Us being a chosen people and the true church?  And also what does it say it say about us being a light to everyone else?  Where are these scriptures?
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Hope this helps out.\n\nQuestion 1:\n\n1 Peter 2:9\nBut ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light\n\nQuestion 2:\n\nMatthew 5:14\nYe are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid\n\nJohn 8:12\nThen spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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You have missinterperated this. What this means is you have to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to go to the Celestial Kingdom. Explaination: In our church we believe that there are 3 Kingdoms of Heaven. The Celestial Kingdom is the most glorious one, but all good people go to heaven.\n\nWe DO call ourselves Christians and we are Christians. We believe in Jesus Christ and God, which are the qualifications of being Christian. \n\nFor more information go to:\nhttp://www.mormon.org
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Christ speaks about being the Head of the Church. Notice that He says in Matthew 16:18 ...I will build "MY" church. In several other verses (to find them just look in the concordance of your Bible), He refers to "a" church or "the" church. These words are singular. He never says anywhere "all the churches" or "all the different congregations". I think God only intended for there to be one church. Man has created his own church to suit his own needs. I think it is important to find a church that preaches what the Bible says. ONLY what the Bible says. So many today add to the words of God and take from them as well.
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We are to tell others about Jesus, and how to be saved. We need to be praying, Reading our Bible, and going to church. We need to live our life apart from this world.We are to seek God for His will in our life. Put our faith and Trust in Him. let others see Christ in you. When God saves you, He puts a new song in your heart. A heart that wants to serve Him. let your light shine for Jesus. Watch for the Lord. Be ready. For we knowth not the day,or hour, that He is coming. Yes. I do agree with you. God Bless you.
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go to www.halos.com for your answer. I just watched this last night..God bless you.\n Read and Beleive the promises!!! (Gal 5:22,23 [this is what we are searching in the world for - yes?];\nIsa 1:18; 2Cor 6:2b; Jer 13:23; Jn 15:5; Jn 3:16;\nJn 1:12,13; Jn 3:3-8; Eze 18:30-32; Eze 36:25-28; Heb 8:7-9 ;Heb 8:10; Phil 2:5; Jn 10:11; Jn 10:17,18; Jn 12:24-26; Rm 12:1,2; Jam 4:7-10) This is my testimony, what God has done in me. He has changed me! He desires to change you! I chose to lay down my life ... I abdicate my throne and chose to be a sevant of God! I chose to come to the foot of the cross to be emptied of self, and be filled with all that God has for me. see also\n(Ps 34:8; Pro 3:5,6; Josh 24:15; Gal 5:24,25;\nEph 5:8-10; 1Pet 1:24,25; Col 3;3; Ps 119:105;\nIsa 28:10,13; Jer 15:16; Jn 17:17; Rom 10:17;\nDeut 8:3; Col 3:16; Isa 60:1,2) Now you know how to find happiness! God Bless You!!!
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OK, this is just a thought. But I got into the same thing when I studied John Wesley's concept of "second blessing holiness." [By the way, I used to live near a congregation that was a part of your denomination. You ain'y scary. ;-)] For what its worth, this is what I came up with, and its just my opinion. Sometimes a person reads a verse or section of scripture that REALLY says something to them. Something maybe no one else has ever noticed. The reason for it is that God is trying to show THEM something they need to know. It may nat apply to anyone else. But they miss that part and in trying to share it (which is OK) it becomes something else. It becomes "THIS is the way it is and its this way for everyone!" rather than what it was meant to be, which was "THIS is for YOU, if I wanted everyone else to see it I'd have shown it to everyone else." And its not that God is showing respect of persons in a case like this because I honestly believe that this type of thing is availabe to everyone. No respect of persons there. Its just that different people need to see things in a way that THEY can understand it and so grow closer to God. That's all it is. God dealing with people where they are. But, human ego being what it is, folks make something else out of it. And then theres the other thing where people just try to make it (the Bible) say all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff it doesn't because they want attention and money. And of course there is always ignorance, but that's another topic. But, hey, you can get that at Wal-Mart too. ;-)
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God chose us to be a holy people (separate, apart).  His people would not do certain things other peoples do.  \nHis people would not worship any other God.\nHis people could continue to make sacrifices like other peoples, but NEVER a human sacrifice.\nHis people would not murder.\nHis people would not judge without written laws that apply to all -- including the leaders -- and appointed judges to determine guilt.\n\nand so it goes on and on for 613 laws.\n\nIn other words His people were, and still are, the dissenting voice when the majority has gone awry.  Where was the dissenting voice during the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust?  \n\nWhy would anyone want to be God's holy (separate/apart) people?
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1 Corinthians 15, verse 41: (paraphrased) There is one glory of the sun, one of the moon, and another of the stars. One star is different from another star in glory. \n\nWhat this means...I'm not positive, but the scriptures go on to refer to the resurrection of man and judgment. So, maybe each person's glory will be his own, or different from everyone elses, based on the way they lived, thought, and believed.
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St Paul wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians [2 Cor 5:17], "So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come."\n\n"A new creation": Rabbis used this expression to describe the effect of the entrance of a proselyte or convert into Judaism or of the remission of sins on the Day of Atonement. The new order created in Christ is the new covenant.\n\n"Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life." [2 Cor 3:5-6]
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Hmm...this is an interesting question. \nI suppose I believe that everyone has been chosen, both by God and the Dark One. They both have work for us to do and a purpose. The question, I suppose, would be who we choose to follow. At one particular point or another, a person reaches a "fork in the road," and has to decide which way to go. It's all a part of Freewill.
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Another pick and chose from your part eh? Why don't you believe the bible as whole instead of picking and choosing verses that you think justifies the violent works of your faith? That's too hypocritical to get some bible verse yet deny the rest. This isn't a prophecy, this is a form of praise. Did you analyze this verse yourself, it talks about Israel, are you an israelite? Jesus is the KIng of Zion no other else.
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I don't know if this helps but it is the the notes\nfrom "Clarke" in e-sword\nPraying God blesses u in ur search for answers....\nShaz\nx x x x x x\n\n1 Cor 15:29 - \nElse what shall they do which are baptized for the dead - This is certainly the most difficult verse in the New Testament; for, notwithstanding the greatest and wisest men have labored to explain it, there are to this day nearly as many different interpretations of it as there are interpreters. I shall not employ my time, nor that of my reader, with a vast number of discordant and conflicting opinions; I shall make a few remarks:\n1.The doctrine of the resurrection of our Lord was a grand doctrine among the apostles; they considered and preached this as the demonstration of the truth of the Gospel.\n2.The multitudes who embraced Christianity became converts on the evidence of this resurrection.\n3.This resurrection was considered the pledge and proof of the resurrection of all believers in Christ to the possession of the same glory into which he had entered.\n4.The baptism which they received they considered as an emblem of their natural death and resurrection. This doctrine St. Paul most pointedly preaches, Rom_6:3-5 : Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life: for, if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in his resurrection.\n5.It is evident from this that all who died in the faith of Christ died in the faith of the resurrection; and therefore cheerfully gave up their lives to death, as they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance, Heb_10:34.\n6.As is the body, so are the members; those who were properly instructed, and embraced Christianity, believed that as all who had died in the faith of Christ should rise again, so they were baptized in the same faith.\n7.As so many of the primitive followers of Christ sealed the truth with their blood, and Satan and his followers continued unchanged, every man who took on him the profession of Christianity, which was done by receiving baptism, considered himself as exposing his life to the most imminent hazard, and offering his life with those who had already offered and laid down theirs.\n8.He was therefore baptized in reference to this martyrdom; and, having a regard to those dead, he cheerfully received baptism, that, whether he were taken off by a natural or violent death, he might be raised in the likeness of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, and that of his illustrious martyrs.\n9.As martyrdom and baptism were thus so closely and intimately connected, βαπτιζεσθαι, to be baptized, was used to express being put to a violent death by the hands of persecutors. So Mat_20:22, Mat_20:23 : “But Jesus answered and said, Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? etc.” (Can ye go through my sufferings?) “They say unto him, We are able. He saith unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of my cup,” (ye shall bear your part of the afflictions of the Gospel), “and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with (that is, ye shall suffer martyrdom.) See also Mar_10:38. So Luk_12:50; “I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!” That is, I must die a violent death for the salvation of men.\n10.The sum of the apostle’s meaning appears to be this: If there be no resurrection of the dead, those who, in becoming Christians, expose themselves to all manner of privations, crosses, severe sufferings, and a violent death, can have no compensation, nor any motive sufficient to induce them to expose themselves to such miseries. But as they receive baptism as an emblem of death in voluntarily going under the water, so they receiv
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what is the reference of this verse. i want to read the whole thing before it and after it, not just picking a verse from the middel\n\nbut you are correct. we all are brother of blood, we should remain in peace with each other regardless what governments do. we all worship One God.
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I am God's Elect; I was called out(2Tim.1:9) from the SDA to his church. To me, I believe with all my heart I was chosen by God.\n\nSome of my Story in:\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/126465277/1259465643051497771EQPXZl\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/1370327768049373547ckDxoa\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/1370328718049373547LfXmWo
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The chapter your referring to is what should be happening all over the world today.\nThe scripture  ( Acts 10:11-48) was God's way of telling Peter ( and all concerned in this scripture ) that there is no race ( of people ) any better than the other. When God let down the sheet full of animals and reptiles and birds of every kind, He was " symbolically " telling Peter to go and " mingle " with other cultures, that nobody was any " gooder " than the other.\n And that is what I meant in my opening statement! Hope this clarifies your post.\nI have toexplain it more clearly after reading some of the answers. \nA Jew by name of Cornelius was warned by God to send for Peter. Immediately after speaking with God, Peter had some men at his door sent by Cornelius to come and get him. \n If you read further, verse 28 " And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. "\n To simplify, Peter is saying that it is highly irregular for a Jew to associate with people of another race. He also said that God had shewed him what he was to do.\nI would suggest for all to read the whole chapter to fully comprehend what message God is portraying.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
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Hello..\n\nGlory..Glory..Alleluia..Amen\n\nWalk as Children of Light\n \n1  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;\n \n2  and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor. \n \n3  ¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;\n \n4  neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.\n \n5  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.\n \n6  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.\n \n7  Be not ye therefore partakers with them.\n \n8  For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;\n \n9  (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)\n \n10  proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.\n \n11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.\n \n12  For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.\n \n13  But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.\n \n14  Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, \nand arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. \n \n15  ¶ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,\n \n16  redeeming the time, because the days are evil.\n \n17  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.\n \n18  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;\n \n19  speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;\n \n20  giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;  \n \n21  submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.\n \n====================================================\n\nJesus and Nicodemus\n \n1  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicode'mus, a ruler of the Jews:\n \n2  the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.\n \n3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\n \n4  Nicode'mus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?\n \n5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.\n \n6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.\n \n7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.\n \n8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.\n \n9  Nicode'mus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?\n \n10  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?\n \n11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.\n \n12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?\n \n13  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.\n \n14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:\n \n15  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.\n\nGod So Loved the World \n\n16  ¶ Fo