Christians, I don't know what to believe anymore?
I was always taught to not drink any alcohol as it is wrong and against got. but all my 19 years of living I found out that it's drunkenness that's the sin. not the alchohol. my preacher and parents always told me that when jesus turned the water to wine that the wine was grape juice because that's what we use in our church. i'm really upset and actually crying because everything I was taught is a lie. I don't know if I want to worship someone who actually promotes drinking alcohol. so I can drink wine and still go to heaven. how is god so holy if he drinks alcohol?
THE BATTLE AXE: Was Jesus Literate? (10/04/2013)—Despite having attended holy convocations that were commanded for all first-born, heirs and heads of households three times in each year from the time he was twelve, Jesus was a stranger to the Temple community (often called, “the Jews” in the New Testament). Most of them there at Jerusalem had grown up together in various parochial, preparatory and private schools (so to speak); and regarded Jesus as a bumpkin, a country boy, and an outsider. Many traced their ancestry back to anointed royalty, the high priests, and families of the Levites; while Jesus presented himself as in the tradition of the ancient prophets, heralded by the Prophet John the Baptist, a son of the Temple priesthood. Claiming to be holier than others (and therefore deserving greater authority), in their covetousness, presumption and pride the Jews thought to challenge the sacred heritage of Jesus (see John 7: 1-53 and John 8: 31-59, KJV). Just like everyone who can recite the alphabet may not be able to read and write (particularly those in 1st and 2nd grade at school), everyone who can read and write are not literate. Also, everyone who is literate is not a scholar, and does not use the academic tools of analysis and synthesis we associate with science. It remains, however, that most mature readers rely heavily upon their intellectual skills identified as “critical thinking.” Among Christian believers, critical thinking is replaced by “discernment”, the use of spiritual things to recognize other spiritual things. This is made possible through the divine ministry of Jesus, whereby believers receive an added endowment of the same spirit content from Divine Person that resided in the Savior. Included are such inseparable sacred substance as faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, love, righteousness, truthfulness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. In baptism, there is death and rebirth of ones inner spirit; and believers become new creatures through the deposit of divine DNA, so to speak. Once born again, believers must continue to meet the challenges of having social contact with others, and living upon the earth in flesh. Even so, all born again believers must grow, learn, and mature again with knowledge that is provided through the holy writings, fellowship in a community of believers, and discipline through practices such as giving, meditation, prayer, unselfish service, and worship. See Psalms 119: 97-104, Isaiah 50: 4-5 and John 6: 44-46, King James Version.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. (1st John 3: 18-24, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Come As You Are (06/19/2013); Freewill is Finite (06/20/2013); On Seeing Jesus Serve the Poor (12/03/2012); Hero or Zero? (12/04/2012); Henceforth of this Fruit (11/21/2012); Unexceptional Beginnings (11/22/2012); Believing Everything? (11/23/2012)
“Jenifer”, it is unreasonable for anyone to ever say “everything I was taught is a lie.” The truth from GOD is simple, yet profound (i.e., divine truth is cosmic, and pertains to things that are unknown and unseen without the operations of GOD in ones experience). Young people often make the mistake of assuming they should leave the community of believers, defy their parents, and condemn Almighty GOD, when they cannot easily and properly recognize the things of divinity. Many leave the church before they have an adult knowledge for the things of GOD that are needed to meet the adult problems that will come against them. More than this, many leave before they receive a full endowment of the imparted, indwelling Spirit from GOD (we say, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Prophecy).
Changes must occur within ones awareness and inner make-up that are accomplished and made permanent only through the Holy Spirit. Another way this is said, you must be born again from divine DNA. The divine nature, aspects of the inseparable make-up of GOD, must be made alive within otherwise ordinary created beings and living creatures. Included as sacred substance from Almighty GOD are faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, humility, joy, longsuffering, love, sobriety, truthfulness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. The focus for understanding must shift away from bodily appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings), sense and sensations of the body (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), and the emotional/mental functions (e.g., desire, fantasy, fear, forgetting, imagination, recall) that dominate life experience.
There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually understood. (For example, Sin is immaterial; and is not a thing that has physical form, dimension, intellect, or spirit content. Nonetheless, sin has direction, effect and presence, and sin may dominate awareness and self-will in created beings and living creatures. Without the many divine tools provided from GOD, sin cannot be detected, eliminated, or resisted (because it appears to be an acceptable aspect of oneself, and is not alien, foreign, strange or unnatural). Included are commandments, examples in the lives of other believers, holy writings, incarnation, parental authority, promises, prophecy, the cross, and the Holy Spirit.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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