Ask Martin Luther?

Link the Bible in it's entirety.

The main theme is this: Apart from Christ, there is no hope and neither is repentance nor Salvation made available. The Law of God cannot provide this for us.
We already know this because we are handed with the complete Bible.
If you read Hebrews 10: 1-18, it explains why the Law cannot make us Holy, neither justify us or cleansed our sins. But by One Act of Christ, God has removed every sins of the believer forever. Verse 18 says it like this:

And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.


Do you see that? Sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. What Jesus did was a DONE deal once and for all.

However, these people at that time, rejected Christ, despite having seen all that Christ has spoken and done. For them no sacrifice for sins is left. Because God has set aside and nullified the first covenant. (Hebrews 10:9  & Hebrews 8:13)

If you're concern about deliberate /willful sinning part, perhaps if you see this verse, you may understand better.

Hebrews 3:12 (NIV) - See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Meaning Unbelief is a Sin.

If you replace the word deliberate sinning with deliberate unbelief and read further down from Hebrews 10: 27-31, you may began to see the revelation.

After all, In Hebrews 3:13 it did say to encourage one another day after day and Hebrews 10:25 does say not giving up meeting together..
All these in context of encouraging one another through assemblies of the Church to spur on Faith.
If you look from Bird's eye view of all these. It's talking about people who willfully or deliberately reject Christ or choose not to believe in Him, for them, there is no more sacrifice of sins left and be brought back to repentance.
(Hebrews 10:26 & Hebrews 6:6).

I didn't expect that one line to go so far deep

Then I come back to this thread to see 45 new posts O_O

Hey brothers,

Please do stop with this back and forth on abortion. This thing is just like unending genealogies which is not helpful.

And yeeck, as much as, we don't comment on your thread, you don't have to generalize or "demonize" us to make a point. That is very unhealthy.

Let's us all just agree to stop here.

That is a red herring

I believe he's under bondage. Actually If you think about it, there's really no reason for the average Chinese Man to hate Christianity with such passion. I mean generally we all know there is this misunderstanding in the Chinese culture against our Faith when it comes to ancestral worship, that's where the conflict usually starts from. But his long century hatred really takes the cake. Even I'm wondering if any Christian may have accidentally knock his car or something like that. 

Science has no opinions on souls, as it's an ill defined concept. Conciousness however could be quantified. If you want to define it differently, science has no say.

Assertion that a body becomes lighter when death is testable as has proven to be untrue, A person body weight fluctuates all the time during life and death, a human body is algamation of multitudes of microbes of around 1.2kg, when a person dies, these microbes are still alive and respirating, if one is to totally seal a body at a person's death, all the molecules and atoms that accounts to that person would remains the same hence the same mass.

In 30 years, some period (I quote 50 years) of longevity could be achieve, immortality maybe far off but I would not rule it out. I conciously chose the words, so I've no qualms on them.

An educated guess is still a guess, but as someone in the field of Genomics, it's an insight at least.

To be exact they pray to the family nameplates. Other idols can sit together I think? that's what I saw at my grandparent's house.

I saw some altar in a restaurant where they have this big dude with a big spear.

Occasionally I would see beer can, lottery tickets, etc inside the altar too. 

The dude with the big spear is most likely Guan Yu. Red face, very tall and no-belly muscular build with a huge glaive, right?

People pray to him for protection. Both gangers and policemen adopt him as their patron god

But it could also be someone else with a similar weapon.

with a background in the field of Genomics, do u not think tat there is actually a Grand Designer behind the complexity of DNA strands, etc?

or u rather go with randomness then? Creationism doesn't hold water with u? Why? Personally, evolution doesn't explain a lot of things.

The dude with the big spear is most likely Guan Yu. Red face, very tall and no-belly muscular build with a huge glaive, right?

People pray to him for protection. Both gangers and policemen adopt him as their patron god

But it could also be someone else with a similar weapon.

Red face! Yeah! I remember his belly is quite big. 

You could choose to believe all (or select) the creation believes and grand designers you want... until you can demonstrate it to be true, it's just myths...

Oh yeah, I've read his posts regarding the world two biggest religions. So much hatred. 

Oh Chinese ancestral worship...The one that pray in front of the small altar with food offerings inside. Right?

Oh maybe a Christian stole his favourite durian. 

Don't be silly. Christians don't steal.

what happened to this thread? @.@

something nice to listen here

Jesus Be The Center featuring Sidney Mohede and Jun Sakakiyama live in Live Church Hamamatsu

God's Great Dance Floor featuring Chris Tomlin