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You Must Be Born Again !!!

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You must be born again !! Come on ! I command you! Be born again! ....what's wrong with you? I told you - You MUST be born again !!! .....Try harder! Be wise enough to be born again! Come on ! Use that free will that makes you born again !! ........ YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN! Feel encouraged now ? Of course not. This would have to possibly one of the most quoted passages from the bible in the world, yet sadly misapplied. It is frequently used in churches to induce decisions by people and I believe it misses the point of the passage this verse is taken from. When most churches use it(mostly sincerely) they nonetheless use it with a massive dose of guilt and obligation heaped upon the recipient. "You must be born again'' is taken from John chapter 3 : verses 1 - 10. Verses 5-8 specifically speak of the idea of being 'born again'. In most modern day churches this verse is simply ripped out of this passage without any explanation of the context and used as a strong co...
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Perfect Fear Casts Out Love

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Perfect Fear casts out Love This is a quote from 1 John 4:18 Well not quite...The reverse is how it reads: "Perfect Love casts out Fear". But going by the idea taught in most churches as 'good news'...well it might as well read as "Perfect Fear....." cos for some reason they think they telling people they are going to literally burn forever (and i mean trillions upon trillions of years is just the beginning) if they don't make a wise choice is somehow giving them good news..? Huh? Tell me - what good news is there in this if everything regarding eternity is up to you ultimately. This is the "ultimate no brainer" - Ie - people are given the option of going to hell forever or to a place of peace and being known they are totally accepted....Now of course what would you do if someone came along and told you " You have 2 options " I throw u into that furnace over there OR you can come to this great pool party where all your friends and lov...
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Hugh Jackman gets it!

Earlier this year i came across this piece from a ninemsn news website. Notice what Hugh Jackman says in the last line - what many people in the world think I would say. They've been told the 'good news' - most of them many times but most intrinsically know that it seems too 'hard' to follow and is not good news in the end, but more like a death threat. Hugh can see that according to most statistics on Christianity it is likely that the vast majority of the world is going to a literal hell forever and he knows this is not good news....Kinda explains why most tend to turn off the instant a christian message is presented to them. Most people involved in churches don't seem to consciously think along these same lines. They just don't think of the statistics or the very low take up of christianity - if they did they would have to wonder how the gospel message is such a hopless failure worldwide, and should despair beyond comprehension. Or there is an alternati...
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'Clayton's Universalism'

Back in the 80s in Australia there was an advert for a beer called 'Clayton's'. If i remember correctly it advertised the beer as "the beer you're having when you're not having a beer". I've just thought of a new adapted usage for this kind of phrase. "Perichoresis: The universalim you're having when you're not having Universalism." I came across the Perichoresis movement in the late 90s. I learnt some great things from the books of Baxter Kruger etc and am still grateful for what i learnt - especially the grand vision of how deep and huge the impact of the Incarnation is, and about the true relational idea of God - through discovering that the Trinitarian concept is fundamentally about relationship. However, as time went on i gradually began to see inconsistencies in the Perichoresis movement. They would talk as universalists yet always deny they were teaching this. On the one hand it teaches that all humanity IS seated at the right ...
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