Proverbs 26:12 (NASB)
12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Am I trying to insult you? To which do you consider yourself to be, the one who is wise in his own eyes and can not be taught or the fool who knows no better?

By what you say it sounds as if you want to take religion out of religion but call yourself a Christian. Do you not know that Christianity is just one of the three major religions of the world with Christianity at the top with over 2.1 billion followers and here you are wanting to change how we are to worship God, reduce Jesus to a mere man and set the Holy Spirit aside as just a messenger? Not to mention doing away with the Bible. Do you really think that you can change the mind of God?

However, you are correct that you can not be insulted. A man wise in his own eyes is to puffed up with himself to care and a fool wouldn't know the difference.

I understand what you are saying and I agree with you whole heartedly but when lies are being said, the truth must follow. Someone else might just read his post and be swayed in his error.

Proverbs 26:12 (NASB)
12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Since when does a 'STONE' need salvation? The Holy Spirit is of God and is God just as Jesus is God. To dishonor the Holy Spirit is to dishonor God and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit which is the Spirit of God so named because God is holy, such blasphemy will not be forgiven. Do you not know that your body is the temple of God which dwells the Holy Spirit of God?

The Bible does teach that God is everywhere (Omnipresence) but it does not say that God is IN everything. God is not in a stone, a tree nor a bee. God is outside of His creation. He can not and is not a part of His creation. To say that God is a part of His creation is to say that God created Himself. Not true.

Trying doing some research instead of depending on your own faulty knowledge of matters that you apparently know nothing about. Study your Bible if you have one and seek the knowledge of the Holy Spirit in your quest to know the Godhead. You just might find Jesus along the way.

The Bible says that whoever believes on Jesus will not be disappointed. You can not work for salvation - grace comes by believing in the one who died on the cross, who imputes His righteousness upon you - having died, was buried and resurrected so that we may be the redeemed of God and have eternal life with Jesus. And that alone is all it takes to be saved.

Who is the Holy Spirit? http://www.gci.org/God/deityHS

I could go with the New King James Version... Thanks. I will have to look into it, maybe from Lifeway Online Book Store.

In the year 2108 I will be 160 years old but if I am still around by then I will give it a try. Maybe next year in 2018 I can do it. Are there any "One Year Bible" other than the NIV? I like the NASB myself.

Time to put you on the ignore list...

Jesus was God who came to us in the flesh to redeem us from sin and death. He was not a big nobody, nor just a street preacher - He was the Son of God, a Prophet, a King and a Priest, the long expected Messiah of Israel who took the sins of the world upon Himself to die in our place as a sacrifice once for all. He died without sin having fulfilled the Law so that by His resurrection we can with Him have eternal life. God loved us so much that even while we were still sinners, God gave His Son to redeem us so that we can be with Him, freed from sin, alive in Him. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Devil believed Jesus and trembled. There is a difference in believing about someone and believing on someone. You believe on the Name of Jesus Christ because in Him you know there is salvation.

Tell me something... how do you present the Gospel to someone without quoting the Bible? Not that you must have a bible in your hand but by word of mouth... how do you tell someone about Jesus to bring that person to a knowledge about salvation in and through Jesus without reference to the Bible? Every thing you know about Jesus is from the Bible so, how do you do that?

Thanks from all that straw that you used to try an dispute me but you do not know me. I study the Bible to know God and to teach others about the scriptures so that they can be better disciples for Christ. If you don't study the scriptures then you are like a blind man trying to lead the blind. You don't study the Bible as a source of inspiration but to know the will of God.

You say that we should not argue the Bible but here you are, arguing over the Bible, going postal on me by saying that I am afraid and I hide behind the Bible. So tell me... do you know the Bible? Can you quote verses and have an understanding of what those verses mean? Do you live your life by the very word of God. Do you, as the Bible tells us to do, study to show yourself approved?

Do you know that the New Testament is based on the Old Testament and that the apostles quoted the Old Testament extensively, as did Jesus? It is you who should not be afraid to quote the Bible. Meditate upon the scripture so that you can walk the Christian life and be Christ like before others. Join a Bible study group so that you can grow in the Word of God.

God Bless,

Jesus quoted the Bible, the Old Testament very often. He not only quoted the Old Testament but also lived it and fulfilled all that was said about Him. All of Jesus Sermons came from the Old Testament. You also should study the Bible. How else can you go and make disciples if you don't. How else can you lead others to Christ Jesus if you don't know the Bible? You have the wrong idea of what a Christian is or should be.

Study your Bible and learn to quote those verses. Tell others about Jesus, how He died on the Cross for our sins so that we can have eternal life with Him.

People don't believe Jesus... we believe ON Jesus...

It seems that you want to separate the Bible and the cross from Christianity... you can not do that. The Bible is the foundation to our faith in Christ. Without the Word of God we would not know God nor His plan of Salvation. Without the Cross, there would be no Christianity. What makes a true Christian? The Word of God and the Cross. What kind of Christian would we be without either?

It is not works that makes one a Christian. It is not your own righteousness that saves you. You don't want to hear Bible verses quoted or have anything to do with the Cross... so, what kind of Christian are you?

As I had said before... there are plenty of atheist who work harder and do just as much good for mankind as does a Christian. In fact, you would not know the difference unless you had ask, "Are you a Christian?" and most likely the come back would be a "Hell no! I am not one of those Christian nut cases!" It is not what you do outwardly that makes one a Christian but who you are inwardly, a believer from the heart.

Without the Word of God you can not be saved... without the cross you can not be saved.

Romans 10:9-10 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For if Christ not be raised from the dead then our faith is in vain.

I teach an adult Bible class on Sunday mornings (a.k.a. Sunday School Class). My goal is to make disciples out of believers. A Christian does not/can not live his life apart from God and the teachings of the bible so your question makes no sense. We live our faith in God. How we live our lives in the community is no different then that of an atheist except that we are saved by our faith in God through Jesus Christ.

"What type of Christian are you?" there is but one kind of Christian - saved by the grace of God.

What exactly are you asking?

You had ask for someone's basic belief... what is it that you truly want to know?

There is no such thing as a "prefect Christian". We are all sinners saved by grace. An atheist can live a life just as righteous as any Christian but still be 'lost' in his sin. We can only be saved by the grace of God by believing that He gave His Son, Jesus Christ as our substitute on the cross. A better question would be, what does it mean to believe to be saved as a Christian? To desire to live ones life according to the will of God... to love God with all your heart, soul and might.... to love your neighbor as you would love yourself. A Christian does not live by his own righteousness but by the imputed righteousness of Jesus,, but this does not give us a licenses to sin.

Each believers life experience is different from each other. Some face hardships easy while others find life as a Christian hard. We all must face our problems in life with faith in God, as we all face problems that are common to man. It is the hardships in life that makes us grow in our faith in God, some to the point of death knowing that our reward awaits us.

So, we are not to judge 'who is a Christian but ask ourselves, am I truly a Christian or am I just fooling myself? This is the question you must answer for yourself. A true Christian will know what makes a Christian.

Beginning with verse 4 through verse 41, Paul and Barnabas has gone into a synagogue and was ask to speak to the congregation, to both Jewish and gentile proselytes. Paul shared the gospel beginning with the Israelites being taken from Egypt to Jesus being crucified on the cross, proving from scripture that Jesus was the Messiah and that God had raised Him from the dead.

A key verse; Acts 13:38-39 (ESV)
38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
39 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Another Key Verse; Acts 13:42-43 (ESV)
42 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.
43 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

These are people, both Jew and gentile converts who had heard Paul's message about Jesus Christ and believed. They wanted to hear more and begged Paul and Barnabas to return on the next Sabbath. Even after the meeting was over some Jews and gentiles followed Paul and Barnabas, encouraging them to continue in the grace of God.

By the next Sabbath most of the city had come to hear what Paul had to say. Those who had heard the message of Paul from the past Sabbath must have spread the word for so many to come. But not all Jews liked what Paul had preached, seeing the crowd they became envious and contradicted Paul. They wanted to hold onto their beliefs in the Laws of Moses So, they rejected Paul's message;

Acts 13:46 (ESV)
46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

It was the Jews who had deem themselves 'unworthy of eternal life'. They heard the message of salvation and rejected it. So, Paul now turns to the gentiles;

Acts 13:47 (ESV)
47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

When the gentiles heard this they rejoiced! Why? Because God included them also in His plan of salvation. They no longer had to become Jewish converts because Christ had died for them as well. They rejoiced over the word of the Lord and, were the Jews had rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ, the gentiles receive the gospel with welcoming hearts. They believed with the heart...

Acts 13:48 (ESV) 48 and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Their hearts were made ready to receive God's gift of eternal life because of the message they had heard and they believed. Their hearts were SET to believe, or DISPOSED or put in ORDER to believe. What does Paul say elsewhere in scripture?

Romans 10:8-12 (ESV)
8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

Before the foundation of the world God had ordained that the Word be preached and that who ever hears and believes will be saved. This then is the will of God, that whosoever shall believe, should not perish but have eternal life. When we place our trust and our hope in God through Jesus Christ, God will accept our faith and deem us righteous in the blood of Christ as our sacrificial Lamb.

So, why did I place 'believed' before 'appointed to eternal life'? Because one must hear the message to believe and must believe before they can receive eternal life...

Romans 10:14-15 (ESV)
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"

I only tried to make it simple so that you could understand it's true meaning, but like the Jews of Acts 13, you reject the truth.

Watch, please, to the end...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgN004Uv6Qk