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Being laughed at because you are a christian has basically two reasons:
1. Because you will not seek revenge, uprise against them.
2. Because you couldn't reply against their ridicule, their questions.
The first one is an honor. The second one is a shame.
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There are many very nice muslims in the world, especially in America, despite of the extreme ones. Due to freedom of religion, America has many nice religions, being good, doing nice, patience, nice. So, some christians think only christianity has this, well you are wrong brother.
Christianity is the only true religion however due to the fact that it's based on God's complete revelation to mankind in this world. Revealed first to the Jews, and then to the Hellenists(Romans 1:16). With Christ as the center figure, being both man and the Holy Divinity, what was once obscure in the laws of Moses and prophecies of the prophets has been made clear in Christ Jesus our Lord, who is the righteous one, who is the sole answer of God to be sacrifice as the atonement of sins of mankind. Who is also the only one because of being the Divine Himself, resurrected, thus showing that in Him we are reborn, alive, through eternity. Such works cannot be achieved by any man, for no man is righteous in the sight of God. Only God can do this. Hence Trinity. The ONE and ONLY GOD. This has happened 600 years before Quran. Only if the Bible is wrong, then can the Quran be right. So the question is, is the Bible wrong? Seeing the believers or so-called believers of the Bible behaving wrongly does not mean the Bible is wrong.
Any other religions can have as many virtues, the jews, muslims can have as many different kinds of fear and respect towards God, but listening to God, hearing from God through His revelation in His words, the Bible, is the only way we could see God truly and respect and fear God as He really is.
I have started tutoring a muslim in chemistry today, I have no fear but only the fear of proclaiming God's message, the Gospel and the Glory of God. I pray that God will keep me in His almighty works. So that I do not ruin God's name eventhough His name can never be ruined, so that I do not disappoint God, eventhough He can never be disappointed. So that I am in His mercy always. Such is the case also when I tutor Jewish as well.
I shall prepare myself, my materials well enough so that I am not ashamed of calling myself a christian.
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Believers in Christ should have accepted the Gospel, the salvation of God, Christ our Lord Jesus by faith and should know very well not to sin anymore. Hence the true righteousness, the righteousness of God is what we should seek.
Yet, we do fail from time to time, but that is not an excuse. Some said, it is impossible, even after becoming a believer, to NOT sin. Then, this person is still loving his sin. Not willing to let Christ be the center figure of his life. Such is also lack of faith, therefore not able to see the truth, because he wants to see first before he believes. Consciously or not, he memorizes this statement(not verse): It's okay to sin, because God will forgive you.
However, if we sin even after being saved, we must seriously come before God to honestly repent, and not try to reason a way out of it.
It is an understatement that non-believers, not knowing God, hence not knowing the righteousness of God, would be able to not sin.
So to paraphrase Augustine's statements:
The following two statements are wrong...
1. It is impossible for a person to sin in his earthly life after he obtained salvation.
2. It is impossible for a person to be sinless in his earthly life after he obtained salvation.
Usually believers who do not think it is possible to NOT to sin are those who are still living in sin, using the notion that humans are weak to encourage themselves, dazing themselves with little or no guilt at all because God forgives sinners. They knew all the tragedy of sin, but they take the salvation of God so likely. Such, is not the righteousness of God. Asking God for forgiveness and making photocopies of forgiveness coupons are two different things.
This is also why Islam is founded so successfully. Nevertheless, God's plan does not change. One cannot look at bad christians only and ignore what God has revealed in the new testament or think God has changed His mind. Christ our Lord Jesus is the center figure of the whole mystery of God's plan in history. The Oneness of the Holy Trinity is God's special revelation to us all.
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I have observed how President Bush Jr. gave his speeches for quite some time now. He needs to stop reading his notes so frequently.
Mahatir, a muslim, formal prime minister of Malaysia gave speeches without needing any referral to any notes hence able to get people's attention. People knew how well prepared he was, not just to take things for granted.
If muslims could do it, how is this christian president of this great nation in such trembling fear? Please president Bush, read Lincoln's autobiography, you are setting an example of encouraging everyone to become a speaker phone.
It is remarkable the actors at Hollywood could do a better job at this than the politicians in this country. How unfortunate...
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Today, people doing charity, rich people, middle class people. Very good.
Promoting religious freedom is good too.
Nonetheless, it is also a rival to Christianity. Why? Stoicism was rival to Christianity because it thinks its good is much better than Christianity good. Indeed the whole foundation of stoicism is focused on good virtue, morality. They believed their way of freedom is much better than Christianity's submissiveness therefore they are better and no need to accept christianity.
If christians in these services are not awake, dazing in toleration, you are glorifying something other than God.
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It is unfortunate that people nowadays take schools/colleges/universities for granted so much that they have thought the reason to go to school is to get a job.
Nay, but to pursue and improve one's knowledge and oneself.
Pragmatic? Anything that God has promised is pratical. Hence, predestination is practical (yet many still don't understand this very statement), Christ's second coming is practical, improving one's knowledge is practical.
Those who think only money and job are practical are just too blinded by the materialism of this world.
SOME knew about the uselessness of materialism yet they do not admit they are devoted to such as long as they have or pretending to have something non-materialistic going on in their lives. And if you tell them this, they will assume you are asking them to throw away all their money.
Many knew they could either serve God or Mammon and they should not serve Mammon. But they have reasoned themselves that they could serve both God and Mammon.
It is sad that God has given them brain, but they just want 'yes' or 'no' answer. They don't want to use their head.
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Smart people nowadays feel they are creative enough to discover the secrets of nature on their own. They ignore history, they hope no one throughout history has gone the path they have just discovered. Such pride.
Hence, the world grew dumber and dumber...
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Does memory work only when one has taken a reasonable amount of time to focus on the very little thing to remember?
It works, but would it be bidirectionally congruent?
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