Re:Religon

Potanist wrote: What most people don't realize that the Bible is just not a book full of odd stories... it's a book full of lessons that once we read the story and understand what took place we are to apply it to our daily life.

That's what I get from it.

Please take these disturbing images down. I'm not interested in the occult, nor conspiracy theories being posted here. While I agree with the biblical references and end of days type stuff, there doesn't need to be some secret communication via computers or whatever for man to be influenced by demonic forces. They certainly didn't have computers in Noah's days.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12, ESV)

So again, take the images down please

There is only one name we need to worry about. Where you stand with Jesus will determine your eternal fate.

11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:11-12, ESV)

And here is more on Jesus's deity:

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11, ESV)

Notes from MacArthur on the above passages:

Phil. 2:6–11 This is the classic Christological passage in the NT, dealing with the incarnation. It was probably sung as a hymn in the early church (see note on Col. 3:16).

Phil. 2:6 he was in the form of God. Paul affirms that Jesus eternally has been God. The usual Greek word for “was” or “being” is not used here. Instead, Paul chose another term that stresses the essence of a person’s nature—his continuous state or condition. Paul also could have chosen one of two Greek words for “form,” but he chose the one that specifically denotes the essential, unchanging character of something—what it is in and of itself. The fundamental doctrine of Christ’s deity has always encompassed these crucial characteristics (cf. John 1:1; 3–4; 14; 8:58; Col. 1:15–17; Heb. 1:3). equality with God. The Greek word for “equality” defines things that are exactly the same in size, quantity, quality, character, and number. In every sense, Jesus is equal to God and constantly claimed to be so during his earthly ministry (cf. John 5:18; 10:33; 38; 14:9; 20:28; Heb. 1:1–3). grasped. The Greek word originally meant “a thing seized by robbery.” It eventually came to mean anything clutched, embraced, or prized, and thus is sometimes translated “held onto.” Though Christ had all the rights, privileges, and honors of deity—which he was worthy of and could never be disqualified from—his attitude was not to cling to those things or his position but to be willing to give them up for a season. See notes on John 17:1–5.