Please tell me your interpretation of the above saying. This was in reference to someone coming back to the Lord after living a druggie life.
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It means don't ever stop giving up on the Lord to me. My grand mother told me this: There is a devil there is no doubt, but is he trying to get in, or is he trying to get out.\n\nThis means something to me. For me, it is my responsibility to make the connection with God each and everyday. The only way I have found to do that, is through daily prayer and mediation, and that is the connector. Good deeds are not enough for me. I am also responsible for my own happiness, and I have never found it, other than through spirituality, and the connection with my Lord.
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I'm not the greatest expert on the bible, but I try so here goes\nJesus spent most of his time with the poor and oppressed. He belived they needed more help than anyone else. He wasn't afraid to touch, or heal, or stay in a poor person's house. He believe that all of us need to go to places that may make us uncomfotable and try to help others. There is a quote which I'm trying to think of off the top of my head...\nIt isn't the healthy which need help, but the sick.  In other words we in our own lives try to help those who may not seem like the type of people you want to be around. The poor, homeless, and nonbelievers were the type HE had most contact with, therefore we should do the same.
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it means someone was once free to live as they wish. that was along time ago. in a very different place, far far away.
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Praise God that He took you out of that dead end life.  Praise God, praise God.\n\nThere wasn't one "moment" when I would say I was born again.  It took time...I was in a bible study and over the years, I came to know Him and understand that the bible is God's word.  It's been ten years of bible study, and I am a new person because of the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
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Nope,it's one of those passages that I disagree with.What you quoted was one of many unethical verses in the bible.I don't believe or follow everything I read.
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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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It was Jesus who said that His yoke was easy and His burden light. He is also the one who said to take up your cross and follow Him. I believe the latter refers to the shame of the cross and the suffering that comes from being identified with Christ. Condemned prisoners were required to carry their crosses to humiliate them, sort of like the perp walk. This was a symbol of their guilt. I think this may be why Jesus fell under the weight of the cross and someone else was ordered to carry it. It wasn't His cross that He died on, it was ours. If you are having problems with people abusing the GIFT of God to continue to live in rebellion against Him, then we are in agreement. These people's faith is shallow and insincere, thus it's false. They may have heard some sort of message and were asked if they believe it and they said yes. This doesn't mean that they came to a full realization or understanding within their hearts of who Jesus really is, why He had to die, and why they need Him. True converts are led to Him by the internal promptings of the Holy Spirit who convicts them of their sin and God's wrath against them. They are moved to repentance and driven to seek refuge in God's mercy and grace through faith in His son Jesus. It is our guilt-ridden consciences that keep us from God just like it did Adam and Eve. Simple and genuine faith in Jesus for our justification gives our conscience peace with God. This produces within us, by the Holy Spirit, great joy, a grateful and carefree heart, and love. If these things motivate you to righteous living then the yoke truly will be light. If fear and guilt, however, are your motivators then you will find yourself trying(and failing)to earn God's favor by cold hearted legalistic efforts to keep a set of rules.
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Proof that our "friend" is a hypocrite and a mental case, see above.\n\nI ask myself every time I read the Bible, what does this mean FOR me.
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this is a difficult passage, i too am having problems with it\ni think it is referencing the only unforgivable sin, blasphemy...because you know of the truth but you blatantly disregard it. You ignorantly ignore the truth of the word and therefore cannot be accepted. But I could be wrong altogether
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God's grace is sufficient! He loves us so much that he gave His son to die for our sins...past, present, and future. We recognize that we have sinned, ask Him to come into our lives and that we want to follow him, and we are reborn! New creatures in Christ. Sometimes we waiver and take a few steps back, but when we reach out to Him, miraculous things happen! Thanks for posting article.
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God gave every one a "holy" spirit in the beginning (birth) ... until you turn away from Him. It means, everybody has His given spirit and of course He wants to retrieve back all His people to live with Him in paradise.\nSo, He understand well, that when you were led astray earlier, means you were just misled by parents, friends & environment or un-exposed, or un-introduced about the goodness and truth about God. God will be very patient in guiding you, waiting for your understanding to develop and He will send people inviting you to accept God in your heart.\nWhen you were led astray in later years with well developed intellectual and analytical prowess... it just means...you willingly choose evil than goodness... or satan than God (whom God was deeply hurt)... or choose eternal burning of your spirit in hell  than  eternal happiness with us in heaven.  \n...but God will always try to forgive you...\nSo, be sure if you`ll come back to God...it comes from the bottom of your heart, make Him happy this time, make Him smile in every action you make, let Him felt satisfied and happy to witness that you willingly choose Him over Satan, in every seconds of your life...\n...and your forgiveness will become very, very, very meaningful.\nB e                  B l e s s e d   !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It means that we "must" forgive our brothers and sisters or GOD will not forgive us. Plain and simple. It also shows up in the Lords Prayer where Jesus teaches us to pray daily. This was a key point of Jesus commandments for us. The Bible also teaches that we have the rite to forgive sins done to us and that GOD will also forgive them because we did. This is a very powerful rite. When Jesus was on the Cross he said "GOD forgive them for they know not what they do." According to Jesus commandments they were forgiven. This is mind blowing to think about.\n\nMay GOD richly bless you.
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1) This was Socrates, and he made this statement at his trial.  (Read the "Apology" by Plato.  Or take my word for it.)  What he meant was something like, "If we just go through life never asking why, what's the point?"  He believed that to truly find "the good life" we need to be willing to ask hard questions and come to know the truth.\n\n2)  This is another statement that leads toward the same basic idea.  The speaker (I can't remember who said this one off the top of my head) is suggesting that we cannot be successful until we come to know who we really are--why we do what we do.  So examining one's self is the first step that we must take if we are to live successful lives.
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As others have mentioned, this verse refers to those people who were going astray after they were shown the straight path. So Allah revealed this verse, meaning that if you are indeed truthful, then you would hope for death so that you await your destiny.\nBut those who are wrong doers would never long for death as they fear the punishment that awaits them.\nLonging for death does not mean committing suicide by the way but it just means that if a person is good then he would prefer to die in a state of piety rather than after doing bad deeds.
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He probably meant that he felt that God or his own conscience was disappointed and saddened for the cruel treatment the Indians received.  \n\n  It is history.  Bless your heart.
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Many have sold their souls...meaning, they have exchanged them for wealth and fame in this fleeting, temporal world in a bargain with Satan and his forces.\n\nSelling your soul = agreeing to never turn to God in this life.  In exchange, the temporal wealth, fame, or fortune is promised and delivered...by Satan.  Once one has made this decision, there is no turning back...just like there is NO turning back for any of the fallen angels who made their decision to follow Satan and not God.\n\nSatan is in the business of using as many human agents (dupes) as possible to help accomplish his purposes of keeping as many humans from turning to God as possible. \n\nDon't be one of Satan's dupes.  There is a far better alternative with far better consequences with much longer benefits...it's called eternal life with God.\n\n"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE"  John 3:16\n\nSatan does not want people to understand this.\n\nDon't choose the road to Shamballa.
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Its really good to me. To me seems to say that true strength to walk with God comes from God and not from ourselves. It appears to acknowledges that we all try to do things on our own sometimes and think we are leaning on God/letting him guide us, even when we are not and we are really trying to carry the weight on our own. But its quite upbeat and seems to remind me that even that wont separate me from him in the long term! Its a good reminder, thanks for posting it\n I dont know if this is a song written for this topic but it speaks to me about that with the bits about trying to be strong, being serious about it, but not afraid to be weak and say "I got it wrong"....