I am not a Christian who spreads the Word and not know what I am talking about.
First off let me explain the fear of God to you guys. When I say fear of God i do not mean I am afraid of Him at all times. The fear of God is the fear of His wrath. The fear of the Lord is how I became saved. I knew that if I was not saved I would go to hell, and that is God's wrath. I mean if you do not believe in God you surely will not believe in His wrath, and you will not believe you will go to hell. And that's cool. This is just my belief.
God is the most loving, caring, beautiful God. He is great in all ways.
But He will have no patience and no care for those who do not believe in He, and who is not washed in the Blood of the Lamb come Judgement Day. This is God's wrath. I do not teach nor explain to put fear in you about God. When He touches you and you see that He is truely real you will already have that fear on your own. The fear of going to hell.
Jalu, about the poison...If you read chapter 16 you will see that God was telling them to go and preach. God was with them and worked with them.
And I quote Mark 16:20 "And they went forth, and preached everywhere, and the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following."
In other words God helped them to show these things like when they lay their hands on the sick and they are healed. Or they drink the poison and not die. This is Jesus helping them show the people that He is true and real. Showing them things that seem impossible. But all things are possible with Jesus.
If you handed me a cup of poison and said if your God is real then you will not die from this poison. Yes I would absolutly drink it. That is my faith I believe fully and truely that God would not let me die just to show you He is true and real.
You have to keep in mind though that these poeple were called by God to do this. Like a preacher is called on by God to do this. It's not like just going to college to become a preacher. Only a true and real preacher is called to preach by God. You see that not all Christians are preachers. And even though all the saved will go to Heaven not all people will have the same amount of jewels in their crown.
In other words God calls on the people who are as close to him as possible. The people who are steady in their Bible reading, prayers, witnessing.
It like in the old testement when people had to go to preist to confess their sins and the preist prayed to God for their forgivness. This was until Jesus died on the cross. the vail was broken between God and man. Now Jesus is our mediator to God. Why did we go to preist because they were called on by God.
And Jalu I am not a preacher And I am not preaching to you only explaining my belief.
"Preach to me when you can"... lose the attitude. If you can't speak about it in a calm manner. Please don't dicuss this with me.
See you just assume that all Christian are preaching to you. Well I am not all Christians. Some of us are very nice and have consideration for all people and their beliefs.
You could have asked me to explain how I feel on the situation, not tell me to preach to you like you feel that's all we do.
At the same time I know that typed words can be mislead because there is no sound behind it to tell wheather someone is attitudy about it.
So if I misunderstood your voice I appologize, but if not please keep an open mind, and know that all Christian aren't trying to cram God down your throat. Especially me. Because i want respect for my belief just as I give everyone else respect.
Also I enjoy talking to you about this, and I am glad that you are one who who actually reads and knows what the Bible says. Most non believers haven't even cracked it open. I really respect that.
Thanks... Tara
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