Must leave. Company.
Let me say this....
A bible is not necessary to be saved....there are other methods.
Not everyone will be interested in theology.
You are, I am, but not everyone is.
But they're still saved !
The curious case of John 5:4
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Let me say this....
A bible is not necessary to be saved....there are other methods.
Not everyone will be interested in theology.
You are, I am, but not everyone is.
But they're still saved !
Eternally Grateful
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If this is all she was saying I would agree.
But if you go back, She is saying more than this.
In fact. @Matthias made a comment about representing God as his children. and saying Gods children will not be able to represent him without the bible (this is after salvation) this was her response
Plainly saying the bible does not represent Jesus
Later @Matthias said the bible represents the heart of God
@Ritajanice again said it does not
The rest I agree with is, she is right, but to deny the bible as being the heart of God. it is GODS WORDS how can that not be the heart of God.
so you see it is deeper than what you think
An incident from my life as a student. I missed student orientation (I was working three hundred miles away and couldn’t be on campus for it and so was excused by the registrar from attending.) Apparently, all students are told during orientation that they should always bring their Bible to class.
One day one of the other students (not the student whom I spoke about in the OP) came to a night class I was enrolled in without a Bible. I was bleary eyed and struggling to stay awake after a long and trying day at work. Suddenly I was aware that the professor had stopped his lecture and was saying to the class, “This is unacceptable. You know better than to come to my class like that.”
Startled, my first thought was that he was speaking to me. He was looking in my direction. As I prepared to explain and apologize for my drowsiness the professor continued, “Go back to your dorm room and get your Bible.” I didn’t live on campus. I lived thirty miles away from campus. He wasn’t speaking to me, but I’ve never forgotten what he was doing for the careless teenager studying to become a pastor* who came to work in the classroom without his “tools,“ the scriptures.
* I had no intention of ever becoming a pastor. That’s not why I was attending the college.
One day one of the other students (not the student whom I spoke about in the OP) came to a night class I was enrolled in without a Bible. I was bleary eyed and struggling to stay awake after a long and trying day at work. Suddenly I was aware that the professor had stopped his lecture and was saying to the class, “This is unacceptable. You know better than to come to my class like that.”
Startled, my first thought was that he was speaking to me. He was looking in my direction. As I prepared to explain and apologize for my drowsiness the professor continued, “Go back to your dorm room and get your Bible.” I didn’t live on campus. I lived thirty miles away from campus. He wasn’t speaking to me, but I’ve never forgotten what he was doing for the careless teenager studying to become a pastor* who came to work in the classroom without his “tools,“ the scriptures.
* I had no intention of ever becoming a pastor. That’s not why I was attending the college.
St. SteVen
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Eternally Grateful
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then why are you in a christian chatroom. to tell us how much you hate us?
When your in a bible class. If you do not bring your bible. it would be like showing up to your math class without your math book.
see how different standards are held??
what a Joke. I see rita liked your post. again. What a joke..
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Well, OK.
It does happen.
I took it the wrong way....
Be careful....
Yeah. Been on these boards over 9 years now.
Every now and then we could get burned.
It's life....
Eternally Grateful
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William Tyndale believed that all people should have access to the Bible in their own language. Church authorities did not agree. He died for it.
St. SteVen
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Eternally Grateful
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you do not want to give people the word. they may find out your have been feeding them a bunch of false teachings.
The sufficiency of scripture. Where is that if the Bible is unreliable?
Personally, I want everyone everywhere to read the Bible regularly and I spend a great deal of my time here promoting and encouraging it.
Eternally Grateful
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always be prepaired to give an answer inside and outside of season. (appologetics)
this is impossible apart from he word.
St. SteVen
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Jesus warned that the world would hate us - And for good reason
It seems that Christians make a career out of being completely unlovable. Not all Christians, but way more than there should be. And this has not gone unnoticed. "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi The Sunday Lunch...
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New topic.
Jesus warned that the world would hate us - And for good reason
It seems that Christians make a career out of being completely unlovable. Not all Christians, but way more than there should be. And this has not gone unnoticed. "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi The Sunday Lunch...
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Thanks. You posted it in one of the forums that I don’t have access to reply. I did read it but I’ll have to leave it to others to address some of your thoughts on the matter. It is, as you say, a new topic.
Also from my X / Twitter feed. It was posted on X yesterday but it didn’t appear in my “For You” recommendations from X /Twitter until this afternoon. They know, to a certain extent, what‘s on our minds and they know what we’re talking with people about online. The algorithms have us pretty well pegged.
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St. SteVen
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I couldn't find a hammer, so I used my shoe instead; which was not ideal, but sufficient to the task.
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St. SteVen
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Jesus infers that they are not.
John 5:39 NIV
You study[a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.
These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
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