The Grace of God -- Michael W Smith »
Posted By Dionys 9 months, 2 weeks ago in ReligionFor those tired of Revelation1412 and EkklesiaWarrior's hell and damnation crap:
God's grace.
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"God has provided GRACE as a means and way of Escape."
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God has provided Grace for people to accept or not. Let us know when you've accepted it and find peace rather than your vile, vitriolic hatred and judgement.
"Michael W Smith does believe in a literal HELL as a key doctrine of the church denomination for which Smith belongs."
Again you pretend to know what someone else thinks or believes. Having spoken to many people from many faiths, I can state for a fact that the majority of people in the majority of traditions do NOT hold every piece of their Church's (or church's, or temple's) doctrine as unassailably true.
Michael Smith *might* believe in a literal hell. I don't know. I do know that his actions in this life don't reflect an obsession with hell, which is apparent to just about everyone in your being. I wonder what that says about you?
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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When you posted your latest hell and damnation piece, you quoted three completely unrelated, single sentance (or sentance-fragment) pieces of scripture. I don't think you're the model of someone who should be criticizing others for taking things out of context.
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Plus if we view the Gospels as a whole, and Christ's relationship with God as the understanding of a changed God from the OT, I think this wonderful piece of music is set in the perfect context. -
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Thissame Jesus warned to fear Hell."
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'This same Jesus' also reflected that Hell wasn't neccesarily a seperate existance, but that Hell was right here on earth in this life we're currently living -- for some people. Likely as not, as reflected in your constant blathering about hatred and damnation, He meant people like you. Living in your own self-created hell.
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Probably true, though I don't know how 'Hell' is portrayed in the Qu'ran. For the Bible, the damnation-hellfire kind of hell is a fairly recent invention. The original understanding was of an underworld where people went when they died with no particular ties to whether or not they obeyed or disobeyed God's commandments/laws. Sort of an in-between, sorting place, rather than a damnation, burning place. Seeing as how the Qu'ran in parts adopts Christianity and Judean beliefs but puts a more modern spin on them, it wouldn't be surprising to see more hell and damnation.
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Anyone can worship a God bigger than themelves.
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I doubt anyone ever worshipped a diety who was smaller than themselves."
Ahh.. but this was the WHOLE POINT of Christ's coming. He was a soft, weak baby God in counterpoint to the Roman's angry, hard, violent emperor-God. He embraced the weak, the marginalized, the poor and reversed the political order of the time. He was the greatest of the small Gods. Don't you think?
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