Are you a Carrot, Egg or Coffee

[solitarysoul]

I understand relativestranger, but my point is I hope you are considering what exactly it means to have faith, because having faith is not simply a matter of believing in Jesus, nor is it simply a matter of us saying that we have faith.

[rsf]

relativestranger said:

rsf said:

36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38. This is the first and great commandment.
39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

It's the heart that matters. But to those who much is given, much is expected. We have the Word of God. Therefore we are expected to teach the gospel to anyone and everyone who is willing to hear it. Judgement is God's. If He wants Ghandi, He has him. I have no idea just how much of the Word of God Ghandi had to be judged on, I only know that the Creator of the entire Universe (And who knows how much more) is a just and fair God. And He will do what is right because He IS right.

that is very much fair enough, preach away and yes, i am lucky in this life to have mostly what i want so the onus should be on me to preach the word of God

i understand that i dont know how God judges people, i simply said in my mind that is what i bleieve, and i hope it to be true, it allows me to keep faith, if i were to believe the way ss does i would not be able to keep faith for long

I'm just trying to find a common ground. Something Jesus said that everyone should agree with. Everything in life should hang on those two extremely simple concepts. I have a tendency to forget that quite often, and since it popped in my head, it seemed right to put it in print.

[relativestranger]

solitarysoul said:

I understand relativestranger, but my point is I hope you are considering what exactly it means to have faith, because having faith is not simply a matter of believing in Jesus, nor is it simply a matter of us saying that we have faith.

for some reason the phrase "what does that have to do with th eprice of fish" popped into my head

have faith means exactly what you have been proffessing all along, however i dont believe u need to 'have faith' to get into heaven

i understand you do and that is ur opinion