Why is it so hard for Church  People, to accept the difference, in a Blood Child  & A Anointed Child of God?
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1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one\n\nJesus is the Word...see John 1...."in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God".....keep going and you see that Jesus is the Word that "became flesh"... http://www.biblegateway.com
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God, the Christian one, asks us to sacrifice our most basic desires, sex and food (celibacy and fasting).  That is difficult for anyone, especially one lacking the disapling that sometimes comes with aging....\nBut also, children today are taught to question authority....Where once everyone accepted what their parents or preacher said, today we can turn on the TV and see another truth....
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I think it is rooted in the belief in original sin.  One is born tainted with the sin of Adam.  So baptism is to cleanse one from that.  Confirmation is done when the child is older, and that is when the child can decide for him or herself if he wishes to follow the faith.
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because God is not apart of the world now.it is a sad but true fact.people are so corrupt in their own desires that they dont care about God. i wish it was different but this has to come to pass. soon Jesus will come back and they will all be sorry my friend. i promise.
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No, the church (especially if it's of a Christian background) shuold be tolerant of this idea. They do not have to accept it, agree with it, or even endorse the idea, but it must have a tolerance for this idea because we teach forgiveness. Furthermore, even though it might be a Christian church, and it strongly opposes abortion (not flat out but in other ways, email me if you care) this is still an issue over AIDS and it would be, for a lack of better words, DUMB not to include a smart individual on a conference over aids.
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This is a good dilemma for the Born Again crowd.  Of course to those of us who belong to church of revealed rather than traditional religion it poses no problem.  God the Father and Jesus Christ are NOT the same person.  The Bible never teaches that they are the same person.  Therefore there is no problem about what God the Father was doing at the time His son was born into mortality.  They are two separate and distinct personages.  Both members of the Godhead--NOT the trinity as apostate Christians attempt to explain.
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That time will never come because the two faiths seem to be different in their emphases. one preaches tolerance and peace, one says peace but  seem to encourage violence in defence of faith. Things could still change though!if people would understand the that there's only one God, that human Beings are too small to defend God. God  defends man and not man fighting for God.Further more, you can be fighting for God by killing His creatures-His precious children and think God would be Happy. It boils down to knowledge!Not going to school!Again, people who are involved in preaching religions should mind their ulterances! we keep hearing 'no religion preaches violence' and everyday we see religious people planting bombs in places of worship in the name of God!If we say we are peaceful religion let us see it in practice not only in principle!There's hope that some day, someone will understand that we are all one in God's sight and that human blood is very sacred!
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God is a little "bigger" than we are. We don't understand everything about Him and most of us go through life recognizing that there are things that our human minds cannot comprehend. We just accept the simple teaching of the Bible and wait until we will see clearly as I Cor 13 tells us,"12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
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You are asking a loaded question. The Church teaches that God interferes every moment of every day.  In fact, Jesus even told his disciples he would send them an "advocate" to aid them after his ascension. (John 14:16 NAB)
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Yes, lots of people do. I was brought up to believe that Jesus was the son of God and that God himself was a different person, not a trinity. I'm not religious now, but when you've had the same thing told to you since you were a small child it's difficult to unbelieve.
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I think that we all struggle in our faith one way or another. Questioning God's existence doesn't really cross most of our minds. We may question why He allows things to happen or we may even question our own Christian walk and our relationship with God. My pastors -and I've had a few in my life -haven't been perfect. In fact there was one who was my Dad's boss that treated his underlings shabbily and used the church vehicle for personal business. I think he may've even taken some of the better donations given to the church for his own. I do know that he was eventually caught by his bosses with his hand in the cookie jar and in adultery. He was speedily fired. As for weird things in a worship service? I recall visiting a Charismatic service to see what it was like. I met one of those pastors who held rather rambunctious healing services. You know the type.; they call you forward for healing even though you haven't volunteered or asked for it. He claimed -a few times- to be given a word of knowledge about some type of secret sin in some person's life. I found this made me extremely uncomfortable because I do not believe that God would humiliate an individual in this manner. Nor do I think that Jesus would compel anyone to come for healing. God is a Gentleman, and He never forces Himself on anybody. Neither should His servants
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God does not love one person more than another. It doesn't really matter if what the person did was a million times worst than what the other person did. God is no respector of persons. Once your sins are wiped away by the blood of Jesus, then you don't have to feel any kind of fear or guilt. Take care.
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Hello,\n\nEvery thing takes time. you have to accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour and that he came down from above to pay for our sins.\n\nBeing born again is similar to accepting and repenting but, its like if you steal you can't go around staeling again. When you have the spiriti within yo , bad things would not even come to your mind\n\nTake care and God bless
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Mainstream Christianity has always maintained that god's son died on a cross to save people from their sin. But other Christians rejected this and said that it is not his death that can accomplish anything, but rather his life and teaching. I agree with the latter (though it is very unorthodox and wonderfully heretical). And I agree with your thinking and I cannot see how the death of a man on a cross can possibly achieve anything. Such primitive practices go back to when people believed that god can't do anything without seeing blood ("without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin").
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hey christian why is it so hard to let people believe what they want and just accept it.
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I was Baptized in the river Jordan, but not all people can do that.  It cost a lot of money to get it arranged, and they have to get the Priest the family and their guest there, and then they have a gathering, a party after ward, it cost a lot.  These days it cost too much, it is not very safe, and the river is drying out, not enough rain.  It is in the desert after all,\n\nI think some churches still do that, not all of course.  The reason is, because Baptism now down inside the church, and it is easier to pour the water over the head, and then anoint the person with oil after ward.  That is the only difference, but all the procedures and the words are the same.\n\nIt does not matter how a person is being Baptize.  Whether they are immerse in the water, or sprinkled with it as you might wrong think, or poured the water over their head.  What matter is receiving the Baptizim itself.  \n\nIN the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.
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I don't know if it is on paper, but I am sure Fundamental Christians don't agree with blood transfusions at ALL. They feel "God will provide", and I assume, bleed to death. \n*same goes for organ transplants