So Many Messages - So Much Good News

[maggie47]

So Many Messages - So Much Good News

The book of Timothy like a lot of writings that are attributed to Paul has often left me wondering if Paul and his followers did not quite get everything that Jesus had to say in the way that they focused on the Risen Christ to the exclusion of his life on Earth.

Timothy II is a very short letter that is

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[pastorlenny]

if we believed in the Christ Jesus with all of our heart, and acted in the correct manner, the one that Paul was prescribing, then we would be absolved of our sins and could go to Heaven

Where does Paul say this?

My 21st century Western female mind cannot wrap her head around the story of an omnipresent God who would make a part of itself in human form.

Why should orthodox Christian theology be determined by the limitations of some individual's cognitive faculties?

Basically, Jesus’ teaching was that religion is nothing if it does not come from the soul.

Where does Jesus say this?

He did not want to tell his disciples to remember to tell everyone that he was about to get sacrificed for our sinsWhy did He say He was was going to "give His life as a ransom for many?" Why did He say "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins?" Why did He say "“Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and

Reply to Pastorlenny part 1

[maggie47]

I know that it would have been easier for me in my message to agree with the theme of Salvation but just to ask the congregation to remember that there are also all of these other good things in Jesus’ teachings. However, I really feel that the other parts of Jesus’ teachings are over shadowed by the theme of salvation which seems a very ego invested reason to be attached to a religion

Second part of reply

[maggie47]

Here is the second part