Welcome to "Forgiven"
For the grace of God hath appeared bringing salvation to all men.
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Someone's at your door.
Things change. Well, things other than God.
Like this site.
On November 10, 2014, this was the intro to my second site.
I switched, because better things were available - It was easier for me. It was more readable for you (I hope).
It's now August 19, 2016 - and I'm moving again. I hope, for the last time. It's a lot of work!!
Hope you enjoy it. Learn from it. Ans especially get closer to God through it.
The first one was tagged - Thou shalt have no gods before me.
This one - the second one for which this was written originally - Forgiven - For the grace of God hath appeared.
The third one - the one I'm going to in August of 2016 - Study - Given that the Bible is God's manual for our lives, should we not study it?
As you can see - it's more than just the technical details that are changing.
For those coming from the original site, yes - you'll notice that this is a bit different. The appearance is certainly different. Some of the content may be a little different as well. In fact, some of it may be very different.
There's lots of reasons for this. Lots of things have happened in the world lately - many of them bad. There's lots of things that have happened in my life this year - some bad - but ultimately good. Who knows - maybe the things in the world will turn out for good as well. Hopefully - they will.
But in that previous paragraph - there's the answer as to why this new take on the site.
Lots of things happen - to all of us. Lots of those things are bad.
We do lots of things as people. Lots of those things are bad.
Many people look at God as our judge - waiting to catch each and every bad thing we do - and punish us for them.
But what about the text on the picture at the top of this page:
For the grace of God hath appeared bringing salvation to all men.
Normally I'd be putting in a whole section of the Bible with a link so you can go check out even more of the context. In this case - that's not going to happen. I'm not doing it because it's one sentence in the middle of a section about "What must be taught to various groups". This is part of a letter from the Apostle Paul to Titus. I will tell you how the letter starts:
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, and at his appointed season he brought his word to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,
To Titus, my true son in our common faith:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
This is great. It talks about truth, faith, knowledge, eternal life, as well as grace and peace.
The Gospel of the Christian Bible is supposed to be about good news. The vast majority of people - I think - would agree that the things above are good. At least until they heard Christianity was involved. Then - many would start to talk about how judgmental Christians are - how they live by laws that say "don't do this" - "don't do that" - "don't do anything" (especially of it's fun!).
But that feeling isn't reflective of what Christianity as about. Take a look at this -
Discover more from God versus religion
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