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Well I'm not a puritan you see. I believe that Christians should have fun and that Jesus had fun. Think about when he turned water into wine at Caner. He was at a wedding celebration. If he didn't believe people should enjoy themselves then he wouldn't have done it. He'd have told them to...

"Take up your cross and follow me."

Why wait til Midwinter? Because otherwise people would be too drunk to get any work done during the year. Oh and by the way, I don't think the first Christians in Northern Europe were all that sincere (apart from the saints like Wilfred and Cuthbert) because it was their kings that made the...

25th of December is when we celebrate Jesus Birthday but I never said he was born on that day. Sheppards were out with their flocks and they had lambs and lambs are born in spring, by December they are fully grown sheep. Maybe Jesus was born in april or May. That's not the point. 25th of...

Of course we should. It's Jesus' birthday. If that's not a good enough reasons, then think about how dark and dreary winter is and how we need soemthing to brighten things up in the coldest and darkest time of year. Where I live it will be dark by 3:00PM on Christmas day.

I have no problem with that as long as they live in a jungle in Borneo or somewhere like that where they never had the cance to hear about Jesus but if they are athiests living in the west then there can't be much chance for them. However, if they floow the consience that God ahs given them...

There's no other way of interpretting Matthew 25:31-46 Hence faith without works is not enough. The Sheep and the Goats 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will...

They ahve to be sincere and without faith inChrit Jesus then good works will do nothing but not to do them doe snot show fruits of the spirit. T o not do them is not to live the Christian life and not to live as God wants us to. What I eman is that we can't jsut lay back and relax, expecting...

Also, I know what you mean but the ideas of losing and gaining are the only ways I can explain it. You see you can loose or gain it but it isn't up to you as we don;t have anychoice in the matter. I don't know why God gave me this Revelation but I thnak him that I am to be spared the fires...

Thank you prentis I remember on that day that God seemed to speak to me through the hymn and afterwards was overpowered by the experience and I as so filled with joy it was unexplainable. After the mattins and coffebreak I attended my seminars and lunch and more coffee but at the end of the...

If someone is consious and spends eternity in hell then surely they are alive. If they are dad then how can they be consiouse it is a matter of logic. So that if a person truly dies then the soul dies too and they have no more consiousness, nevither eternal pain and suffering nor eternal bliss...

Has anyone here had a similar experience because no-one I know has. I'm guessing that no-one on this forum knows what it feels like to be dammed and totally hopless and I wish it on no-one. I don't want anyone to feel like I did when I thought I as dammed.

Wehter we are saved or dammed we wil all ahve eternal live The souls in heaven live an eternal life int eh presence of God. The souls in hell live an eternal life without the prsence of God, though they have full knoweldge of God. Either way they will aklll live forever. Jesus said that...

You are absolutley spot on corerct lastsecman I lost my slavation but somehow through the grace of God I was given it back. Basically I had a dream in which I was met by the Angel of Death who told me that he had a message from God. I was eager to ehar it but the messsage was that it was the...

I'll fear God if I want to and i don't ahve to be anybody's guest Tom! Prentis You said "attain the ful stature of Christ." We can't do this, not of us can, I don't think we can even recieve such a thing. I think there is onyl room for one Christ and even if we enter into his kingdom we shall...

Tom Your are very foolish nto to fear God. We all should "our delight is in teh fear of trhe Lord>" Matthew 10:28 "Fear not htat which can destroy the body but that which can destroy the soul." God has the power to destroy your very soul

Yes, you should fear death. Think about what would happen to your soul if you die this very instant and repent, repent, repent even if you can't think of many sins because we all commit sin without even knowing it but we are still accountable for it.

Just to update on this. I am still confused by these dreams and still worry that I might be dammed but I have been encouraged to seek help through the sacrament of reconciliation and hope to do so shortly. I told a lay preachjer about these dreams and she has insisted that I see a priest...

I must admit this frightens me because it means that a Christian, a truly sincere Christian can become an idolator without even being aware of it. It is easy to look at the 10 commandments and to think about physical things like statues of pagan gods and carvee images. This is the most direct...

It makes me wonder if the humans in Genesis 1 were not Adam and Eve and never lvied in Adam and Eve, so that by the time Adam and Eve were ejected from Eden there was already a human population. That would certainly account for archeological evidence of humans before 4000 BC.