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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can
On Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 11:58:19 AM UTC-7, wrote:
http://www.gotquestions.org/sinners-prayer.html I saw this site on a search directory. Great Resource! Many people have criticized Christianity and believers in Jesus Christ as being too narrow-minded because we preach that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. They point to the numerous other religions of the world and say, “How can your way be the only way?” One of the answers to this question is that Jesus himself declared that He was, in fact, God in the flesh. I and the Father are one. (John 10:30, NASB) He who has seen Me has seen the Father… (John 14:9b, NASB) Jesus did not give Christians any other option but to preach that it is only through faith in His sacrificial death on Calvary that we can receive salvation from our sins. Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." (John 14: 6, NLT) Jesus claimed to be God. We have to judge his statements about himself as either true or false. The great British writer, C. S. Lewis, explained in his well-known book, Mere Christianity, “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher; he’d either be a lunatic – on a level with a man who says he’s a poached egg – or else he’d be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.” “You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” So Jesus was either a madman, a liar, a myth, or He really was – and is – the Son of God. https://faithask.com/t/why-is-god-th...ay-of-life/582 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
This reminds me of a story when I went to
Computer School (CS). A couple of hundred meters from the school building was an industrial pit, and down there one could see flames every hour of the day - it was part of the commune's system for disposing of garbage. Anyway one time me and a group of students, 12 in total, went to see the professor who had walked to this place. When we arrived, he asked, "what is it that you want to hear from my mouth, that you cannot hear just as well from your own?" To this, all students started to talk at once so not a single word was heard. The professor then said, "you are too many heads for one body", and pushed 11 students into the flames. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:04:13 +0100, Emanuel Berg
wrote: This reminds me of a story when I went to Computer School (CS). A couple of hundred meters from the school building was an industrial pit, and down there one could see flames every hour of the day - it was part of the commune's system for disposing of garbage. Anyway one time me and a group of students, 12 in total, went to see the professor who had walked to this place. When we arrived, he asked, "what is it that you want to hear from my mouth, that you cannot hear just as well from your own?" To this, all students started to talk at once so not a single word was heard. The professor then said, "you are too many heads for one body", and pushed 11 students into the flames. This burning pit? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179622/The-Door-Hell-Giant-hole-Karakum-Desert-40-YEARS.html The story is absurd and hardly likely. First, such burn pits are a health hazard: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/09/thousands-iraq-afghan-war-vets-sickened-after-working-at-burn-pits.html https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/index.asp The worst place to build an incinerator is at the bottom of a pit. While it's easy enough to toss the garbage into the pit, it's rather difficult to keep the incinerated waste from filling up the pit, requiring another pit to be dug. If there were a fire burning 24x7 in the pit, the amount of garbage that it could incinerate would be rather small. Also, tossing any quantity of garbage into such a pit, would probably extinguish the fire from oxygen exclusion, or from rapid cooling from all the water that is found in typical garbage. It also doesn't burn hot enough to break down toxic substances. There are much better designs for waste incinerators available. The immolation of 11 student is also unlikely. If a single professor was pitted against a mob of 11 angry students, I would place my bets on the students winning the pushing and shoving match. More likely, if such an event actually occurred, it would the professor who would end up in the pit. Even the ancient Romans figured out that decimation (1 in 10) was possible, but any larger percentage would result in open revolt. 11 out of 12 is highly unlikely. Unfortunately, I experienced a very similar parable in college. The college hired a somewhat famous Nobel prize winner for some reason. Unfortunately, he was very old and quite senile. He also failed to appreciate any form of criticism. After several student, including me, dared to suggest that he was wrong, he simply assigned a failing grade to the entire class and left. After some meetings with the administration, which eventually included an attorney, we were allowed to take the class again from another instructor, and the failing grade was vaporized from our records. This demonstrated that it was possible to climb out of the burning pit of -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can
On 2/18/2018 1:12 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:04:13 +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: This reminds me of a story when I went to Computer School (CS). A couple of hundred meters from the school building was an industrial pit, and down there one could see flames every hour of the day - it was part of the commune's system for disposing of garbage. Anyway one time me and a group of students, 12 in total, went to see the professor who had walked to this place. When we arrived, he asked, "what is it that you want to hear from my mouth, that you cannot hear just as well from your own?" To this, all students started to talk at once so not a single word was heard. The professor then said, "you are too many heads for one body", and pushed 11 students into the flames. This burning pit? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179622/The-Door-Hell-Giant-hole-Karakum-Desert-40-YEARS.html The story is absurd and hardly likely. First, such burn pits are a health hazard: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/09/thousands-iraq-afghan-war-vets-sickened-after-working-at-burn-pits.html https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/index.asp The worst place to build an incinerator is at the bottom of a pit. While it's easy enough to toss the garbage into the pit, it's rather difficult to keep the incinerated waste from filling up the pit, requiring another pit to be dug. If there were a fire burning 24x7 in the pit, the amount of garbage that it could incinerate would be rather small. Also, tossing any quantity of garbage into such a pit, would probably extinguish the fire from oxygen exclusion, or from rapid cooling from all the water that is found in typical garbage. It also doesn't burn hot enough to break down toxic substances. There are much better designs for waste incinerators available. The immolation of 11 student is also unlikely. If a single professor was pitted against a mob of 11 angry students, I would place my bets on the students winning the pushing and shoving match. More likely, if such an event actually occurred, it would the professor who would end up in the pit. Even the ancient Romans figured out that decimation (1 in 10) was possible, but any larger percentage would result in open revolt. 11 out of 12 is highly unlikely. Unfortunately, I experienced a very similar parable in college. The college hired a somewhat famous Nobel prize winner for some reason. Unfortunately, he was very old and quite senile. He also failed to appreciate any form of criticism. After several student, including me, dared to suggest that he was wrong, he simply assigned a failing grade to the entire class and left. After some meetings with the administration, which eventually included an attorney, we were allowed to take the class again from another instructor, and the failing grade was vaporized from our records. This demonstrated that it was possible to climb out of the burning pit of Yaweh's burning pit research lab: http://www.businessinsider.com/coal-...ce-1962-2015-7 -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Unfortunately, I experienced a very similar parable in college. The college hired a somewhat famous Nobel prize winner for some reason. Unfortunately, he was very old and quite senile. He also failed to appreciate any form of criticism. After several student, including me, dared to suggest that he was wrong, he simply assigned a failing grade to the entire class and left. After some meetings with the administration, which eventually included an attorney, we were allowed to take the class again from another instructor, and the failing grade was vaporized from our records. No disrespect but I thought my story was much better. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:49:59 +0100, Emanuel Berg
wrote: No disrespect but I thought my story was much better. Not to worry. When my story gets retold, copied, adapted, translated, recycled, edited, plagiarized, politicized, and paraphrased a few dozen times, it will surely be improved. "I am in the way, the perverter of truth, and have no life. None can achieve bicycle enlightenment but through me." (Jeff 0:0). -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
No disrespect but I thought my story was much better. Not to worry. When my story gets retold, copied, adapted, translated, recycled, edited, plagiarized, politicized, and paraphrased a few dozen times, it will surely be improved. What do you think that story means? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:15:12 +0100, Emanuel Berg
wrote: Jeff Liebermann wrote: No disrespect but I thought my story was much better. Not to worry. When my story gets retold, copied, adapted, translated, recycled, edited, plagiarized, politicized, and paraphrased a few dozen times, it will surely be improved. What do you think that story means? I guess you mean your story, which I presume is a parable and should not be taken at face value. The key phrase is the last line. "you are too many heads for one body", and pushed 11 students into the flames. which suggests that when dealing with authority (the professor), it is best to first reach a consensus and to assign a single point of contact (a spokesperson). -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me." (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
The key phrase is the last line. "you are too many heads for one body", and pushed 11 students into the flames. I got it from a novel by James Blish, "Midsummer Century" from 1972. It is only 80 pages but very interesting, mental-scientific science fiction, so pick it up if you find it in your public library! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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