re: One Nation Under God. Rededicate 250

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Jesus will hold you accountable for not worshipping Him as He has commanded.

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Indeed. Jesus will frick up anyone who does not open the door when He knocks so that He can save them.

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Saint Matthew 28:16-20

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16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

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Acts 11:1-11

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The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’

8 “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again.

11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. 14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’

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FooManChoo

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This dude here...

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Not exactly winning hearts and minds to Christ

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The guy should be happy. This is a good day. Instead he's in here bitching that it's not good enough and threatening people with hellfire and brimstone. He is everything off putting about religious fundamentalists and he's fricking incessant about it.

Some would even say self-righteous.

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That preacher doesn’t appear to have an objection to gluttony.

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Most of them don't.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my personal savior and try to humble myself accordingly. I don’t accept that everyone who doesn’t will burn in hell however. Hard to believe that a Tibetan monk who lives a virtuous life that most all Christian sinners would envy is going to hell because he was born in a different part of the world and was exposed to a different religion.


It is not for us to make these judgments.


Aethists who recognize no higher power and think they can live with no repercussions to their actions, no kharma or anything are another story. They should be granted human dignity but also shamed so that others would avoid such a path in life.

We were not meant to be a nation of atheists.

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.. Indivisible

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F that bullshite. It's the reason everything is crap today.

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This kind of bullshite needs to go the way of the dinosaurs. It's nonsense like this that turns people away from God. You turn what should he a guide for healthy living into a book of legislature meant to instill fear in those who don't see things the same way that you do.

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Spoken as someone unfamiliar with or antagonistic to God's word in the Bible. You clearly have your own standard you are judging by, not God's, and therefore you have no leg to stand on. You only have your mere opinion.

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If anyone in here needs to get right with God, it's you. These are not words of compassion or love. This is coercion.

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You clearly don't know what love is. Love is warning someone to turn from a self-destructive path before they are destroyed.

It's also not coercion to tell someone the truth about their place before God and their need to turn from their sins. I'm proclaiming a message that Jesus proclaimed. He spoke more about Hell than He did Heaven. He spoke more about judgement than He did love. Why? Because He was loving and He wanted to warn others from the coming judgement so that they would be saved.

Ed - You are deserving God's wrath for your sins. You have broken His commandments. Each sin against an infinite God deserves an infinite punishment, and you have heaped up eternal wrath upon you. The good news is that God entered into His own creation to be our representative. Jesus became a man so that He could reconcile sinners like you and me to a holy God. He died on the cross to pay for our sins, and He rose from the dead as a guarantee of our own resurrection from the dead. All you have to do to receive this gift of life is turn from your life of sin and believe in Jesus Christ. You will be forgiven instantly. That is true love: God dying for His enemies, like you and me, to make us family.

Instead of arguing that foomanchoo is holier than others...

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Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead. If the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead"

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St. Paul is saying here that it is obviously pointless to baptize the dead.

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Currently the only church that I know of that perfoms these baptisms is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Perhaps revelation will come and more mainstream churches will also take part.

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Mormons aren’t Christians, and their baptisms are invalid. Thankfully this will never be “mainstream”.