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lunachick
March 10, 2004, 08:29 PM
...God and Christ would make great things happen. Parting of the red sea, water into wine, etc, etc....

So, how come we haven't seen anything like that in the last couple millenia?
DBT
March 12, 2004, 06:09 AM
Nothing big seems to be happening these days but it doesn't stop people from worshiping guru's and the "miracles" they perform.

This one is the God who decended to earth.

http://www.saibabaofshirdi.net/


Not to mention this fellow and his miracles hehheh


http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/
Amos
March 12, 2004, 08:50 AM
Originally posted by lunachick
...God and Christ would make great things happen. Parting of the red sea, water into wine, etc, etc....

So, how come we haven't seen anything like that in the last couple millenia?

Because, lunachick, you are looking in the wrong direction! You're the sleeper who should only ask questions like Mary Magdalene did way back then.

The parting of the 'sea of reeds' happens every time a believer gets born again and tells somebody else how good it feels to belong to the family of God. This contravenes the direct order made in the Gospels to tell noone that we might have found favor with God. If we do, as many are told to do, it is evidence that they have been led into the promised land where they do not belong . . . and hence will die there nonetheless.

Had we been invited to the royal banquet and there drank from the better wine we would have known not to part the waters but walk across this water to find eternal rest in the promised land.
Hyndis
March 12, 2004, 01:09 PM
Originally posted by Amos
If we do, as many are told to do, it is evidence that they have been led into the promised land where they do not belong . . . and hence will die there nonetheless.




So much for that pesky free will. ;)
Amos
March 12, 2004, 02:18 PM
Originally posted by Hyndis
So much for that pesky free will. ;)

First there are misled by the marauding wolves in sheep clothing and once led into the promised land they are torn in their own saved-sinner complex -- which is just an intensified from of slavery.

Free will is required to walk on top of the water and into the promised land. That way the sea will be no more is it is promised in Rev.21:1.