the world? It starts with a lie. A lie is a false picture of reality. Evil is born when man puts his hand to shaping the world in the image of the lie. He believes the lie is the truth, and refashions the world to conform to the lie. Needless to say AND sad to say, but evil causes great suffering in the world. This happens on an individual level, say, murder, hatred, fighting etc. and on a corporate level like Nazism or Communism. Clear thinkers, meaning those who know the difference between truth, between reality, and a lie are obligated to fight the evil when they confront it. I'm not fighting you. I'm fighting the EVIL spirits that try to control. I can! Ephesians 6:10-18 tells me to put on the whole armour of God that I may be able to stand when the enemy/devil comes.
I have to take up for OUR BOARD and OUR POSTERS!
With God's GREAT love!!
RANDALL
edited to add a scripture
1-if god is so loving, why would he/her ruptured his/her followers. sounds as bloody as the many many wars and plagues in his name.
if you mean rapture- SHOW ME ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT SAYS THAT if you can show me one place in the BIBLE where it says people will be raptured not anything else but RAPTURED i will LEAVE this board forever. you can even pick the version you want to use. king james,nkjv, whatever.
game on!
I'm fighting the EVIL spirits that try to control.
good luck with that. i have fought thos evil spirits since surgery. the only thing that gets rid of them is citrus magic or frebreze.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 giving us such a clear description of the rapture.
There are a huge number of words that don't appear in the Bible, including the word “Bible.” Because God's Word was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, one could truthfully say that no English words are found in the Bible. Let's take a look at 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 in the original Greek:
4:16 oti autos o kurios en keleusmati en fwnh arcaggelou kai en salpiggi qeou katabhsetai ap ouranou kai oi nekroi en cristw anasthsontai prwton 4:17 epeita hmeis oi zwntes oi perileipomenoi ama sun autois arpaghsomeqa en nefelais eis apanthsin tou kuriou eis aera kai outws pantote sun kuriw esomeqa 4:18 wste parakaleite allhlous en tois logois toutois
I don't see the dead in Christ rising, Jesus descending from Heaven, or us meeting Him in the air. They're right; the word “rapture” is nowhere to be found. All I see is gobbledygook.
For the record, the word “rapture” comes from the Latin word rapturo, which is a translation of the Greek verb "caught up" that’s found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. You can call it the “pre-trib rapture,” the “pre-trib rapturo,” or the “pre-trib caught up” - it's all the same thing.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck
*raises hand* I can both read and understand what's there. It does NOT necessarily support the idea of a "rapture" the way it's generally taught in Fundamentalist circles. I apologize for not going into any detail right now. Unfortunately my night-night meds are kicking in and I'll soon be typing gibberish. But I'd be happy to come back to it if someone's interested.
(And I'm serious about wanting to know who here knows koine' Greek.)
It's not the Sabbath here. It's just another work day for us (first of the week actually). The Sabbath over here was 2 days ago and I was working then as well. I'm a heathen in several religions.
Elizabeth
Back in the U.S.A.
"I have lost the lumbering hulk that I once was. I don't hide behind my clothes or behind my door. I am part of life's rich tapestry not an observer." Kirmy
LOLOLOL! That's hilarious! You can't guarantee and promise all that mumbo jumbo man-invented crap! I was dead before I was born and it was of no consequence to me. How SAD for you that you can't enjoy THIS life without feeling the need for an imaginary friend watching over you and feeling the need for a life beyond this (which isn't, I can ASSURE you). Just because you NEED to imagine these things to make yourself feel complete does NOT make them so. Just because some antiquated book has this scripture supposedly written by your "God" does NOT make it true.
PLEASE do NOT pity me. I'm not the needy one here. If you think that's condescending, think of how condescending you are by ASSuming I'm in need of your pity. My life can't POSSIBLY be complete unless I BOW to YOUR LORD. What-evah!
Nice of you to step out in front of the other LITTLE people and take the beatings from the REAL people. Finally, you man up.
