No....... but it works on big-heads! :rotfl:
What is worse, having a 'reason' for a big-head or having no right to one?
My head is VERY small next to my Lord God and Savior. Pride comes before a fall BUT it requires that one is falsely assessing their ability.
So far, I've simply said you are not my peer and you are not spiritually in any position to compare yourself to another. Sorry, fact.
Now, GlassJester, you must admit that you've asked lots of searching questions, and I have tried to answer as honestly as possible. But you see, your questions were almost certainly trying to 'get' at my religious and political position.
I respect GJ but am not a Catholic. I disagree on about 10% of doctrines, including being unequally yoked with an unbeliever. You? You've shown you eschew Paul. I can talk and reason with GlassJester over our huge disagreement. 2 Corinthians 6:14
I would be grateful if you could answer the following questions, all initiated from another member's recent post:
1. Can a simple person who cannot read or understand Christianity attain to Heaven after death?
John 14:6 HOWEVER, many have come to Him that could not read. Understand 'Christianity?' Awkward question.
2. Do you believe that Christians should not marry non-Christians, and that this is a defilement of God's law?
2 Corinthians 6:14 1 Corinthians 7:1-15 Yeah, No!
3. Do you believe that High Intelligence quotient does help a person to reach Heaven after death?
No, rather the one who has less needs to study more and not try and teach (education isn't his/her spiritual gift).
The real question is this: Can any man or woman know God without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and becoming a new creation? :nono:
1 Corinthians 2:14 Philippians3:3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. 10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
