-
Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.
If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!
To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
- Status
M
have YOU ever considered that *I* might know a little more about a certain topic than you? I will when I see you post something that I don't know. I am not afraid to admit I am wrong about something when it is shown via scripture.
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe G-d put things like the Witness Protection Program on earth for us to use when we need them? Of course not. that would be running to MAN instead of running to GOD. HE is our protector, our provider, our fortress. The WPP is a governmental, man-made program devised by men to keep those who will or who have testified against evil safe...rather than disabling the evil through spiritual warfare and dealing with those issues in the spiritual realm where they originated.
Also, and this is just a question born of curiosity, but...are you challenging the faith of people who use things like the Witness Protection Program? No way. It has nothing to do with faith. It has to do with understanding and knowledge. FIVE times in scripture, God tells us that His people either suffer or die for Lack of KNOWLEDGE. Not lack of faith, but lack of knowledge. I simply am trying to empower you to learn and to become a more powerful Christian...knowledgable of the ways of both God and the enemy. How can anyone fight battles when they do not know who their enemy is or how he fights? Knowledge of the spiritual realm GIVES US STRATEGY to resist the enemy, rest in God, and be the overcomers that He created us to be. It's like...WAY COOL!!
Maggie
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe G-d put things like the Witness Protection Program on earth for us to use when we need them? Of course not. that would be running to MAN instead of running to GOD. HE is our protector, our provider, our fortress. The WPP is a governmental, man-made program devised by men to keep those who will or who have testified against evil safe...rather than disabling the evil through spiritual warfare and dealing with those issues in the spiritual realm where they originated.
Also, and this is just a question born of curiosity, but...are you challenging the faith of people who use things like the Witness Protection Program? No way. It has nothing to do with faith. It has to do with understanding and knowledge. FIVE times in scripture, God tells us that His people either suffer or die for Lack of KNOWLEDGE. Not lack of faith, but lack of knowledge. I simply am trying to empower you to learn and to become a more powerful Christian...knowledgable of the ways of both God and the enemy. How can anyone fight battles when they do not know who their enemy is or how he fights? Knowledge of the spiritual realm GIVES US STRATEGY to resist the enemy, rest in God, and be the overcomers that He created us to be. It's like...WAY COOL!!
Maggie
M
Beiing a fashion major tells me that you are of the 'articst' nature. God has given you an artistic gifting for designing clothing. Very cool...now just make sure that you honor Him in your designs!
Yaeger1: Dreams are metaphorical. In dreams, white hair can have both a positive or a negative meaning. A negative meaning would be that it represents a religious spiritual covering. By context, that is rare in dreams. The positive meaning is that it shows that person having the white hair has WISDOM, which is a righteous quality.
FYI...beards represent maturity...coloration is usually not important concerning beards.
Maggie
Yaeger1: Dreams are metaphorical. In dreams, white hair can have both a positive or a negative meaning. A negative meaning would be that it represents a religious spiritual covering. By context, that is rare in dreams. The positive meaning is that it shows that person having the white hair has WISDOM, which is a righteous quality.
FYI...beards represent maturity...coloration is usually not important concerning beards.
Maggie
Problem with that is that Scripture is not the answer book. Scripture addresses SPIRITUAL issues. That's it. Scripture is all about your relationship with G-d.
For this, however...you're trying to say dying your hair and getting braces and such is vanity, and then in the next breath you try to say vanity isn't wrong...Scripture ain't saying anything either way. We have to look at what the word "vanity" means, and if we do, we see that you can't have it both ways - either dying your hair and getting braces is vanity, which makes them WRONG and SINFUL, or dying your hair/getting braces is NOT vanity.
Maybe He inspired the men who created the WPP to create it for us to use.
I'm not interested in being a more powerful Christian. I'm not even interested in being a Christian. I follow G-d the way I feel He wants me to follow Him, based on Scripture and what He has told me - which goes against Christianity
For this, however...you're trying to say dying your hair and getting braces and such is vanity, and then in the next breath you try to say vanity isn't wrong...Scripture ain't saying anything either way. We have to look at what the word "vanity" means, and if we do, we see that you can't have it both ways - either dying your hair and getting braces is vanity, which makes them WRONG and SINFUL, or dying your hair/getting braces is NOT vanity.
Maybe He inspired the men who created the WPP to create it for us to use.
I'm not interested in being a more powerful Christian. I'm not even interested in being a Christian. I follow G-d the way I feel He wants me to follow Him, based on Scripture and what He has told me - which goes against Christianity
M
IF you follow JESUS, then, like it or not you ARE a Christian. But because of all the negative connotations that that word has come to have...especially since many who call themselves Christians act in ways that simply disqualify them from that Biblical 'category', I can totally understand not wanting to call yourself that. What concerns me is that you seem to say the word 'Christian' with such disdain...almost like you abhor those that do use the word.
Ideally "Christians" should be 'followers of Jesus'...doing things His way. We all know that is not the case for most. Most people that go to church every Sunday, call themselves "Christians". But going to church does not make them so. Even demons go to church!!
Maggie
Ideally "Christians" should be 'followers of Jesus'...doing things His way. We all know that is not the case for most. Most people that go to church every Sunday, call themselves "Christians". But going to church does not make them so. Even demons go to church!!
Maggie
No...if I follow Yeshua, I am a follower of Yeshua. Christianity is a religion. I am only a Christian if I follow Christianity. I do not follow Christianity.
Apparently not, because you seem to think I don't call myself a Christian because of what Christians do.
You got at least part of that right. Only, I don't abhor those that use the word, I abhor the theology.
Apparently not, because you seem to think I don't call myself a Christian because of what Christians do.
You got at least part of that right. Only, I don't abhor those that use the word, I abhor the theology.
M
Problem with that is that Scripture is not the answer book. Scripture addresses SPIRITUAL issues. That's it. Scripture is all about your relationship with G-d.
That is simply not true. SCRIPTURE has answers for every human malady and dilema. Love God first and formost, above all else; Love your neighbor as your self; choose life; fear not, rest in Him, ask and ye shall recieve...it's ALL there inclusively.
Maggie
That is simply not true. SCRIPTURE has answers for every human malady and dilema. Love God first and formost, above all else; Love your neighbor as your self; choose life; fear not, rest in Him, ask and ye shall recieve...it's ALL there inclusively.
Maggie
But all of that is in the realm of spirituality.
The Scriptures do not have the cure for cancer.
They don't have the solution to world hunger.
They don't tell us how to obtain world peace.
They just deal with your relationship with G-d and, by extension, your relationship with man. That is ALL the Scriptures were meant for.
The Scriptures do not have the cure for cancer.
They don't have the solution to world hunger.
They don't tell us how to obtain world peace.
They just deal with your relationship with G-d and, by extension, your relationship with man. That is ALL the Scriptures were meant for.
L
cure for cancer: God
solution to world hunger: none. The Bible says there will be hungry until the return of christ
obtain world peace: ditto. not gonna happen until Christ returns
For the last two we can read the Bible to gather ideas on how to deal with the two. You want to help with world hunger, give to the needy like the Bible tells you to. You want world peace, start with loving your neighbor.
We cannot fix an imperfect world, because we ourselves are imperfect. Imperfect does not fix imperfect. Only a perfect God can fix that which is imperfect.
solution to world hunger: none. The Bible says there will be hungry until the return of christ
obtain world peace: ditto. not gonna happen until Christ returns
For the last two we can read the Bible to gather ideas on how to deal with the two. You want to help with world hunger, give to the needy like the Bible tells you to. You want world peace, start with loving your neighbor.
We cannot fix an imperfect world, because we ourselves are imperfect. Imperfect does not fix imperfect. Only a perfect God can fix that which is imperfect.
While G-d's healing powers are incredible...He is hardly a cure for cancer. I'm talking about the kind of cure we have for other illnesses...the kind that EVERYONE gets that pretty much purges the illness completely.
That being said, again: G-D may be the cure for cancer, but the Scriptures still do not show a cure for cancer.
Therefore, my point stands: Scripture provides a solution to neither.
That being said, again: G-D may be the cure for cancer, but the Scriptures still do not show a cure for cancer.
Therefore, my point stands: Scripture provides a solution to neither.
B
in the last part of the verse, ' you can not make one hair white or black' Jesus is talking about control in a situation. earlier in the passage when he tells you not to make oaths you dont intend on keeping, things happen outside our control. It's better not to make an oath than to make an oath and not keep it . Sorry if I did not read any of the other replies before posting.
- Status