Many people claim they love God. In the JWs they claim they love God yet they do not his Son Jesus the Savior. The mormons claim they know God yeat they follow the teaching of there church and not Jesus the Savior. The catholic claim they are the church of God yeat they do not follow the instruction of Jesus the Savior. The muslims claim they love God yeat they do not follow the teaching of the Savior the messiah the christ. This pattern is found in many religions today.
God gave us great wisdom in the old testiment concerning people and God. He used the jewish people to show us right and wrong relationship with God and he allows us to come to know what Gods like and dislikes and to show us mans state and condition and also to point to the need of Grace.
Jesus is God in the flesh he came out of the Father and became a man to show us the love of God. My question is do you love Jesus?
2007-01-16 00:49:13 · 15 answers · asked by Thomas A 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus said if you love me keep my commands. Jesus said if you loe me keep my commands. Jesus said if you love me keep my commands. Jesus said take up your cross and follow me. Do you love Jesus more then your church? Do you love Jesus more then your thinking? Do you love Jesus more then your knowedge?
Do you love Jesus more then your hate? Do you serve Jesus because of love or so you look good in the eyes of man? Are you seeking the approval of men and not God. Are you seeking the one true God or the God of your brand of faith. Do you love Jesus? Jesus is God he alone is God. Jesus is the Father in human flesh. Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus is 100 percent God and he is also the trintiy that men speak of. Known as the God head. Jesus said i and the father are one. Do you love God. do you follow God and are you obident to Love as he commanded?
2007-01-16 00:55:16 · update #1
Yes. I do love Jesus. After all, he is the one who died for us. These other religions that you speak of are cults. Everyone wants their 2 cents put into a religion to make it "better". I call these other plans the "Jesus plus Plans". Ex. Jesus plus Mass attendance, Jesus plus ministry work, Jesus plus good deeds, Jesus plus rituals, etc.
God's plan is perfect and needs not to be altered. Salvation is "Jesus Plus NOTHING".
2007-01-16 00:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church was founded by Christ
Scripture reveals this Church to be the one Jesus Christ built upon the rock of Saint Peter (Matt. 16:18). By giving Peter the keys of authority (Matt. 16:19), Jesus appointed Peter as the chief steward over His earthly kingdom (cf. Isaiah. 22:19-22). Jesus also charged Peter to be the source of strength for the rest of the apostles (Luke 22:32) and the earthly shepherd of Jesus' flock (John 21:15-17). Jesus further gave Peter, and the apostles and elders in union with him, the power to bind and loose in heaven what they bound and loosed on earth. (Matt. 16:19; 18:18). This teaching authority did not die with Peter and the apostles, but was transferred to future bishops through the laying on of hands (e.g., Acts 1:20; 6:6; 13:3; 8:18; 9:17; 1 Tim. 4:14; 5:22; 2 Tim. 1:6).
By virtue of this divinely-appointed authority, the Catholic Church determined the canon of Scripture (what books belong in the Bible) at the end of the fourth century. We therefore believe in the Scriptures on the authority of the Catholic Church. After all, nothing in Scripture tells us what Scriptures are inspired, what books belong in the Bible, or that Scripture is the final authority on questions concerning the Christian faith. Instead, the Bible says that the Church, not the Scriptures, is the pinnacle and foundation of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15) and the final arbiter on questions of the Christian faith (Matt. 18:17). It is through the teaching authority and Apostolic Tradition (2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6; 1 Cor. 11:2) of this Church, who is guided by the Holy Spirit (John 14:16,26; 16:13), that we know of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, and the manifold wisdom of God. (cf. Ephesians 3:10).
2007-01-16 01:08:41 · answer #2 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of they're discovering to love God, different human beings, and existence. And to VENGEFUL: They pass over their kin members like absolutely everyone else, and not everybody chooses eternal existence with God, some which contain your self and the guy asking this question decide to mock people who do. Be carefull what you ask for, you purely might receive.
2016-10-07 05:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by cosco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to clarify- MORMONS DO follow the teaching of Jesus Christ...we teach what HE taught, thanks.
If you truly knew anything about the LDS church you would know we are Christians and love our Savior and know that it is only through Him that we can return to the presence of our Father.
2007-01-16 05:54:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why should I? How can I love something that I have no reason to believe exists? The only thing you have as "proof" of any of your claims is your own say-so. And you believe that the Bible is the Word of your God because it says so. With nothing to back it up.
BTW: It is extremely judgemental of you to proclaim that only YOUR way is the way to "truely" love your God. Especially since there is no possible way to provide evidence of your claim.
2007-01-16 01:02:01 · answer #5 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses study the bible five hours a week at congregation meetings, in addition to personal bible reading and study. A typical Witness goes from house to house about ten hours each month to talk with his neighbors about the bible's "good news" of Christ's Kingdom.
Jehovah's Witnesses already know and love the Christ, and actually demonstrate the sincerity and conviction of their love by obeying Christ's commands. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; they teach that Christ was and is divine and of the same nature as God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe!
Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. However, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.
(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation
(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.
(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God
(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God
(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth
(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak
(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am
(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him
(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father
(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God
(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.
(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah
(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him
Thanks again for an opportunity to share what the bible actually says about the distinct persons of Jesus Christ the Son and Jehovah God the Father!
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http://watchtower.org/e/ti/
http://watchtower.org/e/20050422/
http://watchtower.org/e/20020515/
http://watchtower.org/e/pr/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_03.htm
2007-01-16 03:21:30 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2007-01-16 00:54:06 · answer #7 · answered by mystery_me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-01-16 00:52:43 · answer #8 · answered by Mujer Bonita 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't care.
And what did the Old Testament God teach other than - 'if you love your children, then - lie to them - trick them - and whack their heads off (or drown them, or burn them, etc.)'?
2007-01-16 01:10:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duh!
Pinkadot got it 100%
2007-01-16 09:28:46 · answer #10 · answered by Beast8981 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋