Jesus Said In The End Days Many Would Be Offended
Jesus said in the end days many would be offended
and he didn’t just mean two girls one cup.
It seems we live in an overly complexified world
in which it’s hard now for anyone to express their
views without offending someone else.
I don’t mean to offend others, and I don’t like
being offended either. Thousands of years ago
people of disimiliar backgrounds could meet,
and mutually understand each other, that their
ways belong to them, and respect each other
for that.
Today, it’s as if I as a Catholic am supposed
to forget that many Saints come from other
paths of life, other religions and other mystical
traditions. It’s as if I as a person am supposed
to forget that that guy over there is a person
with hopes and dreams and desires.
Above all, this is the age of dehumanization,
where people are not people and your invitation
is to forgot them, forgot yourself, and wander
aimlessly into total isolation from everyone
and your self.
No.
Don’t stop loving others. Above all, don’t stop loving.
Love is your person, and all is forgiven.
Start loving today if you haven’t before.
Ask yourself how. It will come to you.
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Anyone can contribute.
Anyone can become informed about their world.
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Ahhh…..actually, this is what Jesus said would happen in the last days:
2 Peter 2:3: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6By which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7But the heavens and the earth, which now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And here is what Jesus said concerning love in the book of Matthew 22:36-39: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
TEN OUT OF TEN PEOPLE DIE
If you’ve ever lied, stolen,used God’s name in vain, brought it down and used it to express disgust or like a cuss word, you are guilty of breaking God’s Law, the Ten Commandments. James 2:10 says if you have broken one point of the law, you have broken them all. The 10 Commandments is the standard you will be judged by standing before God on judgment day giving account for your sins. Ask yourself, are you guilty? Heaven or Hell?
Here’s the Good News:
God, Rich in Mercy, provided a way out, and that is through His Son, Jesus Christ, who was God, became man, and died on the cross for your sins. He paid your fine in the courtroom of justice as you were defrauding people, lying, cheating, stealing from them and taking money out of their bank accounts without their knowledge, breaking the supreme law, God’s law, the Ten Commandments. Jesus Christ showed up and paid your penalty on the Cross. He paid in His life’s blood so that you could go free and be cleansed from the law of sin and death.
You have to do two things: REPENT and put your FAITH AND TRUST in JESUS CHRIST. Ask Him for forgiveness and He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. This day you too can have eternal life with Jesus Christ and know that you will be in Heaven forever, a place of pure joy, love, happiness and rewards. Jesus said when he left this earth, I will go to prepare a place for you. He’s been preparing it for 2000 years. Can you imagine the splendor if God made the earth in only 7 days? This place is a garbage can compared to heaven. Don’t blow it, God is calling you today. Time is running out as Jesus Christ is returning soon. This is no coincidence. Today is the day of salvation..;. God is asking you to take the step for eternity, turn to Jesus Christ, turn from your sin, find a Bible and read it. The Bible tells you what God wants for your life. Don’t delay, He is calling you now.
Say a prayer asking Jesus Christ to come into your heart, for the Bible says in John 14:6, I am the Way, the Truth, the Life, no man comes to the Father but by me.”
All liars shall have their part in the Lake of Fire, turn from your sins of lying, thieving and robbery and turn to Jesus Christ now.
What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26
FIND JESUS NOW…before it’s too late. Remember, the Devil will always take you back if you don’t like Jesus…
TEN OUT OF TEN PEOPLE DIE
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Very important when quoting Jesus to have scripture and verse and be accurate. Unless someone leaves scripture and verse as authority for you to verify; “study to show thyself approved,” verify what they attribute to a Holy and Righteous God.
some people choose to be offended to get attention and push an agenda.
In 312AD a Roman Emperor Constantine a Pagan who believed in multiple gods, claimed to have a vision of the cross before a battle. After his victory he became a convert to the religion eventually making it the semi-official state religion.
Constantine wanted to harness this new religion to unify a roman empire that was falling apart. At that time Christianity was a loosely organized religion. A collection of churches with diverse beliefs and diverse scriptures. The emperor decided to change that.
What he noticed, they were not very organized. If there was one thing the Romans were good at it was getting things organized.
325AD Emperor Constantine convenes council of Nicaea to decide the basic tenants of Christianity. He brings together the most powerful Church leaders from around the world to discuss legalizing a formal Christian religion.
It becomes clear that what he is primarily interested in is unity. He wants the Christian religion to provide the ideological basis for the Empire.
Things drastically changed under Constantine.
A complete redefinition of how God is to be understood. God now is the protector of the state which then seeks to use the religion for its own purposes.
Limited the gospels to those fit for state religion.
He commissioned the creation of 50 copies of a Christian bible which contained only the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
In 382AD Under the Christian Emperor Theodosius all other gospels were banned. Owning or reading them was considered heresy. Copies were burned and/or buried owners arrested and sometimes killed.
In 1886 the Gospel of Peter was discovered.
In 1945 a large collection of lost gospels that changed forever the history of Christianity (1,800 year old) 52 separate texts including
Acts of Peter, the Apocalypse of James and Gospel of Thomas. These were literally lost Gospels mentioned by other ancient writers.
The Gospel of Thomas contains sayings of Jesus and a lot of Thomas is found in the New Testament. However the Gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic gospel.
The Gnostic were an early sect of early Christian that had a deep emphasis on mysticism and disagreed with many of the precepts of the emerging Christian hierarchy.
Gnostics were saved by secret knowledge you were a true followers of Jesus if you understood this secrete knowledge. Gnosis is a Greek word meaning “knowledge” and Gnostic means “one who knows”.
If they could find that piece of God within, why did they need any priest or any bishop? In the gospel of Thomas suggest we can ALL BECOME SONS of God.
It says, “When you know yourselves then you will be known and you will understand that you are children of the living father.”
We can have that same kind of relationship with the Devine. That same kind of oneness with God (as Jesus did). The gospel of Thomas calls for a personal connection to god without the need organized churches, priest and bishops.
That did not sit well with the Church and that is why it is considered heresy.
The Lost Gospels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjFP7IxKPQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Ww4gEZewj5o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4xmPV1lL7g&feature=related
Sources:
Scott Bartchy Education: M.Div. Harvard Divinity School, 1963; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971. Adjunct currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA. 17 works in 26 publications in 2 languages and 845 library holdings.
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-831231
Amazing interview
http://subversive1.blogspot.com/2007/02/interview-scott-bartchy-part-1.html
http://subversive1.blogspot.com/2007/02/part-2-scott-bartchy-interview.html
Dr. Marvin Meyer (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University; M.Div., Calvin Theological Seminary) is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies and Co-Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Chapman University. He is also Director of the Chapman University Albert Schweitzer Institute. Recently he has served as Chair of the Chapman University Faculty and President of the Faculty Senate. He is Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University, Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, and a past President of the Society of Biblical Literature (Pacific Coast).
http://www1.chapman.edu/~meyer/
Robert R. Cargill, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/people/faculty/cargill/
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