Topic: If you break Gods Commandment did you sin?
CowboyGH's photo
Sat 11/20/10 11:56 PM

The purpose of his sacrifice? It was so that you could be forgiven of your sins. And is the reason we no longer have to sacrifice something to be forgiven, we need to accept Jesus' sacrifice as our own, for Jesus was the ULTIMATE sacrifice.


Is the prophacy of the messiah, from the old testament, part of the old covenant which was to be fulfilled?


Where in the old testament does God speak of a New Covenant? Or the old one being fulfilled and replaced by a New Covenant?




Here's the lord telling us of the prophecy of the new covenant in the old testament.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (King James Version)

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Thomas3474's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:01 AM





You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?




You will not find a single verse anywhere in the bible where God or Jesus accepts sin.They reject it always.

People can hear voices,dream,and have visions that God told them this and that but the fact is that the bible is Gods word and the bible is very clear what sin is and how we should live.If people do believe God is talking to him then they should reference the bible to see if what they heard is from God or is from Satan.

Christian homosexuals can and do run churches and bring people to Christ.However people are not coming to homosexuals to learn about homosexuality they are coming to learn about Christ and the bible.If homosexuals claim what they are doing is not wrong they are liars despite who or what position the hold in the church.It is wrong for homosexuals and others who lie to new Christians about what is considered good and bad in the bible and they should not be setting a bad example by telling new Christians they can sin as much as they want and feel good about it.


I don't know how many homosexuals have converted to Christianity over the years and lead a straight life and get married but it is no small number.There is many websites with thousands of ex gays giving testimony.


Everything you do in your life is your choice.Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do anything.You can end or start anything anytime you want.The choice is yours.

CowboyGH's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:02 AM


The purpose of his sacrifice? It was so that you could be forgiven of your sins. And is the reason we no longer have to sacrifice something to be forgiven, we need to accept Jesus' sacrifice as our own, for Jesus was the ULTIMATE sacrifice.


Is the prophacy of the messiah, from the old testament, part of the old covenant which was to be fulfilled?


Where in the old testament does God speak of a New Covenant? Or the old one being fulfilled and replaced by a New Covenant?




Here's the lord telling us of the prophecy of the new covenant in the old testament.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (King James Version)

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.


And here's the prophecies from the old testament fullfilled through Jesus in the New testament.

* He was the "seed of a woman" -- prophecy: Genesis 3:15 and fulfilled: Galatians 4:4.

* He was a descendent of Abraham -- prophecy: Genesis 12:3 and fulfilled Matthew 1:1.

* He was from the tribe of Judah – prophecy: Genesis 49:10 and fulfilled: Luke 3:33.

* He was the heir to the throne of David – prophecy: Isaiah 9:7 and fulfilled Luke 1:32-33.

* His birth place in Bethlehem – prophecy: Micah 5:2 and fulfilled: John 1:2, Luke 2:4-5, 7.

* Born of a virgin – prophecy: Isaiah 7:14 and fulfilled: Luke 1:26-27, 30-31.

Redykeulous's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:03 AM


SHOWING people that it is not the letter of the law that matters, but only belief in God as creator who expects people to be civil to each other and good caretakers of the environment on which they depend for life?

REally - what if???


Well. This would mean that others would be allowed to make inferences, much like you, what the Bible is all about. If it is really up to grabs, what it means, anything goes. It may want to say that people not be civil to each other and take bad care of the planet. Since the text does not make sense, the only thing you can VALIDLY infer, is that the contents can't be taken as gospel. Beyond that everything else is inference.

Sure, you can make that supposition, as long as you alloow others, on a purely inferential basis on the bible, to believe whatever they want to believe, including that god is spreading his teaching through people, through the literal understanding of the bible, or not, or that homosexuality is a sin, or that coveting your neighbours *** is a sin.

In other words, if you seriously believe that anything tangible or sensible can be inferred from the bible, whether you name that thing that you think is the true inference or you don't name it, you allow that a completely incomprehensible text can tell you something, furthermore, that it can teach you moral lessons. This is what you allow, and you can't defend the lesson you learn from it with any more conviction, than another person whose inference involves burnign witches and eating baby's brains.

Really. Let sleeping dogs lie, don't try to make sense of something senseless, and claim it can be done without doing damage.


On the other hand - If people are going to believe that the bible has some value, wouldn't it be better if they believed the bible was only a collection of intermitant historical refernce and some bad and good morality stories about good citizenship?

Wouldn't it be better to accept that faith and beliefs come from within for the benefit of the individual and not from a book to be dictated to all?

Thomas3474's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:05 AM



SHOWING people that it is not the letter of the law that matters, but only belief in God as creator who expects people to be civil to each other and good caretakers of the environment on which they depend for life?

REally - what if???


Well. This would mean that others would be allowed to make inferences, much like you, what the Bible is all about. If it is really up to grabs, what it means, anything goes. It may want to say that people not be civil to each other and take bad care of the planet. Since the text does not make sense, the only thing you can VALIDLY infer, is that the contents can't be taken as gospel. Beyond that everything else is inference.

Sure, you can make that supposition, as long as you alloow others, on a purely inferential basis on the bible, to believe whatever they want to believe, including that god is spreading his teaching through people, through the literal understanding of the bible, or not, or that homosexuality is a sin, or that coveting your neighbours *** is a sin.

In other words, if you seriously believe that anything tangible or sensible can be inferred from the bible, whether you name that thing that you think is the true inference or you don't name it, you allow that a completely incomprehensible text can tell you something, furthermore, that it can teach you moral lessons. This is what you allow, and you can't defend the lesson you learn from it with any more conviction, than another person whose inference involves burnign witches and eating baby's brains.

Really. Let sleeping dogs lie, don't try to make sense of something senseless, and claim it can be done without doing damage.


On the other hand - If people are going to believe that the bible has some value, wouldn't it be better if they believed the bible was only a collection of intermitant historical refernce and some bad and good morality stories about good citizenship?

Wouldn't it be better to accept that faith and beliefs come from within for the benefit of the individual and not from a book to be dictated to all?




Thats great until you die and go to Hell.The bible is all about the after life.


I think all you have to do is look at countries where Christianity is banned to see what kind of life you speak of.

CowboyGH's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:05 AM






You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?




You will not find a single verse anywhere in the bible where God or Jesus accepts sin.They reject it always.

People can hear voices,dream,and have visions that God told them this and that but the fact is that the bible is Gods word and the bible is very clear what sin is and how we should live.If people do believe God is talking to him then they should reference the bible to see if what they heard is from God or is from Satan.

Christian homosexuals can and do run churches and bring people to Christ.However people are not coming to homosexuals to learn about homosexuality they are coming to learn about Christ and the bible.If homosexuals claim what they are doing is not wrong they are liars despite who or what position the hold in the church.It is wrong for homosexuals and others who lie to new Christians about what is considered good and bad in the bible and they should not be setting a bad example by telling new Christians they can sin as much as they want and feel good about it.


I don't know how many homosexuals have converted to Christianity over the years and lead a straight life and get married but it is no small number.There is many websites with thousands of ex gays giving testimony.


Everything you do in your life is your choice.Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do anything.You can end or start anything anytime you want.The choice is yours.


Very true. I thought he was referring to the person then turning away from homosexuality when he found his life long partner. I had not realized it was meaning he remained homosexual and ran the church.

wux's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:07 AM
Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.

This is not nice.

If you can't fight fair, then Jesus will crush you like a coooockroach. Even if you deceive and lie to prove his side. He can abide with this? Seriously. Don't talk big. Talk honest, and stand by what you say. If you can't stand by it, don't say it in the first place. I have no respect for you.

Really. And you want to be taken seriously. Remember, you are arguing on the side of Jesus, you are arguing on trying to make it believable, honestly, and morally and ethically. Jesus taught you to be ethical?

You are not responsible to me to be ethical. I don't know your name, your address, I can't sue you for being so under-handed anyway. But you can't hide from the wrath of God for lying to all these poeple, witnessed by all.

Of course I can't prove it now that you took those out. How could I? but I have two or three witnesses who saw you do this, and one of them maybe willing to testify.

Not in front of a court of law. But in front of the community.

And there is another court where you have to account for lies, and which recognises witnesses, but has no use for them, for it already knows the truth.

Why do you do things like this, man??

CowboyGH's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:08 AM



SHOWING people that it is not the letter of the law that matters, but only belief in God as creator who expects people to be civil to each other and good caretakers of the environment on which they depend for life?

REally - what if???


Well. This would mean that others would be allowed to make inferences, much like you, what the Bible is all about. If it is really up to grabs, what it means, anything goes. It may want to say that people not be civil to each other and take bad care of the planet. Since the text does not make sense, the only thing you can VALIDLY infer, is that the contents can't be taken as gospel. Beyond that everything else is inference.

Sure, you can make that supposition, as long as you alloow others, on a purely inferential basis on the bible, to believe whatever they want to believe, including that god is spreading his teaching through people, through the literal understanding of the bible, or not, or that homosexuality is a sin, or that coveting your neighbours *** is a sin.

In other words, if you seriously believe that anything tangible or sensible can be inferred from the bible, whether you name that thing that you think is the true inference or you don't name it, you allow that a completely incomprehensible text can tell you something, furthermore, that it can teach you moral lessons. This is what you allow, and you can't defend the lesson you learn from it with any more conviction, than another person whose inference involves burnign witches and eating baby's brains.

Really. Let sleeping dogs lie, don't try to make sense of something senseless, and claim it can be done without doing damage.


On the other hand - If people are going to believe that the bible has some value, wouldn't it be better if they believed the bible was only a collection of intermitant historical refernce and some bad and good morality stories about good citizenship?

Wouldn't it be better to accept that faith and beliefs come from within for the benefit of the individual and not from a book to be dictated to all?


The bible is merely a pathway. It is a pathway/instructions to return home with our father. It has history of previously done sinful actions showing us what comes of it so that it will give us more incentive not to do as such.

Redykeulous's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:15 AM






You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?


Yes very good example. And neither was more important. Our obedience is to the law, therefore he listened to his conscience to obey the law. Both equally important for if he wouldn't have listened to his conscience he would not have turned away from his sinful lifestyle, if it wasn't for the law he may not have known exactly what was wrong and or why he was feeling it was wrong in the first place.


You missed the point (he took a "life-partner" in a homosexual relationship)he was obviously doing the work of God which he could not have done had he stayed under the oppression of those who thought he was deviant, sinful, and an abomination to God.

Who in that case would have been the greater abomination - those who interpreted the bible and used that interpretation to oppress another or the homosexual who refused to accept that interpretation and chose instead to follow the spirit from within to end up joining with a same-sex partner and together serving the needs of a poor community?


Redykeulous's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:20 AM


The purpose of his sacrifice? It was so that you could be forgiven of your sins. And is the reason we no longer have to sacrifice something to be forgiven, we need to accept Jesus' sacrifice as our own, for Jesus was the ULTIMATE sacrifice.


Is the prophacy of the messiah, from the old testament, part of the old covenant which was to be fulfilled?


Where in the old testament does God speak of a New Covenant? Or the old one being fulfilled and replaced by a New Covenant?




Here's the lord telling us of the prophecy of the new covenant in the old testament.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (King James Version)

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.


Very good - thank-you for finding and "quoting" these, but would be so good as to explain what you think these mean - in our own words?


CowboyGH's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:23 AM







You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?


Yes very good example. And neither was more important. Our obedience is to the law, therefore he listened to his conscience to obey the law. Both equally important for if he wouldn't have listened to his conscience he would not have turned away from his sinful lifestyle, if it wasn't for the law he may not have known exactly what was wrong and or why he was feeling it was wrong in the first place.


You missed the point (he took a "life-partner" in a homosexual relationship)he was obviously doing the work of God which he could not have done had he stayed under the oppression of those who thought he was deviant, sinful, and an abomination to God.

Who in that case would have been the greater abomination - those who interpreted the bible and used that interpretation to oppress another or the homosexual who refused to accept that interpretation and chose instead to follow the spirit from within to end up joining with a same-sex partner and together serving the needs of a poor community?




I misunderstood your original statement when I replied. I was under the impression the spouse he took wasn't of the same gender. This was NOT the works of the father, for God states plainly that homosexuality is sinful and we are not to do as such, so no he was not OBVIOUSLY doing the work of God. It is sinful and an abomination, God specifically tells us for man not to lay with man as he would a woman.

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Sun 11/21/10 12:27 AM

Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.

This is not nice.

If you can't fight fair, then Jesus will crush you like a coooockroach. Even if you deceive and lie to prove his side. He can abide with this? Seriously. Don't talk big. Talk honest, and stand by what you say. If you can't stand by it, don't say it in the first place. I have no respect for you.

Really. And you want to be taken seriously. Remember, you are arguing on the side of Jesus, you are arguing on trying to make it believable, honestly, and morally and ethically. Jesus taught you to be ethical?

You are not responsible to me to be ethical. I don't know your name, your address, I can't sue you for being so under-handed anyway. But you can't hide from the wrath of God for lying to all these poeple, witnessed by all.

Of course I can't prove it now that you took those out. How could I? but I have two or three witnesses who saw you do this, and one of them maybe willing to testify.

Not in front of a court of law. But in front of the community.

And there is another court where you have to account for lies, and which recognises witnesses, but has no use for them, for it already knows the truth.

Why do you do things like this, man??



I dont know what you claim I edited.I only have one judge and jury and that is God himself.If you claim what I am saying in ungodly,unholy,and against Jesus Christ then it should be easy for you to put me in my place.

I do things like this man because there is a lot of people who come here debating if they should become Christians and hear nothing but a bunch of garbage and lies from Atheist.I provide them with the truth not lies.

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Sun 11/21/10 12:28 AM






You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?




You will not find a single verse anywhere in the bible where God or Jesus accepts sin.They reject it always.

People can hear voices,dream,and have visions that God told them this and that but the fact is that the bible is Gods word and the bible is very clear what sin is and how we should live.If people do believe God is talking to him then they should reference the bible to see if what they heard is from God or is from Satan.

Christian homosexuals can and do run churches and bring people to Christ.However people are not coming to homosexuals to learn about homosexuality they are coming to learn about Christ and the bible.If homosexuals claim what they are doing is not wrong they are liars despite who or what position the hold in the church.It is wrong for homosexuals and others who lie to new Christians about what is considered good and bad in the bible and they should not be setting a bad example by telling new Christians they can sin as much as they want and feel good about it.


I don't know how many homosexuals have converted to Christianity over the years and lead a straight life and get married but it is no small number.There is many websites with thousands of ex gays giving testimony.


Everything you do in your life is your choice.Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do anything.You can end or start anything anytime you want.The choice is yours.


Thank-you for providing an example of one who follows and worships the letter of the law.

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Sun 11/21/10 12:30 AM



The purpose of his sacrifice? It was so that you could be forgiven of your sins. And is the reason we no longer have to sacrifice something to be forgiven, we need to accept Jesus' sacrifice as our own, for Jesus was the ULTIMATE sacrifice.


Is the prophacy of the messiah, from the old testament, part of the old covenant which was to be fulfilled?


Where in the old testament does God speak of a New Covenant? Or the old one being fulfilled and replaced by a New Covenant?




Here's the lord telling us of the prophecy of the new covenant in the old testament.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (King James Version)

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.


Very good - thank-you for finding and "quoting" these, but would be so good as to explain what you think these mean - in our own words?




31. I will come to make a new covenant with Isreal and the house of Judah.
32. It will be different then the one I had with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt which they didn't follow.
33. And this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Isreal and I will put the law in their conscience and hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
34. They will not have to teach one another about me for they will know me and I will forgive them of their iniquity and I will forget the sinful things they have done.
--------------

I briefed them up kinda. But the main message from the passages are there.

CowboyGH's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:38 AM


Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.

This is not nice.

If you can't fight fair, then Jesus will crush you like a coooockroach. Even if you deceive and lie to prove his side. He can abide with this? Seriously. Don't talk big. Talk honest, and stand by what you say. If you can't stand by it, don't say it in the first place. I have no respect for you.

Really. And you want to be taken seriously. Remember, you are arguing on the side of Jesus, you are arguing on trying to make it believable, honestly, and morally and ethically. Jesus taught you to be ethical?

You are not responsible to me to be ethical. I don't know your name, your address, I can't sue you for being so under-handed anyway. But you can't hide from the wrath of God for lying to all these poeple, witnessed by all.

Of course I can't prove it now that you took those out. How could I? but I have two or three witnesses who saw you do this, and one of them maybe willing to testify.

Not in front of a court of law. But in front of the community.

And there is another court where you have to account for lies, and which recognises witnesses, but has no use for them, for it already knows the truth.

Why do you do things like this, man??



I dont know what you claim I edited.I only have one judge and jury and that is God himself.If you claim what I am saying in ungodly,unholy,and against Jesus Christ then it should be easy for you to put me in my place.

I do things like this man because there is a lot of people who come here debating if they should become Christians and hear nothing but a bunch of garbage and lies from Atheist.I provide them with the truth not lies.


AMEN!!

wux's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:43 AM


Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.



I dont know what you claim I edited.



This I quoted from one of your posts, directly, with cut-and-paste:


"So there is really no reason to bring this Jesus person into the picture"

You said this in one of your posts, and now it can be found in none of your posts.

Deny you edited it out, and I will never talk to you again.

Thomas3474's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:43 AM







You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?


Yes very good example. And neither was more important. Our obedience is to the law, therefore he listened to his conscience to obey the law. Both equally important for if he wouldn't have listened to his conscience he would not have turned away from his sinful lifestyle, if it wasn't for the law he may not have known exactly what was wrong and or why he was feeling it was wrong in the first place.


You missed the point (he took a "life-partner" in a homosexual relationship)he was obviously doing the work of God which he could not have done had he stayed under the oppression of those who thought he was deviant, sinful, and an abomination to God.

Who in that case would have been the greater abomination - those who interpreted the bible and used that interpretation to oppress another or the homosexual who refused to accept that interpretation and chose instead to follow the spirit from within to end up joining with a same-sex partner and together serving the needs of a poor community?





He's not doing the work of God.It's like a priest saying I can have a prostitute on the weekend because I saved 20 people in church last Sunday.

When I lived in Seattle it was second in homosexuals only to San Francisco.75% of the people that lived there was Atheist.You had to be tough as nails to claim you were a Christian in that town.I watched churches 90 to 100 years old accept the homosexual movement in gay friendly parts of town.Pastors were giving sermons saying God loves everyone gay or not.Those churches which strived for nearly a 100 years were not only closed but demolished(a real rarity).Funny how those other churches just blocks away that did not accept homosexuality did just fine.

I would say the person who did the greater abomination would be the one who knows what the bible says about homosexuality and not only ignores it but promotes and calls it good.Much like a tree that grown it starts with one person and branches off to the people who follow.


Christians are not oppressing anyone.Nobody in this country has to deal with dealing with biblical judgment as a crime for anything.Homosexuals can be homosexuals in any town in America with out any worry at all about committing any crimes dealing with Christianity.Christians living in that town may not like but who cares?Nothing is forcing you to live there and nobody is going to be waiting inside your house with a bible and the police outside.What you do in your house is your own business and the Christians can't do a thing about it.


If a homosexual wants to keep his homosexual life private and lead others to Christ than that is another story.For all those who follow this person he is just like any other Christian.He isn't promoting homosexuality or calling it good.It is just his sin to deal with much like the millions of Christians who go to church only to go out and get drunk and go whoring.

Hopefully what they will realize what they are doing wrong and lead a better life as there will be a judgment day and prices to pay in this life and the next.


Thomas3474's photo
Sun 11/21/10 12:48 AM



Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.



I dont know what you claim I edited.



This I quoted from one of your posts, directly, with cut-and-paste:


"So there is really no reason to bring this Jesus person into the picture"

You said this in one of your posts, and now it can be found in none of your posts.

Deny you edited it out, and I will never talk to you again.



I was saying that as a point of view from the Jewish people of that time and this is true to this day.Jewish people do not believe in Jesus Christ despite the Old testament prophecy.

But the point is that if you were a Jew that rejected Jesus you certainly wouldn't start a new religion telling other Jews to worship him.You would prevent that from ever starting.


wux's photo
Sun 11/21/10 01:00 AM




Thomas, you edited out two passages from your posts here after I quoted them.



I dont know what you claim I edited.



This I quoted from one of your posts, directly, with cut-and-paste:


"So there is really no reason to bring this Jesus person into the picture"

You said this in one of your posts, and now it can be found in none of your posts.

Deny you edited it out, and I will never talk to you again.



I was saying that as a point of view from the Jewish people of that time and this is true to this day.Jewish people do not believe in Jesus Christ despite the Old testament prophecy.

But the point is that if you were a Jew that rejected Jesus you certainly wouldn't start a new religion telling other Jews to worship him.You would prevent that from ever starting.




That which you just spake of is not the issue. The issue is that I quoted you and you simply deleted he words of your own from your post which I later quoted, and you did this deletion after I posted the quote.

This is what I find unacceptable. You can have your opinion, your faith, your whatever, but in a discussion you can't delete your own words much later after you have said it first.

msharmony's photo
Sun 11/21/10 01:01 AM





You forget God works through people. That may be why I have such a drive to come in here and defend our father...


There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?

Of course if God works through 'people' than God works through all people. So how can you know that God is not working through Abra? How can you know that God is not working through Richard Dawkins, or even Hitler?

Could it possibly be that God does not work through people so much as God intends his message to be ONLY for each individual?

If the message you receive is contrary to that of another Christian individual does that make one you wrong? And how can anyone know if thier message is right or wrong for anyone, including self?

Is it not possible for an individual to read the Bible and develop a stronger faith in God without coming to the same moral conclusions that another might accept as fundamental for belief and salvation?

Could it be that the biblical message pertaining to judging others, is a warning implying that comparing individual beliefs can lead to MIS-judging the beliefs and behaviors of others based on a message that was meant for the individual alone?

After all, if God works through people and people have no idea what God's intensions are, then wouldn't it be wrong to try to change what a person believes since that belief is guided by the will of God?






There it is again, the intervening God. God works through poeple - but which people?

Some may think that Gods' work comes through people who tell others what is necessary to please God and find salvation? And which set of ideas pertaining to those objectives would any other believer or a non-believer have to embrace?


No, nothing with intervening. Intervening would be God literally taking over someone's body and forcing them to do something or not do something. Yes God helps us through our lives, you can call that intervening if you wish. But God in no way do my first example, he doesn't take anyone's free will away, he doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. We ALWAYS have a choice.

And with your comment on doing God's will. If you have on your heart to do something in particular, if it coincides with what is said in the bible then you can trust it is from our father. If it doesn't agree with his teachings and or laws then you can guarantee it is Satan tempting you to do something you ought not do.


And what of my other questions? You say
...if it coincides with what is said int he bible...


Either you are guided by the holy spirit or you are guided by the letter of the law - which is it?

If an individual feels the holy spirit is guiding him to act in a particualar way, what need does that individual have of the bible?

Is not the holy spirit God, and does not God work through all people and might God want an individual to take some action without consulting the bible - which that individual might interpret incorrectly, and decide NOT to follow his own feeling that was guided through the spirit of God?????


I don't understand your question.

Example
=======

Someone is giving you hell all the time. Always finding something to pick at you about. Eventually a lot of people would end kicking the crap out of the person. But you know that little feeling inside of you where you feel it's wrong, but you're doing it any ways, that would be your conscience. In this scenario your conscience would tell you to just go on if your conscience is with the lord. And this can be personally verified for the word of God tells you to turn the other cheek... eg., walk away. Since both work together, your conscience and the word, then you can guarantee that it is what God wanted and that it was God speaking to your conscience and not Satan tempting you to do some sinful action.


A better example:
An individual is torn because the people most important to that individual are committed Christians who believe that being gay is a choice that is influenced by the devil and the gay person is a deviant and sinful person who is condemed unless they change.

But the individual has been unable to change and has spend years praying and doing good works and praying some more - and suddenly one day the person has a dream and that dream persists and in the dream the person is told he is a loved child of God and that the love given to him is love worthy of extending.

The person pushes the dream away but it persists and then signs appear that make him realize it is the voice of God and he feels called to the ministry and to a 'life-partner' and together they build a new church in a run down community. The church not only meets spiritual needs but creates a number of outreach programs that help many in the community.

In this case the person ignored the letter of the law becasue to accept it (by someone elses interpretation) would have prevented him from accomplishing his mission.

So in this case, was the letter of the law more important or the guidance of the spirit from within?



??? why would building a church and outreach have anything to do with sexual choices,, did not Jesus do all these things without a need for a sexual mate?