Repentance, Holiness, and the Church

[JamDat]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Ok, then this was for virtually every other Christian,
and not you.

And what about you? Was it for you too?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by JamDat

You sir are ignorant of muslims then. I have to agree with the other poster who said you have no clue as to what you're talking about.

I have been living among them off and on for 30 years.
The differences between them and you are minimal,
discounting the ones on Fox news, of course.
Funny, they say the exact same thing
about my knowledge of Christians, lol.

But surely my posts read as generalizing
about all Muslims (or Christians)
when I mean them to be applied to
"only a few."

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by JamDat

You sir are ignorant of muslims then. I have to agree with the other poster who said you have no clue as to what you're talking about.

And yet God says "Ishmael was blessed of God."

[acerrak]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

And yet God says "Ishmael was blessed of God."

he was blessed of God but he was not the seed of promise. Nor did he inherit his fathers flocks and herds and wealth.

do muslims today believe in circumcision?

[JamDat]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

And yet God says "Ishmael was blessed of God."

And yet Ishmael wasn't a muslim.

It's very hard to do this when you won't stay on topic.

[JamDat]

Bbyrd, when I said I agree with the other poster who said you have no clue as to what you're talking about. I meant with muslims. I didn't mean with everything. I'm not trying to offend you.

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by JamDat

You seem to think that you have God's definition of being born again. Please tell me so that I may see how the people who reject Jesus Christ as being God will be at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

You say they "reject Christ." Please see that while
they might reject the Catholic Christ, with their mouths
or words, it is what is in their hearts also, that will
determine whether they are in the Book.

"Born again" = change your mind, completely,
recognizing that this "change your mind" has
almost nothing to do with the way we interpret
the phrase: "I was going to have a doughnut,
but I changed my mind."

I currently like "observe what most humans
are thinking, and think differently" which does
end up producing some contrarian, if valid,
posts that are surely not taken well, especially
about venerated Presidents, for which I again
apologize. Ronnie was a nice guy, and did some
good things.

I look forward to better defs here, and think
physics, of all things, will shortly be providing some.
"...even greater things will you do..." so when someone
does, they will be better qualified to expand our def, imo.
Gandhi seems a great example.

[JamDat]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

I have been living among them off and on for 30 years.
The differences between them and you are minimal,
discounting the ones on Fox news, of course.
Funny, they say the exact same thing
about my knowledge of Christians, lol.

But surely my posts read as generalizing
about all Muslims (or Christians)
when I mean them to be applied to
"only a few."

You've been living among them in the US or the west? Or have you lived among them in an islamist country?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by acerrak

he was blessed of God but he was not the seed of promise. Nor did he inherit his fathers flocks and herds and wealth.

do muslims today believe in circumcision?

Almost out of time til tonite.

As to the first, just to be contrary now,
the cliched morals of the inheritors of wealth
might be illuminated here; you are pointing out to me who
in the equation suffered for having done nothing wrong-
-which doesn't mean that there aren't other valid reflections there.

And circumcision I don't get the point? No, they do not--do you?

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by JamDat

And what about you? Was it for you too?

definitely. for all my yack here, it prolly still largely is-
-I have just dimly seen that one does not accept
Christ with their mouth, with words.