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| I came across this open letter addressed to Christian leaders from 138 Muslim leaders from around the world...It calls for a coming together on the common grounds of the "love of One God, and love of the neighbor." Check it out if you get the chance!
If it's interesting to you, you can go to www.acommonword.com for more info and to check out responses from religious leaders and stuff like that.
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile guys...look me up on facebook. I promise I'll post again soon!
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Too many questions,
Questions are what enables us to explore,
Do we ever explore too much? of God?
The more I explore, the more I realize I know nothing.
Is it an exercise in futility?
I don't want to ask questions of religion, I already doubt it...I want
to ask questions of my God. I want to understand, to know more...the
whole picture!!
I receive enough light for the next step...enough light so that I don't fall into a hole.
I don't want to settle for cliches, I want truth...the WHOLE Truth. I
want to understand how Yeshua fits into the picture and not just settle
for a deception. I want to know more about who I am and how Yeshua,
everyone else, and I fit into the Kingdom.
I need help. I
fail every day. I misrepresent everything that I say I stand for
constantly. Why? Yeshua, why? I continue to wrestle with the questions
that surround my journey home. I am constantly being saved... | | |
| "Central to the Christian experience is that art of questioning God. Not belligerent, arrogant questions that have no respect for our maker, but naked, honest, vulnerable, raw questions, arising out of the awe that comes from engaging the living God."
~Velvet Elvis
I've been questioning a lot lately. I don't have all the answers. I'm walking a fine line between bitterness, anger, and dissatisfaction of the apparent lack of critical thinking evident in religion today. I'm truly becoming more and more fed up with religion and the spiritual death that it brings. It's disheartening to feel ostracized by the very people that one claims to be a member of that community. I'm having an increasingly hard time identifying myself as "Christian." I am more in love, have a deeper relationship with my Father than I ever have before, and yet...this whole Christian religion thing is frustrating me to no end. As per a discussion I had with a pretty good friend: Yeshua didn't come to start a religion, he came to start a movement. This movement, because of man's nature was turned into a religion with dogma, traditions, doctrine, etc...not that these are inherently bad, they represent man's need for solidarity and uniqueness. However, I'm wondering if the moment you put a movement in a box, put traditions, doctrine around it to try and package it, it ceases to be a movement. At that moment, the Spirit is not allowed to continue to move. Perhaps I am off...but these are questions that need answering.
I am at peace. I have to tell my soul that every day. It is well with my soul. My soul doesn't like to hear that. It wants to do its own thing. It screams out in pain at the suffering that I go through every day. But I know, that without the fire, there is no salvation. Without fire, the gold never gets purified; and so I tell my soul daily, "I am well!"
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| A word that is coming to me...
Peace
What does it mean to be a peacemaker?
Side topic: Would it be weird if a guy started asking a "list" of girls out? What would you think?
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| I want to put out a challenge:
Who is this man, Yeshua (or Jesus as he is commonly known)? How is it possible for him to be 100% man and 100% God?
I give a couple verses:
John 10:33-38
The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be broken--do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
The "scripture" that is refered to here is: Psalm 82:6
I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;..."
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Secondly
What is scripture? When Paul refers to "scripture," what is he talking about? "All scripture is God inspired..." but what is he talking about...CONTEXT!!!!
What was Paul's scripture? It is/was what we consider now to be the "old testament." So if Paul used "scripture" to convince people that Yeshua was who he said he was (Acts 17), he used......
I'm not saying that the "Old Testament" is/should be divided from the New, but I am saying that you cannot have one without the other...I think we forget this. How can we understand Yeshua? By seeing him in the OLD scripture and then looking at the "eye witness accounts" in the NEW scripture.
....Food for thought
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