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Oksana Vitruk

Are You Ready For Eternal Life? - 0 views

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    Do you know our life won't end after death. What will you do then?
Chiki Smith

TheHandbookofCheating Taught Me a Lot - 2 views

TheHandbookofCheating is a very helpful book for me. It gave me ideas how to face cheating partners. This book even taught me how to empathize with them than to lash out right away without hearing ...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 19 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
J. B.

Do not Ask for whom the Bell tolls…… A Chapter by Chapter review of 'Love Win... - 0 views

  • in the Preface there is the disclaimer— ‘nothing in this book has not been claimed before within the parameters of the broad stream of historic orthodox Christianity’  (p. x).   As it turns out, and as we shall see, this is actually not quite accurate, if one is referring to creedal or confessional or conciliar orthodoxy.  If one means no more that some church father somewhere at sometime said something like this before, whether we deem him to be making an off-handed comment or not, then perhaps this claim can stand.
  • What is entirely missing from this chapter is any sort of discussion of sin, sin as the alienating cause of human lostness,  sin as the reason why persons are not going to heaven.  Let me be clear that I think Rom. 1.18-32 is crucial to this question.  Unfortunately Rom. 1 is not dealt with in this first chapter and what texts he does cite he does not treat in any detail.  Rather Rob sort of flits from one text to the next like a butterfly hoping to drain the tiny bit of nectar in each flower.
  • people are not condemned to hell or judgment for what they have never heard about God.   What Romans 1 says is that the reality of God and God’s power is evident in all of creation, and people are judged for what they do with the light about God that they have indeed received.  What Paul says they do is that while they know God exists and is powerful, they refuse to acknowledge God,  the most primal sin of all. In other words,  most of the questions Rob raises in Chapter One are entirely irrelevant.     People do not go to Hell (whether in a handbasket or by some other means of conveyance)  due to ignorance of God or of Christ. 
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  • Rob wants to suggest that a just or righteous or holy or judging God is somehow not good news. Tell that to the oppressed Christians in North Korea.   Tell that to the ordinary citizens of Libya longing to be set free from a wicked and brutal dictator.  Tell that to the Jews during the Holocaust in WWII.   In a sin-soaked world,  Good News involves both redemption and judgment, both vindication and liberation, both holiness and love.    The God of the Bible is holy love.  Not love without holiness which would fail to deal with the cancer called sin.  And not holiness without love, for if that was the way God related to us all— no one could stand.     The Good News of and about Jesus Christ, who will be the final judge of the world, is that justice, mercy and grace are all a part of this story.
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    The first of an eight part review of Rob Bell's book "Love Wins." By Ben Witherington III
Chiki Smith

How I Got Over My Cheating Husband - 1 views

When I learned that my hubby was cheating on me, I was so angry that if looks could kill he would be already lying lifeless on the floor. But then, when I took a time off, I felt insecure. I knew t...

cheating spouses

started by Chiki Smith on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
angelapardie

The Importance of Coordination in Service | Eastern Lightning - 0 views

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started by angelapardie on 26 Jun 18 no follow-up yet
angelapardie

Going Astray and Finding the Way - 3 views

Xiaobing    Xuanzhou City, Anhui Province “That which you are enjoying today is the very thing which is ruining your future, whereas the pain you are suffering today is th...

started by angelapardie on 25 Jun 18 no follow-up yet
José Bortolato

SALMOS - LII - QUANDO CAI A FICHA - 0 views

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    Salmo 51 Esta expressão vem do uso dos antigos pontos de telefone público, também chamados de "orelhões". Em uma tentativa de estabelecer-se uma conversa, colocava-se uma ficha no aparelho, que ficava retida visivelmente no seu deck de entrada, discava-se um número, e esperava-se que
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    Who knows all things about the sins that had bring some kind of suffering to mankind? There is a lot of them that are hidden to the eyes of the world, but since nothing may be occult to God, what is the conditions that the sinners have in order to save their souls? Read it, that is in portuguese, but you may translate to the language you would want.
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