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Ken Blanchard, co-founder of Lead Like Jesus, and his wife Margie lost their home in the San Diego fires in late 2007. Watch this inspirational video as Margie and Ken reflect back on this incredible event.
Visit our website, www.LeadLikeJesus.com, for more information about our ministry.
Duration : 0:7:16
Watch Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3PoJrQhhGw
Ken Blanchard, co-founder of Lead Like Jesus, and his wife Margie lost their home in the San Diego fires in late 2007. Watch this inspirational video as Margie and Ken reflect back on this incredible event.
Visit our website, www.LeadLikeJesus.com, for more information about our ministry.
Duration : 0:7:16
I have best friend who I have known for about 11 years. I know he is a Christian but we never really bothered having serious talks about religion.
One of the reasons was because he and I were both agnostics, and I was never baptized or brought up in a christian family traditions since my parent don’t go to church.
But yesterday at midnight he sent an email to everyone on his contact list, including me, saying he was no longer an agnostic and had full faith in god, saying that his relation with God has changed him a lot and helped him.
I thought good for him, it was quite a ’sensitive’ email so I did not want to comment. But at 1:00am , he called me on MSN and asked if I read the email, I said yes. But then he asked what I thought of it, and I did not know what to say, since it was on a sensitive topic and said it was ‘inspiring’.
Long story short, he said I looked ‘unconvinced’ and then he turned the conversation into what my belief in God was. Since I explained that I was agnostic and not a Christian that I had different views than him.
I for some reason asked him if I was going to hell, in which he replied ”Unless you change, then yes”, I started to get a bit freaked out and through the whole conversation at 2:00am he was saying his opinions, but putting them in a way that made it look like it was fact.
Then he said I was not ‘an extremly bad person’ as if to say I was not a good person, which hurt me a little, and then continued that I would not be accepted into heaven.
So now I’m a bit freaked out by my friend, it’s not becuase he now has full fait on God, it’s the way he seems to preeching to me, as if to say if I don’t become a Christian, believe in God and go to church then I will go to hell. I have never seen him like this and find it completly out of character.
Could anyone give me advice, becuase in the future this long friendship may be broken.
A secular friend once approached me and told me that believing in eternal judgment made me a very narrow person. I asked him, "You think I’m wrong about these religious questions, and I think you are wrong. Why does that make you as narrow as me?" He replied, "That’s different. You think we are eternally lost! We don’t think you are. That makes you more narrow than us."
I didn’t agree, and here is what I proposed to him. Both Christian and the secular person believe that self-centeredness and cruelty have very harmful consequences. Because Christians believe souls don’t die, they believe that moral and spiritual errors affect the soul forever. Liberal, secular persons also believe that there are terrible moral a spiritual errors, like exploitation and oppression.
But since they don’t believe in an afterlife, they don’t think the consequences of wrongdoing go on into eternity. Because Christians think wrongdoing has infinitely more long-term consequences than secular people do, does that mean they are somehow narrower?
Imagine two people arguing over the nature of a cookie. Bob thinks the cookie is poison, and Joe thinks it is not. Bob thinks Joe’s mistaken view of the cookie will send her to the hospital or worse. Joe thinks Bob’s mistaken view of the cookie will keep him from enjoying a fine dessert. Is Bob more narrowed-minded than Joe just because he thinks the consequences of her mistake are more dire? I do not believe anyone would think so. Therefore, Christians aren’t more narrowed because they think wrong thinking and behavior have eternal effects.
According to Christians if God were to truly give what everyone of us deserved, none of us would get to heaven. So its not surprising that your friend said an "extremely bad person." In fact, you ought to take it as a compliment because Christians believe everyone is sinful.
Dumb Christan quotes
"I know God exist because we’re here"
"God exist because he said I am"
"God allowed me to go to prison to find Jesus"
"God caused me to get into a car accident so he can save my life"
Video about a Christian being prejudice against Atheists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lfx-yOchgI
Atheist never said "we evolved from monkeys
We said, "humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestry" dumb ass
All of these are from Top Contributors.
1."Stupid Atheists don’t exist"
…then what do you have to say about Atheists who are starting churches.
"They are stupid and ignorant, but they don’t pertain to me. Therefore they don’t exist"
…do you exist by your own definition?
2. "Jesus ordered people to be stoned to death if they didn’t follow him"
…seeing as that’s not true, rather the opposite, can you cite the Bible?
"You are obviously uneducated and don’t know your Bible, so I am blocking you".
(No verses given of course)
3. "We have proof that snakes used to have legs. This alone proves that the Bible is wrong"
…there are better examples out there. Read Genesis and how the snake was cursed to no longer walk on legs, but to slither. Not a contradiction there.
4. "You obviously don’t know your Bible. At least Atheists know that when Timothy wrote the books of Timothy, he was just showing his agreement with Paul about his hatred for women"
…ahem, Paul wrote the books of Timothy.
5. "The theory of evolution explains how the world began"
-Numerous atheists, way too many to count-
6. "Christians are bigots who slander gays and treat them like second rate citizens"
…a few minutes later he called me a "f*g". Goes to show how little of a bigot he is. Later on I saw him in the football section calling Vikings fans "gay". I doubt he was trying to compliment them.
7. "You don’t think we know where the matter came from for our universe?!?" "It’s called the Big Bang theory, go to school sometime"
…the Big Bang theory has to do with everything after the initial expansion, incase you didn’t know.
8. "The Bible was written by the council of Nicea"
…thankfully other Atheists jumped in to correct her.
9. "Marilyn Manson is the greatest rocker and guitarist ever!"
…you obviously don’t know how to play guitar, nor do you have taste. Anyone who has tried to play Manson’s music on a guitar will agree with my criticism.
10. "Statistics are a reliable science"
…you obviously never took a stats course.
11. "There are no stupid Atheist quotes"
…and you call Christians ignorant.
12. "We evolved from monkeys"
…sorry to say, a few Atheists actually do say that. What’s worse is when they try to come up with facts to prove it.
13. "Cain built a city of 10,000 people. It’s written in Genesis."
…in all honesty, I think this guy was on drugs. He may not count.
14. "Buddhists are Atheists"
15. "The gospels weren’t written until a thousand years after Jesus"
16. "Since God told Noah to bring two of every animal, he should have starved"
…you obviously haven’t read the Bible.
I’m still confused by the fixation some have on Genesis as a literal work.
It is a literary work. Perhaps one of the most significant literary accomplishments in mankind’s history. Holy and inspired? yes. Science? no.
Yes, Moses is credited with composing the first five books (the Torah), but he did not invent them all from scratch! Rather he organized the stories, compiled over hundreds of years, somewhat like Constantine organized your New Testament gospels and letters at the Council of Nicea.
The Oral traditions of the Hebrew people were different going in to our exile in Babylon, than they were coming out.
Some of the Persian influence was incorporated into our stories.
This is a fact.
Yes, the Bible stories are inspired, holy and contain truth, but the message is what is important, not the wording!
For instance, there is a Sumerian poem that predates the biblical story of creation by about 1,000 years, wherein man was fashioned out of clay to do the work of the gods. Sound a little familiar?
Why is it more theologically significant for you to believe Adam ("ha adam" — the man) was just one single man made out of dirt, than to believe he was selected/chosen by our Creator (just as Abraham, Elijah, Moses were singled out) to become the first recipient of an immortal soul, of free will?
Why is it more comforting to imagine than man was made out of "dirt," (adamah) than to understand the amazing process of evolution?
The message doesn’t change at all if the "first man" is chosen out of a group of evolved primates (i.e. homo sapiens) to experience the very first relationship with our Creator. The story itself still has merit and truth, yet poses no conflict with modern science!
I’ve been trying to understand this point of view, but it still escapes me. I’m still hoping for a way to fathom it, if you can help.
Thank you.
To some people it is simply far more important that they be right than anything else, you are never going to change their minds. I’ve often argued that the stories of the Torah were actually the story of the founding of the Jewish People rather than of all Mankind, that is why when Cain was cast out their were other people with whom he could go live. The Venerable Cesare Baronius stated in the 16th century that the Bible was never intended to be a science textbook, in his words it "shows us how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go".
The majority of Christian Churches have accepted Evolution for decades, as have many Muslims, it is only the Fundamentalists who keep fighting it, something I attribute to their Church Leadership being dependent on the blind obedience of their congregations in to maintain their political power and lavish lifestyles and educating their followers from birth to simply accept not just the God or the Bible but the Preachers as infallible. People raised in such a way have no capacity for reasoned analysis and defense of their preconceptions, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it" leaves no room for such things.
Please copy and paste them for me.
Thank you very much…
"Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses." - Ezekiel 23:19-20
"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths." - II Kings 2:23-24
This is the story about the Detroit Hope Community of Christ Church.
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This is the story about the Detroit Hope Community of Christ Church.
Duration : 0:7:18
The only place the bible quotes itself, they got it wrong…Compare Isiah 61:1 to Luke 4:18….Jesus is supposed to be reading from that very same book (or inscription) the duties expected of the Messiah.
Duration : 0:6:38
The only place the bible quotes itself, they got it wrong…Compare Isiah 61:1 to Luke 4:18….Jesus is supposed to be reading from that very same book (or inscription) the duties expected of the Messiah.
Duration : 0:6:38