I've always heard of the Christian life referred to as "the great adventure", but I've never taken the time to ask what that means.\n\nWhat *does* it mean, and how does a Christian experience our life of faith as "the great adventure"?
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The Christian life is referred to as the Great Adventure because we as Christians are always battling against Hell either offensively or at times simply defensively.  God's word tell us to put on the Armor of Righteousness.  Therefore, we are basically soldiers/servants of God our King.  Thus, you could say that we are knights on the great adventure which leads us to our castle/home in heaven.
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HAHA I can see what your getting at. This isnt a battle that you can win. Neither can I. I'm christian but a relaxed one. People have their opinions and who am i to tell them different. I dont beleive everything I hear. I beleive things that i know however. And I dont know for sure that a god even exist. I guess thats the whole concept to a religious faith alone. People tend to take the bible TOO literal. Then things begin getting mixed up. I am a scientist as well, some things in the bible just dont make sense. But if you read a book that offered a way for you to live in a sunny nice beach, and youve lived in the projects all of your life...and all you had to do has follow the books teaching...would you take it? I'm sure you see what i'm getting at as well.
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It's a total misinterpretation of 1 Thessalonians.  Christians WILL go through the "Tribulation" - I think it has already begun, to be honest.\n\nThe idea of a "pre-Tribulation Rapture" was unheard of in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers - heck - many of them thought the Diocletian Persecutions and the the persecution of Nero Caesar were pretty much a "tribulation", no?\n\nYou don't see that idea until the 1800's - and now, it's being perpetrated by fictional books like those "Left Behind" novels.\n\nNonsense.
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what does being saved have to do with going out and having fun with you?? i dont get the question...maybe it has nothing to do with being saved.. lets face it he sounds lazy. tell him to get off his a.s.s and do something or you wil find a man who is a saved active person..glad i am not a christian
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watching the freedom of nature. you can learn a lot from nature. watch the birds, some of them coast on the air streams flying with the breeze.... others are beating their wings for all they are worth fighting against the wind. life is like that. there are so many of us fighting against the winds of life and getting nowhere. we don't realize that all we have to do is turn around and let the breeze carry us where God wants us to be. we may not end up where we want to go, but we will be where we belong. the ride is amazing, the view is awesome, and the peace is incredible. \n\nwhen you step out of the known light, into the unknown darkness, FAITH is knowing that one of 2 things will happen. you will be given something to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.
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I love the quote "The glory of God is man fully alive!" (St. Irenaeus I believe. I found it in a John Eldredge book.) I love Jesus, I love to laugh, love, laughing with friends, music, art, poetry, beauty, animals, fun. I love to live life to the full. Yet I am not afraid to cry, and I get frustrated and rage at life. I think some people can be "religious" religious (i.e. legalistic), and this is because they maybe try to control their lives. (I'm not talking about all Christians here. I am just trying to explain why some Christians behave a certain way.)To live life fully (I mean really live) you can't do that until you let go of your hurts and pain to God, and it is extremely difficult because it is frightening. Most people, even Christians, can't do that and that is why we hide behind a mask to hide behind or make ourselves feel better and legalism is just an example of a mask people use. \n\n"...And I'm laughing out loud! And I'm finding out just who I am in You...! " - Sheila Walsh.\n\nDidn't mean to go on so long. Just couldn't stop once I got into it!
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Does mainworry ever post comments himself, or does he just copy and paste all the time?\n\nGenesis is the intro to the bible.  It is full of ambiguous stories aimed at giving a meager beginning to mankind.  It has preposterous stories like building an ark.  If such an ark were built, It would have been a half a mile long.  On top of that, it would have been built out of wood.  And then... here's the best part.  If the world were flooded, then the ocean waves would be so insanely huge, that no boat, not even today's American Navy, would have been able to stay afloat!!!  Common sense dictates that you take these stories with a grain of salt.  With no land masses to quell the ocean waves, they would be huge!
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I don't see it as all that blasphemous. You got 'the Way' absolutely right. Following the Path that He gives us is exactly what He wants of us. While an 'honest life' is surely a part of the Truth, it also means that He contains all Truth. There's a lot more here than you are seeing. Again, 'the Life', does mean live this way, but more, He is the true Source of life, both temporal and eternal. \n\nThink bigger, but you're on the right track.
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The path that is mentioned in the Bible. Living according to\nthe Word of God. The Bible. I find alot of the Bible to be\ntrue. What I have seen in person had enough evidence to \nconvince me that God is really. I actually saw a demon come\nout of someone, a woman being healed of aids and still living to tell it, someone speaking in tongues, and feeling\na warm sensation come over me that feels like warm oil. It\nis a good feeling. That is God touching you. God will make\nyou feel better than any drug, alcohol, or sex.
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I like the spirit of your philosophy, but as to the exact wording, it seems backwards to me. Try this: We don't know how, but faith allows us to know that everything is going to work out, somehow. Faith is a way of knowing, we can not know everything, but we can understand almost everything if we know the subject matter. More and more facts are coming to light for us everyday that we live if we live in faith, with one small exception. Death always catches us flatfooted. Unless, we are very old and or very wise and courious, and ready to find out.
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Ha, this could be a little true.\n\nBut there is a faith which is not so wacky.  Think of it like this:\n\nLet us say that you have a friend who has always come through for you.  Then one day, you get stranded and you call your friend to come get you, and they say, "I'm on my way!"  Should you trust your friend?  I say yes, of course!  They have always come through for you in the past, so you should trust them.\n\nI think this is what the proper meaning of faith is.  It is trust.  It is an optimism that everything is going to work for the good.
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If you'r a Christian and a true believer, then what is it thats confusing you. Don't you read the Bible? Where does it say anywhere in the Bible that anyone except Jesus ever came back from the dead to live a new life? No, I do not believe in past lives.
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There is a perspective that I've adopted that allows me to put things in focus. Look at it this way; negativity exists to define the good and vice versa. \n\nThat reminds me of a "Six Feet Under" preview. In it, one of the characters asks, "Why do people have to die"? The other character responds, "To make life have worth". \n\nTo say that God allows some thing like rape, suggests that you have insight into how God works. Many people may feel, "as you believe, so it shall be". However, not one person on the planet could give you a confirmation on God and God's intentions. It's left to each individual's interpretation and belief.\n\nI understand where you are coming from, though. You're thinking, 'If God is so powerful, why doesn't God intervene'? I don't have a difinitve answer for that. But think of it this way; if God intervened all the time, how would any one learn any thing? \n\nOf course, it's not as if we're learning much as it is. However, most of us know better. We make our own decisions and whether we know it or not, our decisions affect every one around us.\n\nPeople get raped but also, some thing good happens. Not necessarily some thing equally and oppisite, though. However, down the line things will balance out.\n\nLife is full of in justices. You must know that, every thing moves in cycles and as the old saying goes, "what goes around, comes around". A rapist may not be punished today but one day his sins will be punished.
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Interesting scripure. But I'm also interested in this: the term 'last days' has been mentioned, and keeping in mind two things: the lord's overwhelming power to stretch and shrink time, combined with the fact that the last 2000 years there have been scoffers like mentioned above, when exactly will these 'days' end? This could take thousands of years, or be in a minute. But in that very minute a 'scoffer' *could* convert to the true faith, so if the lord is truly patient, he'd wait that minute too, or those thousands years, else it wouldn't be fair, I'd say.\n\nAnd tell me this: I am no scoffer, but in your eyes I'd probably be. But which of my desires are actually evil? My strongest desires are that people all over the world be stopped by blind judging other people, that people actually think before they act, that they take other people in mind when they take decisions that might effect them, in short that they respect other people and let them be. Another desire of mine is that helping people develop themselves, seek out their potentials, and enhance them, that they enjoy living in this beautiful world, and teach other people to enjoy too.\n\nBut since I don't need Jesus to actually do this, I am truly an ungodly man and I shall be destroyed by your lord.\n\nIf I'm to be judged by someone who doesn't look at my actions or my desires behind them, but at my lack of faith, and still wants to destroy me, please, let him do his thing, for I have nothing to be ashamed of and I rather live in hell knowing I have done right, than living in heaven for being a hypocrite.
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Hi Josh. I'd like to take a stab at your question, because I am always interested in helping either fellow christians or woould be christians that have an open heart get closer to god in a sincere, but non-pushy way. \n\nThat being said, have you ever felt like you were in a no-win situation? Maybe even a life or death experience, where you thought there was no way out? And yet you could feel ro sense things beyond your control either rescuing you from harm's way or voices or forces pulling you to go in one direction or another that ultimately made the difference in your life?\n\nWell those are points of evidence towards God. They could be angles helping to keep you on the right path or simply preventing you from going under. Whatever the case may be, God is all around us. You can't see bacteria or the wind, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist, does it?\n\nToo often people who have lost their way or never even knew the way write off things they can't readily see or explain. I feel bad for athiests because they deny or block the love God has for them. They really enjoy being angry. These people are much like the rich: hey are consumed by material things that they can see, and yet even when they seemingly have it all they're still not happy, becuase it's never enough. God won't come to you in a box, or in the form of a house or from a steering wheel. But that doesn't mean he's not there. \n\nPlease don't let the world block out god from your heart and from your life. God is all around you, but he gave you the free will to choose to believe, so have the faith and know that whatever energy you spend on letting him into your life will not go unwasted. It never does and in the end the truth will come out and you will have been better and wiser for knowing it when you meet God someday. \n\nHope this gave you some hope.
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I don't understand how as a "Christian" you cannot find fulfillment in learning , growing and applying the teachings of Christ. For starters since you seem to  have enough time to get bored I'm sure you can find the time to spread and maintain His Kingdom. Serving others may yield the blessings you may be expecting. Sorry for the preachiness.
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The same way that the early Christians walked by faith.  Very few people are cognizant of the horrors the early chuch faced.  People were doused in oil and tied to poles and lit like lamps.  They were torn apart by lions, gladiator fights, pretty much if there was a way to die, they experienced it.  Proclaiming yourself a Christian was an automatic death sentence.  Most of the Christians knew they would die in the arena but they kept believing anyway and Christianity continued to flourish.  \n\nToday, it means the same, bad times will come but instead of becoming depressed or angry you turn it over to the Lord.  You will believe that he will see you through.  Even if it  results in death you will joyfully remember the life he has promised you on the other side.