Faiths Edge

Relativity Of Sins Pt1

bandieras — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:29:14 +0000

Ok this is probably going to be one of those ones that you can dissagree with or what not, but like i said as long as i get you thinking then my goal is achived. So what who and what consitues for commit sins? Seams like a simple question, but from my expeince the simple point of condemnation has been given so many rules and loopholes that it has become something that we feel we can actually step back from. So this is how i have come to understand it over the years.

on the Cross the bible Says that Jesus Died For our Sin, and as i understand it in the translations and even in english the word is the Singular Refference for the word SIN. So Jesus forgave our singular Sin on the cross. Ok so your gonna have to try and stay with me and hear this out, cause it took me a bit to get my head to default from what i had been taught to even really sonsider this. Here’s the Deal, Adam and Eve were given a choice of free will, so Thier choice was God Vs Personal Gain (in that instance the knowledge of Good and Evil) so to make it even more basic, God Vs Self. And as we Know they Both Choose Self. There is the Defiition of Sin, choosing Self. And as mush as ai hate cheesy Acronyms, its a good one to remeber SIN = Selfish In Nature.

Now Adam and Eve were able Sin as they had the choice of a Godly Mindset Vs a Selfish one. And the Condemnation from thier choice was that all thier offspring must accept the sins of thier forbearers (as it is in all things, we live in the resultant world of decisions made form those before us Good AND Bad). So From the moment we exisist we are Guilty of that Sin way back from Adam and Eve. OK theres a nice little Challange that some of you may need to deal with. Most people are willing to Accept thier parents Cash inhertance but not thier depts. But the truth is that the moment we exsisit we exisit in in this world, we become apart of it. You dont get to create a new world everytime a new life comes into being. We accept the Condemnation of Adam And Eve Just as we must accept the Form that was made in the likness of Christos.

Ill end This Part here, This will take a couple of Posts to Get though and i imagine there is some wrestling there to be dome by some readers already.

God Bless,

-BEN-

The Exclusivity of Truth

bandieras — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:36:54 +0000

If you came to me and ask me the question “Do you own a dog?” and i gave you the answer “No, i have no dog nor any pets of any kind” in reply, and then as your walking away you hear another person ask me the same question. “Do you own a Dog?” and i answered by saying “Oh yes, I have 2 dogs. I also have fish, an aviary filled with birds and a Hamster.” What would you think? The thought running through your head would be along the lines of ’he lied to me, or me magically adopted all those pets between the two questions’. This would be an extremely reasonable response because only one of these answers can obviously true.

You see Truth follows the laws of non-contradiction, which simply means that for something to be true then it cannot be contradicted. Truth in its essence is Exclusive to itself. And if you wish to prove me wrong just open your mouth, and you will be defeated in your own argument. So you have to realise then when Jesus said ”I am the way the truth and the light, No-one comes to the father except through me” and Proclaimed Exclusivity to salvation that he was making the most reasonable statement.

Country to popular belief, every System on Faith in the world at one point at another claims to be the truth, which by that alone claims to be Exclusive. Even if you believe that “All faiths are correct’” then your claiming exclusivity over people who believe that statement to be incorrect. This is why if you open your mouth to argue this point, you are opening your mouth to prove that my truth is wrong and that you exclusively are correct in your truth.

It would make for a much stronger argument for someone to claim that there is No religion or Faith than for someone to claim that they are all correct. At least then you are taking a direct non-contradictory stand point rather than one that in its very essence is a contradiction and therefore it cannot be truth.

Jesus Also Claimed “I am truth, and those on the side of truth side with me”. So I stand on the side of truth, and will claim that Jesus, son the God of Issac and Abraham is the Singular path to Salvation.

The Times

bandieras — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:51:50 +0000

This is but a quick note. more of a promise to myself than anything seeing as no one reads this atm, but i will be bloggin back on herevery soon. we had a new addition to the family, a little baby boy Noah. So things have been a little insane latley. But life is slowly starting to fall back into a routine and ive picked up a little laptop for myself so i can get things done on the go.

So ill see you soon, ive have some awesome thoughts about Genisis and 6y day creations lately as well as topics of worship and the signs of the times we live in. So keep tuned.

Shattered Fragments

bandieras — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:46:02 +0000

Just wanted to give a quick post, Got an interesting comment from a fellow blogger on my last post. Feel free to have a look. I did have a quick look at his blog, and I do apologise that i haven’t taken a whole heap of time to find your stand point (which i would love to hear), but saying that I’m not here to down on what anyone believes so this isn’t really a response as much as something there spiked a little thought in my head which I thought I would share.

This thought brought on my the idea that we are all God. Now There are all different types of variations of this, which im sure as usual, is people taking the parts they like to create a comfy little belief system to exist in. One variation is we are all direct Sons of God in the same way that Jesus is, some would say we actually are God broken into small little fragments for whatever purpose.

Strangely one of the best embodiments of this concept I’ve seen this viewed in the Sci-Fi Series Babylon 5. One of the faiths displayed in this series is this Idea that the universe was unable to understand itself and what it is, so it became a shattered fragments so that it would find its purpose. These Shattered Fragments being the you and me and every being in the universe.

Its all this idea that humans as we appear are lowly and not very important. I’m sure we’ve all felt that way at some point, which is why things like Scientology and New Age are so popular because you get to become something cool, something more that what you appear some powerful god or goddess or alien or even if you like God himself. The truth is we as human being, the race of ‘Men’ (apologies, I’m not being sexist, its just the term we are referenced as) are incredibly amazing beings as we are created. The Bible says we are made in Gods Image, the Direct Translation of this from the Hebrew word actually translates into “only a small amount of God missing”. As to what is missing i leave that for you to decide, but imagine its along the lines omnipresence and the whole all-powerful bit. Evolution does a great job to create the belief that we are nothing but accidents created from whatever was laying around, but know that we were each created as God-like creatures and the reason for this is simple. Only a being made like God By God could truly being in Fellowship with Him.

-Ben-

Also if you get a chance head over to annaasks.wordpress.com My wife’s Blog which also explores the harder questions about Faith. She has Started a set on Gods Triune being, the Trinity. God is actually of 3 parts yet 1.

The Edge of Faith and Reason

bandieras — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:35:44 +0000

“Just have Faith“. Have you ever been slapped with that conversation stopper? I know I have, I’m sure I’ve used it myself in my younger days of being a Christian. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t believe the comment to be fundamentally wrong, actually i believe it to be completely correct, What I’ve come to have an gripe with is the use of the word Faith. So where is the line? Where is the Edge where Reason ends and Faiths begins.

That’s what I’ll be blogging about. Hitting up the hard questions and trying to find some answers. Now I promise I’ll do my research, But you should never take anyones opinions as fact. I’m sure ill write things that rattle the cages a little but i also hope that it will inspire some to do their own research to Find Faiths Edge.

Sometimes this will just be ideas, interesting things I’ve read, something i saw, If it gets your mind ticking then ill write it down. I’m no longer going to be satisfied being a Christian who sits in the corner with my hands over my ears, We cant just explain everything away as ‘faith’ and not have answers that require more than just sitting in church and singing to songs. And Jesus said ‘Everyone on the side of truth listens to me”. This is a search for some truth. Ill be happy to hear comments from enyone about anything i write down, ill do my best to write back where i can.

I’ll Start writing here soon.