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Where do you get and I quote " The only real hope is to beg Jesus into your life to fix things" from ? You do NOT have to BEG Jesus for anything. If you are wanting salvation, ALL you have to do is ASK, it's a FREE gift.

Jesus said, " I have come to GIVE ( not for you to beg ) life, that you may have it more abundantly". You do NOT have to BEG for forgivness. It sounds or seems as though you are bargining with Him on something
( i.e. if you'll do this for me - I'll do that for you, okay Jesus, is that a deal?)

" You are saved through GRACE, and NOT by our own works lest any man should boast" King James version. Rethink the BEGGING part, that's NOT bible. Jesus says to " Ask and you shall receive ". So don't BEG Him for anything.

To the author of this post, do you understand that the church is Christ's bride at the second coming? Do you understand that all non-believers are considered members of Satan's domain (if you will), and that since they have no resurrected savior, they are called a widow? Okay, now that that is out of the way...

Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrows.

Or, how about Zephaniah 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

FRIEND, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THAT PASSIVE AND LET THE HOMOSEXUALS TRAMPLE YOU DOWN LIKE THAT!

Brair, I must have left that post because of something you said in a different thread. On reading my post, I can see that it does not tie in with the subject of your initial post. Sorry to throw you off in the loop like that.

Actually, where nobody has to "beg" God for answers to prayers, sometimes getting God's involvement is harder than begging. There is a Bible passage where Christ even had to do a double take when performing one of his miracles (maybe when he spat in the mud and rubbed it in the blind man's eys?). Christ then explained to the disciples that some things can only be done thru fasting and prayer.

We have many milk fed level Christians in the church who never seem to mature. They are led to believe that as long as they'll sit on a pew on Sunday morning - and then quote what that preacher said when Christianity "comes up in the break room," that they are special.

I appreciate your post. I have worked beside plenty of those milkfed babes. Spiritual growth is an important topic!

Which one is Biker Jim? I've had two harassers after my blogs the last week, sort of three, actually.

I think when I posted on this thread I was posting about something you'd written (I thought in this thread) about no longer being so harsh against homosexuals, or something like that. I just re-read my original post on this thread, and then I remembered the nature of what I originally was addressing. Maybe you've edited your post since I first posted- so as not to be mistaken for someone not rebuking bad behavior sharply enough. I hope something good came from my post anyway.

If you read Titus 1, there are times that sharp rebuke is merited. I believe that it is merited if rebuking pro-choice activists, PETA, idolators, fornicators, and people like TJ. I don't know about his race, but TJ's not a "typical republican." He's probably a cosmetologist.

I’m considering voting for Bob Barr and some other Libertarians. I’m fully against abortion and the Libertarians’ platform is that it is an individual’s choice—could that be a position that I can support? That is the way the law is now, but I’m rethinking it because it’s wrong but isn’t it a detriment to the person committing the crime and not against me if I can’t change the policy? I’m just looking for a way to vote because my party chose a woman for VP and I don’t agree with that.. Whee Huuh!