So that's where Star Wars Yoda got his name...

Yada = Yoda....  

Merry CHRISTmas to everyone too

Ooh the hebrew text is very enlightening.

Hi. May I know your observation on people of mass in Bahasa Melayu? Are they usually from Sabah and Sarawak? (for churches in the West Malaysia)

Are there usually people who go to mass alone?

Do people who go for mass know each other, or gather to know each other, or after the mass they just leave?

My questions look funny but I need to know how the environment is before, during and after the mass and how is the social acceptance towards people who go alone. Thanks.

Thank you. Regardless of race?

yesh! Really cantik. More so when I can see the light rays in the air thanks to the mist vapours

My family is already having our own christmas dinner during the same time. Oops.

Merry Christmas. You perform UW? 

Find a better substitute. There are many ways to destress.

Anyone struggling with pornography and masturbation here?

I believe I have been saved by Christ but I just could not stop looking at porn, especially when I am stressed, or too bored.

I prayed many times but still struggling..

In fact, he can. Change is never easy, good thing is that he admits it. The hardest of all he has already done it. Next is to find a better healthier substitute.

Thanks brother. Your revelation is in-line with what I believe, but I am also thinking to myself, what if until i die, or when the lord comes, I'm still doing this sin. I can imagine I will not have the "face" to face the Lord.

I really want to break free from this. I shared my struggle with few friends before. They prayed for me. My pastor at church, also prayed for me. But I'm still coming back to sin.

The longest I held up before was when I was living with a church friend who is a very devoted Christian at overseas, and I managed to hold up for around 45 days. and that was it. I never went without committing this sin any longer than that since ever.

I kind of think that the reason of my constant failure was because I lack the toughness, and possibly faith, to face the downside of my life. I think I also tend to be a perfectionist, but I like being perfectionist sometimes, because it drives me to move and work for the better of things.  But, the contradiction to this perfectionist nature is that, I care A LOT how people think of me. I can give you an example of this contradiction:

I studied overseas and now working in my hometown in Malaysia. I notice, for example, my colleagues are very laid back, chit-chat a lot, and sometimes even listen to music during working hours. Well, I could of course easily solve this problem by wearing an ear plug as far as the noise and distraction is concerned. But I also thought I could have come up before them and to tell them their chit chat and music distracted me, which I think it is what I "should" do (perfectionism kicks in here); but I did not do, because I lacked the courage to assert what I want because I want to have good terms with my colleagues!

Furthermore, I feel particularly lonely since I came back from overseas, the laid-back nature in my hometown, making me feeling unmotivated to do what I want. Because whenever I assert what i want, i get pissed off and would scare people away (I don't like scaring people away as I said I care A LOT how people think of me: Cuz if i do what I think I "should" do, People would think: this fellow why so serious, this fellow should just go along with the culture and don't make it too hard on things la; if this fellow wants to change things, sorry but he has to be more proactive and persistent, and for me, I will just see how things go and MAYBE follow him if he could bring better things for me. (at least this is what I see of the mentality of the people in my hometown)

But thing is, I want more, do good things for the society with skills I have, lead people to better life, do God's will, be truly satisfied and to fully utilize my living on this earth. But I lack the power of will, lack support, not even my family provides enough support for me. And every time I feel stuck in this, I revert back to pornography ...

Bro, sorry for throwing out all this grumble, hope it does not wear you out

  , nothing to do with god.

If god been that good. he will be straight away cure of his addiction. By the way, change is never easy. I am sure you of all people should know this very well.

All we can do is encourage him to change and find a better substitute or pray if you would.

Simple really. You dont even believe in yourself so how do you expect to do THINGS!?!?!?

GOD merely guides us. HE doesnt do the stuffs we ask.

Also, we can do things even without GOD intervention like simple stuffs.

Dont really believe in the Bible. (Insert known facts about the Bible)

Rather trust GOD than the Bible.

Did i say anything about anything about you guys?...... I am just answering your questions...

If the bible is straight out written by GOD then i have no qualms but it is not so yea and it has only one version which raise flags all over so yea. I think this would be my last.

By the way, you dont see me insulting nor questioning your believes. I am here to read, to see and learn a few things if i can. More than not, i'm mostly here to fellowship as well. I'll leave the teaching to you guys unless some one ask me for my opinion then i will state mine.

Peace bro 

Ack I forgot to log into lowyat.

Happy 2016 everyone!

Um... about that one.

You're right that a lot of people say that to be the result of not being faithful enough. Or something along the lines.

But...
I don't think it's that anymore?

Because nowadays I learn of people studying Theology with PHD but never believing Jesus is Lord and Saviour. To them, he's just a historical or mythical subject.

May all of us experience a new beginning with Christ! (John 1:1)

Correct correct.

I still don't really know who are the guys who got rejected though? I feel like I'm missing context.
Like, how many 'spiritual experts' collect every 'god' out there as an arsenal to do their job.

Or these people are from cults. They have power but come from the Devil?

?????

Tolong clarify.
Paul addressed the same issue all the way back since the church's foundation. He taruk them kau kau with his words

You can see some of the action happening in 1 Chorinthians book.

Well my BM isn't the best so here goes.

taruk = put (object) location

kau kau = referring to a person



I have no idea what that BM phrases mean. 

So I read this Bible summary about Corinthians.

The spirit of independent thinking emphasized so strongly by the Greeks evidently was influencing the Corinthian Christians. Paul's manner of dealing with the problem is noteworthy. He does not insist that all members of the community should think alike on every subject, nor does he advocate that someone with authority should tell others what to believe. What he does insist on is a unity of spirit and purpose that will allow each group to learn from the others.

Paul's account of the resurrection enables us to see how his view differed from those of the ancient Greeks and also from the view found in certain portions of the Old Testament. The Greeks believed in the doctrine of the soul's immortality. According to this doctrine, souls do not have a beginning or an end. They are eternal realities capable of existing apart from the bodies in which they were incarnated. This view was contrary to the Hebrew conception, which viewed man as a single unit including body, soul, and spirit; the soul was not something that existed apart from the body. After death, all went down to Sheol, a cavern below the earth, but no memory or consciousness of any kind attended this state of existence.

In contrast to these views, Paul believed in a genuine resurrection from physical death in which a person's individuality and moral worth would be preserved. But this preservation was not to be a reanimation of the corpse and a continuation of life as it had been before. Flesh and blood, Paul tells us, will not inherit God's kingdom. The body that is raised will not be the natural body but rather a spiritual body. Paul does not tell us what this spiritual body will be like, but he is sure that it will be a body of some kind, for the personality includes body, soul, and spirit, and salvation is not achieved until all three have been transformed together. The Gnostics of Paul's day, who believed that only spirit is good and that all matter is evil, taught that Jesus did not possess a physical body but only appeared to do so. For Paul, this position was untenable: Unless Jesus possessed a body in common with other human beings, his triumph over evil would have no significance for humans. Jesus' resurrection means a triumph of the entire personality over the forces of evil; what it means for Jesus it also means for all those who put their trust in him.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/n/ne...d-2-corinthians

And its given free to us.

Because God gave us victory through Jesus Christ.

Such a wonderful blessing from God yet so many failed to see it.

In my understanding from going to various churches in Malaysia, some preachers preached "fear / false" doctrines.

The same goes in overseas churches too. Some even allowed copulation and cohabitation before marriage. sheesh..