Sunday, April 18, 2010

Some quotes from Christianity

This quote is the best one I was able to find in the Bible about immortal life, which some Christians I have heard are fuzzy on:

as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth
David, 1Sam.20:3

especially combined with:

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
Jesus, John 3:6

and:

For whoever would save his life[1] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the Gospel's will save it.
[1 The same Greek word can mean either soul or life, depending on the context.]
Jesus, Mark 8:35



About His coming again these ones are helpful:

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Jesus, Revelation 3:3

Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!
Jesus, Revelation 16:15



Also, regarding false prophets, Christ said:

[…] See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
(Jesus, Matthew 24:4-5)

But He did not say that EVERYONE who comes in His name will lead people astray. He also said regarding them:

By their fruits will ye know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Matthew 7:16-18



And regarding the prophecied fall of unjust governments (a compilation by William Sears):

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
David, Psalms 76:12

He shall break in pieces mighty men without number […]
Job 34:24

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Isaiah 14:5

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones
that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.'
Isaiah 24:21

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit [upon His throne]
[…]
Daniel 7:9

This is the Son of man whom thou hast seen shall [...] break the teeth of the sinners, and
he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms [...]
Enoch 46:4-5

And in those days the angels will assemble, and turn their heads toward the east, towards the people of Parthia and Medea [Persia], in order to excite the kings, and that a spirit of disturbance came over them, and disturbed them from off their thrones.
Enoch 56:5

And that didn't happen during the days of Christ



Regarding the eventual establishment of a single world government, Isaiah alluded:

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and of peace
there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and for evermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Isaiah 9:6-7

And a little more vaguely:

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,*
the Spirit of counsel and might,*
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.*
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples―of him shall the
nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isaiah 11:1-10



And the account of creation in Genesis exactly matches the order of events that science has shown that the world formed in, with the exception of stars being mentioned after plants, which might be because the earth was covered with thicker clouds earlier in its history like Venus now is. The only thing that does not match is the 'six days'.

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