Why so many crazy people?

[DenR]

" some people think they're more compassionate than God by twisting scripture to make hell and God into what they want it to be instead of what God says it is. "
I challenge anyone to find the word HELL in the Hebrew or Aramiac or Greek scriptures.
Not looking for a fight, I cant help myself, I am one of those crazies and glad to be such.

 

[Newluke]

How is an online community, not a community? Just curious. Thanks

Ofcourse it IS some kind of a 'community,' just not in the strict sense of the word. People come and go as they please, there's never a REAL connection. As such it cannot be compared to a congregation where people have responsibilities towards each other.

When Jesus says: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them (Matthew 18:20) I don't think He was talking about bytes and bits, but about actual human beings who help, support, rebuke, edify etc each other.

Psalm 22 also says we should come together to praise and worship, and not stay in our own room in front of our monitor: 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee, and later on in the same psalm: 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

In Hebrews Paul urges us to come together to worship: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is. (...)

So CC may not be a community in the strict sense of the word, but it can be a very useful tool, and an image of what a church should/could be.

 

[RickyZ]

For me, sometimes what seems like an argument from me is pride.... " I must be rite"

That would be right, right? You set that up...

JK!

 

[NodMyHeadLikeYeah]

there are crazy people everywhere, this place is no exception.

 

[Kefa52]

That would be right, right? You set that up...

JK!

Right you are Right.

A rite is an established, ceremonious, usually religious act. Rites in this sense fall into three major categories:

• rites of passage, generally changing an individual's social status, such as marriage, baptism, or graduation.
• rites of worship, where a community comes together to worship, such as Jewish synagogue or Mass
• rites of personal devotion, where an individual worships, including prayer.

 

[Trax]

I joined these forums to discuss the Christian faith, amongst other things, with like-minded Christians. A number of people I've encountered so far are 'interesting', to say the least. How is it that some Christians here don't even know and believe the very basic tenants of the Christian faith? What a mess. An interesting mess but a mess nonetheless. I pray that we delve into God's Word, with the Holy Spirit as our guide and that we try to avoid placing our own ideals on the Scriptures. May God's Truth prevail!

There may not be that many Christians on the planet. Before the end, the great falling away will take
place and it looks like its beginning to snowball. So many things for end time are falling into place and
the falling away is one of the signs. And if this forum is any snapshot of the world, then we are
close, VERY CLOSE!

 

[Newluke]

No worries, God will sort us out at the rapture alright...

 

[unclefester]

You talkin' to me ?

 

[Stephen63]

I might be crazy but I'm not dangerous yet.

You're entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong you are. JK!

 

[tenderhearted]

When I was a in school I took an evangelical religion course. I learned that not every Christian believes that the bible is the literal word of God. These are called Modernists and they formed in the 19th and 20th century. They oppose the traditional principles of the bible. This is how the rise of the fundamentalist began. They were very offended by these modernists and felt that they should not call themselves Christians. Fundamentalist separate from the culture out of fear that they might be corrupted. It was a very interesting class. Do a Google search there's information about the conflict between the fundamentalist vs Modernist. You'll find it interesting.

 

[38miles]

I'm with you Tintin. I'm half torn with the crazy I see in others while slowly becoming conscious of the levels of crazy coming out of me here. To the point where I'm literally asking God if I need to just "tap out" of the CC community. But, I am here for the reasons you stated and I do pursue from that heart...until I come across something. Ugh.

Kefa52 - I really appreciate your response. If I cannot mature and resist getting into back-and-forths, feeding trolls and the like, then I should move one. So I pray for maturity while on these here boards. Blessed little place that it is!

 

[Elizabeth619]

Some may be crazy, yes. There's one member in particular that shows textbook signs of schizophrenia and that is a bit worrisome. That fact is a symptom is schizophrenia is an obsession with religion and supernatural powers. Many read certain passages and think they are "gifted" when they really aren't and/or they hear voices and think they are heavenly spirits talking to them. No, I am NOT saying anyone who thinks they have supernatural gifts are schizophrenic. Just one in particular.
Then there are those that are misinformed and don't understand scripture. They mix their own ideas and try to justify it with scripture. Example: We should never use money because we are the only living thing on the planet that uses money. There's no logic in that.

Many of use do disagree with each other in scripture. It reality it is not good, but instead of arguing about certain passages I have chose to study quietly to make sure I am not in error myself. I was told by my boyfriend today that I like to argue and will do it for hours and hours to prove a point. I don't agree with that. So I argued with him about it.

 

[dcontroversal]

I know but this isn't Church, just a place to state your case biblically and have fun doing it.

Exactly....

 

[dcontroversal]

Some may be crazy, yes. There's one member in particular that shows textbook signs of schizophrenia and that is a bit worrisome. That fact is a symptom is schizophrenia is an obsession with religion and supernatural powers. Many read certain passages and think they are "gifted" when they really aren't and/or they hear voices and think they are heavenly spirits talking to them. No, I am NOT saying anyone who thinks they have supernatural gifts are schizophrenic. Just one in particular.
Then there are those that are misinformed and don't understand scripture. They mix their own ideas and try to justify it with scripture. Example: We should never use money because we are the only living thing on the planet that uses money. There's no logic in that.

Many of use do disagree with each other in scripture. It reality it is not good, but instead of arguing about certain passages I have chose to study quietly to make sure I am not in error myself. I was told by my boyfriend today that I like to argue and will do it for hours and hours to prove a point. I don't agree with that. So I argued with him about it.

HAHAHHAHAHA too funny

 

[38miles]

Example: We should never use money because we are the only living thing on the planet that uses money. There's no logic in that.

^ that's awesome.

 

[dcontroversal]

There may not be that many Christians on the planet. Before the end, the great falling away will take
place and it looks like its beginning to snowball. So many things for end time are falling into place and
the falling away is one of the signs. And if this forum is any snapshot of the world, then we are
close, VERY CLOSE!

I would totally agree that we are very close to the end of the age. For real!

 

[Brother_Don]

Just wondering who the crazies are, are they the people that don't think the same as you? i had a dream about a year ago. it started out that me and my sons was walking down the street and a gang of people jumped us, we was fighting them off pretty well, and this big manly looking woman comes out shouting we need more crazies, and more would keep coming out, finally they was all gone, the dream went on but i'll stop. The name of this thread just made me think of that dream.

 

[Lecrae]

I joined these forums to discuss the Christian faith, amongst other things, with like-minded Christians. A number of people I've encountered so far are 'interesting', to say the least. How is it that some Christians here don't even know and believe the very basic tenants of the Christian faith? What a mess. An interesting mess but a mess nonetheless. I pray that we delve into God's Word, with the Holy Spirit as our guide and that we try to avoid placing our own ideals on the Scriptures. May God's Truth prevail!

I find this with any Christian forum I go to. I associate it with the truth of "they have a form of godliness, but they deny its power." (2 timothy 3:5)

 

[RedTent]

I think the church has turned a corner of understanding that started with the information about the history of our world and how it relates to understanding of scripture. As we understand the people God used to explain God to us, our leaders began understanding more of scripture. So far, these scholars who are learning about this are in our theological schools, not in the churches we attend. I've tried to take some of their classes, so far the price they charge for their classes is very high, but it is beginning to filter down to you and I. There is a class in our town, now, on archeology in the Holy Land, a step toward this understanding right in my quite small town. Lots of the information has to do with the culture of the people when Christ was with us, lots of it has to do with ancient Hebrew culture. They are understanding the clash between Hebrews and gentiles, better.

I think the Lord leads in everything. Have any of you thought about how strange it is that the dead sea scrolls were in open caves for way over a thousand years and just now found? They opened up much of this. It has taken years of study of them to learn from them, it is quite recent that it has made a difference.

It seems to me that if there was a forum like this 50 years ago, there wouldn't be the controversy there is now, or the amount of bickering, there wasn't the change in understanding of scripture there is now. I was 38, 50 years ago. I remember.

I realize this is not main stream thinking, sorry. Maybe some of you will think about this explanation.

 

[Karraster]

Daniel 12:4, which, according to the German, Dutch and Afrikaans versions, reads as follows, "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall do research, and knowledge shall increase."

Satan is the one who deceives the whole world.