the kingdom of satan
- Thread starter cristian_gavrilescu
- Start date
-
Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.
If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!
To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
What? Haha where did your post go, @laughingheart ? And when did we get our own Idol show? 
-
1
- Show all
What? Haha where did your post go, @laughingheart ? And when did we get our own Idol show?
-
2
- Show all
No danger of ending up in hell if one has sincerely accepted Jesus as Lord (God) and Savior of His life. But no true Catholic is headed for heaven. Since Catholics don't teach salvation through Jesus alone, and since they to so-called "saints" - when the BIble strictly forbids praying to ANYONE EXCEPT FOR GOD! Jesus was God in the flesh. God is just one God, but has parts to Himself. We humans have parts to ourselves too.
Matt 4:10
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
KJV
Some Christians have liked the movie. But personally, I didn't watch it, as I saw and heard it was extra bloody, and I don't like that.
Matt 4:10
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
KJV
Some Christians have liked the movie. But personally, I didn't watch it, as I saw and heard it was extra bloody, and I don't like that.
-
1
- Show all
Thank you for your thoughtful responses, and my apologies on the delay of my own. I am a slow, two-fingered typist and like to allow extra time when I know my response is going to be lengthy or needs to be pondered upon to gather my thoughts on the matter. Generally speaking, I avoid making lengthy responses Also, my memory may not be as good as yours It is probably a good thing that as I age my focus becomes narrower because less things distract me as my attention increasingly revolves more around Him
Large families in our culture are becoming more and more rare. Coming from a large family myself as you do I think gives us a different ground of perspective because we were brought up in an environment comprised of many people whom we were accustomed to giving consideration, service, and precedence over our own selves. That is not to say the problem of selfishness and sin had no room to take root...
Perhaps it is simply a minor manifestation of my tendency to OCD in relation to numbers, having had a bit of a fascination with them from my youth (though certainly not to the extent that I have seen in others LOL), that I have sometimes marveled at the apparent significance of the number 33 in my story/testimony, given that is the age it is generally believed/accepted Christ was at the time of His crucifixion and resurrection... because I was 33 when I had that first profound and undeniably from the One True God experience of His unconditional love and forgiveness, and it had also been 33 years from the time I quit the church as a teenager to the time years later after that experience when I found myself being drawn back to it and surrendering my life to Christ. Of course the most important thing is that I surrendered my life to Christ, and I am without a doubt grateful that God allowed me to survive the stupidity of my youth. I can see too that even in all those years I was lost and wandering and seeking and losing myself in other things as you also describe, I learned a lot about not only myself but also people in general that became such powerful tools of wisdom and protection when I started doing online apologetics three years into my Christian walk. Of course all glory goes to God! It really helps me understand accept and believe that no matter what, or how it looks to me or others in the moment, all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose..
Amen and amen
Also, my memory may not be as good as yours It is probably a good thing that as I age my focus becomes narrower because less things distract me as my attention increasingly revolves more around Him Large families in our culture are becoming more and more rare. Coming from a large family myself as you do I think gives us a different ground of perspective because we were brought up in an environment comprised of many people whom we were accustomed to giving consideration, service, and precedence over our own selves. That is not to say the problem of selfishness and sin had no room to take root...
Perhaps it is simply a minor manifestation of my tendency to OCD in relation to numbers, having had a bit of a fascination with them from my youth (though certainly not to the extent that I have seen in others LOL), that I have sometimes marveled at the apparent significance of the number 33 in my story/testimony, given that is the age it is generally believed/accepted Christ was at the time of His crucifixion and resurrection... because I was 33 when I had that first profound and undeniably from the One True God experience of His unconditional love and forgiveness, and it had also been 33 years from the time I quit the church as a teenager to the time years later after that experience when I found myself being drawn back to it and surrendering my life to Christ. Of course the most important thing is that I surrendered my life to Christ, and I am without a doubt grateful that God allowed me to survive the stupidity of my youth. I can see too that even in all those years I was lost and wandering and seeking and losing myself in other things as you also describe, I learned a lot about not only myself but also people in general that became such powerful tools of wisdom and protection when I started doing online apologetics three years into my Christian walk. Of course all glory goes to God! It really helps me understand accept and believe that no matter what, or how it looks to me or others in the moment, all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose..
Amen and amen
I agree: that is a profound truth for such a young person to grasp
I do not recall us having any movie we watched as a family Christmas tradition, but I do know that we never failed to gather to sing Christmas carols, and all those years I was lost and wandering I never lost my love of partaking in that We also used to set up a nativity scene on the dining room sideboard each year, and it was considered quite a privilege to be chosen as the one who got to put baby Jesus in His manger crib on Christmas eve
^ My all-time favorite Christmas carol ^
I do not recall us having any movie we watched as a family Christmas tradition, but I do know that we never failed to gather to sing Christmas carols, and all those years I was lost and wandering I never lost my love of partaking in that
We also used to set up a nativity scene on the dining room sideboard each year, and it was considered quite a privilege to be chosen as the one who got to put baby Jesus in His manger crib on Christmas eve ^ My all-time favorite Christmas carol ^
-
1
- Show all
We did not have any traditional family Easter movie either What we did have at Easter was a plastic tree that we clipped hummingbirds onto I have no idea of the significance or relevance of hummingbirds with Easter And we also wore big hats on Easter Sunday
What we did have at Easter was a plastic tree that we clipped hummingbirds onto I have no idea of the significance or relevance of hummingbirds with Easter And we also wore big hats on Easter Sunday
hunt. Funny, after so many year's I just thought of this.
-
1
- Show all
I agree: that is a profound truth for such a young person to grasp
I do not recall us having any movie we watched as a family Christmas tradition, but I do know that we never failed to gather to sing Christmas carols, and all those years I was lost and wandering I never lost my love of partaking in that We also used to set up a nativity scene on the dining room sideboard each year, and it was considered quite a privilege to be chosen as the one who got to put baby Jesus in His manger crib on Christmas eve
^ My all-time favorite Christmas carol ^
I do not recall us having any movie we watched as a family Christmas tradition, but I do know that we never failed to gather to sing Christmas carols, and all those years I was lost and wandering I never lost my love of partaking in that
We also used to set up a nativity scene on the dining room sideboard each year, and it was considered quite a privilege to be chosen as the one who got to put baby Jesus in His manger crib on Christmas eve ^ My all-time favorite Christmas carol ^
All time best!
-
1
- Show all
What is there to like about Jesus Christ being brutally tortured for our sins? You need to watch flesh being torn from his already beaten body. Open wounds from a whip. Then, and only then, will understand what He sacrificed for you. For your sins. As for "Saints". Why you have a problem with Catholics Remembering the men and women who committed their entire lives to Jesus. Some that were brutally tortured in the same way. Would you do the same ? Do you think that they were foolish? That they could have been like you and "just" Believed that Jesus died for our sins and would have been "saved"? This is childish. As for the crucifix around my neck. Or hang on the wall. I don't and have never prayed to them. These are reminder's of who I am and what I am about.( to behave like a Christian.) I don't know who or where you got your theories but you were misled. As for me. I don't care how or when you found the Lord , I am glad that what ever path anyone has taken or what ever path God has chosen for you, you found Him. God Bless...Oh, and Jesus had another saying. "He without sin cast the first stone"
-
2
- Show all
We did not have any traditional family Easter movie either What we did have at Easter was a plastic tree that we clipped hummingbirds onto I have no idea of the significance or relevance of hummingbirds with Easter And we also wore big hats on Easter Sunday
What we did have at Easter was a plastic tree that we clipped hummingbirds onto I have no idea of the significance or relevance of hummingbirds with Easter And we also wore big hats on Easter Sunday
-
1
- Show all
