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Christian charity bans Christmas themed children's gifts
By SAM GREENHILL

Last updated at 23:28pm on 9th November 2006

Seems something is quite amiss here and needs to be checked out.

Failure to witness to Muslims and Hindus of their desperate need to receive Jesus Christ, the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved - would certainly qualify her as a quite wicked sinner that no amount of feeding the poor nor clothing the naked would ever undo when they closed their eyes in death and awakened in hell but you really don't begin to think that way do you since you reject the record God gave of His Son Jesus Christ and make Him out to be a liar.

So you think Mother Theresa is good enough for "sainthood" and heaven itself?

Apparently you know more than God as Scripture, that would be God's Word, Stoney, says:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Seems like M.T. didn't quite make it unless God is a liar.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:

he that believeth not God hath made him a liar;
because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Wow! Imagine that, Stoney, if you don't believe the record that God gave of His Son that in Him God has given to us eternal life, God tells us that you make Him out to be a liar.

You never did answer my question of just what you all would do with a member of your church in a time of terrible weakness committed the wretched sin of adultery, maybe even was caught right in the act.

Why?

"Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more." not severe enough for you?

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

A humble look at Isaiah 53 and other passages concerning the death of Jesus Christ on the cross should show us how far we are getting away from what is of primary importance to God in our ongoing discussions of God's will vs man's choice or not.

Apart from Christ and His death on the cross not a Calvinist will be saved.
Apart from Christ and His death on the cross not any who would be broken hearted over how vile thier sins are could be saved.

Apart from Jesus Christ and His death on the cross, apart from God Himself living in us in the person of the Holy Spirit none of us would ever be able to walk in the Spirit and live and please God, would we.

Freewiller,
Since you brought it up you need, desperately need, to surrender the entirey of your life to the authority of Jesus Christ to be God in every area of your life.

Shame on you! Such a statement so blasphemes the shed bloof of Christ and the what God Himslef does, CHANGING, a person in new birth, and giving them the GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE!

I am saying it is priority with God Himself for the many passages of Scripture that bring it up over and over again in various ways that:

Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son
of the LIving God, gave His life,
a willing holy sacrifice on the cross.

He is the Lamb of God! slain from the foundation of the world!

He is the central person pointed to over and over again in Scripture and in all our theological discussions He is frightfully absent - Perhaps He is standing at the door knocking while we are spending our time trying to prove this intrepretation or that. It oughy to break our hearts that we esteem Him so little.

A humble look at Isaiah 53 and other passages concerning the death of Jesus Christ on the cross should show us how far we are getting away from what is of primary importance to God in our ongoing discussions of God's will vs man's choice or not.

Apart from Christ and His death on the cross not a Calvinist will be saved.
Apart from Christ and His death on the cross not any who would be broken hearted over how vile thier sins are could be saved.

Apart from Jesus Christ and His death on the cross, apart from God Himself living in us in the person of the Holy Spirit none of us would ever be able to walk in the Spirit and live and please God, would we.

or the other kind of Calvinist who act like Roman Catholics are genuine Christians and are offended if one prays that Catholics might come to salvation but that would be another story.

Are all Calvinists our friends? No.
But thankfully there are some who also care that people are saved. And who will not stab us in the back in our witness of Christ, of the seriousness of all sin and how God will bring into judgment every thought, word and deed of a persons life, and condemn the wicked, the unrepentant to the eternal hell and welcome forever those who have trusted Christ for their salvation, those born again of the Holy Spirit.

Wow! We may have our difficulties with our friends the Calvinists but I've never met one who believed Jesus's death was not sufficient for their salvation.

As to my own salvation testimony I never had a 'Calvinist' witness to me. It was pretty much the "baptist types" who told me about God so loving the world, even wretches like me who had so terribly sinned against Him, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, to literally die for me on the cross so if I would believe in Him I would have eternal life in Him as the gift of God.

But I do care very much about what God Himself says in Scripture about who He is, about His mercy and grace, about His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, about the almighty sufficiency of His death on the cross to save wretched sinners like me, about His precious shed blood, about His kingdom, about the new birth in the Holy Spirit and more things such as these.

None you say! Then by your type of reasoning, or even common sense, God must have been unjust to put Him to death because He was innocent! Unless He was taking our place and satifying divine justice with His shed blood and would have great reward for such costly obedience.

So what will you do with a brother or sister if they should ever God forbid in a terrible moment of weakness commit such a wretched sin as adultery?

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Christ did not pay the punishment for our sins, you blasphemous wretch. The God of Justice does not punish the innocent but the guilty!
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Now Scripture just happens to say:
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

But I guess you just happened to forget about that and other verses and passages such as:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

And:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

And even:
and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.