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Old 06-05-2016, 06:13 PM
 
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The more I see the more I wonder about this...It seems every Christian is dancing to his or her own tune and not following in Jesus' footsteps...
Translation: "How come people follow Jesus the way I do?"
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Old 06-05-2016, 06:20 PM
 
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Everyone's path is different, Jesus showed us the way whereby our burden maybe light. I am intrigued at the minute about his teaching on the lilies of the field, them beauties have no burden other than being what they are.
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Old 06-05-2016, 06:39 PM
 
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Everyone's path is different, Jesus showed us the way whereby our burden maybe light. I am intrigued at the minute about his teaching on the lilies of the field, them beauties have no burden other than being what they are.
Two paths:

Matthew 7:13-14 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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Old 06-05-2016, 06:46 PM
 
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Two paths:

Matthew 7:13-14 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
No, an individual path where we travel it by what we have learned by the Spirit of Christ or in the case of bible idolators by their biases and prejudices. You must believe all that I do about God and the bible or you are on the wrong path
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:09 PM
 
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Translation: "How come people follow Jesus the way I do?"
I'm a Jew, so...
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:12 PM
 
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Yes.
Well, I would like to see what you folks really know about what you claim in your faith...You could answer this by reading the gospels...
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:14 PM
 
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So, following Jesus footsteps means imitating the tune of the next person?

I am afraid some further clarification is needed.
Exactly, Paul was not really anything like Jesus and neither was Peter, did they still "follow the same path" somehow as Jesus? All three are missing in our modern world, I suppose that is one thing that their "path" has in common.
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:18 PM
 
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They did follow in His footsteps, and were murdered for their convictions
and for following Him. This is how Christianity was able to spread, despite
the blood of the martyrs who did not entice physical rebellion against the
secular powers, but a conversion of the hearts of men and women.

It is important not to read the New Testment, or any of the Holy Bible
in a verse-specific manner, as if these sentences were meant to be
stand-alone dogmas.

The Bible was not written broken down into separate verses.
the Bible was not written as a Bible, but was brought forth as a collection of chosen books (and chosen translations, and chosen editions) to include in preferred canon.
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:22 PM
 
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Remember..."There is only one Christ, Jesus, and one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles." - Elizabeth I

I've been over there on the Judaism forum watching you guys fight over whether it was ok for a guy to use jumper cables to help a stranded motorist on Shabbos, so don't point fingers, lol.
Yet what is a Christ? And who exactly is Jesus, really? and what is meant by one faith? And who is Elizabeth I, really? Is a Christ God too, or is a Christ simply a chosen/annointed man of God, such as David, or Cyrus, whom were called Anointed (Messiah) in the O.T. ?
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Old 06-05-2016, 10:23 PM
 
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Maybe when Christians get rid of their edited version of the Tanakh and just use their NT and stop calling their faith an Abrahamic religion and admit that Christianity is a new religion that popped up 2000 years ago with no ties to Judaism or being an Abrahamic religion, I'll comply, but as long as they attach themselves to Jews via their Christian edited version of the Tanakh and claim things such as being spiritual Israel because G-d has rejected Israel or that we missed our true Mashiach, etc....It's fair game...
You think your Tanakh wasn't edited buddy?
Bibliolatry is guilty always guilty. What a shame it is in our good world.
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