Posted by Farmer on March 25, 2010 at 02:23:52
In Reply to: Re: Prof. M.M.Ninan Emergence-of-Hinduism-from-Christianity posted by Peace on March 24, 2010 at 22:56:25:
Dear Peace ...(by the way...did you formerly have an alias/screenname starting with M??)...I like your name
Phl 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
That verse was one of my favourites in TF and still is...I tried to understand my way and failed...I tried to have peace my way and failed...it's through Jesus...
It aches me to see/realise...how many seem to "enjoy it" forsaking for longer Jesus while building their life after TF...what did those people join TF for?...mysterious to me...you don't have a perfect believer...neither in TF nor outside of TF...one might as well forget it...though Paul in his humbleness might suggest, that there were some perfect "guys"/brethren around:
Phl 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Phl 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but [this] one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Phl 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Phl 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
We shall always find fault in the other on the board...the churches..let alone the public...and forgive me...at times I thought, why did God or whoever wrong me in this or that instance...I wanted a "better life"...such is my stupidity...anyway I am slowly learning...especially how wrong I was and am and how wonderful God and Jesus are.
That is one of the very strong points of OT" of having experienced other "promising" ways and now knowing/big emphasis here...how wrong they are...firsthand...knowing Jesus...faith in HIM is it...too few here are adamant about it...sad to say...I treasure that of him and Pastor Don and a few others
I started the subject...thread...because I am somewhat "Indophil"...but not to the point of excusing the idolatry and false worship
...it's only, that sometimes they get things right, good Christians should rather be setting the sample in...we're back at the veil then...even the uniqueness of marriage etc...that was intriguing me since long and I "smelled" some common roots somewhere...now this Prof gave me new fodder...I didn't have time to read much...I kind of sink in potential material to read...knowing that it is really not that important after all...just nice in case of having time...right now I didn't even have time to join the discussion here...next month I have the handimans in my apartment...plummers and whatnot and I have to arrange beforehand a lot of things...
I thought...I should give preference to Aunty T's situation meanwhile with my sparse time...
In any case I wish us all here the peace with God through Christ and the ones we're in contact with...as much as possible
just have a look at the following atrocity...I am not trying to deviate from the trouble the catholic church has all the while...the sexual abuse...just to show...how sinful the religious "quarters" are...I guess, we have the duty to warn about possible errors, as much as we know and realise them...a thing I am super thankful for here!!!...with the existence of the board...I just read it now: