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homelesschristian View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 20 Aug, 2024 03:59 PM just as there is two sides to every coin 🪙 there are two sides to the argument of daily Bible reading, despite the general consensus that it's a mandate 🤔🧐 Is it foolish to refuse to read Scripture daily? Most certainly. It is a poor practice not to take advantage of the riches available to us in God’s Word? Absolutely. To fail to make use of the Word of God, to feed one’s souls, to study it, to meditate on it, and to memorize it is to deprive one’s self of one of the greatest blessings of the Christian life. It is like refusing to eat 🙃🙃 On the flip side , the plain truth is that there is very little evidence from Scripture that God has commanded Christians to read their Bibles daily. When we impose such commands on people, as if that command was self-evident, we risk making the Christian faith seem arbitrary. We have a right to obligate Christians to that which is clearly revealed or implied in Holy Scripture. The biblical case for daily Bible reading is thin 🍯🐝 after some opinions are posted , i will ( no pun intended ) sweeten the pot with my own opinion Post Reply
rfaith17^ View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 21 Aug, 2024 01:12 PM Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Matthew 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Well, I would consider these 2 verses when it comes to the topic of reading the Bible. We are given free will. It's all about our relationship with him. Everyone's relationship with the Lord is different. But, if one wants to know the things of God reading the Bible is crucial. In Joshua, it says to meditate on it day and night. In Matthews 4:4 it tells us that we shouldn't be feasting on regular food only but the word of God as well. The word of God is often use poetically as food throughout the Bible. It has been called the Bread of Life. Examples: ---Jeremiah 15:16 When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty. ---1 Peter 2:2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, ---Ezekiel 3:3 Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. Also, when you look at the Lord's prayer in Matthews 6:11 it says to give us today our daily bread , which I believe is the word of God. There is the Lord's prayer   found in Matthew 6:9-13 New International Version 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread... Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 22 Aug, 2024 11:04 PM Great post with questions to prob. My answers follow: Bible study is simply an attempt to understand and obey God’s communication to us. The greater our love for God, then obviously, the greater our longing to know him AND to obey him. The only way to know God and to know what he commands us is through his written word. Everyone everywhere is commanded by God to search for God, to know God and to obey him. No one has a “freedom” to disobey God anymore than a citizen has the “freedom” to disobey God’s moral laws like “do not steal” or do not “bear false witness”. Nevertheless, people 👉choose👈 to disobey God just like criminals choose to disobey civil or moral law but no one has a freedom to disobey. Freedom to disobey implies a freedom from being penalized. Of course, that brings up a very intriguing theological debate: do people really have “free will”? Anyone up for a polite discussion?😀 Post Reply
rfaith17^ View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 27 Aug, 2024 05:32 PM I'm open to a friendly discussion on "free will". Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 1 Sep, 2024 04:01 PM There are several applications for the concept of “free will”. But the specific type of application I disagree with is the free will to disobey God’s call to repentance. I’ve heard people say things like this: “God won’t force you to believe in him.” They seem to base that assumption on a theoretical type of “free will” that lacks a scriptural basis. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 2 Sep, 2024 09:00 AM God👉commands👈ALL people to repent and to confess their sins to him (that means confess directly to God, not to some fake priest). But some uninformed preachers and fake priests try to wedge a free will in there somewhere. That’s kinda what I grew up with. I couldn’t understand, why then, God would send people to hell for exercising their “free will”. Even worse, some kinds of preachers seem to think that God is asking people to give their lives and all their stuff to God. In other words, God is like a nice dictator God who politely asks for everything you have. He’s not exactly like a marauding violent dictator, he’s just—well, nice when he asks for your hard earned stuff. The truth is, God is not asking for👉your👈life or your stuff. He’s patiently asking all people to give back what they stole from him. The stuff people have stolen from God includes basically everything including the life God gave them. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 2 Sep, 2024 09:20 AM Years ago when I “tried” to be an atheist (I say “tried” because there is really no such thing as an atheist, there are just stupid people, like me, who were trying to convince other people that I was an atheists or sometimes an agnostic). Sorry for the digression. Anyway, like I was saying, when I tried to be an atheist, I would often accuse God of being a cruel God who grabs independent and free people outa thin air and forces them onto his ugly cruel violent world. To make a long story short, I had it sooooo wrong. The fact is, there were and are NO independent free people just innocently floating around in their own trouble free nonexistence before they were forced to land here on this troublesome earth. The truth is, everyone and everything was conceived in the mind of God. That means he owns everything. Everything and everyone was put here to serve God only. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 3 Sep, 2024 05:14 PM Never mind my bad composition. Always do that when I type stuff too fast without thinking through‼️ Yes, I left myself open on that one‼️😀😇 Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 3 Sep, 2024 05:16 PM Anyone is welcome to step right up and correct my bad writing. You’ll get ALOT of points on that one‼️‼️‼️😇😉 AND you don’t have to be polite about it 😀 Post Reply
rfaith17^ View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 5 Sep, 2024 09:40 AM This is an interesting outlook on "free will". I always looked at free will as people independently making decisions in life. That they have a choice what they decide to do or believe. I still do think that. But at times, when I look at the Bible, I see things that somewhat contradicts that. In the Bible when Jonah tried to flee from going to Nineveh and giving them the message God wanted them to know, he was met with circumstances, that in the end he ended up where God wanted him to be which is Nineveh. These words stood out to me: "The truth is, everyone and everything was conceived in the mind of God. That means he owns everything. Everything and everyone was put here to serve God only." Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	😟🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 you're having a bad hair day perhaps you shouldn't do this ⭐ post your opinion s'il vous plaît ⭐ Posted : 5 Sep, 2024 12:27 PM Thank you for stating your observations and your commenting. I also used the term “free will” for a long time with regard to such cases. But I couldn’t reconcile the strict commands of God with a person’s free-will to disobey. Worse yet, if a person has the free-will freedom to disobey and proceeds to disobey but ends up in hell then how does that count for free-will? (question I asked myself) I need to do more study with the purpose of finding where and when the term “free-will” come into the church’s discussion. Post Reply