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As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
To me, it was only a desire to glean some good ideas wherever I could find them, to add to my collection from Rumi, Lao Tzu, Emerson, and quite a variety of other great thinkers.I haven't found a good reason to.
Sure. Anyone who chooses to follow a higher path has to set aside the ego and its wants and desires in order to realize something more than those in one's life. That's pretty much what all religions teach.As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
torture stick?As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
I think that to become the human embodiment of love, forgiveness, kindness, and generosity in a world full of people who have succumbed to fear, greed, hubris, and force of violence, means that we will likely be made to suffer at their hands. Just as Jesus was. And yet, if enough of us will find the courage and wisdom to do so, anyway, humanity will finally be healed and saved from itself.As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
I'm confident that this meant something quite different in 1st century Judea than it generally does today. The world of the early Christians was overwhelmingly dominated by the Jewish elite and their pagan overlords.As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
I haven't found a good reason to.
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
As you continue to study the Bible you need to take to heart Jesus’ invitation: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake day after day and follow me continually.” (Luke 9:23)
What do you think?
People need to be politically correct these days.That has got to be one of the weirder translations of the Bible.
Luke 9
This word is usually translated as cross, even if it is a torture device.