Our FATHER is in HEAVEN. HE inspired the writings in the Old TEstament and sent HIS PEOPLE out of bondage thru the wildreness to their homeland. The Jewish people were HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE. JESUS CHRIST was born of a Virgin and spent HIS life proving to HIS PEOPLE who HE was. They had HIM ToRtUrEd and KiLLeD by the Roman Cross at Calvary. HE couyld have called angels to stop that but HE didn't. HE was our savior! The BIBLE was written by more than 40 separate writers over a 1600 year period and has come to us as a testament of GOD's LOVE to us. HIS SON sacrificed HIS LIFE for our sins so that we could be in Heaven with them after the Judgment. The New Testament is our guideline to live by. It was written by the Apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ so that we would know how to live and worship the FATHER. Do you want to become a CHILD of the LIVING GOD?
Study these scriptures and see what you think. To become a Christian:
HEAR - Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
BELIEVE - To the Prison guard in Acts 16:31 Paul and Silas said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
REPENT - Acts 17:30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
CONFESS CHRIST - Matthew 10:32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
BE BAPTIZED - Mark 16:16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
CONTINUE TO BE FAITHFUL - Revelation 2:10b Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Send me a note if you have questions. I am anxious to hear from you. Have a Great day.
Eds
2007-01-31 00:24:28
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answered by Eds 7
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While I would never be so ignorant as to suggest any God or Goddess was false, I still carry a slightly misguided grudge over the 'forced christianization' of Scandinavian countries by the 'good christians'.
Murderers!!!!! Shoving a snake down someone's throat because they won't convert to your religion is very NOT polite when visiting a foreign land. Or any other time, if you had any delusions about that one.
I don't understand why extremist christians seem to hate extremist Muslims so much. They should pull a Del Taco and hold hands. They certainly do seem to have the same priorities. Kill or convert is it?
My Gods and Goddesses are just as true as the middle eastern God. If the belief system makes me even slightly behave myself, then it's good. If the belief system makes you a jerk - not so good and you should be soundly beaten.
~Morg~
/sets her sights on Pat Robertson, Billy Graham and Jack Chick
//jerks is not strong enough word for those lusers
2007-01-31 00:29:53
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answered by morgorond 5
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i love how people answer this by quoting the bible as a source, saying 'jehovah" is the one and only god.
THE BIBLE IS NOT A SOURCE.
to correctly, or at least attempt to, answer a question, you must give an INDEPENDENT AND UNBIASED source, preferrably more than one, to give your stance of the topic.
no gods are real. thousands were made up throughout history to either explain things in the natural world or to control people in a society as a scare tactic to have order and obedience in the community. so why believe in any? there are outdated and illogical to the natural world. stop kidding yourselves people. think objectively and progressively to learn, understand and discover things. don't say magic and made up things are real. that's delusional.
2007-01-31 01:07:13
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answered by plicketypow 1
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well, the answers here will depend on the religion of the answerer. Cristian's will claim that there is only one true god, IE their own. Atheists will claim there is no god. and so on. God, being Omnipotent, probably takes on many shapes, seen differently to different religions. Who's to say the christian God isn't the same god in a different form as the Hindu god.
Okay, so i release some religions have more than one god. But who's to say who's right or wrong.
Okay, this probably made no sense what-so-ever.
2007-01-31 00:23:18
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answered by Skippy 5
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The true one is the one that you decide it is. Everyone has a different perspective and there is no right and wrong answer. Both religions say that there is only one God, so it's the same
2007-01-31 01:27:08
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answered by ajica nuna 3
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One tells you to love, the other to kill. You be the judge.
One tells you the truth, the other a lie.
2007-01-31 00:18:48
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answered by great gig in the sky 7
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there is only one true God and his name is Jehovah. read ps 83 verse 18
2007-01-31 09:59:09
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answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7
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bible never lie
2007-01-31 00:51:46
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answered by GonE 3
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Identifying the Only True God
ALMOST as long as humans have existed, they have had many gods. There have been so many that it is difficult to put an accurate figure on the number of gods and goddesses worshiped throughout the earth—but it runs into the millions.
Having established that there is a God, we now ask, Which of all the gods worshiped throughout the earth, now and in the past, is the true God? That there is only one true God who can be identified as such is clearly stated in the Bible at John 17:3: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ."
An Identifying Name
It would be reasonable that any god who has personality would need a personal name to distinguish him from other gods with names of their own. It would preferably be a name designated by the god himself, rather than a name coined by his worshipers.
In this regard, however, a very puzzling fact emerges. While most well-established religions ascribe personal names to their gods, Jews and mainstream churches of Christendom have failed to identify by a distinctive personal name the god that they worship. Instead, they resort to such titles as Lord, God, Almighty, and Father.
Writing in the publication Theology, author David Clines stated the following: "Somewhere between the fifth and the second centuries B.C. a tragic accident befell God: he lost his name. More exactly, Jews gave up using God's personal name Yahweh, and began to refer to Yahweh by various periphrases: God, the Lord, the Name, the Holy One, the Presence, even the Place. Even where Yahweh was written in the Biblical text, readers pronounced the name as Adonai. With the final fall of the temple, even the rare liturgical occasions when the name was used ceased, and even the knowledge of the pronunciation of the name was forgotten." However, no one can say for sure exactly when orthodox Jews ceased to pronounce God's name out loud and instead substituted the Hebrew words for God and Sovereign Lord.
It seems, then, that the very first essential in any quest to identify "the only true God" would be to get to know him by name. Such a search is not at all difficult, for the name of Almighty God, the Creator, is clearly and simply stated at Psalm 83:18: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."—King James Version.
Jehovah or Yahweh?
Whereas the name Jehovah appears in the King James Version and other Bible translations, some prefer to use the name Yahweh instead of Jehovah. Which name is correct?
The most ancient Bible manuscripts were written in the Hebrew language. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the divine name occurs almost 7,000 times and is spelled with four consonants—YHWH or JHVH. These four-consonant words are commonly called the Tetragrammaton, or Tetragram, derived from two Greek words meaning "four letters." Now the question of accurate pronunciation arises because early Hebrew writing consisted of consonants with no vowels to guide the reader. So whether the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton becomes Yahweh or Jehovah depends on which vowels the reader supplies to the four consonants. Today many Hebrew scholars prefer Yahweh as the true pronunciation.
However, consistency favors Jehovah. In what way? The pronunciation Jehovah has been accepted in English for centuries. Those who object to using this pronunciation should also object to the use of the accepted pronunciation Jeremiah and even Jesus. Jeremiah would need to be changed to Yir·meyah' or Yir·meya'hu, the original Hebrew pronunciations, and Jesus would become Ye·shu'a` (Hebrew) or I·e·sous' (Greek). Hence, many Bible students, including Jehovah's Witnesses, feel that consistency favors the use of the already well-known English-language "Jehovah" and its equivalent in other languages.
Does It Really Matter?
Some may argue that it does not really matter whether you address Almighty God by a personal name or not, and they are content to speak of and address God as Father or simply as God. Both these terms, however, are titles rather than names and are neither personal nor distinctive. In Bible times the word for God ('Elo·him', Hebrew) was used to describe any god—even the pagan Philistine god named Dagon. (Judges 16:23, 24) So for a Hebrew to tell a Philistine that he, the Hebrew, worshiped "God" would not have identified the true God whom he worshiped.
Of interest is a comment in The Imperial Bible-Dictionary of 1874: "[Jehovah] is everywhere a proper name, denoting the personal God and him only; whereas Elohim partakes more of the character of a common noun, denoting usually, indeed, but not necessarily nor uniformly, the Supreme. . . . The Hebrew may say the Elohim, the true God, in opposition to all false gods; but he never says the Jehovah, for Jehovah is the name of the true God only. He says again and again my God . . . ; but never my Jehovah, for when he says my God, he means Jehovah. He speaks of the God of Israel, but never of the Jehovah of Israel, for there is no other Jehovah. He speaks of the living God, but never of the living Jehovah, for he cannot conceive of Jehovah as other than living."
2007-01-31 00:24:04
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answered by Alex 5
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Both christian and muslims have same God.
2007-01-31 01:44:08
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answered by Eccentric 7
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