CELEBRITY IS NOT THAT SAME AS BEING DIVINE AND ORIGINATING FROM THE VERY BOSOM OF GOD. Self-absorbed Individuals Seek Not Only The Limelight But Also Desire Divinity Because They Cannot Acknowledge The Fact They Are In Need Of Salvation From Their Conceitedness. Looking in the mirror and convincing themselves that their blemishes and asymmetrical facial features are not ugly but, instead, absolutely beautiful hold up until, unaware, they accidentally catch the next glimpse of an imperfection, and the thought of “If only….” sets in.

Why did not God make me his son/daughter or prophet like Jesus, Muhammad, etc.?

Happy Riches, answers request by Manish Patel

Justice is a difficult matter for people to understand unless they have perfect knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Imperfect knowledge cannot produce justice.

Every person who is perceptive enough to realize that he or she never asked to be born but will suffer and then die, and that this is unjust, will realize that there is more to existence than this temporal biological realm that we humans experience daily.

Recognition of the eternal realm requires us to acknowledge that the Eternal One has to exist. Only ignorance or denial would prevent us from seeking the truth about eternity.

Solomon, accredited with possessing much wisdom, is believed to have written about the Eternal One:

• He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Isaiah, the prophet of Salvation for mankind, spoke on behalf of the Eternal One;

• For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.” (Isaiah 57:15)

Actually, you, like each one of us, were created so that you might exercise your freewill and decide to seek justice, in truth, by exercising the faith that you possess that enables you to act upon your understanding, so that you might find the Eternal.

• The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’. (Acts 17:24-28)

Muhammad did not rise from the dead. Jesus rose from the dead. Muhammad is not the one who is coming back again. Jesus is the One who is to return. The Quran tells us this. The Bible tells us this. And when you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you will learn that your heart will tell you this, because you will possess the assurance that justice has been done, your price for sin and ignorance has been paid, and you have received eternal life, now.

When You Have Freewill To Seek The Eternal One And You Don’t What Happens?

WHAT IS THE HEAVIEST OBJECT THAT HAS EVERY BEEN MADE? Can Anything Be Made That Would Be Impossible To Move No Matter What Equipment Is Used. The Earth moves through space, which has nothing to do with man, but has God created anything that cannot be moved by Himself.

Can God make a rock so heavy that he couldn’t lift it?

Happy Riches  answers request by Joshua Ling 

The problem with this question is so many people delight in asking it because within their finite minds they like to think that the infinite Creator of the Universe is not as intelligent as themselves.
When intelligent finite beings understand the limitations of their own intellect, then their is hope they will realize that people, who ask questions that are illogical and self-contradictory, are really demonstrating their own ignorance. Ignorance translates into arrogance when ignoramuses do not recognize their own insufficiency and inadequacy, incompetence and ineptitude.
The reality is God is the Rock.

• The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deuteronomy 32:4)

• There is none holy like the Lord, there is none besides thee; there is no Rock like our God. (1 Samuel 2:2)

God is infinite. There is no other Infinite One. Therefore, because the Rock is God Himself, infinity can never be sized so that any lifting can be done.

God in finite form; God in the form of a human being; aah! this is a different matter:

• Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high. (Isaiah 52:13)

• Who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.(Philippians 2:5-8)

Although, finite fools like to think they possess omniscience—because they like to think they will never die—they dismiss the fact that death is judgment of itself.

Death is a statement of the futility of a life lived in this temporal existence without possessing eternal significance and meaning. More than this, far too many ignorant people reject the possibility that they might still exist after death and have to face eternal judgment.

The Rock Of Ages Is So Big We Cannot Get Over Him, Under Him, Or Around Him

THE SPIRIT OF GOD MAY BE PRESENT EVERYWHERE BUT NOT NECESSARILY RESIDING IN EVERYTHING. Humans Are Individually Similar To Canisters That Have Been Placed In Water But Contain No Contents Within. Understanding this helps us realize that we have a need for God that transcends philosophical assumptions and requires an actual encounter whereby we being empty within have a void that cries out to filled with the presence of the Divine One’s Spirit.

As a Christian, which one do you think is the most natural and idiomatic way to describe God's Spirit in English?

1. God’s Spirit permeates everywhere
2. God’s Spirit is in all
3. God’s Spirit is present everywhere

Happy Riches  answers request by John Yang

We all live and move and have our being in the Spirit of God. But to say God’s spirit permeates everywhere is incorrect usage, because to permeate means to penetrate a thing, although, not necessarily to the point of saturation. Nevertheless, the expression would be God’s spirit permeates everything. However, this is untrue.

Likewise, the statement, “God’s Spirit is in all” is also untrue. But to say “God’s Spirit is present everywhere” is closer to the truth. Except, God’s Spirit does not abide in those possessed of evil or anything that is evil. Neither does the Spirit of God necessarily abide in the hearts of humans, even though humans live and have their being within Him. In fact, the Universe has been created within God Himself. The Universe being finite, and God being infinite, naturally surrounds the Universe.

• And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. (Genesis 1:5-8)

• When God created the heavens…he drew a circle on the face of the deep. (Proverbs 8:27) — [Water Near Edge of Universe Bolsters Creation Cosmology]

The Spirit of God moves throughout the Universe, keeping a watch over Creation, noting everything that occurs. God keeps account of all that happens, all that is expressed, discerning the difference between the thoughts and intentions of the hearts of humans.
God is omnipresent.

The Ten Commandments Were Designed For You To Enjoy And Possess Life

RELIABILITY OF BIBLE TRANSLATIONS IS A MAJOR ISSUE AND MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY RELIABLE SOURCE IS THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS (THE RECEIVED TEXT). The Jehovah Witnesses Have A Corrupt Version Of The Bible The New World Translation Of The Holy Scriptures. But why would anybody be concerned about reading the Latin Vulgata and Nova Vulgata Bibles rather than the Textus Receptus, when the real issue is having a relationship with Lord Jesus Christ and knowing the Lord God, Creator of the Universe.

Are the Latin Vulgata and Nova Vulgata bibles to be trusted, as opposed to Bibles translated from the Textus Receptus? If yes, why?

Happy Riches answers request by Iuri Sá Earp

God can speak through any medium and any means. The reality is this: the Old Testament of the Bible bears witness to Lord Jesus Christ. What does not bear witness to Lord Jesus Christ is not of God.

This statement by Jesus says all that one really needs to know:

• You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. (John 5:39–40)

The Scriptures Jesus was referring to were those known as the Tanakh—the Law and the Prophets—the Old Testament.

Likewise, when the Apostle Paul was writing to Timothy, he wrote of the Old Testament saying:

• How from childhood you have been acquainted with . All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:15–17)

Even reading the Book of Mormon, because it has some Scripture in there that points to Lord Jesus Christ and the need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, God can use this. However, this is not to say that the Book of Mormon is inspired by God. From my reading of it, the Book of Mormon is pseudepigrapha.

The Jehovah Witnesses have a corrupt version of the Bible The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. In the 1984 version, instead of reading the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus we read

• That from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through the faith in connection with Christ Jesus.

The words “in connection with” appear to be purposely inserted to dissuade people from seeking Lord Jesus Christ. Even though this is the case, we still find that the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John are very clear in The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, for except a person come to Lord Jesus Christ, the person cannot possess eternal life.

• “YOU are searching the Scriptures, because YOU think that by means of them YOU will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. And yet YOU do not want to come to me that YOU may have life. (John 5:39 - 40)

Regardless of what translation a person is reading, the truth can be found, if anyone is open to the truth.

Unfortunately, many people misread the King James text:

• Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:39–40)

Instead of understanding that “search the Scriptures” means “You search the Scripture” because you think that you have life in them, too many people (I have met and communicated with) think that they have to search the Scriptures so that they may have life.

But why would anybody be concerned about reading the Latin Vulgata and Nova Vulgata Bibles rather than the Textus Receptus, when the real issue is having a relationship with Lord Jesus Christ and knowing the Lord God, Creator of the Universe.

People who cannot read Greek or Latin or Aramaic, simply call out to God to show them the truth and, if they are genuine, God sees. Hagar the maid of Sarah, Abraham’s wife found this to be the case.

• And the angel of the Lord said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael; because the Lord has given heed to your affliction. He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.” So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “Thou art a God of seeing” (Genesis 16:11–13)

Hagar did not have a Bible, yet she was observed by God and heard of Him. But people today worry and argue about things that really do not matter. Jesus called this “straining a gnat to swallow a camel”. Indeed, the foolishness of humans continues unabated. And most think that they are not being influenced by the god of this world as they blindly reject the truth.

What people need to learn is to trust that they have the right to know the living Lord God, Creator of the Universe, before trusting anything that is a work of humans. History tells us that the victors and the ruling elite are the ones who write the narratives that people are told to believe as true. In some respects, the Bible is no different. Once a person knows the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, then He will lead you and guide you into all truth. Only Jesus Christ is recorded in history as having been raised from the dead and gotten the victory over death, a fact attested to by many witnesses at the time.

The Ten Commandments Were Designed For You To Enjoy And Possess Life

NEW WORLD WIDE RELIGION SPECULATED AS THE END OF FAITH—OR IS IT? Confused Minds Think That Faith Is The Realm Of Religion And Not Resident Within The Human Psyche. As surprising as it may seem, there is none more ignorant than the arrogant that occupy the hallways of the intelligentsia, who in their ignorance do not realize they are really the ignorati.

Is there about to be a new, globe sweeping religion, or is it the end for faith?

Happy Riches answers request by Paul Sorenson

Faith is described as a seed. Seeds grow when they are placed in the right environment. Seeds grow into something much bigger than the seed.

• He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. (Matthew 17:20)

The degree to which this seed of faith is developed depends upon a number of factors. But if allowed to grow to its full potential, it has the capacity to dominate the world.

Faith is an attribute that is resident in every child that is born. Therefore, when faith has ended, the human race has ceased to be. For faith is an integral element of being a consciously aware sentient being. Without faith, it is impossible for a person to know that one’s self exists, or anyone else exists, for that matter. Knowledge itself is dependent upon faith for its acceptance and validity.

As for religion, this is often misconstrued by a description that is more appropriate for a blind one-eyed supporter of a football team. This is because those, who lack understanding, think that life is about kicking a ball between a couple of posts and then getting off with a thrill. Because of this, one is not sure whether a new globe sweeping religion is a reference to some new ball game or a virtual ball game. And when it comes to the virtual world, there are many possibilities, but they are always restricted to being virtual.

Real religion is about seeking the reason why we exist and why we are born only to die. Real religion is a quest for the truth. Real religion is a serious matter and concerns life and death. Real religion is about finding the way to the truth that leads to eternal life. In which case, there has been a real religion, as far as each one of us is concerned, that has existed ever since each one of us was born. Whether we want to embrace this ourselves, or spend time focusing on self-eroticism, depends upon whether we are willing to waste our time being vain in front of a mirror, or we want to experience the reality of our purpose for being. Anything less than eternity is short-sighted.

What is old to some is new to others. But note what we find in an Epistle of John concerning the new religion.

• Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:7-11)

The new religion has been sweeping the globe since humans have existed. The religion that is solipsism, ceases to exist once the pain kicks in and is recognized by the individual as something that is not enjoyable. Action takes precedence of delusion and efforts are made to overcome the pain or, at least, mollify it as quick as possible—pain killers help!

While religion may be seen by some as a vehicle that attempts to assist humans accommodate the pain of being born only to die, the more perceptive of us grasp that discovering the way to the bridge over the rubicon of the bottomless pit is really what’s required. Concepts like love, faith and hope are often spoken of. Faith in humanity is a historical lesson in failure, leaving any hope of finding everlasting love in this world a dismal passing thought; the concepts are known, but unable to be fully realized in this temporal existence bound by death.

Maybe this is why we read:

Some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers met him. And some said, “What would this babbler say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. And they took hold of him and brought him to the Are-op′agus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you present? For you bring some strange things to our ears; we wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op′agus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything. And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for
‘In him we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:18-28)

But then to quote another ancient text:

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Each one of us ends our days in this temporal existence at some time, whether we like it or not. Some sooner than expected.

The question each one of us needs to have answered: What happens if we have not secured our visa, and we have not had our passport stamped, before we go on our journey into, what is otherwise referred to as, the great unknown?

The Way To The Truth That Ensures Life Is Always New For Those Who Find It

IS THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AN INSTINCTIVE RECOGNITION THAT HUMANS POSSESS BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY TO BE CREATIVE THEREFORE REASON SUGGESTS THEIR CREATOR EXISTS? History Reveals From The Earliest Times Humans Have Seen The Earth And Sky And Perceived The Existence Of The Creator’s Great Eternal Power. Does this mean those who reject the existence of the Eternal Infinite Omniscient Creator will have no excuse when they stand before God at Judgment Day?

Is there a better answer than rolling your eyes when a Christian quotes Romans 1:18–21 as proof that you are not an atheist?

But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.-- Message Bible.

Happy Riches, answers request by Holly Wells

Ignorance is the plight of the arrogant. The arrogant make unwarranted claims about how they know so much, while overlooking the fact that they know so little. That little is even less than a grain of sand, when compared to the mind of the Infinite One within Whom the Universe itself is encompassed. And even though the Infinite One encompasses the Universe, the invisible eternal power of the Godhead is evident in the Creation that is manifest; the same as the wind is not seen, yet moves the sand, chops the waves, uproots trees and ravages landscapes

This is why the Psalmist states there are people who are bereft of any hope of wisdom, for claiming to be wise, many are renown for reinforcing the evidence of their dearth of the most sort after attribute that signals that the beginning of knowledge has been attained. For the beginning of wisdom, we are told in the book of Proverbs, is this: get wisdom.

Anybody who does not recognize that being born to die is a futile existence, lacks hope; suffers an acute insufficiency of reasoning ability; may as well not have been born at all.

As for people who assert that God is dead, maybe they might like to join Nietzsche: an “influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values.” But if not, rolling your eyes is just as good as being lost for eternity, I suppose. After all, being dead is not just a temporary existence, whichever way one looks at it. Whereas being on Earth is temporary.

There Is A Relationship That Extends Beyond The Grave; Creation Bears Witness

SUPERCONTINENT GONDWANA FURTHER VERIFIED BY GERMAN SCIENTISTS WHO HAVE MADE DISCOVERY AT ANTARCTICA. Claims Of Exciting Mosaic Of Geological Features That Reveal Fundamental Similarities And Differences Between The Crust Beneath Antarctica And Other Continents. But Hyrdroplate Theory proposed by Walt Brown indentifies the key elements that are found on Earth and points to what they mean.

How was the world before the Biblical Flood?

Happy Riches, answers request by Ricardo dos Santos

When asking what the world was like before the biblical flood, from what Walter Brown has determined, the Earth was much larger, which explains why the ancients had a 360 day year rather than the 365.25 day year that we know.

The environment would have been less volatile. Dinosaurs would have roamed the Earth. There is evidence that humans had access to technology that is unknown today. Or if this technology is known today, it is kept hidden by a secret cabal that have another agenda that probably excludes some 7 billion of the world’s population: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.—One of the US' greatest mysteries

The Days Of Creation And The Purpose Of Human’s Existence Can Be Known

BIZZARE IDEAS OF EVOLUTION CREATE CONFUSION IN MINDS OF STUDENTS, WHEN THEY KNOW THAT CHANCE DOES NOT PRODUCE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZED FUNCTION OR BUILD STRUCTURES THAT RELY UPON CONSISTENCY OF REPETITION TO EXIST. More Confused Are Students Who Have Been Raised In Families That Accept The Universe Is The Creation Of The Creator And Not A Product Of Chance. Christian recognition of a purposeful Creator confounds non-Christians attracted to Buddhist ideas of unknowable energy creating the Universe and producing an environment for life to exist on Earth so that many souls can progress in their numerous transmigrations from being non-existent to achieving nirvana, having gone through various different forms of existence before becoming non-existent once more.

Why do Christians still stand strong against science, specifically evolution?

Happy Riches answers request by Sam Shin

Science, true science supports what true Christians accept. False science promotes the unprovable as fact, which gullible little boys and girls accept to be true. Scientific propaganda has nothing to do with truth.

Truth is always demonstrable in some way. A true Christian demonstrates a changed life. A true scientist does not promote what cannot be proven as fact. Many Christians are scientists, but they do not promote any fairies (e.g. evolution) because they cannot prove the fairy exists. However, as the bionic ear was created by a Christian medical scientist, so, too, have many other advancements been made by Christians.

Logic is a falsity in many ways because it is merely a methodology. Logic based upon a false assumption is always incorrect.

But here is some logic:

Everybody is born and everybody dies.
Being born to die is futile unless there is an eternal purpose.
Therefore: when a person discovers the eternal purpose, life becomes meaningful.
Eternal purpose means that there has to be an Eternal Intelligence
If there is an eternally Intelligent One, the mortal ought to seek Him.
Therefore: mortal beings who neglect to seek the Immortal One are…..

Reality Is About Relationships Not Fairies Evolving From Human Imagination

WHICH CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION IS CORRECT AND WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM ALL? Baptism And The Lord’s Supper (Eucharist, Holy Communion) Seem To Be Practiced By All The Denominations, Which Suggests There Is Not Much Difference Between Them. However,end-time beliefs vary widely and these affect people’s worldview and their zeal for making converts.

What are some of the major differences between world Christian denominations?

Happy Riches  answers request by Stan Cannon

There are numerous differences among the many religious expressions within the world of Christendom.

Two key rites that are integral to Christian expression that provide varying views within different organizations are baptism and communion (the Eucharist). Below are some of the differences, followed by Scripture upon which they are based.

Differences occur regarding baptism and its efficacy. Infant baptism is valid for many denominations. Contrasted to this, believer’s baptism is only valid for those who claim that a person has to be of age to make the decision to be baptized.

Baptism is variously regarded as:

• Unnecessary
• Necessary for salvation
• Necessary to receive the Holy Spirit
• Necessary for church membership
• The acknowledgment of repentance, the beginning of faith towards God
• An act of obedience in fulfillment of faith
• An outward expression of an internalized experience
• A testimony to one’s conviction
• Christian rite equivalent to circumcision
• Invocation and admittance into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• Invocation and admittance into the name of Lord Jesus Christ

The Apostle Peter wrote:

When God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. (1 Peter 3:20-22)

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 

And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” 

On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve of them in all. (Acts 19:1-7) 

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6)

The Eucharist (the bread and the wine) is considered:

• Essential for salvation
• The actual body and blood of Lord Jesus Christ
• Symbolic of the body and blood of Lord Jesus Christ
• A declaration and celebration of the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ
• A mere memorial
• An integral part of Sunday celebrations
• Attended to by the presence of Lord Jesus Christ
• A time of reflection and presentation and commitment
• A rite of no great significance performed monthly, quarterly,or yearly
• Only to be taken by church members
• Taken by all believers, even children
• Not to be admitted to children
• Only to be taken by those who consider themselves one of the elect
• Only to be taken by those who claim they are members of the 144,000

When you meet together….For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Partaking of the Supper Unworthily
Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
(1 Corinthians 11:20,23-32)

Other differences are those who only accept the Gospels as valid, those who accept the writings of the Apostle Paul, those who accept the New Testament, those who accept the Old and New Testament.
Sabbath-keepers emphasize the observance of Saturday as binding. Many others claim the Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Then there are those who assert the Bible teaches the Sabbath is a certain day called “today”.

Pentecostals see speaking in unknown tongues as evidence of the Holy Spirit. Charismatics see unknown tongues as one of the gifts. Those opposed to speaking in unknown tongues, see the practice as a manifestation of the Devil.

Roman Catholics see the Pope as the Vicar of Christ and able to appoint people in Heaven to do miracles, even though he cannot perform miracles himself. Although, he is supposed to be able to turn the bread and the wine into the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, along with all the other priests—the illusion is rather brilliant, as nobody ever sees it happen.

Churches that have statues within them have people bowing before the statues and praying to them (or who they represent, as the pagans do) rather than Lord Jesus Christ: the only mediator between man and God. Members of churches without statues pray only to Lord Jesus Christ or to the Heavenly Father directly.

End-time beliefs also vary widely and these affect people’s worldview and zeal for making converts. There are views that assert there is no 1000 year reign to come—amillennials. Those that believe in the 1000 year reign are often known as pre-millennials or post-millennials. Pre-millenials are broken up into pre-tribulationists, mid-tribulationists and post-tribulationists.

The above-mentioned, although not exhaustive, provide some indication of why their are so many differences within the world of Christendom’s denominations.

If Everybody Sought The Truth They Would Arrive At The Same Destination

ATHEISTS’ ABSURD CLAIMS REQUIRE A FAIRY OF EVOLUTION. They Have No Understanding Of What It Means To Be A Spiritual Being. They fabricate all manner of deceptions.

Do atheists realize what they have done to Quora?

Happy Riches  answers request by Manny Peters

To be honest, I am not sure what the atheists have done to Quora.

I know what atheists have done in the world, especially in Communist countries.

The total body count for the ninety years between 1917 and 2007 is approximately 148 million dead at the bloody hands of fifty-two atheists, three times more than all the human beings killed by war, civil war, and individual crime in the entire twentieth century combined. —Atheism and Mass Murder

Atheists have made absurd claims about the fairy of evolution. They have no understanding of what it means to be a spiritual being. They fabricate all manner of deceptions. They claim they are perfect beings and in no need of a Savior, even though they are born to die. Their lives are futile. Atheist’s lives are imperfect, since they are doomed to death.

Like the Texan turd blossom, a life that is not eternal is here today and gone tomorrow. Pointless, really. Yet the vain look at themselves in the mirror and admire their accomplishments. As David Rockefeller has now found out,and demonstrated to all the world, it takes more than the seven hearts of young men that he had transplanted into his own body to obtain eternal life.— [UPDATED] David Rockefeller Breaks Record for Most Heart Transplants at Age 101

Antony Flew, one time mentor of Dick Dawkins, wised up and, even excoriated his one time protege for being such a clown by writing nonsense as part of his one man crusade to convince people he is not really a fool after all. —Professor Antony Flew reviews The God Delusion

Wise people seek to find the answer to death, knowing that it has to be eternal life. Humble people acknowledge the truth. Fools do not. Instead with stiff necks they flaunt the folly of their pride, not realizing that a stiff neck makes a clean cut for a sharp blade.

The Wise Recognize That Atheism Is Pointless When Knocking At Death’s Door

CHRISTIANS DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE NOT CHRISTIAN WHILE NON-CHRISTIANS SHOW A WILLINGNESS TO BEFRIEND PEOPLE IN WAYS THAT CHRISTIANS DO NOT. At Least This Is The Claim Of One Person, Who Does Not Differentiate Between The Different Types Of Christians There Are, So As To Distinguish Between The Genuine And The False. Unfortunately, many people think that everybody born in a country that is declared a Christian nation has to be a follower of Lord Jesus Christ when, in fact, rebirth—a second birth—is required.

I’m a Christian. Why do people who are not Christian befriend me and Christians don’t?

Happy Riches answers request by Cherise McKnight

There are many reasons why people, who are not Christians, may like you. The aphorism “birds of a feather flock together” tells us much about friendships and acquaintances.

Many people who become Christians are still trying to find their way into the Kingdom of God. Being a Christian is a claim also made by many people who are not really Christians.

My frame of reference is that those who do not do the will of God are not members of the family of Lord Jesus Christ.

• And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Mark 3:34-35)

• Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 7:21)

Rather than wanting men to look your way, maybe if you focused on Lord Jesus Christ, to ensure that He is looking your way, then you will have need to worry about other men.

• Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
• Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7)

My experience is that friendly people are easy to find. Although, not everybody in a church has the same interests and finds everybody’s company as enjoyable as certain other individual’s company.

• For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit; he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. (Romans 14:17-18)

Walking in righteousness, peace and the joy of the Holy Spirit has an amazing ability of causing people to be attracted to wanting to know oneself.

The Way Of God Is Superior To The Ways Of Men, But Only The Humble Know It

FOR CHRISTIANS, COMING TO SALVATION IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, BUT IS IT SECURED ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME. Like Money In The Bank, An Assurance Is Necessary, But Money In The Bank Is Not Necessarily The Same As Money In The Pocket. In which case, merely reading that if a person believes in the Son of God, who has come in the flesh, that this assures salvation is not the same as having the personal assurance in one’s own possession.

Is it good or bad for a Christian to worry about their salvation?

Happy Riches answers request by David Creedon

It is bad if a person calls himself or herself a Christian and is worried about whether one is saved. In some respects, not a good sign at all. However, in one respect, this is a good sign because it means that the person, who is worried about possessing salvation, can actually do something about securing salvation.

• Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access[b]to this grace in which we stand, and we[c] rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5)

This text from the book of Romans tells us some important truths regarding salvation. Most of all, that if we possess salvation “God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.”

Not all gifts are received. When a gift is not received, this does not mean the gift was not offered. Those who receive gifts produce evidence of having received it. When it comes to the gift of the Holy Spirit, we are told, the evidence is God’s love is poured into our hearts.

There are many facets to salvation. Besides this, salvation is a process. It begins with the recognition that a person needs to be born again to see the Kingdom of God. Many people do not understand this. Too many people think that being born again is salvation and therefore they are automatically in the Kingdom of God. But this is not what the Bible states. In fact, Jesus said that we have to born again to see the Kingdom of God.

• Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3)

The Bible teaches that we are born into the a world of sin and spiritual darkness. When we are born again, we are able to see where the Kingdom of God happens to be. This is like being lost in a wilderness and coming to a top of a mountain and able to see a light of a far off kingdom in the distance. Therefore, being born again means that a person is now able to see where the kingdom of God exists. We could even say that being born again enables us to see that the Kingdom of God exists. Why? Abraham was born again and, because of this, he looked to the Kingdom of God, where the city exists that is built by God Himself.

• By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Faith, of course, without works is dead. Abraham obeyed the call by responding and setting out towards the place that he was promised as an inheritance. This is when Abraham was born again. At the time, Abraham was known as Abram.

• Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. (Genesis 12:1-4)

What the writer in Hebrews states about a city that is built by God is not exactly what we see when reading the text from Genesis 12:1–4. But we are told that this is really what Abraham was looking to and not just an earthly existence. Abraham was looking for something eternal in the Heavens. So, are we any different?

Abraham also had to work out his own salvation along the way.

• Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:12-13)

Abraham went through various trials and tests as he came to learn the ways of God. James, the half-brother of Jesus, states:

• Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, and the scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

Even though Abraham was born again when he responded to the word of the Lord, as recorded at the beginning of Genesis chapter twelve, it is not until later that we learn Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness—that is when he secured his salvation. James tells us quite clearly that Abraham’s faith was active . Works emanated from his faith. Abraham did not have a secret faith. He had an expressive and demonstrable faith that brought glory to God. Therefore, the Scripture was fulfilled in respect to obtaining righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.

Obviously, to be called God’s friend means that this feature of the man’s life was observed by other people and not just Abraham’s claim.

• Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

Abraham evidently did not run out of oil for his lamp; neither did he run out of wick to burn. Too many people who call themselves Christians appear to have neither wick nor oil. No wonder the name of Lord Jesus Christ is blasphemed frequently throughout the nations.

If you are like Abraham and posses the faith that he did. There should be no need to worry about anything. Heaven is a better place after all. Simply seek to know God and obey His voice through faith in Lord Jesus Christ, having been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Seeing the Kingdom Of God Is Not The Same As Being Chosen To Be A Resident

RELIGION IS VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS BEING A WAY OF LIFE OR A DEVOTION TO SOMETHING, WHICH COULD BE ANYTHING A PERSON IS FANATICAL ABOUT. How Is It Possible For A Religion To Be Hypocritical Of Itself? For something to be hypocritical the action requires an actor, but religion is not an actor but a classification of behavior.

Which is the most hypocritical religion in the world?

Happy Riches answers request by Miloš Milohanović

There is a problem with this question because religion of itself is not hypocritical and cannot be so. To be hypocritical one has to profess beliefs or claim virtues that one does not possess. A religion cannot do this because it is an inanimate construct and does not possess the capacity to make decisions or assertions.

Religion is variously described as being a way of life or a devotion to something; which could be anything a person is fanatical about—sport, hobbies, fetishes, etc.

True religion is the quest for the ideal life that incorporates three phases: the ideal, the means for attaining the ideal and the worldview that relates the quest to the surrounding environs.

Any person professing to have found the ideal life and asserts to be authentically living that ideal, when this is not the case is a hypocrite. However, this does not make the ideal hypocritical. This simply means that the person is just another huckster trying to hoodwink anyone foolish enough to accept the claims as true.

So what is the ideal life? Anything less than eternal life is not the ideal.

Now anyone who claims that they possess eternal life and cannot demonstrate that in their actions has to be a hypocrite. Essentially, this means that if a person is not willing to die now, if need be, then that person has not got eternal life. For if a person has eternal life, death would have no fear for that person, nor would it have any hold over him.

I have the assurance of eternal life within me. In numerous situations that I have found myself, I have been prepared to die, but, amazingly, events turned around in my favor, and instead of meeting my maker, I have had to wait even longer for that glorious day. Yet I know there are many people who make the same claim as I do about eternal life, but they do not have the same conviction as myself.

When it comes to a declaration of what is the most hypocritical religion, since there is only one true religion, and religion is not a person, I would have say that there is none—the proviso being that nobody is called “Religion”.

The Ten Commandments Have Every Hypocrite Already Accounted For