Religion Kills

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Permalink Reply by MartyCPE on September 2, 2009 at 6:54am

Sean,

Thanks for the encouragement. You'd be surprised at how many people get upset at hearing good news...

You can check some out my other articles here. http://www.examiner.com/x-21695-Colorado-Springs-Christian-Perspect...

Thanks again,

Marty

Permalink Reply by mike on September 11, 2009 at 7:43pm

Amen. The thing is, the enemy wants you to think that God will throw that lightning bolt at you. Some "Religion" tries to teach that but they are missing the point. The " fear of God" is not the fear of punishment , but the fear of being without God. That would be Hell indeed!

God Bless

Permalink Reply by MartyCPE on September 11, 2009 at 8:34pm

Right on brother. Once my wife was having a conversation with a member of a liturgy-reliant fellowship. When my wife told her that we don't hold to a particular denomination's traditions, the woman became incredulous, asking my wife, "well then, what do you believe in then?" I know it sounds crazy, but we just believe in Jesus, nothing more or less.

Thank you for the response; I'm encouraged by others who follow the simple truth of Jesus Christ.

Marty

Permalink Reply by Follower of Christ on October 3, 2009 at 2:42am

Mike I really like this reply. Often I get confused for example God is love, but he is a jealous God. Fear God but do it from free will with all your mind, heart and soul etc... At times the bible appears contraditory but its not. As a christian and one that has a way to go spiritually as you mature you realise God is love, he isn't like love, he doesn't even symbolise love HE IS LOVE. He is a jealous God, a jealous father. When questioning how one that is love can be a jealous God (since we learn in corinthians i think it is love is kind, not jealous etc...) my pastor explained its like loving your parter intimately and not wanting him to sleep with other women (that made sense). God loves us so much and doesn't want to share us with false idols. And the fear of God as explained by mike was well explained in my opinion. God Bless xo

Permalink Reply by Follower of Christ on October 3, 2009 at 2:43am

This really struck a cord with my, Praise God. Thanks for posting. I was especially touched by the third paragraph. Thanks xoxo

Permalink Reply by Servant of God on November 27, 2009 at 2:39pm

Hello Everyone, I find this an interesting forum. I have a question for all of you though. What is Love? And what is the purpose of life? I believe that God created us to love Him. Why else would He have made us with free will? If we read through 1 Corinthians 13 carefully we see that love is not self seeking. Also we can only love from our heart, no one can make us to love another person, or God. God cant make us love Him, or that could not be the real emotion of love. I believe that that is the purpose of Life, God wants a people to love Him, The Parable Christ told us about the bride of Christ shoudl be taken seriously. Christ wants a people that truely love him, a people that he can trust in this life, so we can live forever with him in His KIngdom.
If this was not the purpose of life then christianity is a religion that does not make sense, why didnt God make Adam perfect, unable to sin? Why didnt God make it so we naturally believe in Him and we live forever? There has to be love, resect and accountabilty on our side. If not we can look foreward to our Lord saying depart from me you who practice lawlessness (sin) .
God is love, but he also is going to send a awful lot of people to hell, including those who claim to be christians, but are actually loveing God with a cupboard love, we should be encouraging each other to obey our Lord and serve him with our whole hearts, not saying to each other "we will not surely die" should'nt we?
God bless you all.