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I'm back in Southern Thailand on this sleepy muslim island where folks are living a simple rural life as fishermen and farmers. A quick peak in on this thread from where I am now sitting makes you all ...

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven, there is no other way. There are all kinds of experiences out there but the only way to be saved is through the person of Jesus Christ and His shed blood.

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What if a person had an experience identical to the "born again" experience but it was not with Jesus, but with some other deity or entity? Is the born again experience which "proves" the reality of ...

What if a person had an experience identical to the "born again" experience but it was not with Jesus, but with some other deity or entity? Is the born again experience which "proves" the reality of ...

POAlex,

you have found what works for you. That's cool dude. Is it though dependent on being ultimately the only way? In fact, when your faith and belief in Jesus and God is hinged on this needin ...

Were you self-righteous before you became a Christian and you learned humility as a Christian?

Any way you arrived at humility I would count as gain. All paths to understanding seem to pass throug ...

"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." (Isaiah 64:6)

Alex

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Hi Ibon,

You said "that accepting that Christ died on the cross for us being born sinners is the only valid religious perspective out there."

Here's what Jesus Christ said.

"Jesus saith unto ...

Ibon,

No one in this thread has shown hubris in sharing the gospel. It is what we believe and we share it with good will and hope because it represents the foundation of an experience with God ...

Here we see the difference between religion (doing good works to cover sins)

That is a very narrow and not very often used definition of the word "religion"

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Cultures flourish and fade away. Species go extinct. Civilizations rise shine and end up covered in rain forest trees. Christianity is a thought. One day too it will be like Greek mythology is today. ...

Such people are more like spiritual predators and have to be identified as such to the flock. Lost sheep are evident, wolves in sheeps clothing are not always so easy to spot.

Spiritual predators ...

I hope to do good works to my fellow man, but I believe the ultimate "good work" is for them to know the ultimate source of Truth. As we can see some here are offended by my "works" but I cannot do ...

You know, I wonder what the role of faith would be if every aspect of the Bible or of any religion could be "validated scientifically."

That's an odd way to describe any aspect of spirituality. ...

Gandalf,

Thanks for the thoughtful and serious post. There have been times when I thought you might have turned a little too much water into wine, given the time of evening and the content of some ...