What did Jesus Say???
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I guess it depends on what you mean by telling it openly.  When I first got here, I was a little baffled by the backlash of people wanting to know who Christians were to condemn them to hell and why did we say we would pray for them.  I gave what I thought were good explanations of these ideas.  How Christians don't want anyone to go to hell and since we believe it is a real place, we are obligated to help as many people avoid it as we can.  We pray because we are commanded to.  It's an act of love to pray for others.  \n\nI just didn't understand what the problem was.\n\nUntil I was answering a question and noticed that someone -purportedly a Christian, offended by the question -answered "Go to hell."  And further down the line another said, "You're going to hell.  I'll pray for you."\n\nSuddenly, I got what all the fuss was about.  \n\nLater, I answered a question by a teen who said he was ready to tell all atheists to go to hell.  This was my reply to him:\n\nI think we get really frustrated at the point where we are trying to make something happen that is not in our ability to accomplish.\n\nFor the record, I don't think we have any business condemning or wishing anyone to hell. I believe that hell is a real place and that people are going there, but I'm not happy about that.\n\nUnfortunately, you and I cannot make anyone do what we believe they should do. Our job is not to make them. Our job is to be the best example we can be. Even when others are hateful to us and to God.\n\nIf you look at how Jesus handled people, the ones He was hardest on were the Pharisees. Why? Because they were the ones who should have known God's word and should have known who He was. Instead they were concerned with trying to make other people follow laws that they themselves were not willing to follow. We should be really careful not to ever repeat their example!\n\nJesus didn't push people to make a decision. He never told anyone they were going to hell. It wasn't like high pressure sales. There is nothing more precious than a human soul. We should absolutely care about the salvation of others. But we have to respect that their salvation is ultimately between them and God. It isn't about us. And if we make it about us, we're going to run the risk of alienating them and run the risk of endangering our souls. \n\nIf trying to persuade others gets us so angry that we say and do things that are unlike Christ, or we allow their derision to discourage us, we could be at risk ourselves.\n\nPray for them (but you don't have to tell them that you are, since most of them seem to take that as criticism), honestly care for them, be the best example to them that you can be. Answer questions when they ask. \n\nJust lose the pressure and you'll feel so much less pressured yourself. God wants salvation for everyone. He'll help you accomplish His will. You don't have to impose your will on others. It's frustrating for you and for them. And that's not what salvation is all about.\n\nIt is a precious gift, to be given to and received by those who are capable of seeing it's value. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the end, it is our living out Christ's example that will turn people from hell, not trying to scare them into repentance.   While we cannot be afraid to speak the truth in love, we need to prepare ourselves to live and to give a good defense for Christ, but not be offensive on His behalf.  We must trust the power of His Will and His Word more than we trust ourselves.  \n\nIf we try to force people into a decision, we may turn away an honest soul who has been controlled and manipulated all his/her life.  Jesus never did that.  In some cases we have to be willing to let the wheat and the tares grow up together.   In the end, we are all in His Hands.
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The Religious leaders asked Jesus, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"\n\nMark 14:62.  And Jesus said, "I AM; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." \n\nThen they tore their clothes and yelled, "Blasphemy!". \n\nJesus said He was coming.  I believe Him.
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Jesus DID say "whatever you ask for in my name, you will be given" and nowhere in the Bible did anyone ever speak (pray) to someone who was dead, Saint or otherwise. Jesus is not dead so we are as free to speak to Him as when He walked the earth... Mary and the Apostles all died, none rose from the dead so we cannot speak to them. Prayer is a form of worship and is restricted to God/Jesus
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Just so you know where I stand. I asked a question of whether or not all the Bible should be taken literally or not. The best answer chosen was a good one.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ales.wK5IftnZfqP3dD5hbHsy6IX?qid=1006012504879\n\nWhen Jesus said regarding the bread and the wine, "this is my body and this is my blood of the New Covenant", He was not speaking literally. When the Bible says that the blood of Jesus washes away sin, we do not go off to mount Calvary and look for spots of blood to wash our sins away. Jesus said, "I am the door, whoever enters by any other way is a theif." The disciples did not turn to Jesus and see a large board with hinges and a knob. Jesus was saying there is a single way to heaven, and He is the Way.\nQuite a bit of the Bible is spoken in allegorical and metaphoic language. Jesus said that He was the Light of the world, the Good Shepherd, Living Water, the Bread of Life, and more. He came as the Lamb of God. He will return as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. All of which is true, but all spoken in a metaphoric language.\n\nWrath, I have not run in to any Christians who believe the Bible is 100% literal. However, there are many areas of the Bible that ARE literal and many are trying to change the statement because it is not politically correct, or they have an agenda or they find it personally offensive.\n\nCase in point:\nRobert Anderson worked for Scotland Yard during the Victorian era. He was the main investigator for finding Jack the Ripper. He took the prophecy in Daniel and was able to calculate the coming of the Messiah to the DAY. This is in the his book "The Coming Prince". He started this project based on taking the prophecy as being literal. He was rewarded for this effort with knighthood from Queen Victoria and became Sir Robert Anderson. However, in this same book, he notes the prophecies about Israel being gathered together and becoming a nation once more. Seeing how this has never happened in history, he dismissed the literal meaning as pure fantasy. In May 14th 1948, this brilliant man was proven wrong. The idea that the Jews would return to the land and make it Israel was so preposterous that this brilliant man equated it to being metaphorical--the literal interpretation was too hard to believe. So we could easily make a mistake by either way.\n__________________________\n\nBTW-This topic reminds me of a very good movie called "Lady Jane". One of the main focuses was the rise of the Protestant movement against the Roman Catholic church--especially in regard to transubstantiation. The Roman Catholics took the sacraments as being literally the body and blood of Christ, while the Protestants kept arguing that it was metaphorical. Check it out sometime!
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He did not. It's so sad. I wish he had then we would not have to listen to this "You will go to hell unbeliever" talk. Jesus Christ taught about love not about reminding people that they are going to hell if they don't convert to "Christianity". I like what Mahatma Gandhi said "I like your Christ but I do not like your christians. You christians are so unlike your christ."
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The answer by Spider is not correct. Jesus was resurrected and we, his followers will be resurrected when he returns at the end of time.\nMaranatha!
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Did Jesus speak English?
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"He who has ears, let him hear."\n\nOnce, I asked Jesus to come and live in me, like he said him and his father would if asked.\n\nYears later, I was at a tough place in my life. \n\nI was alone and I was scared and frustrated and angry.\n\nI cried out "God, you said you would come and live in me, so where are you?! I cant see you, I can't hear you, talk to me please, show me your self, why won't you communicate with me?!!"\n\nThen i heard it...clearly in my mind.\n\n"I am with you right now, I have always been with you. I haven't left you. Its going to be ok..." and He was speaking with my own voice!\n\nInstantly I realized that He was always with me, BUT my recognition of Him, my ability to hear Him was clouded and blocked off because I was still under the impression that I was seperate from Him.  \n\nBut of course, God's gift of Jesus and each person's own sincere acceptence on faith is/was the seed that fianally grew into a real relationship.\n\nFinally it was as clear as day. His voice was my own voice in my head. He had come to live in me and was always speaking with me. The scriptures "I and my father are one" and "nothing can seperate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus" came to be an understandable reality for me.\n\nHearing is about wanting to hear and then listening. \n\n"Faith is the assurence of things hoped for and the substance of things unseen."\n\nNow, I hear and see God in more and more interesting and new ways. The whole thing really panned out and i gotta say- it was all worth believing in.
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birth and speech as a newborn:\n\n'Behold!' the Angel said, 'God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and shall be of the righteous.'\n\nShe said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: 'Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, "Be!" and it is.' (Quran, 3:42-7)\n\n\nmiracles during lifetime of Jesus (pbuh):\n\n"I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers and I raise the dead by God's leave." (Qur'an, 3:49)\n\nsome other miracles also mentioned (feeding the many etc.), you'll have to find yourself! most, if not all, Prophets were granted miracles of varying numbers and degrees. since there are many Prophets mentioned it'll take quite a bit of time to answer that part.
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JESUS RESURRECTED TODAY! =)\nTHANK YOU JESUS FOR SAVING ME!
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Philip one of the disciples ask  Jesus to show them the Father. And Jesus answered him: 'have I been w/ you for just a short time, how come you are asking me to show you the father? Those who have seen me has seen the Father. If you don't believe me, then believe in the WORKS that I did'.\n\nIn short Jesus was telling the disciples that he did what his Father would have done if He came to earth. Just like a son, doing the works of a father--we say: 'like father, like son'.
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Probably something along the lines of, "Thank You, Jesus, for sacrificing Yourself so that I could be saved!"
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Jesus was telling his people that he was teaching the true spiritual way to God.\nAnd also saying that the religion had been corrupt, listen to what he teaches and follow his example in life.\nNot to think he was a GOD!! That would be a sin.\nNot sure if anyone remembers but he was on a quest to go back and follow the old ways.\nHe was trying to teach people the old ways, and you all screwed it up!
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Once Lonely; depressed doing my Community service in a Salvation Army hall, I spotted a Beautiful Portrait of Jesus, just His Profile. I stared at it for what seemed a long time and asked myself if Jesus was here with me and If He was than I could let go of these feelings of depression.\nI heard a voice: A soft voice say:\n" My Child, I Know Your Needs and I Will Care For You."\nFrom that day on, I never prayed for Riches,Love,or even Help to turn my Life around.Rather I prayed for Wisdom and Strength because my faith became so strong I knew God would carry me when I thought I could not go on..\nand He has " Always." \nSo try it -You Pray too, he knows what's Best for you even if it's Not what you want and I will pray for you too.\nGod is a Loving God..\nGoodluck and God Bless.
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its all metaphors. Jesus used metaphors so dont look for literal meanings
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no, Jesus said "the poor you will always have with you".\n\nIt would appear that Jesus the most generous loving person on earth was rather pragmatic too.\n\n***\nof course there will be a "new heaven and a new earth", - there everything will be restored to righteousness.
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I LOVE THIS QUESTION!\n\nIn a word...''Ashley''\n\nThis is a true thing that happened.....\nIn mid afternoon Ashely was going thru peoples garbage bins for food.\n\nI took him home, gave him a shower..feed him, went to salvation army and clothed him...He was not mentally 100%...sad but true.He wanted to be on his way, so I took him to a few places to help..Gave him money...To this day, he is like a long lost son to me.I don't know where he is?..I wish I did...I cry for him ..sometimes...as I am now...Just writing this....GOD Bless you Ashley, I hope you are well sweetheart!\nThat day.....JESUS was near...for anyone who does these things for one of mine...does it for me...\nI am a Christian, but I know what you are saying...