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This says it all.  

Life is often very trying whether you are a Christian or not. Dificult circumstances fall on the righteous and unrighteous alike. However, the Christian life often adds to our dificulties. We may be discriminated against because of our faith, or our beliefs may eliminate the "easy" ways out of a problem. But Christ does not ask us to suffer anything for Him that He was not willing to suffer for us. Someday we will be rewarded for our diigence and faith.

gouda

Praise the Lord that He is completely in control of your life:
Your testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul keeps them.
The entrance of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple. . . .
Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your precepts.
Make Your face shine upon Your servant,
And teach me Your statutes.
Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your law (Psalm 119:129-130, 134-136).

gouda

At the end of my life," John says, "I hope I'm mainly preparing to meet the Judge of the earth and give an account of my one little, vaporous life.

gouda

John opens his gospel with the statement, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made (John 1:1-3). In verse 14, he identifies this member of the Trinity who is called the "Word." And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. Think of it. This One who was in the beginning with God and was God became flesh and lived among insignificant human beings because of His love for sinners.

Yes, Christ always existed and came from heaven to earth. Listen to His numerous statements verifying this truth: For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world (John 6:33). I am the living bread which came down from heaven (John 6:51). Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world (John 8:23). I proceeded forth and came from God (John 8:42). I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world (John 16:28).



Don't listen to a group of blinded cultists who would rob Christ of His deity, but hear the Word of the Lord. His preexistence is also proven through the Bible statements indicating that He created the world. John 1:3: All things were made by him. John 1:10: He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Colossians 1:16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. Hebrews 1:2 states, By whom also he [Christ] made the worlds.

gouda

Ruger1, believe me, I do understand how vastly different the atmosphere is in the public school system as compared to a parochial school--I attended Catholic school until the middle of 4th grade, when my family moved from PA to NJ and we were enrolled in public school.  Up to that time, I had never had any direct contact with any person whose heritage wasn't white-European or Asian, and the US was in the middle of its tumultuous equal rights struggle. My first day in public school, I was assigned to share a desk with an African-American classmate, and while I was excited at the prospect of meeting someone who was not only a stranger, but also from a background quite different than mine, my classmate did not share that viewpoint, and proceeded to whisper the vilest of vulgarities to me throughout the day.  I had never heard any these words, and when I got home from school and asked my mother to define them, all the color drained from her face and she inquired where I'd heard these things.  She explained that these were crude terms that were not used in polite company, but told me what each meant as well--that's how I was raised, if you didn't know the meaning of a word you looked it up, and if it wasn't in the dictionary you asked an adult to define the word and tell you the correct spelling.  The teacher, when informed by my parents of what had taken place, did nothing about it, however, and it continued for the rest of the school year.  I learned to ignore my classmate when he spoke to me, and continued on with my life and my education.

But I wasn't going to school to be taught values and morality--that was my parents' responsibility to teach me those things, and it remained their responsibility to see to it I maintained them until I reached an age where the onus then fell upon me alone.  ANYONE who sends their kids to ANY school and expects those institutions, religious or not, to teach their kids correct values and morals is abdicating their responsibility to their offspring, because it is the family's job [parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles and so on] to establish and nurture these in the child.  Teachers are hired to educate their students about math, language, history and science; they are not charged with molding the character of them, though it is reasonable to expect the teachers to not do anything that damages the child's character, either.  Sadly, teachers who inflict that type of damage exist in ALL school settings and systems, even in home-schooling [there are a fair number of hateful, abusive and flat-out ignorant parents who home-school their children, too, and that type of damage is a lot harder to repair once it's visited on the child, because it's what the child is living all the time]. 

gouda, I suspect your wife urged you not to leave this forum because if you don't have this outlet for your ramblings, SHE'D be the one who had to listen to you all day long...and she has stuff to do, and no time for your zealousness.

 

Your wrong again Hex.

She is very happy with what Im doing here. She also thanked me for being faithful to her
for fifty years.She also thanked me for not drinking alcohol since I gave my life to Christ
In Dec. 1973. I thanked my wife for being faithful to me for fifty years.I thanked her for not drinking
alcohol,and stop smoking two packs of smokes a day since she was 16 years of age after she gave
her life to Christ a month after I did.
I don't take lightly when an atheist ,a divorcee,asks me a question like that.
I wouldn;t ask Moons a question like that.

gouda

I didn't ask you any question, gouda.  I voiced my suspicions as to why your wife would have urged you to spend your time on here alternating between vilifying and trying to convert those who don't share your belief system, when that time would be better spent with your spouse of fifty years. That wasn't a question.

As for your trying to shame me by calling me "...an atheist, a divorcee..."--I'll paraphrase a reply from your favorite fellow in response to the first part:  ""Thou sayest I am..." [John 18:33-37].  I've not indicated any such thing at any point in time.
That I am a divorcee is true, and there is no shame in that; the shame is when one person allows another to continue abusing the first, because such treatment is the antithesis of what defines love and breaks the bond of marriage.

Ask Moons what?

Oh Hexe, he's talking about me, throwing every straw man that he can pull out of his closet.  He's feeling shame and he's lashing out.  Let him take his little temper tantrum, I think it's rather comical.  Good thing he's not Roman Catholic he'd drown in holy water.