the truth is that we never get fulfilled in life coz we don't allow God to work in our lives, why not accepy Jesus even for adventure.
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i dont think people can make such a life changing choice just for kicks.
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I have to totally agree with this quote. I have a relative that thinks if you don't go to HIS church (whichever one it is at the time) then you aren't serving God. I believe exactly what the Bible says about having eternal life; and it DON'T say that only the Baptists, or Catholics, or Methodists, or Pentecostals..etc are going to receive this gift of eternal life. God is God and he isn't any of these RELIGIONS...my opinion
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U r getting it all wrong my dear.. Jesus had to sacrifice his life for we humans.. So that we REPENT for our sins.. so that we r always reminded of the fact that GOD has given his LIFE for us.. or better still.. A God incarnate has given his life.. It was our redemption in THOSE TIMES.. The next time HE comes on earth will be JUDGEMENT DAY.. We have already been given an oppurtunity to unserstand and rectify our mistakes b HIM..he has given us one chance by sacrificing himself..that doesnt mean he'll do it always.. Next time, we will be punished for our sins not HE!  \nIt was not God who died.. Jesus was a God-incarnate i.e.God born on earth as a human and since all  humans die, he had to die.. But Jesus is there on top..\n And God canty forgive us all without all of this.. Thatr would mean whatever crime u do, u'll be let off. God wanted to show to humanity that HE cared for us so much that he sacrificed his son!
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Imagine if God filmed your whole life, brought it back in time to "now" and let you watch it. Is your life suddenly predestined because of time travel?\n\nYou are not a puppet in a play following the master’s script. If a baby never gets up and walks, then eventually runs and leaps over obstacles, then they will never get a chance to have fun in sports. Yes, working hard to overcome obstacles give us the chance to develop agility & strength and provides us with a sense of accomplishment and self worth. God wants you to feel good about yourself and to be happy. You wouldn’t keep a child away from a jungle-gym. So pray hard, work well, love and bring joy into the world. It cannot be seen in your future if you don't make it happen in the first place.
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God made a mistake. He let his son die (what a dad) and the majority of the people on this Earth don't wish to be Christian. Jesus would have accomplished nore if he was allowed to continue living his life,  doing the great things that he did.
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Jesus was lived like a human and died as human. He was an enlightened person- a person whom a average human fails to understand so we attach lots of miracles to his existence. We all are god but waste our whole love trying to find God. We cant beleive that we are God and if we drop our egos and be one with nature we all can be like Jesus. But its much too difficult. Its much easier to accept Jesus and other enlightened persons as God and spending whole time to worship them rather than awakening the God in us.
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Jesus siad he cant hardly tell us earthly things let alone heavenly things , We cant comprehend what God has in store for us
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God doesn't plan your life he just knows your decisions and its outcomes before you do. We have free will and common sense a gift or blessing God gave to all of us. But our sufferings on earth doesn't have any comparisons to our paradise in heaven!
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Because we have to live our lives as god intended. If we do something to go against god and we get to go to the other place as a punishment.
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hi! heres what i think and what the bible says about your situation:\n\nromans 5:3 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope.\n\nGOD doesnt say that once you are a believer, all your problems will be solved. but he assures us that the trials that we go through will help develop our character and molds us to be better christians.\n\n1 peter 4:12-13,16 12Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. 13But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. \n16However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. \n\nTHIS just assures us all the more that as christians we will not be freed from problems. and Jesus even encourages us to rejoice when we experience these things in life.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:13 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.\n\nTHIS does not only pertain to temptations but also problems and anything in life. it says that God will not give us anything that we cannot carry. but when he knows we cannot do it alone anymore, he will still help us out.\n\nGOD hears your prayers, he hears all our prayers. as ive mentioned, being a child of God doesnt exempt us from having problems. i think the question now is if you trust the Lord that he hears you. the way i see it, maybe the Lord allows these things to make your faith in him stronger and be more trusting in his power over your life. maybe when you pray you just pray without trusting. so maybe you should also evaluate yourself when you pray and speak to God. reading the bible is also important in knowing Gods will for you and how he wants to work in your life.\n\ni hope all this helps you :)
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Well technically the flooding of the earth was impossible. if the entire earth had flooded we wouldn't have a class of mammals found only in Australia, and certain plants would have been destroyed forever... I mean really could you imagine a cactus under that much water surviving? But to get back on topic... If there is a god, and he is all powerful, the only reason for man to suffer is that God wants man to suffer... For to be all powerful would mean the ability to do anything, even the impossible... So no matter what positive results we get through suffering, God could have given us without us suffering... some of these results may seem logically absurd without our having suffered, but remember, he is supposed to be able to do the impossible, so no matter what reason someone gives for human suffering, we could have easily, without even a thought, done without it...
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You ask a very tough question.\nAs far as the thought that we planned our lives, that's nonsense.  You get no such understanding from the bible.\n\nWe do get an understanding that our lives are predestined according to scripture.\nEph 1 will talk about predestination.\n\nNow, if that is the case, where does free will come into play?  \nHere is my understanding, but I won't hold it as dogmatic and I am open for correction on this one.\n\nI believe that we are predestined according to becoming saved.  We know that no man can come to God unless He draws him.\nJohn 6:44\nNo man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.\n\nSo God chooses who He draws and who He doesn't.  We know that we were chosen before the earth was made.\nEph 1:4\nAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:\n\nI also believe that even though He has chosen us, it is still up to us to serve Him after that.  We must make the choice to serve Him after the calling.\nJoshua 24:15\nAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.\n\nSo, we see that there is a choice to serve Him or not.  \n\nThe callings that God gives us are not our choice.  You can't choose to be an evangelist or a prophet.  You can only acknowledge what God has called you to be and work in that calling.  However, you still have a choice to operate in that calling or not.\nYou can still be disobedient or obedient.  That choice is up to you.\n\nHere's the bottom line.  We shouldn't be overly concerned about this.  Regardless of whether we are predestined or not, our main focus should be to serve God with our all.  The doctrine of predestination causes some people to become lazy in the faith because they feel that they can't screw up.  So, they wind up becoming lazy and very bad Christians.\nJust serve God with everything you have and let these kinds of questions be answered after we meet God face to face.
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Because He didn't have to do it.  He could have gone on living in heaven.  He never had to feel an ounce of pain.  Ever.  He never had to be a needy, dependent infant.  He never had to submit to earthly parents.  He never had to feel the pain of being betrayed by friends, plotted against by enemies, beaten by the government and crucified by the very human race He created.  \n\nWe die, in various ways, because of sin in the world.  Sin we have all committed and sin that we have no remedy for without Jesus. \n\nI think it's really brave when our military fights and risks their lives on our behalf. No question.\n\nWhat they don't have to do is fight Satan when they die.  Jesus lived a painful life He didn't have to live.  He could have stayed right in heaven and not bothered.\n\nHe lived a sinless life.  No one else has ever done that.\n\nHe chose to submit to a death He could have prevented, in order to be a sacrifice for our sins.  It wasn't a hero's death, it was the shameful death of a common criminal.\n\nOnce He died, He did what no mortal person could do, He conquered death.  He made heaven available for us.
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IF people do not accept Jesus as their savior, they will have to live and die with everything that comes into their lives. A life with out Jesus  is no life at all and is merely existing and awaiting death.
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I cannot agree more, we are, since the beginning of time, have been sinning against God the Father.  Its how we are made.  With our own free will.  The self is always fighting for supremacy than be subjected to a higher one, in this case, the laws and guidelines in life found in the Bible.  It is really a difficult struggle and only if one surrenders himself to the will of God can he win over selfish desires and sins to a life leading to God.
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Even if they are belivers they still have to die. It's a part of life and we have to live with it. It may  seem hard but god will always love us and care for us.  sometimes he lets people die because it is their time. No one really haves control over this so do not worry everything happens for a reason.
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for all have sin and fall short of the glory of god. Jesus died so that we might have a choice either to live for him or the devil if we don't live for him we will be judged and be cast into the lake of fire in hell.