Stop for another moment and look at the things you try to hide from your family and friends. Those magazines you have stashed in your closet. The video and pictures you have hidden on your computer. To God it's no secret. He's better than CIA at detecting what's really going on in your heart.Hebrews 10:31 (New American Standard Bible)Can you imagine for a moment that if your heart stopped and you fell dead this very second, what you might face on the other side? What sins you try to hide from God. What doubt you have in his existence. What hate, envy, lust you harbor. How many times you have put God in last place? What do you think you can hide from your creator? Everything will be stripped away in the blink of an eye.It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Some of you think God doesn't exist but are you really just afraid to acknowledge that there is a higher power you could be held accountable to? What is so horribly wrong and so severely binding with believing?
I'm sorry I don't have a lot to say here today. But just ponder for today what it's going to be like, to fall into that hands of the living God.
Dory,
ReplyDeleteI want you to choose to believe that Mohammad is the last true prophet of God. What is so horribly wrong and so severely binding with believing in Allah? Why are you afraid to acknowledge that you are accountable to Allah? Do you think you can hide?
Not so easy is it?
Muhammad wasn't even a remotely good role model for humanity. He was a do as I say not as I do and that was after he raped children and murdered innocent people and had multiple wives. Jesus was do what I do and do what I say Son of a living God. Look Muhammad up and see he only had a self centered human side. This is a well known fact to those who searched for the truth but well hidden from most common everyday people.
ReplyDeleteHere's one website that I found quickly.
http://bibleprobe.com/muhammad.htm
Also when was the last time you seen a Christian behead someone in the name of Jesus Christ? Christians only came after Jesus Christ so you can't use Old Testament acts as proofs.
When the French catholics slaughtered the heretical Cathars in the 13th Century, in the attack against the town of Beziers the leader of the crusade was asked how to tell the difference between Cathars and Catholics.
ReplyDelete"Kill them all, God will know His own" was his reply.
The abbot-commander, Arnaud, a Cistercian later wrote to Pope Innocent III, "Today your Holiness, twenty thousand heretics were put to the sword, regardless of rank, age, or sex"
That was Christians killing other Christians.
OK it was 800 years ago
However, this was February 23rd 2006
"Christian mobs with machetes and guns roamed the streets of the mainly Christian city of Onitsha, in the south-east, in retaliation for Muslim violence in the north earlier this week."
"At least 20 people were killed in revenge attacks on Muslims in Nigeria yesterday as religious riots intensified a day after the country's leading Anglican archbishop warned Muslims that they did not have a "monopoly on violence".
"The Christian retaliation came after a widely publicised statement by Archbishop Akinola, who heads the Christian Association of Nigeria, and warned that the Association might be unable to contain its "restive youths".
"May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly on violence in this nation," Akinola had said."
There ya go, that was the last time we saw Christians beheading someone in the name of Jesus Christ.
Defense is not limited to religions. You'll have to show me some proof other than defensive postures taken by Christians.
ReplyDeleteDory,
ReplyDeleteI take it then that your answer is No.
You cannot choose to believe in Allah because you cannot believe the claims of Mohammad.
If a person examines the evidence and finds it lacking then it is impossible for them to believe the claim. It's not a choice. Unless you can ignore the lack of evidence and choose to believe in Allah don't be surprised that others cannot force themselves to believe in your God without sufficient evidence.
"Defense is not limited to religions. You'll have to show me some proof other than defensive postures taken by Christians."
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, I hadn't understood that you equate slaughter of innocents with defence. The two example I gave were examples of people, ostensibly Chritians, running amok and killing by the sword. (You remember you had asked when we last saw Christians beheading people in the Name of Jesus)
And you have rejected those 2 examples because you feel they were DEFENSIVE actions? I must admit that was not the response I was expecting of you. It makes you complicit in the very type of violence that you had previously condemned on the part of Islam.
So it's OK for Christians to slaughter people but not for people of other faiths? Because when Christians go into the streets with machetes and kill passers by in the street it is DEFENSIVE?
What are you on?
You know the saying, The best defense is a good offense. If the government wasn't going to control the problem the "Muslims" caused then I can't blame the "Christians" for what they had to do.
ReplyDeleteFor your previous comment, I don't, not can't, believe in Allah. I have seen too much against Muhammad to know that is a poorly fabricated lie.
Honestly I'd love atheist to look at the Qur'an to point out all the problems with the Islamic religion with a offshoot of the SMRT project. Speaking of SMRT, I wish you all would of started in the New Testament.
I'll join you all when you get to Matthew.
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ReplyDelete"You know the saying, The best defense is a good offense. If the government wasn't going to control the problem the "Muslims" caused then I can't blame the "Christians" for what they had to do."
ReplyDeleteYes, that's what I thought you meant. While it is an admirable military strategy I do have problems equating it with the 6th commandment and Jesus command to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39) "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."
"I'll join you all when you get to Matthew."
Jesus said (Matthew 5:18) "I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." You can't toss out two thirds of your Holy Book Dory. Jesus quoted the flood, Jonah, creation, the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, the 10 commandments and other OT works. He considered it all true and relevant and important.
Dory,
ReplyDeleteDon't show Fatwah envy it is unbecoming. Just because you don't go to Muslim sites does not mean Skeptics don't.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm
Stew Jesus doesn't tell his people lay down and be slaughtered.
ReplyDeleteLuke 22:36-38 (New International Version)
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."
The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords."
"That is enough," he replied
Matthew 26:52 - "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."
ReplyDeleteGuess the Muslims should be taught that before they first attack Christians. Any ideal if the Qur'an says anything like this?
ReplyDeleteDory,
ReplyDeleteYou are getting off subject. This wasn't a Christian vs Muslim thread, it was about why a person just can't choose to believe in God. I'm sorry I used that example- you Christians go over the deep end when Muslims are mentioned.
You have to admit there are some things even you can't will yourself to believe, right?
Milo,
ReplyDeleteI think we got off subject together when you first mentioned Allah.
I'm not quite sure what you want to call belief here. It would have to be something I can't find proof for or against. I found proof of God for myself which was enough for me to believe in. For Allah who I see as something setup by a self centered greedy and twisted person I can't believe in Allah's existence. So based on proof enough for me I can't force myself to believe in that being. So I suppose to answer your question, yes I can't will myself to believe in everything. But that's the point here. It's not that people don't believe is that they don't want to believe.
This is very much like the speed limit on the interstate. It may be posted at 70mph but people will still do 75. Then when they get pulled over they will swear the speed limit was 80 just so they don't have to face judgment.
"It's not that people don't believe is that they don't want to believe."
ReplyDeleteI disagree. Even if you wanted to believe in Allah do you think you could?
I too disagree. I want to believe in ghosts, magic, an afterlife, and many other things. I just find no reason too believe in them.
ReplyDeleteThis is very much like aliens visiting the earth. You can deny it all you want but when you get abducted, you are getting a probe shoved up your ass whether you believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteMilo I don't see the connection your trying to make. When Jesus returns to Earth that probe would seem like a great deal for those that will be left behind.
ReplyDeleteBeam there is a reason to believe. I wish I knew you in real life. Show I could show you how much better life is when you have faith in God. God takes away the fears of life, he takes away the worry, and fills a persons spirit with joy. When I go to bed at night I sleep good. I know that God is helping me every day. It becomes so apparent that God is real when you just put some faith in him.
Stew again if I wanted to believe in Allah yes I could. I researched Allah and Islam and tried to find common ground for us both to stand on even if it was just the first 4 books of the Bible. I wanted to know where the divide started so maybe there might be a way to bring it back together.
So lets get back on topic with the original blog post. But rather, I'm going to start another post here to refine my intentions with this blog.
ReplyDeleteDory, I don't worry and I am filled with joy. I sleep very well at night. I had faith at one time and I feel no different now than I did then. Does that mean I was a false convert? That is total crap, I believed in God at that time with every fiber of my being. I cried out to him in prayer and I remembered which prayers were answered and the ones that weren't were forgotten. It is all just simple tricks of the mind.
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoy life more now, than when I was a Christian. I know my time is finite and I choose to enjoy it.
Beam I wish I had the chance to get to know you aside from this chatting across the net. I would like to know what you are like to know what makes you truly happy. Could you explain the prayers that were answered and you felt were just mind tricks you played on yourself?
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