A late Introduction

[Saxon]

I was born in Yorkton Saskatchewan. My father passed away when I was five. Mother moved us to Regina to stay with her brother and sister-in-law. We lived with them until my mother found a place to work. The growing up years of life were good to me. I was taught the value of kindness and honesty; I mostly stayed out of trouble. I was a good kid.

It seems that the call of the sea comes loud and strong to Saskatchewan boys. I found myself in Nova Scotia and the Navy in the late sixties. I spent most of my military time in Shearwater going from ship to ship with Sea King helicopters.

At Shearwater Naval Air Station, a man that was at one time, a chain smoking porn dealer introduced me to Jesus. You meet the nicest people in the Navy. That man’s life-style floored me, and the change in his life was a major focal point for the next year. This experience of observing the change in his life evoked questions and thoughts of God that had never bothered me before. I was a good person. I didn’t steal anything big; I wasn’t a smoker or a drug user. If it wasn’t so boring, I could run a list as long as your arm extolling all the things that I did or did not do. If anyone deserved heaven, it was me. I didn’t do any of the horrifying things that I had seen others doing. I was trapped in the delusion of self-righteousness

As time went by, I found myself on the flight deck of a destroyer in the North Atlantic, confronted with a choice that needed to be dealt with and nowhere to run. I had discovered that no one deserves heaven. The choice was cut and dry. Do I continue to wallow in my own goodness? That kind of goodness will not get anyone into heaven. Do I turn to the only righteousness in the universe that will assure me a place in heaven? At that point in time, I committed my life and eternal destiny to Jesus.

The change that came into my life was astounding. I had a complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Things that I firmly believed crumbled and blew away. Things that I had no time for became important. Do old things pass away? for sure. Do all things become new? Most definitely. Today I am living in the Halifax Regional Municipality with my wife of 25 years, a true gift from God, and two sons. I also have had the honour of having two stepchildren to help raise.

The life that I have lived in Christ for the past 35 years allows me to assure you with great confidence that Jesus, the Christ, is alive and well, doing just as the Word of God has described. I am a witness to his resurrection, he changed me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!

[Heart2Heart]

I was born in Yorkton Saskatchewan. My father passed away when I was five. Mother moved us to Regina to stay with her brother and sister-in-law. We lived with them until my mother found a place to work. The growing up years of life were good to me. I was taught the value of kindness and honesty; I mostly stayed out of trouble. I was a good kid.

It seems that the call of the sea comes loud and strong to Saskatchewan boys. I found myself in Nova Scotia and the Navy in the late sixties. I spent most of my military time in Shearwater going from ship to ship with Sea King helicopters.

At Shearwater Naval Air Station, a man that was at one time, a chain smoking porn dealer introduced me to Jesus. You meet the nicest people in the Navy. That man’s life-style floored me, and the change in his life was a major focal point for the next year. This experience of observing the change in his life evoked questions and thoughts of God that had never bothered me before. I was a good person. I didn’t steal anything big; I wasn’t a smoker or a drug user. If it wasn’t so boring, I could run a list as long as your arm extolling all the things that I did or did not do. If anyone deserved heaven, it was me. I didn’t do any of the horrifying things that I had seen others doing. I was trapped in the delusion of self-righteousness

As time went by, I found myself on the flight deck of a destroyer in the North Atlantic, confronted with a choice that needed to be dealt with and nowhere to run. I had discovered that no one deserves heaven. The choice was cut and dry. Do I continue to wallow in my own goodness? That kind of goodness will not get anyone into heaven. Do I turn to the only righteousness in the universe that will assure me a place in heaven? At that point in time, I committed my life and eternal destiny to Jesus.

The change that came into my life was astounding. I had a complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Things that I firmly believed crumbled and blew away. Things that I had no time for became important. Do old things pass away? for sure. Do all things become new? Most definitely. Today I am living in the Halifax Regional Municipality with my wife of 25 years, a true gift from God, and two sons. I also have had the honour of having two stepchildren to help raise.

The life that I have lived in Christ for the past 35 years allows me to assure you with great confidence that Jesus, the Christ, is alive and well, doing just as the Word of God has described. I am a witness to his resurrection, he changed me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!

Good to have you here, Saxon! :) I like your openness about human nature, in general.

Blessings....

[sayso]

The change that came into my life was astounding. I had a complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Things that I firmly believed crumbled and blew away. Things that I had no time for became important. Do old things pass away? for sure. Do all things become new? Most definitely. Today I am living in the Halifax Regional Municipality with my wife of 25 years, a true gift from God, and two sons. I also have had the honour of having two stepchildren to help raise.


Hello Saxon!

What a wonderful testimony. God is so good to us. :) A complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Yep, that is exactly what happens when one is born again and becomes a child of God. Welcome to Walter Martin Forum! I'm so glad that you're here and looking forward to you sharing more of what Jesus has done in your life.

Sayso

[bhuvana-mohan dasa]

I was born in Yorkton Saskatchewan. My father passed away when I was five. Mother moved us to Regina to stay with her brother and sister-in-law. We lived with them until my mother found a place to work. The growing up years of life were good to me. I was taught the value of kindness and honesty; I mostly stayed out of trouble. I was a good kid.

It seems that the call of the sea comes loud and strong to Saskatchewan boys. I found myself in Nova Scotia and the Navy in the late sixties. I spent most of my military time in Shearwater going from ship to ship with Sea King helicopters.

At Shearwater Naval Air Station, a man that was at one time, a chain smoking porn dealer introduced me to Jesus. You meet the nicest people in the Navy. That man’s life-style floored me, and the change in his life was a major focal point for the next year. This experience of observing the change in his life evoked questions and thoughts of God that had never bothered me before. I was a good person. I didn’t steal anything big; I wasn’t a smoker or a drug user. If it wasn’t so boring, I could run a list as long as your arm extolling all the things that I did or did not do. If anyone deserved heaven, it was me. I didn’t do any of the horrifying things that I had seen others doing. I was trapped in the delusion of self-righteousness

As time went by, I found myself on the flight deck of a destroyer in the North Atlantic, confronted with a choice that needed to be dealt with and nowhere to run. I had discovered that no one deserves heaven. The choice was cut and dry. Do I continue to wallow in my own goodness? That kind of goodness will not get anyone into heaven. Do I turn to the only righteousness in the universe that will assure me a place in heaven? At that point in time, I committed my life and eternal destiny to Jesus.

The change that came into my life was astounding. I had a complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Things that I firmly believed crumbled and blew away. Things that I had no time for became important. Do old things pass away? for sure. Do all things become new? Most definitely. Today I am living in the Halifax Regional Municipality with my wife of 25 years, a true gift from God, and two sons. I also have had the honour of having two stepchildren to help raise.

The life that I have lived in Christ for the past 35 years allows me to assure you with great confidence that Jesus, the Christ, is alive and well, doing just as the Word of God has described. I am a witness to his resurrection, he changed me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!

Welcome aboard, Saxon, and i thank you for freezing a moment in time to transport us to where God has most Mercifully taken you!

You may (or may not) be surprised to learn, while here, of others who claim to share experiences of life-transformation comparable to your own, and you may be surprised to learn that the authenticity of their experience is not invalidated (but rather affirmed) by yours, nor is your experience is invalidated by them. Some of them may appear to bow to manifestations of God's energies with which (or "Whom") you may not yet be personally familiar.

i welcome you, and share with you the excitement in the Exploration :).

your servant,
bhuvana.

[asdf]

I was born in Yorkton Saskatchewan. My father passed away when I was five. Mother moved us to Regina to stay with her brother and sister-in-law. We lived with them until my mother found a place to work. The growing up years of life were good to me. I was taught the value of kindness and honesty; I mostly stayed out of trouble. I was a good kid.

It seems that the call of the sea comes loud and strong to Saskatchewan boys. I found myself in Nova Scotia and the Navy in the late sixties. I spent most of my military time in Shearwater going from ship to ship with Sea King helicopters.

At Shearwater Naval Air Station, a man that was at one time, a chain smoking porn dealer introduced me to Jesus. You meet the nicest people in the Navy. That man’s life-style floored me, and the change in his life was a major focal point for the next year. This experience of observing the change in his life evoked questions and thoughts of God that had never bothered me before. I was a good person. I didn’t steal anything big; I wasn’t a smoker or a drug user. If it wasn’t so boring, I could run a list as long as your arm extolling all the things that I did or did not do. If anyone deserved heaven, it was me. I didn’t do any of the horrifying things that I had seen others doing. I was trapped in the delusion of self-righteousness

As time went by, I found myself on the flight deck of a destroyer in the North Atlantic, confronted with a choice that needed to be dealt with and nowhere to run. I had discovered that no one deserves heaven. The choice was cut and dry. Do I continue to wallow in my own goodness? That kind of goodness will not get anyone into heaven. Do I turn to the only righteousness in the universe that will assure me a place in heaven? At that point in time, I committed my life and eternal destiny to Jesus.

The change that came into my life was astounding. I had a complete disruption in at***ude and goals in life. Things that I firmly believed crumbled and blew away. Things that I had no time for became important. Do old things pass away? for sure. Do all things become new? Most definitely. Today I am living in the Halifax Regional Municipality with my wife of 25 years, a true gift from God, and two sons. I also have had the honour of having two stepchildren to help raise.

The life that I have lived in Christ for the past 35 years allows me to assure you with great confidence that Jesus, the Christ, is alive and well, doing just as the Word of God has described. I am a witness to his resurrection, he changed me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!

Hello, welcome, and thanks for sharing your experience in that way. I echo bmd in saying that the change you have experienced resonates with me.

I look forward to more conversations with you.

[Jill]

Saxon,

Welcome to the WM Board and thank you so much for sharing your eloquent and touching testimony. I praise and thank God for your faith. :)

Jill

[Jill]

Welcome aboard, Saxon, and i thank you for freezing a moment in time to transport us to where God has most Mercifully taken you!

You may (or may not) be surprised to learn, while here, of others who claim to share experiences of life-transformation comparable to your own, and you may be surprised to learn that the authenticity of their experience is not invalidated (but rather affirmed) by yours, nor is your experience is invalidated by them. Some of them may appear to bow to manifestations of God's energies with which (or "Whom") you may not yet be personally familiar.

i welcome you, and share with you the excitement in the Exploration :).

your servant,
bhuvana.


Ah, Bmd, but Jesus Christ, the one and only Son of God, disagrees with you. He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

And frankly (and respectfully) Bmd, why should we believe your word over His?

:) Jill

[bhuvana-mohan dasa]

Ah, Bmd, but Jesus Christ, the one and only Son of God, disagrees with you. He said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

And frankly (and respectfully) Bmd, why should we believe your word over His?

:) Jill

i think by now you have probably come to an appreciation of the importance that i attribute to the power of personal example, Jill, and its precedence over matter . My own perspective of Jesus' words in John 14:6 causes me to view them in a different light - i believe that Jesus was referring to Love (of which he was certainly an embodiment) and the spirit of Surrender to God (which his life and victory over sin and death exemplified). i do not believe that he was insisting that all men, women, and children everywhere subscribe to a given set of abstruse dogmas connected with his existence (OR subsequent disappearance) as an historical person, and subsequent return Home to God.

i invite you, Jill, to probe more deeply into exploration of my opinions in the forums you've so nicely designed for their sharing (as well as apprizing me of your own, and reasons for believing as you do). My own opinions are not "set in stone", and i continue to be receptive to all that God offers that represents an improvement over them, such as they now stand.....:).....

ys,
bmd.

[sayso]

i think by now you have probably come to an appreciation of the importance that i attribute to the power of personal example, Jill, and its precedence over matter . My own perspective of Jesus' words in John 14:6 causes me to view them in a different light - i believe that Jesus was referring to Love (of which he was certainly an embodiment) and the spirit of Surrender to God (which his life and victory over sin and death exemplified). i do not believe that he was insisting that all men, women, and children everywhere subscribe to a given set of abstruse dogmas connected with his existence (OR subsequent disappearance) as an historical person, and subsequent return Home to God.

i invite you, Jill, to probe more deeply into exploration of my opinions in the forums you've so nicely designed for their sharing (as well as apprizing me of your own, and reasons for believing as you do). My own opinions are not "set in stone", and i continue to be receptive to all that God offers that represents an improvement over them, such as they now stand.....:).....

ys,
bmd.

Hi bmd,

If I understand your answer to Jill you are saying that what Jesus meant is that He/Jesus is love and so you believe by practicing love you can come to the Father.

Is that correct?

[bhuvana-mohan dasa]

Hi bmd,

If I understand your answer to Jill you are saying that what Jesus meant is that He/Jesus is love and so you believe by practicing love you can come to the Father.

Is that correct?

"On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets," said Jesus, and i believe those words.

ys,
bmd.

[Jill]

bmd,

The thing about the Bible, a proven historical and archaeologically sound collection of ancient documents, is that we interpret it based on the original languages and cultures. We do not interpret it based on feelings. If we did, anyone could come along and say a particular verse means anything they wish it to mean--something like taking a medical textbook and redefining a section on the heart and calling it a lung because someone feels it really is a lung.

Words mean things; standards are set and followed in all areas of our culture to prevent confusion and anarchy. It is the same with biblical interpretation--a process subject to ancient rules. I will talk more about this in another section.

[Norrin Radd]

"On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets," said Jesus, and i believe those words.

ys,
bmd.

Questions, questions:

-- Do you believe the inscripturated words of Jesus carry more weight than those of Paul, Peter, James, etc.?

-- Do you believe some of the words of Jesus take precedence over others?

-- Do you believe that language and context matter when interpreting Scripture?

-- How "perfectly" must one "love" God and neighbor in order to secure one's eternal destiny?

[bhuvana-mohan dasa]

Questions, questions:

-- Do you believe the inscripturated words of Jesus carry more weight than those of Paul, Peter, James, etc.?

-- Do you believe some of the words of Jesus take precedence over others?

-- Do you believe that language and context matter when interpreting Scripture?

-- How "perfectly" must one "love" God and neighbor in order to secure one's eternal destiny?

One must love God and one's neighbor more than one cares about his eternal destiny, in order to secure one's eternal destiny.

ys,
bmd.

[Norrin Radd]

One must love God and one's neighbor more than one cares about his eternal destiny, in order to secure one's eternal destiny.

ys,
bmd.

Hmm, I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. I thought this was a discussion forum, not an inane pla***udes forum. Sorry for the confusion.

[Trinity]

One must love God and one's neighbor more than one cares about his eternal destiny, in order to secure one's eternal destiny.

ys,
bmd.

I see something that is pertinent in the above saying.

Would we love our neighbor if there was no God and no afterlife? Do we love the others freely or because we are in the expectation of a future reward? How to love unselfishly? I mean seriously.

Trinity

[bhuvana-mohan dasa]

I see something that is pertinent in the above saying.

Would we love our neighbor if there was no God and no afterlife? Do we love the others freely or because we are in the expectation of a future reward? How to love unselfishly? I mean seriously.

Trinity

By looking past the bitterness of the onslaught of harsh words and actions directed towards us and seeing ourselves at an earlier point in time:

atmaupamyena sarvatra
samam pasyati yo 'rjuna
sukham va yadi va duhkham
sa yogi paramo matah

- Bhagavad-Gita, 6:32

Love is not for the squeamish.........it is a Discipline, and merely a "pla***ude" in the minds and lives of those antagonistic to discipline. Love in expectation of reward is not love at all- it is merely a business transaction. Love will not play the pros***ute.

ys,
bmd.

[Kogseeker]

Love is not for the squeamish.........it is a Discipline, and merely a "pla***ude" in the minds and lives of those antagonistic to discipline. Love in expectation of reward is not love at all- it is merely a business transaction. Love will not play the pros***ute.

ys,
bmd.

Absolutely awestruck.....