oh my! i have not ever heard such love, such a desire for God and His nature in a person your age. i'm an ooooold dude! i am humbled by this! PRAISE YWHW!
I appreciate your commitment to Holiness. And to do this on Halloween! Wow! I have struggled with "holiness" people and they don't think there's anything wrong with that day. They send their children out on the "devil's day." Praise God in your continual ministry. Holiness unto the Lord!
SW, the bread which He broke in half represents His body (flesh) which was broken on the cross for us. The cup represents the blood He shed on our behalf, sealing a covenant between Him and us. Each time we perform the communion ritual, we are not only remembering what He did for us, but we are showing it as well to all who watch and all who participate. This is a beautiful and graphic picture of what happened at the cross, what it means, and how it impacts our lives as believers.
Now how can a Christian do that in the first place?
A Christian doesn't go around and threatening people with a trick if he doesn't get a treat.
Well what goes around comes around!
But a true Christian will of course forgive like God did. So there won't be any other treat other than a gospel of Jesus for a so called Christian that goes around and acts like a Muslim.
As true Christians, we shall forgive everyone and share the love with them that God shared with us.
Socinus, you should understand the 1st difference between you and me.
1st, I always believed in the Golden rule even though I didn't read it before. And you seem to believe something like.., you care about yourself but not about God, and yet God still should care for you.
Your target is your ways and God target is his ways. You two are walking parallel lines and yet distant from each other and can never cross! Therefore do not expect anything like a ladder from anyone when you're in a deep hole.
2nd, if you then truly cared about yourself, you would consider the best strategy of life, like making sure you know where you're going before you start working for it! And your way should be the way of and into life and not the way of and into death.
I dont want to criticize what you're doing but I think you've over-estimated the significance of Hallow'een to the general public. Hallow'een is only religious for a small minority of people. Its become a largely secular holiday centered more around kids and candy than frightening away spirits.
It doesn't really have anything to do with halloween but holiness and our relationship with God, but we chose to do it on Halloween as a way of being "set apart". Halloween is MUCH more than just kids and candy. Even the adult costumes for halloween are enough for me to say, no thanks I want no part as a Christian. The pagan aspect is only part of it.
As someone who is actually involved with the Pagan aspects of that holiday, I can say with reasonably sound assurance that kids and candy are pretty much the main focus of the holiday. Adults will party regardless of the holiday and Hallow'een is simply an excuse, it has very little to do with any specifically chosen association.
haha, maaan you're funny guy Socinus. You know there is an age rating label on games and movies for a reason actually!
I may as well say that just because kids don't understand what death is when there are heads getting chopped off the people and the kids don't really pay attention to it since their moral sense isn't evolved yet because it is corrupt by sin, doesn't mean we should allow them watch those Horror movies, don't you think? But no, you would probably say, it's ok they just kids...
And then again, making a circus out of this and feeding the kids with something demonic at some point, isn't exactly the best way for kids to evolve their moral sense on what is right or wrong. and of course how can they? When people like you going to teach them with your non-sense? well the answer is, they can't evolve this way or anything other than more non-sense!
Also they learn how to beg? Are we training our kids to be homeless?
How about teaching kids to give instead of only how to take.
Yep it's a great thing to teach our kids how to become sinners instead of become holy, right? I'm sure you would support that idea since you're all over the sin and you loving it! Well our Christian God doesn't and so me either! and I won't let my kids come near even the comments like yours! Since I'm going to teach them what's right and let them be filled with holiness of God. They will experience God just like many of my Christian brothers and sisters have as well as I did. No thanks to you!
I think its a little spooky how you propose to control your children's lives and I can tell you from experience children do NOT react well to being treated like remote control car.
You're right, they don't, unless they meet the peace of God in them after learning the truth, again no thanks to you at this point.
And after that they will respect their parents like the Bible says and they will do what their biological and spiritual parents will ask of them until they understand enough to be able to make the decisions on their own and also face and deal with the continuances of their actions correctly on their own. etc.
Why do you act like Im going to be hinding in your bushes playing heavy metal for your kids while they sleep and selling them drugs? My OPINION is that your attitude is INCREDIBLY naive but practically, they're your kids. You can screw them up any way you like.
Im not sure what your point is but I can say I fully intend to allow my future children to engage in the same activities I did. I think sheltering children is just as harmful as kicking them out the door with no experience. There is a happy medium and I strive for that in all things.
They will get all the necessary knowledge to learn what to take in and what not to and the one who is going to help them is God.
They will receive love and so much holiness and become cleansed, that they won't be able to fill their minds with poison... And if a mistake is accidentally made, they will repent from it right away and not try to do it again.
In the end, my children hopefully won't have the same problems with sin and repentance as I did. Again no thx to your ways. But thx to God ways.
Want to know why? Because they won't be trying to be as the world, but they will try to be like Jesus because of the truth he taught and that truth shall set them free and they shall receive a new life with God and follow him straight to Heaven till at the end of this life they will finally be able to enter the kingdom of Heaven!
Ohhh what adorable little maniacs they'll make! Why not give them the tools to make their own choices and give them a little guidance when they need it?
Why not give them the tools to make their own choices and give them a little guidance when they need it? I don't know, isn't it what I just said I'm going to do? anyways and that will be thanks to God of course.
As someone's who's first computer game EVER was Doom II and watched the entire Aliens series before he was old enough to be called a "tween" I have to say I dont take seriously the idea that such entertainment negatively effects people. People will get what they're looking for out of what they do. If someone is LOOKING for an excuse to go post office, he's going to find it regardless if he watches a movie, plays a game, or reads a book.
Since I've learned that what you fill your mind with, you become, and if you don't, doesn't mean it hasn't affected your future actions like keep on filling yourself with more of the same until you will be possessed by it.
I'm not a psychology expert here, but even I know that if you dig your own grave long enough, then you will spend your life in it if no one comes to rescue you!
And by the way, since you mentioned it, the doom and aliens and stuff... Now we even have a perfect example for what can happen to a person that dug his grave long enough. and that example is... YOU!:)
I have no fiancee, no job, will probably drop out of school soon and all that is because I almost ruining my health in front of the computer and myself I am weak. I consider my life to be the best! Especially when it's at it's worst! Since I learn who is the highest when I fail and on a shrink of losing everything!
You wanna know why? Because I found my life which is in our Lord Jesus Christ!
Besides find any online Bible on google and read this, Luke 9:25
You seem to be insinuating that my good fortune is due to my religion and if that is indeed the case then I would suggest you think again. If I am where I am its because I fought to get here. Im sure the gods gave me a little kick in the rear here and there but all in all, if I am in a good place its because I fought to be here. I've always believed that the gods help those who help themselves
hehe, you know I begin to like you more and more !:) and the reason for it is because I think you're funny. And the reason for thaaat is because I know and understand the truth where you seem to missing it. I can see that from that point we can talk about this for a some quite time aright, for sure. But I'm afraid that this conversation now is little confusing for others to read and put together, so it has become almost as spam.
anyways, since we started, might as well finish it...
2nd, if you then truly cared about yourself, you would consider the best strategy of life, like making sure you know where you're going before you start working for it! And your way should be the way of and into life and not the way of and into death.
3rd, Therefore your so called earthly fortune is worthless if you're walking the path of death or self-destruction. As you're trying your best to build your castle on copied paper money that are worthless, your castle is worthless! search: Money as Debt
5th, You do not know what truth is and you do not have any reason to believe me either.
But it's not the belief only that is needed in order to find the truth. You also need to understand certain things, that no one is perfect and therefore no one cares about something that isn't going to build but only to break down, unless that someone loves the one that isn't perfect. Who is that one, what do you think? There are not many to choose from, it's God that sent Jesus Christ!
6th, John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son Jesus Christ, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
And so since it's all about love and eternal life... Don't you think that calls for a consideration of reaching back? Since no one owes you anything! You must understand that you're alone at this point! And you can't pull yourself out of a deep and dark hole!
So how about to start care about LIFE instead of DEATH?
8th, You see, you love yourself and others which is your fiancee and you care about your education and life here on earth. So you care about the future, right?
So since you do care about love, yourself, life and the future.. You might consider work for it! Since there is no future around God!
9th, All you have to do is to include God into your family as he already offered exactly the same.
Basically, all you need to do is to accept his request and if you're going to do that you'll have to trust him that he knows what he is talking about and what he is doing and will do that will be for the greater good for both of you!
10th, So if you would like a beginning of your future to start? Maybe you should consider to trust God that he wants only the best for you and the only thing you have to do is to trust and follow him on his word since his word has proven time and time again to be true!
Store your treasure in Heaven by doing the will of the Lord! Right now you store your treasure on Earth and doing your own will and just following yourself. And your ways are not God ways. You're walking blind without having life!
11th, So now you have become no less but a walking dead Halloween figure! Walking together with the fallen angels. Following the sinful world instead of following the holy God.
You are now at this point on the lowest level of life since your beliefs and actions do not come close to a stable life. Your life you have now can crush and fall any moment and you won't get another one since you didn't invest in it! You investing in this unstable life on earth which is a big mistake for your future!
12th, With all that said, I haven't even told you about life with God and why I consider God to be true and not just a fairytale of a good night sleep story for kids about Santa Clause.
The story is about JESUS! But maybe I can tell it to you later since I'm kinda tired and wanna go to sleep... So have a good night and no thanks, I don't need any Santa Clause story to fall asleep, but Jesus does make me feel safe and with him by my side I can indeed fall asleep.
You lied. Also, you're scary.
DamiensCain 4 months ago
you are beautiful
GermanToyBoy 1 year ago
oh my! i have not ever heard such love, such a desire for God and His nature in a person your age. i'm an ooooold dude! i am humbled by this! PRAISE YWHW!
MediumShag 1 year ago
I appreciate your commitment to Holiness. And to do this on Halloween! Wow! I have struggled with "holiness" people and they don't think there's anything wrong with that day. They send their children out on the "devil's day." Praise God in your continual ministry. Holiness unto the Lord!
watfordssermons 1 year ago
Most pagan?? what about christmas ??
tk030784 2 years ago
like those glasses
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gabe0083 2 years ago
Hey, I'm friends with you on Myspace :)
Shalom & Agape
theheat151 2 years ago
SW, the bread which He broke in half represents His body (flesh) which was broken on the cross for us. The cup represents the blood He shed on our behalf, sealing a covenant between Him and us. Each time we perform the communion ritual, we are not only remembering what He did for us, but we are showing it as well to all who watch and all who participate. This is a beautiful and graphic picture of what happened at the cross, what it means, and how it impacts our lives as believers.
ztremecoach 3 years ago
Christianity is more creepy than Halloween, eat the flesh and blood of Christ, can you get more satanic than that?
Im an atheist but on Chrismas i have fun just like the rest of believers, why you dont like Halloween? Its to have fun.
SecularWorld 3 years ago
They do it with every holiday; including christmas; which is more satanic than halloween in some ways. I like your thought process here.
Faithbound213 3 years ago
hi laura - u r hot.
unkie888 3 years ago
Trick or Treat?:)
Now how can a Christian do that in the first place?
A Christian doesn't go around and threatening people with a trick if he doesn't get a treat.
Well what goes around comes around!
But a true Christian will of course forgive like God did. So there won't be any other treat other than a gospel of Jesus for a so called Christian that goes around and acts like a Muslim.
As true Christians, we shall forgive everyone and share the love with them that God shared with us.
VadimCool 3 years ago
Socinus, you should understand the 1st difference between you and me.
1st, I always believed in the Golden rule even though I didn't read it before. And you seem to believe something like.., you care about yourself but not about God, and yet God still should care for you.
Your target is your ways and God target is his ways. You two are walking parallel lines and yet distant from each other and can never cross! Therefore do not expect anything like a ladder from anyone when you're in a deep hole.
VadimCool 3 years ago
2nd, if you then truly cared about yourself, you would consider the best strategy of life, like making sure you know where you're going before you start working for it! And your way should be the way of and into life and not the way of and into death.
VadimCool 3 years ago
We definitely have to walk in holiness and set apartness from the ways of the world, keep spreading truth.
seekerofyhwh 3 years ago
I dont want to criticize what you're doing but I think you've over-estimated the significance of Hallow'een to the general public. Hallow'een is only religious for a small minority of people. Its become a largely secular holiday centered more around kids and candy than frightening away spirits.
Socinus 3 years ago
It doesn't really have anything to do with halloween but holiness and our relationship with God, but we chose to do it on Halloween as a way of being "set apart". Halloween is MUCH more than just kids and candy. Even the adult costumes for halloween are enough for me to say, no thanks I want no part as a Christian. The pagan aspect is only part of it.
Peacy 3 years ago
As someone who is actually involved with the Pagan aspects of that holiday, I can say with reasonably sound assurance that kids and candy are pretty much the main focus of the holiday. Adults will party regardless of the holiday and Hallow'een is simply an excuse, it has very little to do with any specifically chosen association.
Socinus 3 years ago
haha, maaan you're funny guy Socinus. You know there is an age rating label on games and movies for a reason actually!
I may as well say that just because kids don't understand what death is when there are heads getting chopped off the people and the kids don't really pay attention to it since their moral sense isn't evolved yet because it is corrupt by sin, doesn't mean we should allow them watch those Horror movies, don't you think? But no, you would probably say, it's ok they just kids...
VadimCool 3 years ago
And then again, making a circus out of this and feeding the kids with something demonic at some point, isn't exactly the best way for kids to evolve their moral sense on what is right or wrong. and of course how can they? When people like you going to teach them with your non-sense? well the answer is, they can't evolve this way or anything other than more non-sense!
Also they learn how to beg? Are we training our kids to be homeless?
How about teaching kids to give instead of only how to take.
VadimCool 3 years ago
Yep it's a great thing to teach our kids how to become sinners instead of become holy, right? I'm sure you would support that idea since you're all over the sin and you loving it! Well our Christian God doesn't and so me either! and I won't let my kids come near even the comments like yours! Since I'm going to teach them what's right and let them be filled with holiness of God. They will experience God just like many of my Christian brothers and sisters have as well as I did. No thanks to you!
VadimCool 3 years ago
I think its a little spooky how you propose to control your children's lives and I can tell you from experience children do NOT react well to being treated like remote control car.
Socinus 3 years ago
You're right, they don't, unless they meet the peace of God in them after learning the truth, again no thanks to you at this point.
And after that they will respect their parents like the Bible says and they will do what their biological and spiritual parents will ask of them until they understand enough to be able to make the decisions on their own and also face and deal with the continuances of their actions correctly on their own. etc.
VadimCool 3 years ago
Why do you act like Im going to be hinding in your bushes playing heavy metal for your kids while they sleep and selling them drugs? My OPINION is that your attitude is INCREDIBLY naive but practically, they're your kids. You can screw them up any way you like.
Socinus 3 years ago
Im not sure what your point is but I can say I fully intend to allow my future children to engage in the same activities I did. I think sheltering children is just as harmful as kicking them out the door with no experience. There is a happy medium and I strive for that in all things.
Socinus 3 years ago
Ohh trust me! They will get all the experience they need to survive in this world! and by surviving I mean for eternity!
VadimCool 3 years ago
They will get all the necessary knowledge to learn what to take in and what not to and the one who is going to help them is God.
They will receive love and so much holiness and become cleansed, that they won't be able to fill their minds with poison... And if a mistake is accidentally made, they will repent from it right away and not try to do it again.
In the end, my children hopefully won't have the same problems with sin and repentance as I did. Again no thx to your ways. But thx to God ways.
VadimCool 3 years ago
Want to know why? Because they won't be trying to be as the world, but they will try to be like Jesus because of the truth he taught and that truth shall set them free and they shall receive a new life with God and follow him straight to Heaven till at the end of this life they will finally be able to enter the kingdom of Heaven!
VadimCool 3 years ago
Ohhh what adorable little maniacs they'll make! Why not give them the tools to make their own choices and give them a little guidance when they need it?
Socinus 3 years ago
Why not give them the tools to make their own choices and give them a little guidance when they need it? I don't know, isn't it what I just said I'm going to do? anyways and that will be thanks to God of course.
VadimCool 3 years ago
That may have been what you were shooting for but thats NOT how it came out
Socinus 3 years ago
As someone's who's first computer game EVER was Doom II and watched the entire Aliens series before he was old enough to be called a "tween" I have to say I dont take seriously the idea that such entertainment negatively effects people. People will get what they're looking for out of what they do. If someone is LOOKING for an excuse to go post office, he's going to find it regardless if he watches a movie, plays a game, or reads a book.
Socinus 3 years ago
And I'm not sure what your point is in here.
Since I've learned that what you fill your mind with, you become, and if you don't, doesn't mean it hasn't affected your future actions like keep on filling yourself with more of the same until you will be possessed by it.
I'm not a psychology expert here, but even I know that if you dig your own grave long enough, then you will spend your life in it if no one comes to rescue you!
VadimCool 3 years ago
And by the way, since you mentioned it, the doom and aliens and stuff... Now we even have a perfect example for what can happen to a person that dug his grave long enough. and that example is... YOU!:)
VadimCool 3 years ago
I have a beautiful fiancee, a good job, I am going to a good school and I am in good health. I fail to see why you consider my life so bad.
Socinus 3 years ago
I have no fiancee, no job, will probably drop out of school soon and all that is because I almost ruining my health in front of the computer and myself I am weak. I consider my life to be the best! Especially when it's at it's worst! Since I learn who is the highest when I fail and on a shrink of losing everything!
You wanna know why? Because I found my life which is in our Lord Jesus Christ!
Besides find any online Bible on google and read this, Luke 9:25
VadimCool 3 years ago
You seem to be insinuating that my good fortune is due to my religion and if that is indeed the case then I would suggest you think again. If I am where I am its because I fought to get here. Im sure the gods gave me a little kick in the rear here and there but all in all, if I am in a good place its because I fought to be here. I've always believed that the gods help those who help themselves
Socinus 3 years ago
hehe, you know I begin to like you more and more !:) and the reason for it is because I think you're funny. And the reason for thaaat is because I know and understand the truth where you seem to missing it. I can see that from that point we can talk about this for a some quite time aright, for sure. But I'm afraid that this conversation now is little confusing for others to read and put together, so it has become almost as spam.
anyways, since we started, might as well finish it...
VadimCool 3 years ago
2nd, if you then truly cared about yourself, you would consider the best strategy of life, like making sure you know where you're going before you start working for it! And your way should be the way of and into life and not the way of and into death.
VadimCool 3 years ago
3rd, Therefore your so called earthly fortune is worthless if you're walking the path of death or self-destruction. As you're trying your best to build your castle on copied paper money that are worthless, your castle is worthless! search: Money as Debt
VadimCool 3 years ago
4th, that money as debt is only an earthly example. What I'm truly talking about is store your fortune up in Heaven and not on earth!
Since as I already showed you in Luke 9:25
What good is for a man to gain the whole world and lose himself? The words of Jesus.
You have given yourself to possession of this world and you're walking blind as the world.
Since how can a man see what he is doing wrong if he is blind?
Search God so God can guide you, for God can see and can give sight with his light!
VadimCool 3 years ago
5th, You do not know what truth is and you do not have any reason to believe me either.
But it's not the belief only that is needed in order to find the truth. You also need to understand certain things, that no one is perfect and therefore no one cares about something that isn't going to build but only to break down, unless that someone loves the one that isn't perfect. Who is that one, what do you think? There are not many to choose from, it's God that sent Jesus Christ!
VadimCool 3 years ago
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6th, John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son Jesus Christ, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
And so since it's all about love and eternal life... Don't you think that calls for a consideration of reaching back? Since no one owes you anything! You must understand that you're alone at this point! And you can't pull yourself out of a deep and dark hole!
So how about to start care about LIFE instead of DEATH?
VadimCool 3 years ago
7th, You see, you can't mix a good life with crap and expect it to still be a good life!
Halloween is doing just that!
You are doing just that!
And since because you are doing just that, your children will do just that and in the end you're supporting nothing more but evil!
Do you really want to continue? Well you can't!
VadimCool 3 years ago
8th, You see, you love yourself and others which is your fiancee and you care about your education and life here on earth. So you care about the future, right?
So since you do care about love, yourself, life and the future.. You might consider work for it! Since there is no future around God!
VadimCool 3 years ago
9th, All you have to do is to include God into your family as he already offered exactly the same.
Basically, all you need to do is to accept his request and if you're going to do that you'll have to trust him that he knows what he is talking about and what he is doing and will do that will be for the greater good for both of you!
Now that we can call a beginning!
VadimCool 3 years ago
10th, So if you would like a beginning of your future to start? Maybe you should consider to trust God that he wants only the best for you and the only thing you have to do is to trust and follow him on his word since his word has proven time and time again to be true!
Store your treasure in Heaven by doing the will of the Lord! Right now you store your treasure on Earth and doing your own will and just following yourself. And your ways are not God ways. You're walking blind without having life!
VadimCool 3 years ago
11th, So now you have become no less but a walking dead Halloween figure! Walking together with the fallen angels. Following the sinful world instead of following the holy God.
You are now at this point on the lowest level of life since your beliefs and actions do not come close to a stable life. Your life you have now can crush and fall any moment and you won't get another one since you didn't invest in it! You investing in this unstable life on earth which is a big mistake for your future!
VadimCool 3 years ago
12th, With all that said, I haven't even told you about life with God and why I consider God to be true and not just a fairytale of a good night sleep story for kids about Santa Clause.
The story is about JESUS! But maybe I can tell it to you later since I'm kinda tired and wanna go to sleep... So have a good night and no thanks, I don't need any Santa Clause story to fall asleep, but Jesus does make me feel safe and with him by my side I can indeed fall asleep.
VadimCool 3 years ago
As with you, I also am saddened on how the church tries to adapt to secular holidays.
justifiedbychrist 3 years ago