Ron Cusano

If such a senerio were to occur, I would be prepared to offer reasons and evidence with regard to why I believe what I do. No one can form a belief without having some reason(s) as to why you reach that conclusion. Much of what I have heard have been only opinions with no foundation to back them up. If someone made the claims that you mentioned, I would welcome an open and honest dialog from both viewpoints. This occurs all the time. It's called "apoligetics"! If someone, including me, were to offer only opinion without reason, I would, and I would expect you, to quickly discount it. If I truly believe that the Bible is the only truth, and Jesus the only way, and the God of the Bible the only God, then I would be a hypocrite if I compromised on that position. It would no longer be an absolute belief, it would only be conjecture. There can be no compromise on the Word of God from a true Biblical Christian prospective.

Thank-You!

I believe that the Bible is the ONLY authority in spiritual matters, and I make no apoligies for that. The "other theologians and ministers" you refer to are extremly liberial in the outlook, and I believe them to be very wrong. I don't have these beliefs and opinions for nbo reason. I believe they can all be substanciated by scripture. There can be no compromise with the Bible and the things of God, and you won't find any with me. The Bible is absolute and infallible. I blame nothing on God! I echo what the Word of God says. Goid is the author so your disagreement is with Him.

Believe me, I am not!! You may not share my beliefs or respect them, you you need to respect my right to have them! That is waht you want from me, and it is a 2-way street!

Believe me, I am not!! You may not share my beliefs or respect them, you you need to respect my right to have them! That is waht you want from me, and it is a 2-way street!

There in lies the problem! I don't believe that the God of the Qur'an is the God of the Bible, I don't believe it's author to be a prophet of God, so therefore I consider the Qur'an to be a false book, and Islam to be a false religion. I can't respect a religion that I understand to be false and misleading. I won't go into all the many reasons why, because I know that you don't care. You want me to respect your views, and yet you don't offer that same respect for my views. You keep trying to make this personal but telling me how wrong my "style" and "beliefs" are, and yet, if I do the same, you get all upset. There is a very big double standard with the things you are saying.

I agree with you! Women have no place using a prayer shawl. You will get no argument from me!!

With all due respect, I don't consider the Qu'ran to be a holy book, and from what I have gleamed from it, the message is not at all like you stated. You talk about keeping the faith as what is required to gain entrance into heaven. I get the impression that you feel that all the righteous and good things done by these people earns them "heaven"! Biblical Christianity states that it's now what we do, but rather what we believe and in whom we trust that get's us to heaven. Noah was justified to God the same way that Abraham was ("Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness"), Moses was justified by virtue of the Law and his attempt to keep it in addition to believing God! Under the New Covenent dispensation, we are justified to God and worthy of heaven only through accepting the blood sacrifice of the Messiah, Jesus. There is no contridiction here. Christian beliefs in this area are consistant with the whole of scripture.

With all due respect, I don't consider the Qu'ran to be a holy book, and from what I have gleamed from it, the message is not at all like you stated. You talk about keeping the faith as what is required to gain entrance into heaven. I get the impression that you feel that all the righteous and good things done by these people earns them "heaven"! Biblical Christianity states that it's now what we do, but rather what we believe and in whom we trust that get's us to heaven. Noah was justified to God the same way that Abraham was ("Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness"), Moses was justified by virtue of the Law and his attempt to keep it in addition to believing God! Unbder the New Covenent dispensation, we are justified to God and worthy of heaven only through the blood sacrifice of the Messiah, Jesus. There is no contridiction here. Christian beliefs in this area are right in line with the whole mof scripture.

With all due respect, I don't consider the Qu'ran to be a holy book, and from what I have gleamed from it, the message is not at all like you stated. You talk about keeping the faith as what is required to gain entrance into heaven. I get the impression that you feel that all the righteous and good things done by these people earns them "heaven"! Biblical Christianity states that it's now what we do, but rather what we believe and in whom we trust that get's us to heaven. Noah was justified to God the same way that Abraham was ("Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness"), Moses was justified by virtue of the Law and his attempt to keep it in addition to believing God! Unbder the New Covenent dispensation, we are justified to God and worthy of heaven only through the blood sacrifice of the Messiah, Jesus. There is no contridiction here. Christian beliefs in this area are right in line with the whole mof scripture.

That is not what5 I am saying. From my (our) perspective, in order to accept Jesus you need to know Him from a biblical context. You obviously do not agree with the, so what is being asked is by context do you have an understanding of Jesus aside from the scriptures! It's a legitimate question!

A child that I knew was warned constantly about going out into the street. He didn't heed the warning and one day he was hit by a car and died. He apparently didn't comprehend the warning or just disregarded it. That is what I feel I am watching!!

Your beliefs are your own and no one has a problem with that. I, and I guess others are just trying to understand what you are saying and make some sense out of it from our perspective. I have no illusion of you believing as I do, I am just asking sincere questions about things that you stated.

I certainly understand that and respect that. Tanach paints 2-differerent pictures of Moschiach! The Rabbi's refer to them as Messiah ben Yoseph - the suffrering Messiah and Messiah ben David - the kingly Messiah. It Talmud it speculated that perhaps there are two Messiahs. Many believe that this speaks to one Messiah, coming at two different times for two different purposes. We believe that Yeshua posessed all the messianiac credentials, and came the first time, as the "suffering Messiah" as spoken of by the prphpeh Isaiah, Chapter 53, for instance, where we are told we need to "make His soul our offering for sin". We also believe that Messiah will return again at the end of the age, as the kingly Messiah to establish His Davidic kingdom with Israel and the world. Yes, Jews and Gentiles who believe as we do are called Christians, because the literal meaning of the word is "followers of Jesus". Many Jews who follow Jesus call themselves "completed Jews" because they feel complete when embrasing their Messiah.

Jill, Please allow me to clarify something! I think you are mixing up salvation with the tenents of biblical Christianity. Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever benieveth in His should not perish, but have eternal life"! That spells out the requirements for eternal life! Beliving in the Biblical Jesus!! If you believe that jesus was who He claimed to be, did what He claimed to do, died for your sins to make you right with God, rose on the third day, and is coming again, then you have eternal life and will not go to Hell. It is as simple as that. Salvation is a free gift from God and all we need to go is humbly accept it. Everything else takes second place to salvation. While I may disagree with you on your other the beliefs you mentioned, and while I believe that they are not consistant with what the Bible say's, there is room for disagreement that does not affect one's salvation. It does not mean you are going to Hell!

As a Gentile who personally knows many, many Jews who Believe in Jesus, I know of none that would advocate a women using a Tallit. In fact, messianiac Jews believe that Jesus fulfilled the Law and it is not imcumbent upon them to follow the Law of Moses. In it's place is a better law, as prophisized by the Jewish Prophet Jeremiah 31: 31-33 where God promises Israel a "New Covenent" unlike the covenent He made with their fathers through Moses. They believe that that new covenent came with Messiah who became their final atonement for sin. Some asked why non-Jews study Judiasm!! Because everything about true Christianity is Jewish!! We study and believe in the Jewish scriptures, both Old & New Testaments, which were written by Jews, for Jews about the God of Israel and the messiah.

So was I! Duh!! Another senior moment on my part!!

Actually, I was answering someone else who made a post regarding the Catholic Bible. I am not Catholic, I just consider myself a conservative Bible believing Christian!! I was raised in a Catholic home, but when I came to know Jesus, I no longer considered myself a Catholic. I have used the Thompson Chain Reference Bible for many years because it is an excellent study bible, and is used in many seminaries. I also sue the NASB and other translations in my studies and writings.

The additional books in the Catholic Bible are the Apocatha (firgive the spelling) which are additional books not recognized as canon outside the Catholic Church. The rest of the books of the Catholic Bible and all other Christian Bibles is the same, and is inspired by God. All of the other books of canon contain all the truth there is to know about Jesus, who He was and what He did. The other additional books contain information that your church has used to establish some tradations that non-Catholics do not embrace. Rather that focusing on the differences, why not focus on the areas of agreement. By the way, the King James is only one on many great translations of the Bible, which if I remember correctly, are also embraced by your church.

Of course they have a vested interest . . . telling the truth! If the entire Christian world has an understanding of how and by whom the Bible was written, I would assume that the number of experts would count for something. But, if you think you know better, more power to you!

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You are entitled to your beliefs. Needless to say I completely disagree with the statement you just made concerning the Bible, as would most Bible scolars and expostors in the Christian world. I have no clue where you came up with that understanding of history, and I know you don't want to explain it, so let's leave it at that. Speaking for myself, I can tell you that after 30+ years of intensive research and study, that I am completely convinced the the literal understanding of scripture if 100% correct, and is God's means of communication everything that He wants us to know about Him and life, both now and in eternity. Obviously you don't share that understanding, and you are, again, entitled to belive or not believe what you choose.

As I said previously, none of those remarks were addressed at you personally. If you want to take them as such, I am sure you have your reasons. You openly admit that you only purpose was to goad and provoke me, and then you take issue that I reacted to a personal attack?? I am not even going to address that. It speaks for itself. No, I never wanted to decide, as you put it, "decide the rules of engangement", just the right to play by the same rules as everyone else here. That is not what happened. Your lack of belief in God is entirely your business. The implyed message, as you nagain put it was not that "God is gonna get you" , it was me telling you what the Bible has to say on the subject. I'm just the messenger. Ig you have a problem with the message, you need to take it up with the one who sent it.

I have considered and already addressed the issue. I admittedly allowed myself to react to deliverate provocation, and allowed my emotions to come out. It is interesting that you find so much fault with things that I have said, but don't mention anything about those who constantly, continually and delibretely provoked it. I suspect that perhaps you have not been subjected to much of what I have experienced from the first post. I also suspect that is so because you may not have been as vocal an uncompromising as I was. I make no apology for that. I invite you to go back to the beginning to get a full grasp of the situtition. I have been an apoligist and expositor for the faith for most of my adult life, and have never experienced what I have here. While you have remained silent, there have be a number of other Believers who were as appalled as I was, and expressed so in support. I fact, one jumped in in support right from the beginning because of the way I was "ganged up on" - her words! There is more then enough blame to go around here.

Tommy O!! Tommy O, Please reread my post! I referred to the actions of several people, not specifically YOU! And I referred to not allowing myself to get down to that level of name calling, etc. You were never even mentioned or implied. I didn't threaten you with God, I told you what the Bible has to say about unbelief. It is the Word of God that is threatening you. I didn't write the book! I did take ownership of losing my cool, but I havn't heard you do that. Have you! Look back at your posts to me, starting with the very first one, and tell me with all honesty that you did not try to provoke me, needle me and talk down about my faith! Calling me "Rony Boy", asking me if I am angry yet . . . come on Dude! Be honest now! Have you have ANY interest in serious discussion? If not, why post to me then if not to try to "make me angry" which you already admitted to. I don't want to continue with all the hostility anymore, and am perfectly willing to end it. Are you??