Serious answers only please.
Please keep it brief and dont cut and paste any scripture.
2007-02-06 09:21:40 · 20 answers · asked by Zag 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Be nice to each other.
That and on Easter Sunday hide all the eggs. Even better if you can get a bunny to do that. (Just what is THAT all about anyway?)
2007-02-06 11:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by Andy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK if you ask a baptist or if you ask a catholic or maybe a Presbyterian, or a muslim, or even an islamic terrorist they will all say something different. Watch that show coming on about who really wrote the bible and who edited it when it was translated over time. Then you will find out all about the difference between fiction and non-fiction. So a fictitious mans message can be whatever you want it to be. So then every religion is right on. No single answer - ever .
2007-02-06 09:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus preached about a Kingdom that he would be a king of for 1000 years and would bring back to the earth a Paradise where no suffering, wars or death would ever be found again.
2007-02-06 09:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by Gail B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we receive Jesus as our Savior, our penalty for sin is paid. We are adopted into God's family, and Heaven is our eternal home. If we reject Jesus, we remain alienated from the Lord and under condemnation for our sin. We are destined to experience eternal judgment. God won't accept any of man's excuses because there is no acceptable defense for unbelief. (Acts 4:12)
2007-02-06 12:46:38 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Below is from my Purpose Driven Life Daily Devotionals
e-mails...I was trying to summarize the message but I just couldn't do it as eloquently as a few others have already done before, so I used the good old "copy & paste" buttons to share this with you. There may be some scripture but I think if you read the message below in it's entirety, you will understand, how can you tell someone what somebody else said without quoting them? Anyway here you go!
Your stand-in
by John Fischer
“This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.” (Colossians 1:21-22 NLT)
True believers are constantly in a state of shock. How can this be? How can I stand before a holy God who sees everything and have him unable to find a single fault in me? Is he blind? I know myself. I know the attitudes in my heart. I know the baggage I carry around. I have been a Christian all my life; don’t you think I would have this down by now? Well I don’t, and that makes this blamelessness even harder to believe.
But believe it I do, and believe it I will. It’s my only chance. My only chance of survival before a holy God is that Paul (the writer of Colossians) is right about this, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in His physical body has shielded God from the whole truth about me. Christ is my advocate. He is continually recasting the scenes of my life in another light.
Christ is my shield. I know the Bible says this, and I’ve always thought that was talking about my protection from harm. But I think it also means he is my shield against a holy God who must deal justly with sin. (And if you think about it, you wouldn’t want it any other way. If God isn’t just, there’s no justice anywhere.) That’s why Jesus took it so badly on the cross. That’s what all the blood was about. So God would look at us, looking for sin, and crane his neck trying to look around Jesus, and be unable to see us outside of what Christ has done for us. And Jesus is saying, “Forget trying to find any blame with John. I’ve got him covered. Don’t worry; he’s mine. Remember, I took care of all this on the cross. Your holiness and justice are in good shape – by the way – and John, and all these people here who believe in me, are safe in my arms.”
Too much, huh? Now does that make you want to just go out there and see how much sin you can get away with? That’s the farthest thing from your mind. Once you get this, you know you don’t deserve it, so you want to do everything you can to live a life worthy of what Christ is doing for you right now. He’s your stand-in.
2007-02-06 09:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by Boppysgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Love God above all others, To love one another above yourself, and Repent and be Saved, and Jesus is the way (the only way), the truth, and the Life.
2007-02-06 09:29:48 · answer #6 · answered by chris c 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus' message was simple- you do not have to go to hell, and you don't have to break your neck trying.
We try to help Jesus by adding rules and laws, but it is pretty simple: "...you must be born again...". (Jn 3:3)
We must be born again to get into heaven, and He made being born again so simple that a child can do it.
2007-02-06 09:29:40 · answer #7 · answered by DATA DROID 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Jesus' message to us was to be loving of all people, no matter how they act, be good and turn the other cheek. If we all forgave and did not get revenge the world would be calm and safe. It really stinks though, because no one listened to Jesus...
2007-02-06 09:25:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Love one another. That's it! If we'd all do that, we'd be just fine. No war, povery, famine. Seems simple enough, but we humans haven't evolved quite enough to get it.
2007-02-06 09:24:57 · answer #9 · answered by meatpiemum 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Love and everlasting life.
2007-02-06 09:29:42 · answer #10 · answered by healing wings 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋