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YAH...sorry, lack the attention span to read through all that.
Reminds me why organized religions and I , don't get along. Albeit, I will respect a person's right to worship however and whatever they want, unless they are sacrificing animals or humans to their whacked out whatever it is.
Reminds me of Simonthe Zealot at PF.
Have no problems with religious people. Problems start when they start fighting each other and rivers of blood in the same of spreading the Loving Words of God are running...it becomes a problem.
Why do you "have to" go through Jesus anyways? Isn't God the big Kahuna?
And that writeup alone is scrapping over the "True Name" of Jesus...nothing can be agreed on. sigh
Humans.
by OrdainedSeek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
(Isaiah 55:6-11)
by OrdainedWhile Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." (Matthew 9:10-13)
And he went out and hanged himself. (Matthew25:5)
Go thou and do likewise. (Luke 10:37)