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pipidada (da) 于 (Wed Jan 7 01:33:05 2009) 提到:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html?hp
LONDON — The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from
the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine,
a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn
that she and her nonbelieving friends were headed straight to hell, to “
spend all eternity in torment.”
That’s a bit |
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pipidada (da) 于 (Wed Jan 7 01:33:05 2009) 提到:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/europe/07london.html?hp
LONDON — The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from
the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine,
a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn
that she and her nonbelieving friends were headed straight to hell, to “
spend all eternity in torment.”
That’s a bit |
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e*****n 发帖数: 3129 | 3 Biographer claims that Michael Jackson spent last hours 'high as a kite' and
writing poetry
By Greig Box Turnbull 10/08/2009
http://foxyurl.com/rtZ
Tormented Michael Jackson wrote scary poetry during a nightmare 12 final
hours in which he pleaded to see his father, it was claimed yesterday.
Jacko's biographer Ian Halperin said the star slumped into a drug-fuelled
breakdown and began writing poems in the early hours.
Mr Halperin claimed: "He was as high as a kite. What he wrote was dark, sort
of |
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m****a 发帖数: 9485 | 4 特此说明,本文转载在基督信仰版面,已经被删除,故特此再次借此地登出。
http://www.harvestherald.com/did_you_know.htm
IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE BASED
SOLELY ON SCRIPTURE?
Did you know:
That the phrase "immortal soul" occurs nowhere in scripture?
Did you know: That the phrase "eternal torment" occurs nowhere in
scripture?
Did you know: That the single word "Hell" in a King James Version is
translated from three different Greek words, and one Hebrew word?
Did you know: That the word translated "Hell" in the Old Testament |
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G****e 发帖数: 11198 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: GoBlue (Wolverines), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: The Darker Side Of God
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jul 12 13:10:33 2014, 美东)
The Darker Side Of God
If you ask Christians to describe their quasi-chosen god of worship,
you’ll often hear such descriptors as “wonderful” and “loving.” This
choice of selective designation seems commonplace within the Christian
community. In fact, most churches ignore the Old Testament all together so
that the members feel comfortable propagatin... 阅读全帖 |
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n********n 发帖数: 8336 | 6 新约中耶稣受崇拜(WORSHIP)的经文。信徒崇拜耶稣在新约时代就普遍存在。天使都要
拜耶稣。耶证不拜耶稣吗?
希1:6
再者,神使长子到世上来的时候,(或作神再使长子到世上来的时候)就说,神的使者
都要拜他。
Heb_1:6 And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says
, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."
启5
13我又听见,在天上,地上,地底下,沧海里,和天地间一切所有被造之物,都说,但
愿颂赞,尊贵,荣耀,权势,都归给坐宝座的和羔羊,直到永永远远。
14四活物就说,阿们。众长老也俯伏敬拜。
Rev 5:13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and underneath
the earth+ and on the sea, and all the things in them, saying: “To the One
sitting on the throne+ an... 阅读全帖 |
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H********y 发帖数: 311 | 7 This poem is on the dark side. It is probably the darkest one I wrote.
If you couldn't bear the thought of pain and experiences of pain, : ) please
don't read it.
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Heartache Nightmare
By Molly Baby
Indian red rain tears gushing out
Light piercing deep into rib cage
While thunder rumbling
Above conflicted thoughts
Torment crawled out of the tomb
Charging at me with screams
Terrified, I clinched tightly to the corner
Eyes wide open
Watching pain crushing ... 阅读全帖 |
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i****i 发帖数: 4803 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 Music 讨论区 】
发信人: wiids (iwi), 信区: Music
标 题: 【翻唱】wiids -- O Mio Babbino Caro(即兴翻唱5分钟速成)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Mar 21 11:21:32 2012, 美东)
O Mio Babbino Caro 我亲爱的爸爸
普契尼的独幕喜歌剧《强尼·史基基》中女儿劳蕾塔(Lauretta )一首咏叹调,旋律
极为优美,深情而动人。上班时间,5分钟意大利语速成~~~,one take,不敢大声,
先来个CROSSOVER的。。。
歌词大意为:“啊! 我亲爱的爸爸,我爱那英俊少年。我愿到露萨港去,买一个结婚戒
指。我无论如何要去,假如您不答应,我就到威克桥上,纵身投入那河水里。我多痛苦
,我多悲伤。啊! 天哪! 我宁愿死去! 爸爸,我恳求你! 爸爸,我恳求你! ”
意大利文
O mio babbino caro,
mi piace è bello, bello;
vo'andare in Porta Rossa
a comperar l'anello!
Sì, sì, ci... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****n 发帖数: 12752 | 9 只有这个注脚是我写的。。。英文是引自planescape: Torment里的
作者写的很好 |
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a***k 发帖数: 1038 | 10 I
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But
no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled
up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of
trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more
than a wild-animal runway.
Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through the forest-mold,
advertised that the rail and the ties still remained. In one place, a ten-
inch tree, bursting through... 阅读全帖 |
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E*n 发帖数: 351 | 11 倪湛舸在芝加哥大学学习神学,以前只读过她的短文(出版过合集《黑暗中相逢》),偶
尔见到这首诗,一直想与人分享。希望她不会介意我转载在这里吧。
玫瑰是玫瑰是玫瑰是玫瑰
倪湛舸
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
You can love a name and if you love a name then saying that name any
number of times only makes you love it more, more violently more persistently
more tormentedly.
—Gertrude Stein
白马非马,玫瑰是玫瑰
难道只是诡辩?我们注定与身外的世界对立
为建筑藏匿之巢而滥伐词语的丛林
风雨于四十九年后停息,幸存者无力直腰
却有箭矢从亡祖处射来,遍地挺立起玫瑰
如同火柴和磷擦肩而过,又一个名字灼痛手指:
“玫瑰”。它与现实平行,却无需空气、阳光、或水
有这样的情人存在:早夭被打制成秘密容器 |
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H********y 发帖数: 311 | 12 【 以下文字转载自 LoveNLust 讨论区 】
发信人: HollyMolly (Molly 宝贝儿), 信区: LoveNLust
标 题: Heartache Nightmare
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Feb 25 22:36:42 2012, 美东)
This poem is on the dark side. It is probably the darkest one I wrote.
If you wouldn't bear the thought of pain and experiences of pain, : ) please
don't read it.
------------------------------------------
Heartache Nightmare
By Molly Baby
Indian red rain tears gushing out
Light piercing deep into rib cage
While thunder rumbling
Above conflicted thoughts
T... 阅读全帖 |
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l***y 发帖数: 791 | 13 sigh, your impression of her describes a very, very repressed individual.
comes to think of it, doesn't Hong Long Meng echo the lament that the
glorious past will be/is being/has been lost? Doesn't BaoYu keeps a child's
heart? yet nobody hates HLM, much.
it's probly the attitute towards the charactors that either endear the
readers or turn the readers off, in this case. at least, to me that's what or
and Pepper sound like in their posts.
torments,
life
the
Neither
to
comedy.
of
picture |
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w********h 发帖数: 12367 | 14 Nobel Lecture
7 December, 2012
Storytellers
Distinguished members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Through the mediums of television and the Internet, I imagine that everyone
here has at least a nodding acquaintance with far-off Northeast Gaomi
Township. You may have seen my ninety-year-old father, as well as my
brothers, my sister, my wife and my daughter, even my granddaughter, now a
year and four months old. But the person who is most on my mind at this
moment, my mother, is some... 阅读全帖 |
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a******m 发帖数: 3422 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 WebRadio 讨论区 】
发信人: aTwosMam (阿童木), 信区: WebRadio
标 题: Si dolce è'l tormento
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Nov 11 17:15:45 2014, 美东)
向晚意不适,驱车登古原, 正是当时的心境。车到山顶,俯瞰全城——这是一座中世纪就
有的城市。几座风格迥异的教堂,在芸芸众生的楼宇间脱颖而出,高高的塔尖,直指天
际。而山顶上这座城堡却几近坍塌,也许曾经是一座要塞,不过总让我想起巴黎的巴士
底狱。我想,也许雷电交加的雨夜,这里风景会更好看。
音乐是有魔力的,这毋庸置疑。这首曲子,从车里的收音机里缓缓放出,让我一下把视
线抬高,掠过芸芸的楼宇,略过红砖教堂矗立的塔楼,去寻找更远处——那灰黑与蔚蓝
的天际线。那些绝望或是挫折的阴霾,一下就被这一阵清风吹开。这个秋风萧瑟的早晨
,刚才还是万物凋零,可现在却像受到了大地母亲的抚慰。。。
歌唱版:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6y6VToRwkw
其实,我更喜欢Andrë Heuvelman的... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****d 发帖数: 754 | 16
sou
shall
我对你上面的诠释不敢苟同。首先在我们运用对圣经内容的理解来解释之前,我们要先找原文来印证原文,我补充了几个qeon明指父神,非指基督,的经节:
Mark 5:7
kai kraxas fwnh megalh legei ti emoi kai soi ihsou uie tou qeon (神) tou uyistou orkizw se ton qeon mh me basanishs
and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
Rom.5:1
dikaiwqentes oun ek pistews eirhnhn ecwmen/ecomen pros ton qeon (神) dia tou kuriou hmwn ihsou cristou
Being therefore justified by faith |
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h****i 发帖数: 254 | 17 他瞎掰。个别liberal的神(棍|学家|士)用些不offensive的话来描述地狱,搞公关
而已。不管怎样,hell都是编出来的折磨非信徒的地方,用来恐吓人信教的东东,即使
是新教。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs
The historic Protestant view of hell is expressed in the Westminster
Confession (1646):
"but the wicked, who know not God, and obey not the gospel of Jesus
Christ, shall be cast into eternal torments, and punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power."
(Chapter XXXIII, Of the Last Judgment) |
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N****n 发帖数: 6571 | 18 Well, think of a being-----------who would create the mankind with
infallible knowledge through his infinite powers, the being who would also
create the Hell----------------therefore has the intention that the majority
of them were to be consigned to horrible and everlasting torment. |
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q********g 发帖数: 10694 | 19 the torment is not horrible and everlasting as you said, but temporary.
Jesus completed the salvation to save human being (all of us). Only some of
who accept this salvation can be saved.
Hell is not a specific place God created. It is just anywhere God is not.
Some people who don't believe Jesus will go to this place absolutely without
God and His blessing.
God is of perfection and infinition. With His almightiness, God allow Hell
you called exists. If God would like to do, He can change the He |
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N****n 发帖数: 6571 | 20 Well, we are not talking about whether the torment is big or not. What really
matters here is that the intention of creating the Hell is malicious. He,
with infinite power, created mankind with weakness, shall he be responsible for
the weakness?
of
without
the
God |
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x*********e 发帖数: 35 | 21 Jesus is God’s appointed Judge who determines what each one’s future will
be. Those judged righteous will be given everlasting life on a paradise
earth. Those judged unrighteous will not be tormented but will die and
cease to exist. Humans are not responsible for this judgment, nor will
they be involved when God takes action to remove all wickedness from the
earth.—Proverbs 2:21, 22; John 5:22; Acts 17:30, 31; Revelation 21:3, 4. |
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D*****r 发帖数: 6791 | 22 Acts 5:12-16 The Apostles Heal Many
12The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people
. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade. 13No
one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the
people. 14Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and
were added to their number. 15As a result, people brought the sick into the
streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow
might fall on some... 阅读全帖 |
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G******e 发帖数: 9567 | 23 Allah made Jesus speak. He said, which are verses 30-33 in the chapter of Mariam in the Qur'an:
"I am a slave of Allah. He will reveal the Book (Injeel [Bible]) to me and make me a prophet. He blessed me wherever I am. In the rules revealed to me there will be a special attention given to prayers and charity. Allah predestined that I will be kind to my mother and not a tyrant with a bad ending. Peace was on me the day I was born. Peace will be on me on the day I will die and on the day I am rais... 阅读全帖 |
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E*****m 发帖数: 25615 | 24 土豆啊, 你這個批評未免太拙劣了, 馬可裡的highly distraught 情節是講在十字架
上的,你拿路加裡耶穌被逮捕前禱告流汗來支持, 有這道理嗎?
你拿出一段路加裡被逮捕後出現類似馬可裡耶穌哭喊的看看,有嗎?
過路看官不知道我們在講什麼的話,請看原文
Engaging in this different kind of detective
work can also be interesting and enlightening. For these later authors
sometimes borrowed Mark's sentences wholesale, but on other occasions they
changed what he had to say, sometimes radically. In that sense, they, like
the scribes, were changing scripture. We have seen some examples in the
... 阅读全帖 |
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G*M 发帖数: 6042 | 25 Bible Course - Christian Doctrine
Lesson 6
The Humiliation of Christ
Lord's Day 14 - 16
The humiliation of Christ
After discussing the names of the Mediator, the instructor now deals with
the states. "States" refer to the relationship with God. Lord's Days 14, 15
and 16 deal with the state of humiliation, which is divided into degrees. "
Degrees" view the ever-deepening process of Christ's suffering. Over against
this progressive humiliation, there is also a progressive exaltation.
Lord's Day 14... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******s 发帖数: 4956 | 26 加拉太书5章13-26节,说异端是属于情欲的,与圣灵的果子相对
13
弟兄们,你们蒙召,是要得自由。只是不可将你们的自由当作放纵情欲的机会。总要用
爱心互相服事。
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to
indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
14
因为全律法都包在爱人如己这一句话之内了。
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as
yourself."
15
你们要谨慎。若相咬相吞,只怕要彼此消灭了。
If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be
destroyed by each other.
16
我说,你们当顺着圣灵而行,就不放纵肉体的情欲了。
So I say, live by the Spi... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 27 Calvinism consists of theological doctrines which use words found in the Bib
le. However, Calvinism consistently redefines those words, takes them out of
context, applies the doctrines inappropriately, exaggerates the meaning of
the words to the extreme, or in some other way distorts the Word of God to m
atch the theology written by John Calvin in his book, Institutes of the Chri
stian Religion. The following is a typical definition of Total Depravity, th
e First Point of Calvinism, written by o... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 28 just a short reply first. I will reply more later on.
eternal punishment is OK as long as believe God is love.
God love all of us. So our beloved kin won't be tormented forever.
God is love....
person |
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C****i 发帖数: 1776 | 29 CHAPTER VIII
Of Christ the Mediator
I. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jes
us, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man,[162] the
Prophet,[163] Priest,[164] and King,[165] the Head and Savior of his church,
[166] the Heir of all things,[167] and Judge of the world:[168] unto whom he
did from all eternity give a people, to be his seed,[169] and to be by him
in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.[170]
II. The Son o... 阅读全帖 |
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e****i 发帖数: 2152 | 30 From: The Dark Side of Christian History
by Helen Ellerbe
Chapter Eight: 1450 - 1750 C.E.
The Reformation did not convert the people of Europe to orthodox
Christianity through preaching and catechisms alone. It was the 300 year
period of witch-hunting from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, what R
.H. Robbins called "the shocking nightmare, the foulest crime and deepest
shame of western civilization." The Church created the elaborate concept of
devil worship and then, used the persecution ... 阅读全帖 |
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C****i 发帖数: 1776 | 31 CHAPTER XXI
Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day
I. The light of nature showeth that there is a God, who hath lordship and so
vereignty over all, is good, and doth good unto all, and is therefore to be
feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the he
art, and with all the soul, and with all the might.[404] But the acceptable
way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by h
is own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to... 阅读全帖 |
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C****i 发帖数: 1776 | 32 CHAPTER XXXIII
Of the Last Judgment
I. God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world, in righteousne
ss, by Jesus Christ,[573] to whom all power and judgment is given of the Fat
her.[574] In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,[575] b
ut likewise all persons that have lived upon earth shall appear before the t
ribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds; a
nd to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or
evi... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 33 Faced With A Choice
Calvinists object to the assertion that the natural man is "not so totally d
epraved that he can't hear God's voice and come to Christ." They respond, "T
otally depraved is totally depraved. It makes no sense to say man isn't so t
otally depraved." Not only is Total Depravity not a biblical concept, but as
the quote above shows, Calvin himself said that man is not so totally depra
ved that he cannot receive much truth from God; he just doesn't get enough t
ruth because God wi... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 34 1:26-27 Paul repeats his refrain: God gave them over… to their dishonorabl
e passions (pavqh ajtimiva", pathe atimias). God gave them over to go agains
t the created order and design. The thought of such judgment is horrifying s
ince the people are totally unaware of it.
And again, there is the centrality of sexual sin, though this time homosexua
lity, which was rampant and honored in Greco-Roman culture, is particularly
singled out: their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural o... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 35 1:26-27 Paul repeats his refrain: God gave them over… to their dishonorabl
e passions (pavqh ajtimiva", pathe atimias). God gave them over to go agains
t the created order and design. The thought of such judgment is horrifying s
ince the people are totally unaware of it.
And again, there is the centrality of sexual sin, though this time homosexua
lity, which was rampant and honored in Greco-Roman culture, is particularly
singled out: their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural o... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 36 by Dave Hunt
Two Conflicting Views
Calvinism presents us with the mystery of why God Who is love and Who is inf
inite in mercy toward all lets billions go to hell whom He could rescue. The
Bible on the other hand, confronts us with quite another mystery: why anyon
e who is offered salvation as a free gift of God's grace chooses to reject i
t. We have no answer to that question. Pusey writes:
There is something wonderfully impressive in the respect shown by the Creato
r to the freedom of choice w... 阅读全帖 |
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j*******u 发帖数: 712 | 37 CALVIN BELIEVED IN INFANT BAPTISM
Calvin said, "Baptism is properly administered to infants is something owed
to them."
CALVIN BELIEVED IN SACRAMENTS EQUAL TO GOD'S WORD
"Therefore, let it be regarded as a settled principle that the sacraments
have the same office as the Word of God: to offer and set forth Christ to us
, and in him the treasures of heavenly grace."
CALVIN BELIEVED IN AMILLENNIALISM AND WAS AGAINST PREMILLENNIALISM
Calvin said, "But a little later there followed the Chiliasts, wh... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 38 by Dave Hunt
Confronting A Vital Distinction
For the Calvinist to uphold his extreme view of control, God must be the cau
se of man's total depravity and the negative response it produces. There is
no way to escape this conclusion. If God were not the cause of man's sin, ma
n would be acting independently of God, and that cannot be allowed for anyth
ing in the Calvinist scheme. It follows, then, that "He [God] could ... have
prevented it [the fall and entrance of sin into the world], but He did ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****n 发帖数: 21367 | 39 myelsa... 你讲的这一段实在与时俱进得太猛烈了。。。
难怪很多基督教派说摩门教是异端。。。
为了回避那个“上帝用火湖威逼人信基督教”的问题,把“永恒惩罚”直接扭曲
成为“上帝惩罚”,理由是“永恒是上帝的名”,这也太强词夺理了。。。
我知道这个问题是基督教神学经典无解问题之一,但摩门教这个救场
实在是火上浇油啊。。。。。。
圣经启示录20:10... 下面这个链接有几十个英语版本...
http://bible.cc/revelation/20-10.htm
随便取一个
20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented
day and night for ever and ever.
这个毫无歧义的吧,所有版本前头都有day and night,"for ever and ever"
一定是指时间永恒(的惩罚),不可能替换为“上帝(... 阅读全帖 |
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C*****e 发帖数: 367 | 40 首先,犯罪的都需要被惩罚,就是灭亡。
下面你说具体的不同是吧?
我不知道。但是有不同。
见:
第三十三章 论最后的审判
一、神已经定了日子,借耶稣基督父神已将一切审判的权柄交给1凭公义审判世界2
。在那日,非但堕落的天使要受审判3,就是凡活在世上的众人,都要在基督的审判台前
显露出来,为自己的思想、言语、行为有所陈述,按肉身所行的,或善或恶受报4。
二、神指定此日的目的,是为在选民永远的救恩上5,彰显神怜悯(恩惠)的荣耀,
又在邪恶悖逆的遗弃者的处罚上,彰显神公义的荣耀。那时义人必入永生,领受从主而
来之喜乐与愉快的丰满6;但那不认识神、不顺从耶稣基督的恶人,必被扔到永远的痛苦
中,离开主的面,和□权能的荣光,受永远灭亡的刑罚7。
三、基督既为了阻止众人犯罪,又使敬虔之人在苦难中多得安慰8,就令我们确信将
来必有审判之日;所以他不叫人知道那日子,为的是叫人可以摆脱一切属肉体的安全,
时常儆醒,因为他们不知道什么时辰主要来;就叫他们预备说:主耶稣啊,我愿你快来
。阿们9。
1. 徒十七31。
2. 约五22、27。
3. 林前六3;犹6;彼后二4。
4. 林后五10;传十二14;罗二16... 阅读全帖 |
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h*****b 发帖数: 517 | 41 ok, 你不知道我在说什么。
两个伟大的早期教父说过:
Clement declares that all punishment, however severe, is purificatory; that
even the "torments of the damned" are curative. Origen explains even Gehenna
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m****s 发帖数: 18160 | 42 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Dramaer (不要问我从那里来) 于 (Fri Oct 22 12:02:52 2010, 美东) 提到:
Act 1:1-11 Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven
1In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and
to teach 2until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving
instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3After
his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing
proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 43 10 The Torment of Job
(Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42)
The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
“Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
day with the o... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 44 6 The Locusts of the Abyss
(Revelation 9:7-11)
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they
wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8
Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their
wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into
battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails
they ha... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 45 5 The Ten Plagues of Egypt
(Exodus 7:14-12:29)
When God had had enough of his people being tormented by hard bondage in the
land of Egypt (400 years of it), he sent Moses to prepare the way for him.
Multiple times, God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart” in order to get glory for
himself by continuing his miraculous deeds. First the Nile River turned into
blood. Then out of the river came frogs. Then lice or fleas. Then biting
flies. Then a pestilence that killed the Egyptian livestock. Then boils and
so... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 46 Mother Teresa Did Not Feel Christ's Presence for Last Half of Her Life,
Letters Reveal
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who has been put on the “fast track” to
sainthood, was so tormented by doubts about her faith that she felt “a
hypocrite,” it has emerged from a book of her letters to friends and
confessors. Shortly after beginning her work in the slums of Calcutta, she
wrote: “Where is my faith? Even deep down there is nothing but emptiness
and darkness. If there be a God — please forgive me.” In l... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****a 发帖数: 38403 | 47 发信人: JeanSS (Jean), 信区: TrustInJesus
标 题: Re: 好奇的问一下,这首页100篇文章是不是只有
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 11 11:10:13 2012, 美东)
肯定,其他基忙着看菜谱啊,连续剧啊,给妞写信啊什么的。
要不你跟着我吃喝玩乐,钓鱼打牌吧,基本还能跟上这个时代。
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刚才把基版从头到尾用连续剧梳了一遍, 估计是这个,我就不评论了
不过还是本着人道主义精神说一句八,被害妄想是精神分裂症的一种,不该忽视
Persecutory delusion
Persecutory delusions are the most common type of delusions and involve the
theme of being followed, harassed, cheated, poisoned or drugged, conspired
against, spied on, attacked, or otherwise obstructed in the pursui... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V 发帖数: 200 | 48 First the bad news.
Because we have sinned we are born separated from God. Without intervention
, we are ineligible for Heaven. This applies to the entire human race. You
are not alone.
Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Romans 3:10 says, "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"
Romans 6:23a "For the wages of sin is death;"
Revelation 21:8 "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and m
urderers, and whoremongers, and sor... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********r 发帖数: 3382 | 49 VICTIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
"WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT TESTIFY TO GOD'S DIVINE GLORY"
Listed are only events that solely occurred on command or participation of
church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List
incomplete)
Ancient Pagans
As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict (
315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan
priests were killed.
Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
E... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********r 发帖数: 3382 | 50 VICTIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
"WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT TESTIFY TO GOD'S DIVINE GLORY"
Listed are only events that solely occurred on command or participation of
church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List
incomplete)
Ancient Pagans
As soon as Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial edict (
315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan
priests were killed.
Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
E... 阅读全帖 |
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