The Jesus Thread

[boyptc]

Is it possible to believe in God and not go to church? Isn't that too rude?

It's possible and many think that it's okay to do that. But increasing your faith is another thing and attending church is gonna play a role for it.

The point is that there is less strength of faith without the connection that the churches bring.

And this is true, the strength comes with gathering and praising in the church together.

As what Hebrews 10:25 says:

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

[VanKushFamily.com]

Is it possible to believe in God and not go to church? Isn't that too rude?

Believing in God, and in Jesus for salvation, is not only possible without formal church, but it is the way it happens a lot.

The point is that there is less strength of faith without the connection that the churches bring.

Church is a Place Built to Wait, it is also a way to Connect to God, as like in this Video.
https://vimeo.com/916370481

But the Church is kind of the Catholic Holy See and the Basilica, but Protestant Churches are even more just Places of waiting, but also have Developed Structure.

But You do not have to go to Church to believe in God.

[Obulis]

Is it possible to believe in God and not go to church? Isn't that too rude?

It's possible and many think that it's okay to do that. But increasing your faith is another thing and attending church is gonna play a role for it.

The existence of a Supreme (over all seen and unseen) is not the issue here..
On this, the belief on christ and his finished work can happen outside gathering in a building (church)

The church is meant to aid in the Increasing of the knowledge of God and human socialization also.... However, at times you'll find this gathering {in a building} to be lacking behind in its primary assignment which increasing and reminding of the knowledge of Christ
 When this be the case, one can avoid such helpless gathering...continue to believe and on with seeking of the knowledge of Christ in God (God in Christ)

[Obulis]

At op being emphatical, the facts you pointed here are so much that it takes more than ordinary mind to read and still try to follow up... If I may ask what books have you read, to point all these hard to believe things.....

[BADecker]

Jesus is personal for everybody. And He is merciful for all. But be sincere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsrfaaTxSYg

[jyakulis]

I always like these TheArchangelclk videos. The old angelology of books like Enoch are music to my ears. Puts me in pure bliss meditating on it.

https://youtu.be/OTsa-edmlM4?si=L08421BbMHwYmHjS

Love this part:
1 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: 'For whom are these chains being prepared?'5. And he said unto me: 'These are being prepared for the hosts of Azâzêl, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded.6. And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.

3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

[vleroybrown]

He lives, he rose from the dead. A gift of resurrection he freely gives to all! Learn his works, strive to be as he is. Things can be quickly well with you as you do. Recieving his glory will happen as you are willing. He wants us all to return to the paradisical glory of the kingdom of his father.

[BADecker]

Jesus is dynamic. He has been given authority for the whole universe by His Father. He juggles Father Power to fit all people in the best way. If we are not strong enough, we die. But Jesus will bring us with Him when He returns in the judgment, and give us a new body that can never die.

The trick is believing this. But, what else is there to believe? Nothing else has any power.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.

[VanKushFamily.com]

Cicero had said that he could attest to the Smallness of God, because of the small amount of Territory left to his People.

The Jewish People had a History with Egypt and its Neighbors.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2023&version=NIV

The Prophets talk about Things that Happened. And they had been involved with the Chaldeans and the Assyrians. In Egypt. Then Hezekiah is attacked by Sennacherib and the King of Kush comes out to challenge him, and 180,000 Soldiers are Killed, then Sennacherib. This is all Years after Egypt. And Genesis Ends with Joseph being Vizier in Egypt. Then after that, the Prophets are Talking about what Happened after Joseph.

[Dimitarus]

Hail Jesus! Man suggests, but the Lord disposes.

[BADecker]

Cicero had said that he could attest to the Smallness of God, because of the small amount of Territory left to his People.

God doesn't have to show Himself, because He made everything good, and Jesus supported it all so that it stayed that way. Can God help it if we are unwilling to see?

The smallness of God exists in the fact that electrons, tiny as they are, are still not the smallest particle-waves that we know of. If God were not small, He wouldn't be able to support small things in the perfection of physics.

The Jewish People had a History with Egypt and its Neighbors.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2023&version=NIV

At the time of the splitting up of nations at the confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel, the ancestors of Egypt were one with the ancestors of Ancient Israel and the Jews. God chose the nation of Ancient Israel to be the nation from which Jesus would come. Why them? Because they were a line of extremely stubborn people... stubborn in favor of God, but often stubborn against God.

What we forget is that Jesus was part of Ancient Israel. He was the most stubborn of all of them, but stubborn in righteousness. Jesus was so stubborn that He wouldn't stay dead when they killed Him. And He is still alive today.

The Prophets talk about Things that Happened. And they had been involved with the Chaldeans and the Assyrians. In Egypt. Then Hezekiah is attacked by Sennacherib and the King of Kush comes out to challenge him, and 180,000 Soldiers are Killed, then Sennacherib. This is all Years after Egypt. And Genesis Ends with Joseph being Vizier in Egypt. Then after that, the Prophets are Talking about what Happened after Joseph.

And here we are today. Did the prophets talk about us?

The whole thing is about what God is doing and has been doing for all of us. This life goes away in, say, 100 years, for all of us. It is simply a preparation for a wonderful life in the Hereafter, for those who are on God's side. The joy of the Lord is your strength, so that you can be stubborn enough to rise from the dead like Jesus.