Jesus is our lord and savior

[Franklin78]

One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility. Jesus was not a drop-out. As a carpenter, He worked hard with His hands. The Apostle Paul made tents for a living while he carried on the work that God assigned him. Whatever work a Christian does is done unto the Lord. He should do his best at whatever his trade or vocation. He should be faithful, clean, and honest.

 

[Franklin78]

All life is a struggle—that is the nature of things. Even within our physical bodies, doctors tell us, a conflict for supremacy is going on. The bacteria in our bloodstream are waging a constant war against alien germs. The red corpuscles fight the white corpuscles constantly in an effort to maintain life within the body. A battle is also raging in the spiritual realm. “We fight,” the Bible says, “against the rulers of the darkness of this world.” Darkness hates light. I have a dog that would rather dig up a moldy carcass to chew on than to have the finest, cleanest meal. He can’t help it—that is his nature. Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again. And until they are changed by the power of Christ, they will likely be at enmity against those who are associated with Christ.

 

[Franklin78]

Jesus Himself was the first missionary! He did not sit by passively and let those who happened to be interested in His teaching come to Him. He went out where the sick, the sorrowing, and the sad were, and expounded His message of joy, healing, and salvation. Even at a tender age, He went to the Temple and “taught” the doctors and lawyers who were entrenched in the old traditions. He found His way to the seaside and intruded upon the life of the commonest of laborers, saying, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Wherever He went He challenged, uprooted, and changed men. And at length they nailed Him to a cross because He had upset their selfish, secure, smug way of life. Not only was Jesus a missionary, but He pledged His followers to be missionaries, too!

 

[JABcomix]

Ok Franklin, since you seem to know so much about Jesus, what did Jesus do between the time he taught the elders in the temple and when he turned the water into wine? What did he do for those years? Answer me that and you win a prize.

 

[TurdFergeson]

Ok Franklin, since you seem to know so much about Jesus, what did Jesus do between the time he taught the elders in the temple and when he turned the water into wine? What did he do for those years? Answer me that and you win a prize.

He cross-dressed?

Get it?



CROSS - dressed?

I crucify me.

 

[KitKat85]

agree?

What of his twin brother Jude T'oma? Also known as Jude the Twin, or Jude Didymus?

Isn't it odd how those Christmas nativity plays just ignore Jesus' twin brother though that he had twin brother is well documented and mentioned repeatedly in the Bible. Strange too that they refer to "Paul" (Saul of Tarsus) as an "apostle" when he was nothing of the kind and had never met Jesus in real life. We only have his word for it that he saw Jesus while he was on the road to Dimasqu (now called Damascus), and Cephas (Peter) didn't believe him. Yet, the Catholic church saw fit to bias the Bible with more than 1/3rd of the entire book with Saul/Paul's writings because that suited their political aims.

 

[JABcomix]

Jesus didn't have a twin brother. That's ridicules. James was the next brother in line after Jesus, then came Miriam, after that Joseph, then Simon, then Martha, then Jude, then Amos and finally Ruth.


Jude was the black sheep of the family.


However, he was not Jesus' twin.


~JAB

 

[tinylittlegnat]

Jesus didn't have a twin brother. That's ridicules. James was the next brother in line after Jesus, then came Miriam, after that Joseph, then Simon, then Martha, then Jude, then Amos and finally Ruth.


Jude was the black sheep of the family.


However, he was not Jesus' twin.


~JAB

without using the bible as a referance do you have any proof that he did not have a twin brother?

just askin

 

[JABcomix]

without using the bible as a referance do you have any proof that he did not have a twin brother?

just askin

8. THE BIRTH OF JESUS

All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.

In just the same manner as all babies before that day and since have come into the world, the promised child was born; and on the eighth day, according to the Jewish practice, he was circumcised and formally named Joshua (Jesus).

The next day after the birth of Jesus, Joseph made his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two nights previously at Jericho, Joseph was taken by him to a well-to-do friend who had a room at the inn, and who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the Nazareth couple. That afternoon they moved up to the inn, where they lived for almost three weeks until they found lodgings in the home of a distant relative of Joseph.

The second day after the birth of Jesus, Mary sent word to Elizabeth that her child had come and received word in return inviting Joseph up to Jerusalem to talk over all their affairs with Zacharias. The following week Joseph went to Jerusalem to confer with Zacharias. Both Zacharias and Elizabeth had become possessed with the sincere conviction that Jesus was indeed to become the Jewish deliverer, the Messiah, and that their son John was to be his chief of aides, his right-hand man of destiny. And since Mary held these same ideas, it was not difficult to prevail upon Joseph to remain in Bethlehem, the City of David, so that Jesus might grow up to become the successor of David on the throne of all Israel. Accordingly, they remained in Bethlehem more than a year, Joseph meantime working some at his carpenter's trade. paper 122 section 8 Urantia Book

Nowhere does it mention that Jesus was a twin. I have never heard any scholars mention that he had a twin. Most do agree that he had brothers and they even agree that he was not born on December 25, year 1 and that has to do with the death of Herod (Herod died 4 BC). Anyway, you don't have to use this book or the bible to know that a King Herod did exist and that he order the killing of children because he was afraid of this prophecy that predicted that someone was going to be born that would be the leader of the Jews. All this stuff is verifiable because the Roman Authority kept excellent records.

P.S. I don't use the bible.

~JAB

 

[AntiBacterial]

Jesus didn't have a twin brother. That's ridicules. James was the next brother in line after Jesus, then came Miriam, after that Joseph, then Simon, then Martha, then Jude, then Amos and finally Ruth.


Jude was the black sheep of the family.


However, he was not Jesus' twin.


~JAB

Why did you stop using the name LordMithras?

 

[vrosej10]

He might be your saviour but he's not mine. You can keep Christianity.

 

[Biran67]

Jesus didn't have a twin brother. That's ridicules. James was the next brother in line after Jesus, then came Miriam, after that Joseph, then Simon, then Martha, then Jude, then Amos and finally Ruth.


Jude was the black sheep of the family.


However, he was not Jesus' twin.


~JAB

This wasn't difficult to find.

Jesus called him his twin, and others refer to him so
Known as Jude Thomas or Judas Didymus Thomas (Thomas means twin in Aramaic, as does Didymus in Greek.)

Catholic Encylopedia link
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14658b.htm

 

[phrodeau]

This wasn't difficult to find.

Jesus called him his twin, and others refer to him so
Known as Jude Thomas or Judas Didymus Thomas (Thomas means twin in Aramaic, as does Didymus in Greek.)

Catholic Encylopedia link
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14658b.htm

Where's the bit where Jesus calls him his twin?

If the guy's name was Thomas, you could say that anybody saying his name might be calling him their twin. He could be a twin and a brother of Jesus, but not Jesus' twin.

 

[Silvergirl]

Wikipedia. Some idiot probably edited it again. Most untrustworthy source on the interweb

 

[phrodeau]

Wikipedia. Some idiot probably edited it again. Most untrustworthy source on the interweb

Wikipedia's updates are trackable, so you can see exactly what has been edited.

If I refer to Mary-Kate Olsen as a twin, that doesn't make her my twin.

 

[JABcomix]

8. THOMAS DIDYMUS

Thomas was the eighth apostle, and he was chosen by Philip. In later times he has become known as "doubting Thomas," but his fellow apostles hardly looked upon him as a chronic doubter. True, his was a logical, skeptical type of mind, but he had a form of courageous loyalty which forbade those who knew him intimately to regard him as a trifling skeptic. Paper 139 section 8 Urantia Book

Is this the Thomas you guys are talking about?

OMG! No wonder you people are confused! You'll look at anything and turn it on it's head.

Name me a credited Scholar who subscribes to this theory and I'll show you an outcast!
~JAB

 

[Franklin78]

In Texas they tell a story about a man who used to hitch his horse every morning in front of the saloon. One morning the saloonkeeper came out and found that the horse was hitched in front of the Methodist church. He saw the man walking down the street and called out, “Say, why is your horse hitched in front of the Methodist church this morning?” The man turned around and said, “Well, last night I was converted in the revival meeting, and I’ve changed hitching posts.” That’s what it means to be born again. That’s what it means to be converted. It means that you changed hitching posts.

 

[Franklin78]

Jesus had a great deal to say about labor. He knew that a laboring man needs rest and recreation. We Americans have Labor Day—a day in which the wheels of industry stop and the entire nation is reminded of the tremendous contribution that labor has made to the American way of life. Jesus Himself was a laboring man. In His biography we are told that He was a carpenter. Wouldn’t you like to have been able to spend a day in Joseph’s little shop and to watch Jesus use the hammer and saw? Sometimes we forget that Jesus was human as well as divine. He had calluses on His hands. If the chisel had slipped and cut His fingers, His blood would have been red and warm like ours. He knew what it meant to work long hours, to come in at night tired and weary.

 

[JABcomix]

Me thinks that you just copy and paste this stuff Franklin. Do you have a mind of your own my friend?

 

[Franklin78]

The greatest blessing of giving is not on the financial side of the ledger but on the spiritual side. You receive a sense of being honest with God. You receive a consciousness that you are in partnership with God—that you are doing something constructive—that you are working with Him to reach the world for Jesus Christ. You are also enabled to hold on to this world’s goods loosely because the eternal values are always in view. How do you give? Is it liberally and cheerfully? Or is it sparingly and grudgingly? If you have been giving God the leftovers of your substance and your life, you have been missing the true joy and blessing of Christian giving and living.

 

[Franklin78]

What will heaven be like? Just as there is a mystery to hell, so there is a mystery to heaven. Yet I believe the Bible teaches that heaven is a literal place. Is it one of the stars? I don’t know, I can’t even speculate. The Bible doesn’t inform us. I believe that out there in space where there are one thousand million galaxies, each a hundred thousand light years or more in diameter, God can find some place to put us in heaven. I’m not worried about where it is. I know it will be where Jesus is. Christians don’t have to go around discouraged and despondent, with their shoulders bent. Think of it—the joy, the peace, the sense of forgiveness that He gives you, and then heaven, too.

 

[JABcomix]

Did your pastor write all this stuff? That's why you can't speak for yourself? You know, if you really were concerned with saving souls for the Kingdom, you would engage people and not just ignore them. You think that you coming here and posting some anecdotes is sufficient for the duties bound onto you? What are you going to tell God? "Hey, I tried, I told them stories, what else did you want me to do?" Would it hurt to interact? Or do you believe that we are below you? You know, actions speak louder than words. So it doesn't matter what you say, you aloofness speaks volumes.

~JAB

 

[Franklin78]

There is a story of a woman in England who came to her vicar with a troubled conscience. The vicar knew her to be a habitual gossip—she had maligned nearly everyone in the village. “How can I make amends?” she pleaded. The vicar said, “If you want to make peace with your conscience, take a bag of goose feathers and drop one on the porch of each one you have slandered.” When she had done so, she came back to the vicar and said, “Is that all?” “No,” said the wise old minister, “you must go now and gather up every feather and bring them all back to me.” After a long time the woman returned without a single feather. “The wind has blown them all away,” she said. “My good woman,” said the vicar, “so it is with gossip. Unkind words are easily dropped, but we can never take them back again.”

 

[Franklin78]

In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently, we are one-sided. We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak and anemic. The soul actually demands as much attention as the body. It demands fellowship and communion with God. It demands worship, quietness, and meditation. Unless the soul is fed and exercised daily, it becomes weak and shriveled. It remains discontented, confused, restless. Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the cryings and longings of the soul. Some turn to a new sex experience. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. But nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God, and without God it is restless and in secret torment.

 

[Franklin78]

The human soul is a lonely thing. It must have the assurance of companionship. Left entirely to itself, it cannot enjoy anything. God said in the beginning, “It is not good that man should dwell alone” (Genesis 2:18). The creation of Eve was the beginning of human companionship. God’s people are a body, not intended to function separately, not intended to be unconcerned for one another. The only true body in the world is the Church. The world may talk grandly of brotherhood, but in reality its philosophy is “each man for himself.” God’s children are guaranteed the richest and truest friendship, both here and hereafter. Only in a true friendship and a true love do we find a genuine basis for peace. Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply that love that we must have for our fellowman. We will never build brotherhood of man upon earth until we are believers in Christ Jesus. The only true cohesive power in the world is Christ. He alone can bind human hearts together in genuine love.