First thing you need to know is that Christ was who he said he was.
He was not crazy, nor was he just some guy. His life was well-documented
in Jewish tradition and scripture before he was ever born. Spiritual people
from other religions saw him coming in spirit.
Yes, Christ is Messiah and Savior, but he was also something more practical.
He was RIGHT. He told us the truth. He isn't just some guy, nor was he invented.
The problem with a violent response is that you risk several sins (read mistakes).
Arrogance, lack of faith, and judgement are probably the tops.
Let's say, we are convinced that Patton Oswalt is a Pedo. What if you're wrong?
What if he was trolling, and you pick up a gun and take him out? Then, you're
just a murderer. Your pride led you to judge which led you to murder.
Let's say we are convinced justly that Adam Schiff is just flat out evil. And let's
say that in this case we are right, and someone shoots him. What if God had
a plan for his repentance and salvation? What if he has a Road to Damascus
moment and Christ saves him like he did Saul? Saul means one who is great,
and based on his family wealth and position in Congress, AS is, by this world's
standards, a great man. Paul means one who is little. Do you really want to
risk that change in AS because of your own pride and judgement?
There's a reason Christ told us to Judge not, lest ye be judged, and
by our own measure. We are setting ourselves up for judgement if we
condemn a man to death based on his current state. There's a reason
that the Bible says, Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord...or
It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of
disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.
Have faith in God and Christ enough to trust him. Trust him enough to
do what he said. Love your enemy. Pray for those who persecute you.
This is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
If this seems impractical to you, I'm including a practical way to do this.
This is where the real fight is. I can't endorse the course or cruise
in the video as I haven't taken them. But I endorse the man's book
as a way to DO what Christ taught.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRD1I8SPpo
And the book is...
The Intuitive Warrior by Michael Jaco
There's a time and a place for everything, but we are in
a perfect time and place to love.
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[–] 17066449? [S] ago
Matt. 11:14 John was the Elijah that was to come. Maybe your interpretation of Scripture and knowledge of Judaism can't touch mine. Your inability to understand something doesn't make it spam, and reporting it makes you look like a ridiculous adolescent. It's how liberals behave on Twitter.
Also, Michael and I don't see eye to eye on his approach to past lives. Not saying they don't exist, just that the path I followed precludes use of hypnosis in finding them. I don't feel the need to go looking for them.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio...
Let's see, what else could I show you....are you familiar with the Jewish teaching of the 3 spiritual laws of reincarnation? I'm guessing probably not...
Here's a teaching you won't find in your Bible. According to these laws, the only way for Jews to end their karmic cycle (oversimplifying for ease of understanding) is to reverse the three great sins of the Jewish People in reverse order (last sin first).
The last of the great sins was while wandering in the desert, the Jews murmured against God. The way to reverse this sin is to STOP COMPLAINING and GIVE THANKS.
The next sin was the sin of unbelief--the tower of babel. The people of that time had to find God. They were building to try to reach him because of their unbelief. The way to correct this is to HAVE FAITH in the existence of God.
The first great sin of the Jewish people was just before the flood. It's the sin of WASTE. The people of that time wasted both the gift of life that God have given them, through sexual immorality, and also the gift of time. The way to correct is to do your best to stop wasting time, and to "keep the seed within." According to Jewish spiritual teaching the seed could be let out once every two weeks--according to certain rules. According to Christian Mystical teachings, even this is unacceptable, and the seed must be used for creation, procreation or regeneration ONLY, and never for pleasure in and of itself.
These teachings predate the Messiah. He is all we need now, but there is ample evidence that reincarnation was part of pre-Messianic Jewish teachings.
It just doesn't matter anymore because all we need to do is have faith in Christ and, to quote a Buddhist, 500 years before Jesus' birth...there will come a man with disks in his hands and feet who will carry us over the sea of karma to the highest heaven.
[–] 17069551? ago
This is a Q related subverse. If you want to proselytize it's rude to do it here, just like it's rude when people knock on your front door and assume you know nothing about God or Jesus. Or assume that you don't already have faith, or assume you need to change your faith. If they're hocking seminar cult tapes (hence spam accusation) that they themselves have never listened to it's even more arrogant. And now you don't even agree with the person you're promoting! Your attitude from your post is pure BS and pride. You talk about waste, while wasting people's time like a troll.
You sound like Obama, assuming people 'cling' to their Bibles and are unaware of other teachings. Who are you come here under false pretenses to lecture and assume you know everything. What you don't seem to appreciate is the simplest thing about Christianity (John 1-3). That's why I called you out for the fraud, acting as if your teaching something profound about Christianity and Jesus when any Christian with half a brain can see through you.
[–] 17082694? [S] ago
So, when Q quotes from the New Testament about putting on the full armor of God, did you miss something there?
Do you see any mention of any denomination? Do you see me asking for donations? Not only am I aware that I don't know everything, I've been around the Christian block enough to realize that NONE of the denominations do. To know enough that nobody's interpretation of scripture is perfect.
I grew up Catholic. And I heard all the anti-Catholic rhetoric. And I accepted Jesus as my personal savior under something Baptist-like--because it didn't contradict ANYTHING that I already believed. Then I started checking into interpretation--Bible as it is, no learning necessary, and that's so ignorant it's frightening. Catholics have their own issues and interpretations, but they also have about 1700 years of pharisee-like legal explanations to back up everything they...BELIEVE.
What I came to believe is that nobody's little denomination/interpretation is perfect--INCLUDING MINE. Everybody thinks the Holy Spirit is with their little group exclusively. Well, I don't.
Michael Jaco isn't YOUR kind of Christian, but I know for a fact that he believes that Jesus walked the earth.
I'm not teaching anything of myself. I'm repeating what's in the Bible. If you're denying that Jesus of Nazareth taught us to "love your enemy," you're in denial.
Michael is a Navy Seal. He put this into PRACTICE. I took what he said, and tried it myself. I had powerful results just from sending love. My personal practice is a bit more generic Christian and employs the use forgiveness and the name of Yeshua, but it still came from Michael's book.
I believe, even though your interpretation is flawed and narrow, it's enough for you. But you project that know-it-all attitude on to me even though my life and practice is based on the fact that I don't know, I'm not as well educated or even close in faith to some of the Catholic Saints, and all I can do is the best I can and have faith.
Q's fight starts right here. 1 Cor 13.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.