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I left Christianity for Humanitarianism … more in line with the teachings of Jesus 💕
I feel they want to keep us in fear so they keep us coming back. I struggled with this as a child but as an adult moved to a softer Jesus
7:10 It doesn't work today, because they don't want it to work.
The reason Christians have never followed the gospel Jesus is because the hardest thing for a Pharisee to do is act like a Samaritan.
We're putting our trust in unfettered capitalism. Love is more verb than noun.
Rev Ed there is one more thing Jesus said we’re supposed to do- make disciples. There are two ways to do this: we can force people into rigid, fundamentalist behaviors (Including Church going, staying in abusive marriages, not smoking/drinking,etc)or we can come alongside people help them learn to do love and serve others from the heart. Jesus said the Pharisees made their disciples twice a son of hell as they themselves were. That was the kind of disciples they made. We need to be making disciples differently. By modeling and training others to love abundantly act kindly and walk humbly.
As a fellow Canadian, we are taught kindness achieves more than cruelty. That doesn’t mean that we are always kind to others, just to those that deserve it. The Golden Rule theory. We will be kind to others until they show their true self. I’m very disappointed that almost every religious leader from all different sects chose to endorse Trump solely based on his stance on abortion. Regardless of there not being anything in the bible about it. I’m comforted in the thoughts that when I pass on I will be given passage through the pearly gates while those pretending to be Christian will not. I may not go to mass anymore but I still live my life by the teachings of Jesus.
I don't know how Christianity can be compatible with guns. Or racism. Or any other kind of bigotry. Or greed. Or Trump. The people who try to force those connections are doing a great deal of harm.
I’m not sure “softness” or “hardness” is the issue, but rather whom you treat gently or with toughness. Many today in the church seem to soft on themselves, but harsh towards others. The true follower of Jesus has to be hard on themselves and gentle with others. It has to be so because the way of Jesus is not an easy way-it takes courage, patience, endurance, faith to walk in the way of Jesus in our world. Maybe this desire for a “dictator” Jesus is a kind of short cut to get the Kingdom of God without paying the price of becoming the kind of people we need to be to follow Jesus and participate in bringing his kingdom to the world.
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Did America ruin Christianity? The Crusades aside, being a resident North America, it appears the US version of Christianity is going off the rails and its influence is strong.
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We’re not meant to “save” this world. We’re meant to take care of those in it and spread the love of Jesus. It’s our souls that need saved not the world. Jesus will do that work later and he won’t be a “soft” Jesus then. But that’s his job not yours!
0:40 – Jesus is the " BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR ", Lucifer is the " light bearer ". One is the throne, the other the footstool. The Bible teaches that we are the throne and the footstool in life alone,,as the Periodic Table of Elements is housed by Nobility, so is the word of God, that we choose to embody and recieve as led to gold.
You're so right, Ed Trevors. Amen
How do you find a non Christian nationalist Church in a predominantly Bible belt red state.
I'm to the point where I just don't trust churches.
Christian nationalism has become pervasive in my area. What are the signs I could look for?
Or the signs I should look against?
Satan is a great imitator, and I'm not a very strong Christian.
I am afraid I won't know the difference until I'm sucked into a cult like mentality.
And since so many churches in my area sided with trump it makes me question all of them.
As I see it, trump is not THE Antichrist, so much as an antichrist.
As in, he does the opposite of what Christ preached.
Christ never said, I will have retribution on my enemies.
The Bible teachers to look at the deeds a person does, not what they say.
trump's first 4 years makes me incredibly foreboding of the next 4 years coming up.
To the point where I don't know where to turn.
I have a hard time trusting organizations that profess to be in my best interest, only have been stabbed in the back by them.
Any advice?
Christ was soft in terms of word and deed, in terms of compassion. BUT… he went against the norms of the time. He was courageous for defying those norms, for going against the rules to care for others. For going against those in power. He was a rebel, a protestor for what was good and right. He was a protector (isn't that the male role according to those that call him soft?)
MAGA wants their version of Jesus modeled after Trumpitler. 😢
The self righteous who wish to use God /Jesus to further their own personal agenda will and must end . Time for a Wake Up call. I trust in the process …it will happen in the most unexpected way .
Thank you Rev. I am upset because the church by and large is abusing and dragging the Name of our Lord thru the mud of power and prosperity. I am saddened that many will turn away from the true gospel of Christ because of the behaviour of so called Christians.
I’m with Felicia. I am bitterly disappointed in my church. The hypocrisy is rampant and has shaken my faith to the core. I’ve decided to leave my church and am considering leaving the church altogether. I’m beginning to think I can be a Christian without being in the church.
Jesus was not a militant revolutionist; he was a progressive evolutionist.
New religions cannot be invented; they are either evolved, or else they are suddenly revealed.
No professed revelation of religion could be regarded as authentic if it failed to recognize the duty demands of ethical obligation which had been created and fostered by preceding evolutionary religion.
Revelation unfailingly enlarges the ethical horizon of evolved religion while it simultaneously and unfailingly expands the moral obligations of all prior revelations.
The creation of new pictures out of old facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring—these are the artistic triumphs of truth.
All new evolutionary religions are merely advancing expressions of the old beliefs, new adaptations and adjustments. The old does not cease to exist; it is merged with the new.
Jesus transcended all the teachings of his forebears when he boldly substituted clean hearts for clean hands as the mark of true religion. He put reality in the place of tradition and swept aside all pretensions of vanity and hypocrisy. And yet this fearless man of God did not give vent to destructive criticism or manifest an utter disregard of the religious, social, economic, and political usages of his day. He was not a militant revolutionist; he was a progressive evolutionist. He engaged in the destruction of that which was only when he simultaneously offered his fellows the superior thing which ought to be.
In the Master’s earth life, this and all other worlds of the local creation discover a new and higher type of religion, based on personal spiritual relations with the Universal Father and wholly validated by the supreme authority of genuine personal experience.
The old religion taught self-sacrifice; the revelatory religion of Jesus teaches only self-forgetfulness, enhanced self-realization in conjoined social service and universe comprehension. The old religion was motivated by fear-consciousness; the new gospel of the kingdom is dominated by truth-conviction, the spirit of eternal and universal truth. No amount of piety or creedal loyalty can compensate for the absence in the life experience of kingdom believers of that spontaneous, generous, and sincere friendliness which characterizes the spirit-born sons of the living God. Neither tradition nor a ceremonial system of formal worship can atone for the lack of genuine compassion for one’s fellows.
True religion is to know and love God as your Father and man as your brother. Religion is not a slavish belief in threats of punishment or magical promises of future mystical rewards.
True religion is a matter of personal spiritual experience, it is inevitable that each individual religionist must have his own and personal interpretation of the realization of that spiritual experience.
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul.
The time is ripe to witness the figurative resurrection of the human Jesus from his burial tomb amidst the theological traditions and the religious dogmas of nineteen centuries. Jesus of Nazareth must not be longer sacrificed to even the splendid concept of the glorified Christ. What a transcendent service if, through this revelation, the Son of Man should be recovered from the tomb of traditional theology and be presented as the living Jesus to the church that bears his name, and to all other religions! (92:7.2 ,101:9.1, 99:5:2, 99:5:7, 48:6.33, 149:2.11, 196:0.4,180:5:12, 2:7.10, 196:1.2)
"Fluffy Jesus"? Interesting way to depict him…
Here is how a Melchizedek describes Jesus:
100:7.2 (1101.6) The unfailing kindness of Jesus touched the hearts of men, but his stalwart strength of character amazed his followers. He was truly sincere; there was nothing of the hypocrite in him. He was free from affectation; he was always so refreshingly genuine. He never stooped to pretense, and he never resorted to shamming. He lived the truth, even as he taught it. He was the truth. He was constrained to proclaim saving truth to his generation, even though such sincerity sometimes caused pain. He was unquestioningly loyal to all truth.
100:7.3 (1101.7) But the Master was so reasonable, so approachable. He was so practical in all his ministry, while all his plans were characterized by such sanctified common sense. He was so free from all freakish, erratic, and eccentric tendencies. He was never capricious, whimsical, or hysterical. In all his teaching and in everything he did there was always an exquisite discrimination associated with an extraordinary sense of propriety.
100:7.4 (1102.1) The Son of Man was always a well-poised personality. Even his enemies maintained a wholesome respect for him; they even feared his presence. Jesus was unafraid. He was surcharged with divine enthusiasm, but he never became fanatical. He was emotionally active but never flighty. He was imaginative but always practical. He frankly faced the realities of life, but he was never dull or prosaic. He was courageous but never reckless; prudent but never cowardly. He was sympathetic but not sentimental; unique but not eccentric. He was pious but not sanctimonious. And he was so well-poised because he was so perfectly unified.
100:7.5 (1102.2) Jesus’ originality was unstifled. He was not bound by tradition or handicapped by enslavement to narrow conventionality. He spoke with undoubted confidence and taught with absolute authority. But his superb originality did not cause him to overlook the gems of truth in the teachings of his predecessors and contemporaries. And the most original of his teachings was the emphasis of love and mercy in the place of fear and sacrifice.
https:// http://www.urantiabook .org/100-Religion-in-Human-Experience/#100_7
To me, this is a real man! One worth following!
God rules the entire Grand Universe with Love (which can include hard lessons). Perfection implies harmony.
They want Revelation Jesus. They've been told he's coming for the last several decades. They're tired of waiting and are giving up on Christianity and joining a movement that merely appears Christian-ish by giving lip service to the New Testament.
Even many who follow the "Soft Jesus" are conflicted. They don't want to "Let go and let God" and be led into the Lion's Den. Is it because they fear death or because they fear God will foresake them?
Revelation says that one will be taken and one will be left. I wonder if that was too optimistic. The ratio might be closer to 1 out of 4 or less.
Jesus is both the Lion and the Lamb❤️❤️
Whoever wrote that message is the fool. Because Jesus refused to bend the knee to Satan in exchange for worldly power, but that’s the thing that those who want worldly power don’t understand or accept. It’s inconvenient to them because it goes against their ambitions and their agenda.
The soft Jesus is not a weak Jesus. I don't believe the soft Jesus is not a corrective Jesus either. I've seen Him correct me in a time and way that did not shame and did not laud it over me. The soft Jesus is a patient Jesus. He is a gentle Jesus. He is a compassionate Jesus. He is FULL of mercy. He is the still small voice that one has to attune one's ears to hear and eyes to see and heart to receive. He won't push Himself on anyone. He is a very sensitive Jesus and He is the one that wept. He listens for the hurting and the least of these. He waits for the wayward one in all of us, hopefully, expectantly. His influence is by healing and building up. He is the Jesus who didn't resist the Father's will and voluntarily went to the cross though He didn't want to go. He prayed for others and He prayed for us when His day of crucifixion had come.
Some passages of Scripture move me more than others, but I don’t refuse to read anything in the Bible .
Isaiah 6 was not a dream; it was a vision.
Thank you Rev Ed, I'll take "Soft" Jesus over "Republican" Jesus every time!
Seems pretty straightforward to me: if you choose to hurt others you're only hurting yourself. Heck even God said that he was creating in his own image, so if you take that and run with it, we're all just manifestations of God. So what's the deal with all of this separation? We're all one. ❤
I had a desperate conversation with my maga dad two nights ago. This man has consistently demonstrated through my 46+ years a selfless devotion to our family, a patient and kind spirit always willing to help anyone out who was in need. He was affectionate, generous, warm, and funny, and most importantly, he led by example in teaching us the tenets and importance of our faith.
I pleaded with him to hear me, to search his heart and seek guidance through prayer. I raised scriptures and told him I was devastated and so confused by his support for Trump. I begged him not to harden his heart. But he would not be moved. He told me that there was nothing Trump or anyone could do that would change his opinion. I asked him to prayerfully consider, if that was truly the case, then who his actual god was. It all went absolutely nowhere.
If you help and love your neighbor , then that person might at one point, got towards your religion.
That is why God gave us free will. Trump does not want that. He wants control. But then there is some who believe he is the prophet and the savior.
@0:55 that would be “clearly could NOT care less”.
Love God- Love your neighbor! Five little words for life!!
If what you are saying is true, good and wise, then it shouldn't matter if it is "God's word". It should present itself as being what we should do. If what you say is the opposite of this, we each should reject it. We must reject it because we alone are responsible for what we do. If you present a horrible idea and say God commands it (such as hating some group of people), then we have to reject not only the idea but the God it came from.
And so, God has nothing to do with this. He may judge us later and when He does, He will see we did our best, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding. That is out of our hands. Our mission is to live this life the best way we can.
Get good ideas from the teachings of Christ. Sure! And from Bhudia, and Bingaman Franklyn, Gandhi, Marx, Your next door neighbor, smart-ass comedians. What does it matter where an idea comes from? Introspection while taking a shower, mowing grass, washing dishes – is a gold mine of ideas. Share the good ones.
How is it that this is always ignored. It was spelled out very clearly. Many either refuse to repeat these words or know that it will turn them away from money and power. I am foolish, I expect leaders in any church to live and teach these words. If not, in my book, they are not followers of Christ. End of story.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The whole point of the Messiah was to introduce compassion. Furthermore the inclusion of the Old Testament was an action of the Catholic Church to try and maintain power in spite of the teachings of Christ and an attempt to loophole the will of God. Those who do not embrace the teachings of Christ are by definition, NOT Christians.
I'm an atheist, but having been sent to a "non-denominational" boarding school and having studdied to counter the draconian lessons of that R.E. program; I know me some Bible and history.
There's a name for those who believe in the Old Testament and decline the New. Believers in Yahweh alone, are not Christians but Jewish. For most "Christians" who decline the teachings of Christ, that's an insult (ironically).
Amen, Pastor Trevor’s. Thank you for being here on YouTube. You have been an encouragement to me.
Meekness is not weakness—it never has been.
I can understand why people would be disappointed in the church, since so many Christians seem to have rejected Christ in favor of flashy, self-aggrandizing, materialistic, foul-mouthed, power-hungry Trump.
I've been a Christian for almost 50 years and it makes me 🤢.
One must ask what would be the point of the free will god gave us if he would have us all forced to obey