Please do not be mad at me, but I was going through my old emails & found this. It just seemed too perfect to not post it. **************************************************

The Purpose Of Life
>
> God created mankind primarily because He desired to have a
> family. In order to truly fellowship with God, man had to have
> freedom of choice. Unfortunately, man used his freedom to rebel
> against God and fell from fellowship with God.
>
> When man fell he came under the dominion of the devil, because
> he followed the devil's suggestion to disobey God. With this
> came spiritual death and a new nature which was selfish. Man
> became self-centered -- actually worshiping himself by making
> every decision based on what was best for him. The result of
> this selfishness is evident all around us: horrible misery and
> suffering.
>
> God is just and obeys His own laws. Justice requires that
> rebellion be punished. To be just, yet allow mankind to come
> back into fellowship with Him, God Himself came to earth as the
> man Jesus Christ. He suffered a horrible death as the
> substitute for all mankind, taking the punishment we deserved
> for our sins. Because of what Jesus did, God could justly
> forgive all sin, and open a way for all people to come back
> into fellowship with God.
>
> Jesus Christ Himself is the only way to God. Only by receiving
> Jesus can we enjoy the benefits of His sacrifice, which sets us
> free from sin and its judgment.
>
> Our life on earth now is testing and preparation for eternity,
> to determine if we qualify to be in God's family. This is not
> determined by human beauty or achievement, but by our
> willingness to submit to the lordship of Jesus Christ. When we
> submit to Jesus, He begins changing us into what He wants us to
> be.
>
> When you come to Jesus, He changes you inwardly. As you
> continue following Jesus and obeying His Word, your inward
> change will continue manifesting outwardly, causing people and
> circumstances around you to change also. God will continue
> working in and through you until you become like Jesus Christ
> in your thoughts and actions, as well as your nature.

***WARNING: contains Jesus info***

LMAO. I don't know why, but I found that hilarious!

I'd like to add that I found the TITLE funny...

Thank you for the heads up. I think that is a perfect way of handling it! *big cheery sincere smile of appreciation* From now on, if I start a thread that may have pagan topics I will label it as "Witchy Stuff" or tag it as having to do with religion. Solves all sorts of problems.

I laughed when I read the subject title also.

While I still stick by my guns that you are indeed out to convert us all Aborn (nothing wrong with that for those who want to hear it, I might add), I do applaud the way you chose to present this post. So those who didn't want to read it, didn't have to.

I think her title was good too but I think she is approaching this wrong by attempting some sort of a mass conversion. Perhaps she should wait to see if anyone PM's her. If they are interested they will come to her.

Agreed. I appreciate anyone's views on religion-as long as they are accepting of others' views as well.

My only question is this: What was the purpose of this thread??

because reborns love to foward shit like this..

you have got to see Brian's email.. 109 a day from his re-born sister about Jesus, mean jokes about non-christians, etc.. ALL FWDS!!!

THEN she complains when her ISP threatens to kick her off for spam.

At least twice per day I get the whole "god is good, god is great, and he loves eevn though you know you are going to hell, FUCKTARD!" emails from family members that last time I checked weren't even christians themselves.

sounds like Brian's family..

they can do whatever sinful thing (being married and having a boyfriend who thinks they are divorced, and now that she really is divorced, he still has no idea!!) they wish.. but if someone else does it, OH NO!