fishbuff;940466[/QUOTE said:Does this prove anything? There are just as many, if not more, ex-Buddhists, ex-Taoists, ex-non-believers, ex-Muslims, ex-prisoners....and many other 'exes' who become Christians.
to believe in no religion is the way.........stop being mired in daydreaming of the fictional heaven and people will wake up........
as the Buddha said '' in truth, there are no buddhas and no teachings ''..........
as for ex-buddhists that became christians or other religions........they're eating shit and pooping out rice.....
If there is nothing to teach, then shut-up. Sorry...thousand apologies.....But isnt' that's true....if you got nothing to teach people, you should shut-up.
If there is nothing to teach, then shut-up. Sorry...thousand apologies.....But isnt' that's true....if you got nothing to teach people, you should shut-up.
If you have rubbish to teach people, you should shut up.
To some people, rubbish is something very unworthy, but to some people rubbish can be great treasure. One of the wealthiest persons in China is a woman who saw trash/rubbish as treasure while others saw them as really rubbish. She imported tons and tons of rubbish - those discarded paper and cardboards from U.S. and Europe - and recycled and turned them new paper and now she owned one the biggest paper manufacturing companies in the world. So, don't underestimate the value of rubbish.
Like the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the word of God, the Bible, very few see it as great treasure while the majority of the people see it as 'rubbish'. We are warned by Jesus not to give what is holy to the dogs and not to cast pearls to the swines so as to avoid these value pearls trample under their feet. Worse, these dogs and swines may turn and tear you down (Matthew 7:6). Sound familiar? In Philippians 3:8, it also tells us that we should consider everything loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, our Lord, and we must do every thing possible so that we can gain Christ.
Even rubbish is still something - some consider it as worthless; some consider it as valuable. But when it comes to nothing, it is nothing because nothing is zero and you can add 10, 20, or 100 zeros to a zero, it is still zero.
Jesus is in the 'business' of cycling trash, repented sinners like us, that is believers - let me emphaise 'like us, repented sinners' (and not you, so don't take offence). He can turn trash and become His treasured possession. Just like unwanted trash, if no one valued them and they cannot be recycled into any other usable things, they will be destroyed and burnt in hot-furnance. The word of God, the Bible tells us that a hot furnance that God has created to burn the trash that refused to let Him cycle into His treasured possesion is called 'Hell'.
So you are saying your Jebus is a rubbish man?
To some people, rubbish is something very unworthy, but to some people rubbish can be great treasure. One of the wealthiest persons in China is a woman who saw trash/rubbish as treasure while others saw them as really rubbish. She imported tons and tons of rubbish - those discarded paper and cardboards from U.S. and Europe - and recycled and turned them new paper and now she owned one the biggest paper manufacturing companies in the world. So, don't underestimate the value of rubbish.
Like the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the word of God, the Bible, very few see it as great treasure while the majority of the people see it as 'rubbish'. We are warned by Jesus not to give what is holy to the dogs and not to cast pearls to the swines so as to avoid these value pearls trample under their feet. Worse, these dogs and swines may turn and tear you down (Matthew 7:6). Sound familiar? In Philippians 3:8, it also tells us that we should consider everything loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, our Lord, and we must do every thing possible so that we can gain Christ.
Even rubbish is still something - some consider it as worthless; some consider it as valuable. But when it comes to nothing, it is nothing because nothing is zero and you can add 10, 20, or 100 zeros to a zero, it is still zero.
Jesus is in the 'business' of cycling trash, repented sinners like us, that is believers - let me emphaise 'like us, repented sinners' (and not you, so don't take offence). He can turn trash and become His treasured possession. Just like unwanted trash, if no one valued them and they cannot be recycled into any other usable things, they will be destroyed and burnt in hot-furnance. The word of God, the Bible tells us that a hot furnance that God has created to burn the trash that refused to let Him cycle into His treasured possesion is called 'Hell'.
ah, book of john. according to biblical historians and scholars, this book was written NOT by john but by somebody else in 96AD which give it about 70 years after the death of jesus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Authorship
if you can write a true account of your great grandfather's deed that happened 70 years ago in the year 2012, do you think you have accuracy and would you "add extra ingredient" into it as well?
Perhaps Stamford Raffles did not exist since he was written about nearly 200 years ago. We must live in a sad world, for none of the thousands of historical figures, from Cao Cao to Napoleon, were very accurate.
Perhaps Stamford Raffles did not exist since he was written about nearly 200 years ago. We must live in a sad world, for none of the thousands of historical figures, from Cao Cao to Napoleon, were very accurate.
If there is nothing to teach, then shut-up. Sorry...thousand apologies.....But isnt' that's true....if you got nothing to teach people, you should shut-up.
Perhaps Stamford Raffles did not exist since he was written about nearly 200 years ago. We must live in a sad world, for none of the thousands of historical figures, from Cao Cao to Napoleon, were very accurate.
there is a difference between history and religions. Religions state that the bible is fact and inspired by god and is infallible and cannot be doubt. But if you look at the bible from the historical view, it fell into changes, modifications, alterations, deletions addition throughout the history. forget about those stories about scribes will copy word for word without any mistakes, less a stroke will not be missed until end of times etc...
Dont take my word for this. Please view Bart Ehrman's Misquoting jesus and ...
[video=youtube;Y3N4ymHO-eA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3N4ymHO-eA&feature=related[/video]
Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, bible research scholar from University of Exeter had stated that historically, the bible is not accurate at all...
[video=youtube;rfDJbi5gfC0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfDJbi5gfC0&feature=related[/video]
Does this prove anything? There are just as many, if not more, ex-Buddhists, ex-Taoists, ex-non-believers, ex-Muslims, ex-prisoners....and many other 'exes' who become Christians.
He is saying that some people consider the Bible rubbish but some consider this 'rubbish' as a source of great treasures.
He is not actually saying Jesus is rubbish.