Recent content by Pico

I don't know about anything about your god, but the God of the Bible is a god who perfect and holy. No matter how many good things a person does doesn't change the fact that they sinned. God is so perfect and holy that he can not even look upon sin, none the less let sinners into his perfect...

Look, God's main goal is not out happiness. It's our character. The real "true" happiness comes when we get to live with Him in heaven and/or the new earth. We live in a messed up world; suffering is a part of the life we chose, it's the consequence for our sin. God did not create...

Welcome to what sin-cursed world is like. Only Jesus can un-do what sin has done.

The gray area you are speaking of is a different context. There is no gray area about homosexuality. It's a sin (says it in both the new and old testament). Man was made to be with a woman, and vice versa. One thing that it seems you are curious about is that Christianity is not about us. It's...

Ok, I didn't read any post here cuz i'm tired, but i'll lay it out for you concisely. Jesus (the Creator of everything including man and woman) said, when asked about divorce (which has everything to do with marriage) in Mark 10:6-9: "at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'...

I don't get the reasoning behind some of these responses. If Jesus isn't the only way to God, then, for instance, one could attain righteousness by the way of the law of Moses. But Paul stresses in the book of Galatians that if we rely on "circumcision" to make us right with God (circumcision...

No. First I said that Jesus called God his Father, which made him equal with God (I kinda wondered a little off topic there too). He almost got murdered a few times for saying that. Then someone said that other people are called "sons of God." Angels are referred to this too in the Old...

Yeah, being called sons of God is a blessing. It is reserved for people God chooses. But Jesus was different. He was God the Father's beloved Son. Those two are from the NIV. The NLT translation renders it like this: There is quite obviously a very distinct bond between God the Father and...

He sure did.

That's what I'm saying. My friend says that we recieve everlasing life, but are also punished for our bad deeds and rewarded for our good deeds. Doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah, but I'm not talking about that. I'm referring to God punishing the saved for their bad deeds and rewarding them for their good deeds, which my friend says will happen.

I understand completely what you mean. Paul dealt with some early church who thought the same thing. But still, why would God punish us for our sins still when Jesus already paid the penalty for them? Wouldn't that be un-just?

A fellow Christian friend of mine was saying today that although we are given eternal life through Jesus that we will still get punished for our bad deeds and rewarded for our good ones. Now I thought that when we are standing at the judgment of God's throne Jesus will plead our case and say...

Re: Positions Taken and Sample Statements Fine. To each his own.

That's it. I'd say this quote from Paul settles the whole issue. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord," is the way many other translations put it. The Lord ascended to the Father in Heaven. If we are to be with him when we leave our body we will be in Heaven. Doesn't leave...