Either way, it clearly proves the Jesus Christ is the one and only true God.
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No amount of mental conditioning can make the pain cease to exist. You can overcome the pain, but it's still there. Anyone who has ever actually put this in to practice knows this to be true. You can shut it up in a closet and lock the door, but you can't make it not exist.
Of course severing nerves is something else all together.
Oh, and the world does go 'round without you.
You should read Paul J. Steinhardt, Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science who wrote a great paper on the case AGAINST inflation. You may enjoy it.
At the University of Oxford Roger Penrose did some great work too. He showed that the likelyhood of a flat uniform universe is mathematically unlikely with or without inflation but it turns out to be significantly less unlikely without inflation. He showed that without inflation the likelyhood was 10 to the googol power more likely than with inflation. That's an insane huge number. And it doesn't help the inflation theory out very much.
Maybe I'll split this off into a separate thread if they get the funding and actually make it.
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FIGHT CHURCH
A Documentary project in Los Angeles, CA by Daniel Junge & Bryan Storkel · send message
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May 22, 2012
'Fight Church': Where religion meets mixed martial arts
By Whitney Matheson, USA TODAY
Updated 5h 44m ago
Finally, someone is making a movie that answers an important question:
"Can you love your neighbor as yourself and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?"
That's a direct quote from Paul Burress, a pastor in Rochester, N.Y., who believes mixed martial arts can help bring people together. He and fellow fighters are profiled in Fight Church, a doc from directors Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel.
Storkel tells me he has started a Kickstarter campaign to finish the film; he has raised almost $8,000 of his $30,000 goal and is offering incentives like DVDs and a credit in the movie to supporters.
The trailer was just posted. It's both compelling and horrifying to watch these guys -- some of the fighters are kids -- get bloody noses in the name of Jesus.
Says one fighter: "As I progress in my Christian life, I start to see a conflict. Is this having a positive impact on my Christianity?" Hmm, I wonder ...
Christian pacificism ( or lack there of) has always been something quite facinating.
Jesus' lesson on "turn the other cheek" is NOT to be take out of context with the other lessons of which it was a part of.
All of Matthew Chapter 5 is a lesson in humilty and understanding of who and what God views as righteous, as correct and a lesson on who is blessed in the eyes of God.
Much of it is hard to understand, it was hard THEN and even harder NOW.
But in regards to the dealing of violence and those that wish to do as harm:
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21“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’ 22“But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. 23“Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. 25“Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 26“Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.
27“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’; 28but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29“If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30“If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
31“It was said, ‘WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE’; 32but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
33“Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’ 34“But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING. 36“Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. 37“But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.
38“You have heard that it was said, ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.’ 39“But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40“If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. 41“Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. 42“Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.
43“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 44“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46“For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47“If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
im glad u ttt i forgot about this thread and had not seen all these responses!!!
It is a lesson on how one breaks the circle of violence and hate and anger and the lesson is love.
Over the centuries some took the lesson of non-violence literally while others as only a "polite suggestion".
It was neither.
It was giving us understanding of how to stop violence and hate.
We all know the violence begets violence BUT we also know that there are times when we have NO CHOICE but to fight.
That is a far cry from going out of your way to actually FIGHT.
So, no, Christianity and fighting are NOT compatible.
Christ is the answer to fighting, not a REASON to fight nor a reason to hurt another at all.
Does Christianity have the potential to make a fighter less violent and perhaps a "better" person? to curtail the "killer" in a fighter? Yes it does BUT that does NOT involve CONTINUING to fight and hurt others.
i always wondered why rape wasnt a commandment. its pretty bad stuff. id say worse than stealing by far.
Maybe you need to reword that, LOL !
Rape is prohibit under that "thou shall not covert anything of they neighbour".
Yes the OT levitcal laws make a provision in the case of rape but that is NOT condoning it, no more than our current laws that put a rapist in jail are condoning rape by rewarding the rapist with free room and board for as long as he is in jail.
Well, the Hebrews tended to view that law as applicable to themselves but yes the law was applied to others that were "neighbours" too.
Don't ever judge a religion or ideology by what people do that is AGAINST its core teachings.
Where in the verse I quote from Matthew would you get the impression that ANY type of violence or hate against ANYONE is acceptable?