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Pat-rebel_lady -> RE: The Ultimate Conspiracy (6/13/2008 8:29:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mapachito13
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ORIGINAL: 1dblthnk02
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ORIGINAL: Pat-rebel_lady
I choose ‘Religion: Other Religions and/or Cross-less Christianity’; Namely, Cross-less Christianity.
Why would this appeal to God's "elect?"
I think it is a Christianity where its all happy-happy-joy-joy and we don't pick up our cross and follow Him. We don't die unto ourselves. There's no sacrifice in our life for Him. We say a little prayer and we think that gives us a "Get Out of Hell" free card. We are more concerned with the speck in my brother's eye than in the plank in our own. Everyone else needs to change, but not me, because I am a Christian!
Good post!
I would add: Hebrews 5:11-14;
5:11
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn.
5:12
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
5:13
Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
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Colossians 2:1-8; which is designed and geared to take ones mind off of Colossians 2:9-15:
2:1
I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.
2:2
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
2:3
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
2:4
I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.
2:5
For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how orderly you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
2:6
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him,
2:7
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
2:10
and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
2:11
In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ,
2:12
having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
2:13
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
2:14
having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.
2:15
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
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