Its not just hearing the word

[truthseeker]

No. But you're pretty closed minded and I can tell that you don't get out much.

Men will fight to defend the integrity of their beliefs, perhaps even kill when they are on the brink of knowing that their beliefs hold no integrity.

And you know better than to say that folks around here aren't reading the bible just because we aren't pumped up on your personal salvation kick. Maybe talks of hell warrants a swift kick in your bum but it doesn't worry everybody like that.
So you understand the hell, repentance, and judgement message. Cool. Alot of people do. And alot of people are past the condemnation and the darkness and fire and brimstone and moving on to the Light of the Word - not wallowing in the guilt of past ignorance.

There is - among the lines of hell, repentance, and judgement - the 'gentle Jesus love you' message. That message works for me because I don't have hell, repentance, and judgement issues like the people who put in overtime to preach it.

[Flame]

I guess you're right. Im closed minded to lies, and I believe Jesus, and his words in the Bible. Mankind are born sinners, and need to repent, and be born again, to be united again with God. If you dont become born again, you remain a natural man, but if you become born again, you have the blood of God's lamb covering all your mistakes and flaws. And, whats more, you regain the access to God, that was lost to mankind through sin. If you are not born agian, Jesus says, you will not be with God.

Im close minded to anyone, that teaches contray to Jesus' words.

[truthseeker]

Well, when you carry the sword, you are met with the sword.

If you have a vision that insists that there will be no peace among men then you will never find peace among men. The battle should not be for the Word, because the word will stand even when you have fallen in battle. Jesus doesn't need a hero. He shared the wisdom - of men in relation to God, eachother, and themselves.

The ascension is not completed when you have finished reading Revelation. Born again is an awareness that is progressive and you are covered in the blood of God's lamb by Grace. Born again is a progressive belief system and you have to be careful of the foundation upon which you are building. To read the Bible is the beginning, and how you recieve the information is determined by the basis upon which you sought the information.

[rudiger]

If you don't repent you will not be reconcilied By the Father into reconciliation of the body of Christ and will not receive holy spirit or eternal knowledge, this is the reason elijah spirit was in john the batptist for Gods purpose to set the path straight, meaning repentance to be reconcilied (to be put into order of Gods will).
For the reason Christ Jesus Came was to return the gift of holy spirit back which the first Adam lost, but only if we repent against our will and become straight in Gods will only then we receive reconciliation in one body and mind of Christ Jesus our lord in spirit and truth with spiritual solid food and not milk wordlings.