B:
I wasn't going to respond further on this. But some things are impossible
to ignore.
You wrote:
> A building does not make that rendition of Christ anymore so...nor
> does doing it in a group. It is just one way.
The Church is not a building. I didn't say it was. The Church is not
even
a "group".
The Church is a community of believers- which has authority to be called
Christian, and which has been instructed by St. Paul, for one basic
authority, St. Peter and others not to teach or preach wrongly about
Christ
Jesus.
> B - so truth is only more so when a select number of people serving as
> priests go around telling you what is what?
Not "priests", Brenda. The community of believers which is the Church.
Two
thousand years plus old.
> you believe that the
> majority based on what Paul said..makes it so? what certain priests,
> King James said was true?
Oh, and _so_ many more Saints and Authorities (Father, Son and Holy
Spirit)
as passed on to us in Scripture.
You don't see God as within? then you are
> saying that God is limited for he/she/it stops at you?
How in heaven's name did you make that leap?
> Please continue to study and
> understand Christianity from Christ itself
Is this what is called a Freudian slip? _It_self? A thing? This is what
makes one truly wonder WhatWho is this Christ you believe in?
> and not needing any
> intermediary to tell you what is real and not...or not.
Christ can then be a cookie if I say so. It's my opinion. Can you not
see
a problem with that?
>Your way is the wide road..mine is
> not..this is where we differ.
What does this mean?
> I wor****p Christ because I love
> Christ..not because the larger crowd peer pressures me into it or any
> such thing..but it is a real belief and love and personal experience.
Being a believing member of the 'orthodox' Christian Church in no way
obviates real belief and love and personal experience. Don't ever think
that.
> If I wanted to do the orthodox kind I would go find a literal
> biblicist group and not an all encompassing Christian one.
I don't think you have ever told exactly what group it is you go to. What
is it called?
>.I ask only that you accept me as you
> would like to be accepted.
I don't know you personally. And of course I accept you as a person,
Brenda, and for that person I give you a cyberhug back, because my Lord
loves the person you are. What I cannot accept is any interpretation
being
represented as Christian which does not accept the full divinity and full
humanity of Jesus Christ. I have nothing whatever to say about whether
you
will be saved, or not, and nothing whatever as to whether hell or heaven
is
in your future or anyone's future.
You yourself may do greater works than the saints, love more than all the
heavenly host.
I don't know. And, I'm fully aware that perfect theology won't get any of
us into heaven.
However, I realize now after your last answer to me that I can't respond
any further to for you who continues to speak about Christ in a manner
such
as this:
>Since in those days no one thought a man
> > could be a god...they felt the need to make Jesus less human and more
> > God-like. Whether his story was applied later on or the truth....there
> > are some Christians who have this view.
So, I wish you well. And that your opinions afford you all the strength
you
may need now and in the future. I mean the best for you, sincerely.
Adieu.
Blessings,
Ann
hugs, B
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