I've been saved. Sing the praises of the lord

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Behind are the Blues! My Eyes are opened by the gospel of JOHN!

I'll be studying and sharing all Twenty One chapters here to help everyone see the TRUE light and gain Guidance from a number of quotes in that chapter.

[LAGC]

1. I'm not sure if you're serious or just making for satire but...

Let me share with you my story of being "saved" by a Baptist preacher...

He was my old boss at a big local corporation, and he did pretty good keeping religion out of the work-place for the most part. At least he never let my agnosticism at the time prevent him from giving me big promotions and the like.

Anyway, he left his good-paying job to move down to Arizona to become a Baptist pastor down there. He invited me down to visit him one weekend, and I took him up on the offer (this was about 10 years ago now). Anyway, once I got down there I found that he didn't exactly have innocent intentions, so to speak. He immediately got me cornered with another visiting pastor and started proselytizing me, making heavy reference to the Gospel of John.

After several hours, I had enough of it, and I just gave in. I went through the motions with him and told him that I accepted Jesus as my Savior and repented of all my sins. Of course I didn't believe it, and after speaking to a Christian co-worker later, she told me that I really wasn't "saved" because I was just pretending... but the pastor believed it, and that's all that seemed to matter.

I didn't keep much in contact with him after that, he'd send me the occasional e-mail seeing if I had found a Bible (KJV of course) believing church to attend, to re-inforce my faith. But as far as he's concerned, "once saved, always saved." That no matter how much I retreat from the faith, so long as I made that initial commitment to Christ, the "damage had been done" so to speak.

Guess I just better hope that Islam isn't true or that whatever God in whatever after-life isn't displeased with me (faking) becoming a Christian. After all, almost every religion's version of God is a jealous God and likes no imposters.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. My mom convinced me that there were a number of reasons for converting...

In the not so distant future I'll be allowing the pages of John to open on their own - through the divine forces of gravity - and I'll offer the chapter that coincides with my earlier religious influences from the book that features the holy trinity.

[LemmingWarrior]

2. Cool

Carry on, preacher. :evilgrin:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. I am studying John 9 today

9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. I'll just bide my time until once again humanity's main focus of worship is the "sacred feminine."

I've had about enough vengeful, wrathful bullshit done in the name of deities created in man's image.

:P

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. It is disgraceful that early Catholics masquerading as Christians...

converted all those Isis temples into churches with names including "Mary" or "Holy Mother."

[dimbear]

12. Hmm. Been reading Stefan Zweig's account of the conquest of Byzantium.

He describes the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque quite dramatically. It would seem that a careful restorer could reverse that conversion rather effectively, (the murals were only whitewashed) so that we ought in a way be grateful to the Moslems for not knocking it down--instead only despoiling it. Of course the remarkable stone cross they converted to rubble would be hard. :)

Certainly when Spain reconquered the lands occupied by the Moors they lost little time reclaiming the altered churches.

It takes a lot of man-hours to make those immense sacred piles. Or are you only objecting to the specific Mariolatric names? Tough call. Knock it down? Name it after Mary? You choose.

Should Isis again be resurgent, will She not welcome those temples back into Her orbit?

[rurallib]

6. might want to open a shop at freerepublic also

they could use some saving.

[Silent3]

7. Poe's Law alert! n/t

[frogmarch]

11. You beat me to it. :-)

[cleanhippie]

8. Neat-o. This should prove interesting.

[Iggo]

9. Oh, please do.

:woohoo: