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I live, therefore I die. |
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martymark
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Thu 12/04/08 04:16 PM
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,,,angels do exist
. ,,,satan does exist . ,,,I exist . If you are laughing at all, you exist! . Thank god for those little guys, the get so abused by us and all in the pursuit of enjoyment. Be glad they don't complain! |
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Welcome to Gods church!
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Thanks for WHAT I am becoming, WHAT I am, and WHAT I was. For without any of those, I would not be WHO I am!
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Angels with "swords"?
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laugh, laugh, laugh, if you will, just remember, in the end, reality may become a bitter pill! I hope no one on this planet, self included, ends up with egg on their face when it is all said and done!
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You all be nice now, God is watching you!
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Bible Study Anyone?
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In my youth, my mother tried to get me to read the book of Hebrews. I was not really interested in that old book of the old testament. A few years ago mom was on her death bed and not expected to live for more than a few hours. Eleven days later she was still hanging on. It was on a Sunday morning I got the idea of doing a little church thing for her and myself. She was unresponsive and near the point of passing so I wasn't sure if she even new I was there. I picked up a copy of the bible and said, "okay mom lets go to church". When I opened the bible, of course the page that it first fell open to was the beginning page of the book of Hebrews. I almost went to another passage that I was more familiar with, when I remembered her telling me many times that I should study the book of Hebrews. I said a short prayer and began to read Hebrews to her with hopes that if she was able to hear at all, she would be comforted by hearing one of her favorite Bible passages. As I read on and thought of all of the things, that book was talking about that are going on in the world today, I became more and more blessed. I cried, laughed, and all points in between as I read. Some hours later I realized that I had read the whole book of Hebrews, just as she wanted me to do for so many years growing up. Later that day she passed. At the gathering after her funeral I was telling my uncle about the experience, and that I could not tell if she could hear any of it or not. His immediate response was, "Oh yes, maybe not her body, but her spirit could". I dismissed his comment as just trying to comfort my loss. Later I remembered a near death experience I had gone through many years before. Part of that experience was being able to hear and see what was going on in the room where my body was. I was also able to communicate with spirits and angels on the other side. The spirits that had passed before me were all very joyful that I was with them. I felt as though there was something I needed to come back to do. As I was expressing this to them, they were trying to talk me out of returning to the physical life on earth. When I said the words "Jesus Christ help me", I was instantly back in my physical body. I still do not know nor can I remember exactly what it was I wanted to come back for. Maybe writing this story out was part of it!
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Thread of a thousand songs.
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What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care What do I do when lightning strikes me And I wake to find that you're not there What do I do to make you want me What have I got to do to be heard What do I say when it's all over And sorry seems to be the hardest word It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation And it's getting more and more absurd It's sad, so sad Why can't we talk it over Oh it seems to me That sorry seems to be the hardest word What do I do to make you love me What have I got to do to be heard What do I do when lightning strikes me What have I got to do What have I got to do When sorry seems to be the hardest word |
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Angels with "swords"?
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i have searched for an hour looking for mention of angels in pre-monotheistic religious cultures and have come up empty!! it seems [at least until someone points me to other sources] that angels have there beginning woth monotheistic beliefs, anybody dispute this? all answers welcome. |
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Welcome to Gods church!
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Thank you Lord, nothing specific, just thanks.
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How do you love God?
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"love" interesting word actually. what type do you speak of? agape? Philio? Eros? other? Unti lyou've determined which love you speak of, the question can't truely be answered. |
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Angels with "swords"?
Edited by
martymark
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Thu 12/04/08 09:36 AM
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I would guess that the earliest forms of religion, predating the male designated Monotheistic deities were much more peaceful and egalitarian in nature. It was only much later we begin to see a shift towards aggressive and jealous male gods and finally a sole male deity that can "give birth." |
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Welcome to Gods church!
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I thank you dear God for the ability to think, I think I do anyway. Yep I do!
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Angels with "swords"?
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Just a thought that maybe angels with swords comes from a idealogy of previous religious who mention weapons in their belief systems. It just carried on. For example we look at Greek Mythology, Ancient Egyptian Mythology, and Norse Mythology. All religions at one time and still are in some parts of the world. I guess people categorize them as sects now. My all time favorite is Thor with his mighty warhammer! It is just carried over. What would be interesting is to see what belief system first came up with the idea of angels to find the comparison or similiarities to the stories to the religous doctrines. To be able to cross examine them in otherwords. |
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Angels with "swords"?
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Huh? |
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Angels with "swords"?
Edited by
martymark
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Thu 12/04/08 09:26 AM
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Well I promise to stay out of the shower. Revelation 9:02 |
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Angels with "swords"?
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Where is the proof that anyone on here, this web site, is as they say they are? Even if someone says they know someone and they are who they say they are, it proves nothing. I guess we all must have a little faith in the fact that people are what they seem like on here. I am not saying we should all get on the www and disclose our real names or personal information. We know from experiance of others, again a thing of faith, that it is not safe and we may get hurt in some way. Just a little food for thought. As far as this angels with swords thing, I don't know, I believe a certain thing about it because I choose to based on the experiances I have had. Angels do fight and argue. Lets let them do that and try to see a better way of people living on this planet! The difference between a real, live human and a mythological beast is I can go into your house Marty and give you a DNA test and observe you for several weeks and evaluate you and document your existence and record my research. Not so much with an angel or mermaid. |
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Angels with "swords"?
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Where is the proof that anyone on here, this web site, is as they say they are? Even if someone says they know someone and they are who they say they are, it proves nothing. I guess we all must have a little faith in the fact that people are what they seem like on here. I am not saying we should all get on the www and disclose our real names or personal information. We know from experiance of others, again a thing of faith, that it is not safe and we may get hurt in some way. Just a little food for thought. As far as this angels with swords thing, I don't know, I believe a certain thing about it because I choose to based on the experiances I have had. Angels do fight and argue. Lets let them do that and try to see a better way of people living on this planet!
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Angels with "swords"?
Edited by
martymark
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Thu 12/04/08 08:59 AM
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I hesitate to become involved here, but will anyway. Lucifer was "Gods chosen for praise", leader of the chior so to speak. When Lucifer decided to try his deception out, with the other angels, about one third of them fell for his very well informed sounding line of crap. Then God spoke to him in away that only a father can probably understand. He told lucifer not to even try what he was doing. God gave him a chance to stop. God informed him that he had lost before he ever even started, that he (God) knew he would do this before he created him. This points out the fact that it had already taken place in the "mind of God". Look at it this way, If I decide to do an act, any kind of a movement of my physical body, My mind/brain may be telling me not to do it that I will get hurt because of the clear and present danger of the consequences of that act. If I do it anyway, I will get hurt. So I choose not to do things that will hurt me, most of the time anyway. (little joke there)! Lucifer could not see into the mind of God anymore than, try as they may, A person can see into the mind of another person. We can identify the actions of another person by knowing the probable and or real outcomes of those actsions. If some one constantly does things to tear down Gods kingdom, we can assume that they are not for God. If someone continually tries to lift Gods kingdom up, we can assume the opposite. It is hard to know although, where a persons heart reall is. They may actually have true love in their heart, they have just not been exposed to the proper input to allow it to show. Lucifer had been given the proper input and he still decided to dissolve his good standing with God by being "greedy"! It was his choice to not give or allow God to stay in control of his spirit. God stated at the time of the creation of man, however you choose to believe it happened is proably ok, that man was the greatest of all his creations. He created us in his image. This does not mean we look like or smell like God. It simply means we have the ability to create good and loving relationships, or we can create discourse amoung the people we are in contact with. We can observe others and know by simple observation which it is that they are doing. But by challenging them on there shortcomming's, we ourselve's become the aggressor or the instigater of hurt. God is love, he is a spirit, not only is he a spirit, he is the greatest spirit of all, LOVE. We can not serve love and hate at the same time. We can either care for all of our fellow human beings, or we can be greedy. It is our choice, but God already knows the outcome of both, as we should, but are much too often consumed by the preoccupation of earthly crap! God is Love-Love is God, thats just a very simple algebraic expression of actually explaining the goal of our Creator. I wish we could have a world wide love day instead of this greed driven crud that is causing people to get stomped to death at the front of markets where they sell earthly treasures for profit!
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My brain almost exploded trying to think of a way to start this without offending people. now that wasn't very religous of you, you non religous religious believer full of religious non religous idealogies. I read that, and now I have a headache... |
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