You JoelG are nothing more than a pawn of Satan. You claim to Worship God but then you are a liar JoelG.
You have two and only two choices JoelG. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and enter into Heaven or reject Jesus Christ and spend Eternity in the Lake of Fire reserved for Satan and his Angels.
Right now as i see it you have rejected Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. But you still have a chance to accept Jesus before you die. Once you die in your sin JoelG you will never be allowed to enter into Heaven.
How can you say you are a True Christian when you reject God? The reason everything makes no sense to you JoelG is because you have refused to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior by Faith!
You are of the one's who need absolute proof that God is real before you accept Jesus Christ. God will never give you absolute proof Joelg. He wants us to accept Him based totally on Faith.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ IS God?
God wants us to follow Him by Faith.
Yes, in a sense, but........Many a hammer of man's unbelief have been broken on the anvil of God's Word. It can sometimes send someone even further away if they're told, 'you must have faith' or just accept and then God will show you. That sounds very similar to what I've heard about alot of r.catholic teaching, just accept and don't question. But God does not reject the one who's struggling to believe, after all, the fact that the creator of the universe became a man, walked among us, lived a life without sin, for the sole purpose of paying the penalty for our sins, to redeem us back to the very God we've sinned against, through His death on the cross, and proved it by rising from the dead, all in direct fulfillment of prophecy, preserved, through time and given to us in that very fulfilled Word to be able to read and be saved by, .....well....it's all pretty awesome and can be difficult to believe. In fact, even the faith to believe is called a gift from God...By grace we've been saved through faith, and that didn't come from ourselves, it is the gift of God. Jesus didn't say Go, and when you get enough faith, come on back if there's time, we'll talk. No, rather, He said, Come, let us reason together, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
We sometimes refer to Thomas as 'doubting' but perhaps that's not entirely true. Maybe he could be called 'broken-hearted' Thomas, ... Maybe he wanted so much to believe, had his hope and faith so much in Jesus, but didn't quite understand all the awesomeness of what was going on, that his hope was dashed, and his heart was crushed, at the horrific death of One he'd come to love and believe in so much. (Obviously I'm speculating here) But, maybe his disappointment grew when he had to hear his friends tell him Jesus was alive and visited them, and now he felt he missed his opportunity, and in his dismay he responded coldly, like yeah, right, prove it. And Jesus didn't hold him in contempt, He loved him anyhow. After all, he was really only asking for the proof his friends had already been given, the nail-pierced hands, the wounded side. And how many of us haven't sometimes prayed, along with another in scripture, 'I believe, Lord, help, thou, mine unbelief '. This thread, 'catholic heresy' points out that there IS such a thing, but I believe there are many more victims than perpetrators of it. And I believe there are many who are saved, family included, not BECAUSE of the catholic church, but IN SPITE of it. Meanwhile, if God allows, so should we. Let the doubters, even the antagonists, bring their hammers of unbelief down upon the anvil of God's Word of Truth, He can take it, and we can pray for them, since it's not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And of course, to faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever, amen. Father in heaven, thank you, Lord, that we can come to you freely, without sin and doubt, because Jesus paid the penalty of our sin on the cross. We pray, Lord, that even today, someone will read this, their heart will be softened and your Holy Spirit will lead them to salvation by faith alone Christ alone. Let them see, let us all here see, through 'spiritual eyes', what Thomas saw with physical eyes, the wounds of sacrifice Jesus paid for our sins, and the empty tomb as proof that God accepts the sacrifice as being paid in full on our behalf by Jesus on the cross. Help us do our part to help keep alive the awesome wonders of your love, and help us walk in the light of your love, and help us grow to know you and love each other better, for our Saviour's sake, to you oh God be the glory in Jesus name, amen.
Plenty of beef with Catholicism as well, but this is the context.... very disturbing from people who boast of superior respect for Scripture.)
