A Bad Week for Some

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Matthew 5:10-12

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven....

Does this heroic martyrdom you are displaying mean we can feed you to the lions?

[academic punk]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Matthew 5:10-12

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven....

Wow, so Elvis, are you saying that for the way you've persecuted people of other beliefs (consult any of your earlier posts for reference)and sexual orientation, they get to go to Heaven? COOL!!!

[ELVIS]

No, I'm not saying that...

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

I haven't persecuted anyone...

Well, FORD maybe, but it was in good fun...:D

[FORD]

Elvis, do you believe God would send Mahatma Ghandi to Hell, and allow Ted Bundy into Heaven?

[ELVIS]

Yes...

MURDER

Under the Constitution of God the penalty for premeditated murder is capital punishment. At no time is provision made for a murderer to be imprisoned. The Law of Moses says, "Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death." (Numbers 35:31)

Many people are under the false impression that because they have never killed anyone they will some day go to heaven. This is not true! The Bible teaches us that "All unrighteousness is sin:" (I John 5:17), and "the soul that sinneth, it shall die." (Ezekiel 18:4) You may have never committed murder, but if you have ever harbored hatred or resentment against anyone, you are as guilty as a murder in the eyes of God. The Bible says, "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer:" (I John 3:15.). People will go to hell because of a unforgiving spirit as surely as a murderer will. The Bible teaches us that all sins come from the heart. The Lord Jesus said, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" (Matthew 1:19). It is no wonder the Bible says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17;9) Because we all have deceitful hearts, the Bible declares, "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23).

The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid the death penalty for all of us. He rose again that we might have hope of eternal life. If you repent of your sins and by faith accept the Lord Jesus Christ you will be forgiven. To all of us, whether we are murderers or not, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ is ready and willing to forgive.

[ELVIS]

BTW, Ghandi was a student of the Bible, more so the new testament...

If he rejected it, I have no idea, but he knew scripture...

[ELVIS]

Ghandi:

It is nonviolence only when we love those that hate us. I know how difficult it is to follow this grand law of love. But are not all great and good things difficult to do? Love of the hater is the most difficult of all. But by the grace of God even this most difficult thing becomes easy to accomplish if we want to do it.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by FORD
Elvis, do you believe God would send Mahatma Ghandi to Hell, and allow Ted Bundy into Heaven?

That all depends.

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
That all depends.

On what?

His mood that day?

[academic punk]

Elvis - you are aware that this forum is THE FRONT LINE, right? I think you're looking for THE BACK SIDE. That's elsewhere.

[academic punk]

(with all this talk of your preference for narrow entranceways, I just want o be sure)

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by academic punk
Elvis - you are aware that this forum is THE FRONT LINE, right? I think you're looking for THE BACK SIDE. That's elsewhere.

Get off Daddy's computer, little boy, he's coming home from work soon.

[John Ashcroft]

Heh.

[FORD]

Geez, cut it with all the gay jokes before Dobson sends his "homosexuality detection squad" over here

[ELVIS]

Thank you, FORD...