August 25, 2004
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O Lord I pray to thee for all and myself to keep our eyes focused on thee. O Lord I am weirry and mentally exhausted and I pray that you would give us the strength to make it through these next few weeks. It is not by our own strength can we do these things but by your strength. I lift all my brothers and sisters and commence all of them into you hands. Thank you O Lord for your love and grace which is new to us everday. In Your Holy name, AMEN.
On a different note…interesting Bible Study today. Mormonism, the study was very interesting and at the very same time confusing. I understand a lot of it now but I still cannot grasp how they read the Bible in KJV yet they go by the book of mormon. I still can’t get over it and they are complete opposites of each other. The book of Mormon seems like a book just made up full of assumptions and thoughts from a human perspective of understanding which is very limited. Its like something from science, something from sci fi that is created from a form of logic to help us understand what we are only able to understand from a humistic perspective. It is by faith that we are saved. We have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. However, faith is dead without works (or good deeds) but neither can exist by themseleves in our walk with God. Our actions reflect our faith and faith determines many of our actions. Actions by themselves are merely just good deeds that can be either or Christian or secular. It is interesting to learn how Mormonism has different levels of heaven or paradise based upon how much good deeds we do. It seems that faith is somewhat lacking in that area of this belieft. More like doing these things to prove yourself to try and earn your way to heaven. The mere fact that you have to earn is totally opposite of the Christian faith, we do not have to earn our faith nor do we have to earn our way to heaven. It is a gift from God when we accept Him into our hearts. Salvation is not earned it is given freely to us by the Love of God as he gave His only Son to die on the cross for the sins of the world.
I am not here to tell you what to believe or what not to believe but it is important to know the core of these beliefs and truths. My prayer is that you find a way better yet find THE WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. The word says….”I am the way the truth, the life….” Blessed is He who puts his trust in Him.
Please comment freely, I am gracious to hear every perspective and opinion…
Comments (2)
3:33 am? so u didn’t go to sleep last nite then… haha… yeah, anyways, thy is catholic and i am a protestant. what do u think about that? can u have a relationship with someone who has different beliefs than u? i usually focus on what we have in common, and i know he has a lot of faith in god and he does not pray to mary, saints, etc. but once he told me he doesn’t believe in the holy trinity… but if that’s not true then how can he know that jesus died for our sins.. if he is not god? and don’t catholics believe in good works and pugatory and stuff?
haha bro you should maybe change your time zone…so it reads pacific time instead of eastern standard. this was done at 12:33 am, rigt? lol
heya tell your friend she should prob ask her bf since well, he’s the catholic, and she should feel comfortable talking to him about stuff like this. =P anyways, i’m 99.9% sure official catholic doctrine holds that Jesus is God, and that He died for our sins. i don’t agree with a lot of catholic teachings and stuff. but then again, there are many Catholics who are more Christian than many Christians. if Catholics are counted in a different category as Christians, that is.
heh. i know one time you requested we study catholicism for small group. bah sorry no time =