Yes, God’s not interested in wimpy lukewarm snowflakes, he only wants tough ‘iron men and women’.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17) “The Lord made my mouth a sharp sword, an arrow in his quiver” (Isa 49:1/2) “The word of God is alive, powerful,and sharper than a sword” (Heb 4:12) “Paul..preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus”(Acts 9:27) “Pray.that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel..” (Eph 6:19/20) “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world, they have divine power to demolish strongholds and arguments” (2 Cor 10:4/5) “.. our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power..” (1 Thess 1:5) “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline” (2 Tim 1:7) “..that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured” (Col 4:12)
You are looking at things from a worldly point of view.
“God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. **28 **God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, **29 **so that no one may boast before him”.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. **10 **That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses…"
And,
You adulterous people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. **5 **Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]? **6 **But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
Ripcord
Mate, you don’t believe anything I say so i might as well save my breath, pity because the trial was like an entertaining pantomime
I don’t believe you because your ripping yarn makes no sense. I do believe though that your trial was like a pantomime.
Christ sent His Disciples out into the world to make DISCIPLES of all nations, NOT “Christians”.
Matthew 28:18-20
28:18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
28:19 Go ye therefore, and make DISCIPLES of all nations, baptizing them with the Holy Spirit: in my name (The Saviour),
28:20 Instructing them to observe (and DO) all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [even] unto the end of the world (age). Amen.
The Essenes and the Disciples called themselves “The Covenanters” and the early disciples called themselves “Followers of The Way”, NOT christians.
More importantly, people will know a true follower by their actions, NOT by the label they choose to place on themselves.
John 13:34-35
13:34 A new COMMANDment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
13:35 By this shall all [men] KNOW that ye are my disciples, IF ye have love one to another.
But if a stranger asks a follower of Jesus what religion they are, they can’t reply- “you’ll have to wait for a while and judge me by my actions”
That’s why the early Christians were happy to be labelled “Christians” for convenience sake.. “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11:26)
Likewise, i call myself a Christian, what do you call yourself?
Christ was sent to Earth, to incarnate Jesus (John 1:14), and teach the world that ALL RELIGIONS WERE CREATED BY SATAN, to keep people AWAY from God.
It was the organized religion of that time (Talmudic Judaism) that manipulated the Roman government into MURDERING Jesus, proving this fact to everyone. How daft can people be?
ALL organized religion takes a bit of the truth (God’s Word) and mixes it with a pack of lies (their religious traditions and superstitions) to deceive their unwitting(?) customers.
The names they give themselves are INTENTIONALLY misleading.
Judaism PRETENDS to be the religion of the Israelites, even though Judah was only one of the twelve tribes, and certainly not the other eleven. They PRETEND that they keep God’s Law when, in actual fact, they keep and worship their satanic Talmud and, in doing so, they have committed the capital crime of TREASON (Deut. 4:2; Deut. 17:11-13).
“Christians” have followed in their footsteps, creating over 3000 different denominations, NONE of which follow Christ’s True Teachings to keep God’s Law. They even align themselves with the mass-murdering counterfeit-Jews by further labeling their traditions as “Judaeo-Christian values” and themselves as “Christian Zionists”. How could 3000+ different denominations all be following THE WAY, when they all believe in and follow different traditions, all of which Christ condemned?
“Muslims” do the same thing, inventing yet another organized religion that they blasphemously call “Islam” (submission to the Will of God). They, like their Jewish counterparts, fabricated their own made-up writings called the Hadith, which they follow and worship INSTEAD of the Koran/Quran. The Quran instructs all of its readers to read, study and follow both The Law and the Gospel (the Old Covenant/Testament and the New Covenant/Testament) which they ignore to their own detriment.
Buddha taught the same things that Christ taught, about discipline and self-sacrifice, and about reincarnation, and what happened to those teachings? They were turned into yet another organized religion.
THIS IS WHAT SATAN ALWAYS DOES, TO KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM GOD, SO HE CAN LEAD ANYONE FOOL ENOUGH TO FOLLOW HIM INTO THE FIRE.
And sadly, people are still falling for it, even after God has sent all of His Prophets and finally His Eldest/Firstborn Son to warn us to stay away from these evil leaders/teachers and their satanic places of business.
When will people ever learn?
Does it say that though? No. It does NOT say “the early Christians were happy to be labelled ‘Christians’”.
So who was it that got you to add that assumption to what it actually says? And who was it that conned Eve in the Garden?
SAME ANSWER.
The rest of the New Covenant/Testament is literally FILLED with testimony of people repeating the same mistakes over and over, by inventing their own religious traditions and superstitions, and being admonished for it.
If you spent even half as much time reading, studying and emulating Christ instead of incessantly bragging about being a “Christian”, you would be doing both yourself and everyone else a huge favour, wouldn’t you agree?
There are no verses where christians say “Stop calling us Christians” are there?
On the contrary, the word ‘Christian’ seems to have caught on quickly, and people must have been proud and happy to call themselves christians, just as they are today..
Every single time you post pictures of Robert Powell, who played Jesus in the 1977 film “Jesus of Nazareth”, you not only break the First Commandment, but you prove you have no idea of Who Christ really is.
Exodus 20:3-6
20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee ANY graven image, or ANY likeness [of ANY thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth [neither shalt thou possess them if others make them]:
20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the “I AM” thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate [or disobey] Me;
20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love [and obey] Me, and KEEP My Commandments.
No one who is actually a friend of Christ would break the Commandments.
Matthew 5:17-19
5:17 Think NOT that I am come to destroy The Law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill [to fully preach The Law (The Torah) and fulfill the prophecies about the first coming of the Messiah].
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from The Law, till ALL be fulfilled.
5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least COMMANDments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in The Kingdom of heaven (the lowest of the low in God’s Eyes): but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in The Kingdom of heaven.
John 14:15 IF ye love me, KEEP my COMMANDments.
No one can claim to love and follow Christ while remaining in open defiance of The Law/Commandments, regardless of what label they may place upon themselves.
Good Sabbath day and good wishes to you Mary Poppins.
It appears you’ve traded in your umbrella for a ram-air parachute and now refer to yourself as “Ripcord”.
Surely you read the Commandments you posted and noticed the use of the word “IMAGE” in the copy of the Commandments you posted. In case you’ve forgotten what that word means, please see its definition below:
image /ĭm′ĭj/
noun
A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
A sculptured likeness.
And yes, quoting from the Koran/Quran is completely acceptable to both God Almighty and to The Word whom God made flesh (His Anointed One: Christ), BOTH OF WHOM SENT THE KORAN/QURAN TO MANKIND, AS THE THIRD PART OF SCRIPTURE.
Sura 3:55. Behold! God said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee SUPERIOR to those who reject faith, to The Day of Resurrection: then shall ye all return unto Me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.
Sura 43:57-61
43:57. When (Jesus) the son of Mary is held up as an example, behold, thy people raise a clamour thereat (in ridicule)!
43:58. And they say, “Are our gods best, or he?” This they set forth to thee, only by way of disputation: yea, they are a contentious people.
43:59. He was no more than a servant (“I came not to do mine own will, but the Will of Him that sent me” - John 6:38): We granted Our favour (Christ) to him (Sura 4:171), and We made him THE Example to the Children of Israel (John 14:6).
43:60. And if it were Our Will, We could make angels from amongst you, succeeding each other on the Earth.
43:61. And (Christ the Mahdi) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) The Hour (of Judgment - Matt. 24:36): therefore have no doubt about The (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is The Straight Way (Matt. 7:13-14).
P.S. This is usually the part where Mary Poppins loads up the worst translation into the English language of Sura 4:157, to pretend as if the Koran/Quran teaches that Jesus wasn’t crucified, when it actually is teaching everyone that Christ (the Son of God, NOT the son of Mary) CANNOT BE KILLED (even though the Sanhedrin mistakenly believed they could kill Christ), even though Jesus (the Son of Mary) could be and was crucified (exactly as Christ taught while in the body of Jesus).
Sura 4:157-159
4:157. That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ the son of Mary (Christ-Jesus), the Messenger of God”;- but they killed Christ not, nor crucified Christ, but so it was made to appear to them (as they crucified the human body called Jesus, that Christ the spirit-being used - Psalm 22; Isaiah 52:13 to 54:1; Zechariah 11:10-13; Matthew 27), and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) Knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed Christ not:-
4:158. Nay, God raised him (Jesus - Acts 4:10-12) up unto Himself and God is Exalted in Power, and in Wisdom;-
4:159. And, of the People of The Book, they all must believe him (Christ) before their death; and on The Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them (and you) (Surah 43:61);-
As Christ teaches:
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell-fire.
Prove it..
Mate, the Koran says Jesus was not the son of God and that it wasn’t him up on the cross but a “stunt man”, you can quote from the Koran if you like,but i’d rather quote from the Beano..
Only in a lunatic asylum could someone believe that the word “ANY” in a COMMANDMENT from our Creator somehow includes an undisclosed exception.
And similarly, only in a lunatic asylum could someone ignore a third of a book – because of their own ignorance of a single verse – and expect to understand the entire Book.
John 5:39 Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have Eternal Life: and they are they which testify of me.
There are over 300 references to Christ in the Koran/Quran, which over 30 times instructs its readers to read, study and digest the Bible. Further, it plainly states that when the Bible (the Old Covenant/Testament, New Covenant/Testament AND the Koran/Quran) are properly transcribed, properly translated and properly understood, there can be NO CONTRADICTIONS.
Sura 39:23. “I AM” has revealed (from time to time) the most beautiful Message in the form of a Book, CONSISTENT WITH ITSELF, (yet) repeating (its teaching in various aspects): the skins of those who fear their Lord tremble thereat; then their skins and their hearts do soften to the celebration of “I AM”'s praises (Prov. 1:7; 9:10). Such is the Guidance from “I AM”: He guides therewith whom He pleases, but such as “I AM” leaves to stray, can have none to guide.
Anyone that doesn’t overcome their own arrogance/ignorance has no hope of surviving Judgment Day according to Christ (Rev. 2:7; 2:11; 2:17; 2:26-28; 3:5; 3:12; 3:21; 21:7).
That’s just to sucker people in, but the fact remains the Koran says Jesus was NOT the son of God, and that he WASN’T crucified, you can believe that baloney if you like, but I prefer to be on the winning side.. “Who is it that beats the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John 5:5) “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Cor 1:18)
