i_love_jesus spiffy and i don't care what people think anymore. i will shout it if i have to. 040716 ... pyriel that's cool. nothing wrong with faith if that's what moves you. I would hope that nobody messes with you over it... at least as long as you don't pull a "Grace" get all "holier-than-thou" on us and forget the lesson of Matthew 6:5. 040716 ... Jess So do I! I call my boyfriend that cos his name is Christian! However, I do love the other Jesus too! Infact I help out at a Christian children's group! So there you go! 040807 ... renew Jesus loved us enough to lay down His life for us. Are you willing to do the same for Him? 040807 ... anne-girl I might die for him, if I knew him but I won't live for him. I prefer to believe that if he exists, he wants our happiness, not our worship or adulation 040807 ... Jess Yeah! I agree! I think if Jesus came down today he would be totally confused and appaled to see everyone in churches messing about with alter cloths and stuff! I sometimes think Jesus would be confused to worship his own religion! 040811 ... thunderinthedistance ... if I was my own diety... wouldn't it be a little confusing to worship...myself...anyway? *shrugs* 040812 ... Perspective_of_Soul Why one would love a dead, zombified, Jewish hippy is beyond me. 040812 ... 12 August 2004 An "amazing" newslink Email_that to "Everybody" (e.g. Bush (War_president), Blair (War_promoter), etc.)? That_'US'_should_be_'bar'_from_the_2004_olympics_i...n Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 040812 040812 ... Bill OReilly falafel 041106 ... stork daddy i love jesus 041107 ... stork daddy jesus overturned the tables, and said to the moneylenders, you have turned a house of prayer into a den of thieves. 041107 ... stork daddy jesus said "Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" and also "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--a man's enemies will be the members of his own household." if combined with let he without sin cast the first stone. it would seem that even if jesus was saying in some of the above qoutes that sin would not be permitted, he, being the only one without sin, was the only one who should punish it. furthermore that the sword of jesus was to come at the end of the world, when souls were being weighed suggests that the punishment would not be earthly, but would be distance from the love of god. in suggesting those who draw the sword shall perish by it, it seems he suggests that those who do engage in violence and retribution cast themselves amongst the very sinners they purport to correct or save, and that the only sword is that of the lord. of course two of the above qoutes are from the gospel of matthew which has been questioned by some. 041107 what's it to you? who go blather from