I don't think you know the bible very well. Sunday Christians usually stay because it doesn't really affect them much. The ones who take is serious are the ones that leave.
You didn’t answer the question. Also, since you know it so well, explain to me how it is a central tenant of any one of the 41,000 denominations. I mean, there’s got to be at least one of them, or is it that nobody understands it as well as you? Why can’t you answer the question? Confused?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Yikes.
Blame the reformation.
none of that can be verified. All conjecture based on conflicting writings.
I'm very confident.
This should help you. Below are 12 simple facts of Jesus's resurrection (Gary Habermas) and then a couple of links that go into more detail explaining these.
I can't think of demonstrating anything better. I met my wife my junior year in high school, got married 7 years later because we both take marriage in the biblical context and after 38 years of marriage we are both still strongly committed to each other and serving God as missionaries in the Dominican Republic. So a total of 45 years together...
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Nope.
I have a great wife, she is very well liked, she is attractive, has a good job, almost 9 years younger and comes from a family that is not super rich, but has more than the average amount of money. She always encourages me to go back to Nebraska games, go on ski trips or hunting trips. Our marriage is great, but I would not say it is always easy and smooth sailing. No way can two people agree on everything 100% of the time. 25 years on August 1.
My wife has never cared if I hang out with my friends after golf or skiing. There are times when we have something scheduled after I am done, but that is a rare occurrence. I guess it is just the opposite for me. I am retired, but even when I was working I always want to go to a local high school game or meet up with some friends. Lots of times on work nights my wife would just as soon stay home. She likes to do things on Friday and Saturday nights as she gets up really early on workdays. We are going to Montana together next week, but a lot of times I go places with buddies or alone. The running joke is that the only condition of our marriage is she has to go back to Nebraska every 5 years whether she likes it or not. I am back there a couple of times a year. I totally get that. I am always preoccupied with having fun with old friends when I am there. She doesn't ski so she never travels with me to Sun Valley or Colorado. When she retires, she will go with me sometimes, but I bet not all the time. She goes to see her mom in North Carolina way more times than I do (she is back there, now). She also goes over to Seattle 2-3 times year to hang out with girlfriends. That is the last thing I want to do. I think you have to marry the right person. (We have no kids. Just a very spoiled bird dog.)
Romans had such a brutal marriage system that they had to invented a myth that their literal city of Rome was founded on kidnapping and raping the nearby latin and sapine woman. Marriage is not a key indicator of imperial success in anyway. Most of the most successful societies are built on slave labor so that power and wealth can be built for the cost of the human body, this wealth can then be distributed to soldiers and engineers, who then use slaves to build great works.
Just raise poor children. My kids think we're poor, my house is 56k, 560 a month Mortgage. We have one 10 year old car, already paid off, both parents are professionals and misers. Keep telling them we have to sell their trains on ebay to make ends meet.
I believe in God, not just the biblical god. If a 2000 year old book is the best he can do to reach humans, I'm not impressed.
You're living the dream Wasker!! You have a cool wife, you get to do what you want to do. No pressures. I like it! Same here.
You believe in God, but you are unimpressed with God. Mmmmk. Sounds like you are lost.
Two of my lifetime best friends, we're all almost 70 now, wanted no kids.
You're pretty judgemental. The belief in God is based on faith and a Bible.
They believe they have everything all sorted out. Some would say they are arrogant.
I really don't take issue with those who have beliefs that they strongly adhere to, and can get along with them just fine, until they try to impose some of those things on me.
And they have to repent, forgive, otherwise their god won't forgive them. Their god has got them by the balls.
you shouldn't need the threat to get one to repent. That wouldn't be true repentance. that would be coercion. It is fear based obedience.
It is if the threat of violence is held over your head.