Repentance has some subtle nuances you should be award of, though. It literally mean's 'to turn around' or 'a change of mind. It's often said to be on the same coin as faith. Faith, on the one side, is changing one's mind about God turning to God , while repentance, on the other, is changing one's mind about sin turning away from sin. Can one happen without the other?
One cannot change his mind about God without changing his mind about sin. One cannot turn to God without turning from sin. How could he? God and sin are polar opposites. If you're facing one you cannot be facing the other.
Faith and repentance are inseparable. But decisions that are genuine have consequences. One cannot decide to follow God yet not decide to turn from sin. This is what James was speaking to. James What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? Hope that helps! Apr 24, Apr 28, It's big of you to admit that the forum is bringing more information and activity into your spiritual life!
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And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins. Passover is focused on individuals. Passover does not involve sacrifices from the people. Each family does kill a lamb during Passover — but then the people, themselves, eat that lamb.
Passover does not require any hardships for people. The Day of Atonement is focused on the community. The Day of Atonement does involve sacrifices from the people. Four different types of animals — as well as flour and oil — are offered up to God on the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement does require hardships for the people. Among other things, this means that there is a community-wide fast — i.
As mentioned previously, Passover is associated with our forgiveness ; and of course the Day of Atonement deals with atonement. Basically, except for the fact that both terms deal with sin, forgiveness and atonement are almost complete opposites of each other! Forgiveness through Christ is focused on individuals — exactly like Passover. Basically, each and every individual needs to come to Christ, in order to have his or her own sins forgiven. In other words, forgiveness has nothing to do with the community at large.
Forgiveness through Christ does not require sacrifices from the people — just like Passover. Jesus died for us on the cross — so that we do not need to die, in order to be forgiven of our sins.
Forgiveness through Christ does not require hardships for the people — again, similar to Passover. For example, people do not need to go on difficult fasts, or to become ascetic monks, in order to be forgiven.
Of course, it is true that believers will often be persecuted , simply because of their faith. However, that persecution is not a requirement of forgiveness — i. Or are you a going to cherry pick your way around this as well? Consider Moses barbaric acts of war and his distribution of the spoils.
Need I remind you of chapter and verse? Please stop trying to do the Theological Two-Step, it is crass and demeaning. For once, recognise that there is no way to simply call on exegeses and hermenutics to wish this away.
Why not respond to what she said? The link is dead — forbidden, it says. Besides, what is there to respond to? The evidence of slavery is all over the comment.
Oh,I know you want to tart it up with terms like in context of culture. Why should I care if you wish to discuss slavery? Like every biblical topic you will never approach it with any degree of integrity or honesty while you cling to fundamentalism; the hallmark of the indoctrinated. What next, a treatise on how wonderful your god was during his Divine Command phase while Moses and Joshua were busy liquidating the Midianites the Canaanites? Truly, your religion is enough to give children nightmares.
Tell me, have you ever read from the Old Testament to them: Moses and his vile campaigns? Perhaps you relish such bedtime tales? Honestly, contemplating the monster you genuflect to, I am surprised you can sleep at night. I can understand perfectly. The link Symona gave was not dead for me. I opened up the article with no problem. The point the article makes is salient. But I have more thoughts on the matter—for another day.
There is not a single verse in the entire bible that states this. And 1 Timothy is regarded as a forgery. And his acts of genocide were directly commanded by your god. Quite disgusting. Apartheid was justified on similar grounds. The fact is, your god does not condemn slavery at all and in some scenarios , actively encourages it. Rest assured, I would have no compunction about addressing such issues in exactly the same manner if we were face to face across the kitchen table. If I was relying in anonymity this would make me as much a hypocrite as those religious I take to task.
So what you suspect is merely a way for you to hide behind rhetoric and garner cheap applause from fellow indoctrinated fundamentalists, such as Wally, who, by the way, is really pushing for Sycophant of the Year award and we are only in the first week of January. From my perspective Wally has always responded to you with forbearance and grace. In fact, he is a good example of forgiveness. In reality, they show how two Christians who have never met and who know nothing about each other personally can still be like-minded because we serve sort of like slaves the same Lord and Savior and we believe in and rely upon the same Book.
I was hardly flattering when I raised my concern about what you said in a previous post, now was I? I have hurled my share of insults and derogatory statements towards Christians in the past. But, it was the kind, dogged persistence of a couple of Christians that also helped me eventually come to faith myself. It made a difference, for sure. It was your emotional issues that were the catalyst for your reaching out to the supernatural. This is my final comment to you on this thread. For you to say so is pretty presumptuous.
Your position is apparently that only a nutcase could have the unmitigated gall to disagree with you. On the other hand, a fairly strong case could be made that your behavior is an indicator of some emotional issues. Ironically, these friends were not pestering me at all. They were simply living their lives as Christians.
Kind of like you, I was the one who sought them for confrontation. But their response was not nearly like mine. Ponder on that one, my friend. Have a blessed day. We all blog on a public platform.
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