Is life really worth all the pain and dissapointment?
The title of this post is the kind of question that used to frequent my mind before I knew the Lord as my saviour. I have started this blog mainly so I could use this profile to comment when I want to offer a different perspective - the perspective of one who doesn't know Christ. If you see "Rosie" pop up on a blog, be nice to her.
I may also post articles here of a thought provoking nature. (As opposed to my other, non thought-provoking blog).
Cheers!
I may also post articles here of a thought provoking nature. (As opposed to my other, non thought-provoking blog).
Cheers!
posted by Rose~ at 12:06 PM
15 Comments:
I was hoping you were going to list some musical favorites in your profile, Rosie. Did you not have any LPs back then?
God Bless
Matthew
Hey, good idea, I think. (Is that too over the top? Am I going to take a lot of flack for that?)
Well, you might get the odd person doing a profile search on Seventies music visiting.
God Bless
Matthew
Wow, you did.
I do like Bob Dylan. I can never decide whether I prefer 'Blonde on Blonde' or 'Highway 61 Revisited' best.
Hi Little Rose
One of the most difficult things about our own struggles is the feeling that we are all alone. We think there is no one we can talk to, no one we can trust, no one, not even father, mother, sister or brother. It seems the whole world is against us. Rejection and mistreatment bring on acute feelings of loneliness and lament. I would venture to guess that half of the people in this auditorium would say that they feel lonely; they don't have a close, trusted friend.
Jesus says:
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not
know what his master is doing. But I call you friends,
because I have made known to you everything I heard from
my Father. You did not choose me, I chose you. And I gave
you this work: to go and produce fruit, fruit that will last.
Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.
John 15:15-16
Jesus is your friend forever if you let Him..Just tell Him you can't make it though live and He will make your life worth living.
One who cares
Matthew,
Highway 61.
The one that is stuck in my mind when I think of BD is "Slow Train Comin." Then again, it is an album from a Christian perspective and I have listened to it much in the last 10 years.
I am surprised that one as young as you would like BD. :~)
forgiven,
Thanks for that. very nice. What auditorium?
:~)
Rosie,(I won't get in trouble for calling you that, will I?),
When I was in my early teens, and Catholic, Those very same questions flooded my mind too. My religion teachers could never give me a satisfactory answer.
Let me gaze into your future: You will one day marry a man named Earnest Contender Cole; Have three children and be the administrater over the biggest, badest blog in these here parts! Yes, a superstar in blogdom you shall be...That will be 50 cents, please.
Mr. Pierson
Hey, I even have Leornard Cohen and Joan Baez in my record collection.
I think this guy is a charlatan, Rosie. Dont you give him a cent.
Hi bluecollar!
Why would I get offended if you called me the name I have been know by with friends and family for my whole life? (and everyone else for the first 17 years).
Those religion teachers are clueless. They have nothing of any worth to tell me. I especially wqas turned off to the Catholic religion when I went through "confirmation" classes in 6th grade. The answers to my questions about transubstantiation were so unsatisfactory! I feel like it is cannibalism. If God wants me to believe in that ...
Are you a prophet? Do you have some kind of a crystal ball? Why do you want 50 cents? Do you need to buy a pepsi?
Dyspraxic Fundamentalist,
Thanks for the "heads up" about the New Age guy.
Rosie, I am glad you smell a rat about Transubstantiation. It is a pretty weird idea.
The Bible makes it clear that Christ died only once for sinners. There is no need for Him to be continually dying and being sacrificed in the Mass. That is offensive, as you say.
Before He died, he declared 'It is finished'. He had tasted death for sinners and made forgiveness possible. That is why we do not need Him to die again in the Mass.
Now He is risen. By rising from the dead He enabled people to have eternal life. To be sure of going to be with God after this life.
He is now in heaven in the presence of the Father, not turning into wafers and wine. In heaven He acts as the representative of those who have believed in Him, just like a lawyer in a court. If you will believe that He died for you and was raised from the dead and that this gives you eternal life; He will act as your representative too.
May God bless you and give you peace.
Matthew
DF,
You must be unlike anyone I have ever met before.
I have been told that the Catholic church is the one true Christian church and that all the protestant denominations are offshoots of the Catholic church. What you are saying doesn't sound like anything I have ever heard. You would think I would have heard all there is to know about the Christian religion. I should know something about religion!! Shouldn't I? I have gone to a religious school for 8 years of my life so far, with 4 more to go, and have gone to mass three times a week. Why haven't I heard something about what you are speaking of?!
Well, the problem is religion. Those with authroity in religions like to build themselves up and make themselves important.
That is why the Roman Catholic Churhc has its own traditions which are more important in that church than the Bible is.
The Mass makes those who are priests very powerful, because only they can carry out the 'magic' rituals involved.
It gives glory to people.
The Bible makes it clear that true religion shoudl give glory to God and be centred on Jesus Christ. That is why the Roman Catholic church encourages you to read about saints instead of reading the Bible.
If people in the Roman Catholci churhc read the Bible more, they might start to question some of the mumbo jumbo that goes on.
That is why I would urge you to study the Bible for yourself. Start with the Gospel of John. Then read the epistle to the Romans.
That will help you to understand what Christianity is really about.
May God increase your understanding
Matthew
Hmmmm...
I wonder what the nuns would say about that.
Then again, why would I care?
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