Go to church this Sunday

[Rick C. Hodgin]

You see me write about sin and condemnation, and eternal Hellfire
(damnation), and also how to avoid that end by coming to Jesus, and
asking Him to forgive you and save you from Hell.

But how do you know I'm telling you the truth?

You read the New Testament for yourself, and you go to a Christian
church and ask people questions face-to-face.

Do not take anyone's word for information for OR AGAINST the Bible,
or about Jesus. Go to the source yourself, and see from the source
yourself. If you do this, you'll learn the truth. The truth will make
you free.

I love you. Go to church and ask people questions. Demand
answers and make them show you in the Bible where they have found
their answers.

Do not compromise. Truly demand the truth.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[mche...@gmail.com]

fuck off

[Daniel]

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 4:25:51 PM UTC-5, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> You see me write about sin and condemnation,

Old Betsy strikes again :-)

> Go to church and ask people questions.

From your earlier answers, it seems that when you went to your church and
asked people questions, the feedback you got was that you had to know when
to turn if off, when to shut it down.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

The feedback I got was that people were scared or unwilling to
do what I am doing because they would lose friends.

Standing up for God necessarily means isolation and shunning and
mocking from those who are unsaved. And applying for real those
things taught in the Bible by Jesus and the apostles necessarily
means isolation and shunning and mocking by the lukewarm church.

Look up to God, Daniel ... and then walk as His very nature commands.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Melzzzzz]

Nothing that few depos of Haldol wouldn't cure...
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[Daniel]

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 4:22:10 PM UTC-5, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>
> walk as His very nature commands.
>

Sorry, I come from a tradition where good works matter, and while the belief
in supernatural beings has faded away, the idea of good works remains. It
seems to me that in your tradition, should the belief in supernatural beings
fade away, there would be nothing left.

You, too, live in the modern world, and I'm sure you understand why some
things are taught in Sunday school (or Friday school) and not in the regular
school curriculum. I'm sure you understand why your pastor does not consider
you qualified to teach on religious matters. I'm sure you realize that your
central argument, that people must perform some cognitive shift required by
some divine figure (you choose the Christian Jesus but there's no reason why
it could not be any of the other traditional divine figures), I'm sure you
realize that that would be unconvincing to a modern audience.

But I'm also fairly sure that you would be unable to stop spamming usenet
even if you wanted to, the obsession being that strong. It's as if you've
been exposed to a severe demonic molestation, but in the modern world, we
would call that a mental health problem, and react to it sympathetically, at
least most of us, some virulent posters here excepted :-)

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 4:58:51 PM UTC-5, Daniel wrote:
> On Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 4:22:10 PM UTC-5, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

> > Look up to God, Daniel ... walk as His very nature commands.

> >
> Sorry, I come from a tradition where good works matter, and while the belief
> in supernatural beings has faded away, the idea of good works remains.

That is a common view these days. The teaching from Jesus and the Bible
is that nobody can make themselves clean -- because of sin. We are
already spiritually dead because of Adam's sin. We must be born
again to have eternal life. Until then, we are the walking dead,
alive in our flesh only, but dead in sin in eternity.

We all need Jesus Christ to take our sin away. That's something
we cannot do on our own. And all of us have sin.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Perhaps, that mixed with insulin coma therapy mutated with
electroconvulsive therapy?