Jesus among other Gods

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මචන් එ ගුණ ඕයාලගෙ ජිවිතවලත් එකතු කරගන්න

what you mean එකතු කරගන්න, its wrong tell පිළිපදින්න.....
thanks bro.

 

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what you mean එකතු කරගන්න, its wrong tell පිළිපදින්න.....
thanks bro.

මචන් මම සින්හල චක්‍රිවර්තී කෙනෙකු නෙවෙයි නමුත් හොද ගත ගුණ එකතු කරගන්න කියන එකෙ මම ලොකු වැරද්දක් දකින්නෙ නැ ... පිලිබදන්න ඕනැ අණක් වගෙ දෙයක් එහෙම නැති නම් නිතිය වගෙ දෙයක් නෙද?

කමක් නැ ඕබෙ අදහස්වල මා ගරුකරනවා ස්තුති

 

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මචන් මම සින්හල චක්‍රිවර්තී කෙනෙකු නෙවෙයි නමුත් හොද ගත ගුණ එකතු කරගන්න කියන එකෙ මම ලොකු වැරද්දක් දකින්නෙ නැ ... පිලිබදන්න ඕනැ අණක් වගෙ දෙයක් එහෙම නැති නම් නිතිය වගෙ දෙයක් නෙද?

කමක් නැ ඕබෙ අදහස්වල මා ගරුකරනවා ස්තුති

 

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Mchan I really appreciate your cooperation

 

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Jesus is very different from other GOD because he knew what is going to happen & how he die well before it happens


In John 13, we saw Jesus at his last supper with his disciples.

In John 14, Jesus is now sounding urgent, very parental with his disciples. Protective.

He knows he's leaving them soon. The crucifixion is near, and Jesus knows it. He also knows that this is going to be a very stressful, unsettling time for them. So he has some important words for them...which he repeats several times.

Q - In these verses below, what is Jesus' instruction to them?
A -
15 If you love me, obey my commandments.
21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the
ones who love me.
23 ...all who love me will do what I say.

Q - What does the following verse tell you what Jesus cares about, and modeled to them?
A -
31 I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the
world will know that I love the Father.

Amazing consistency. Jesus was so clear.

Would they be able to obey Jesus once he leaves? Here's what Jesus says:
16...I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Advocate, who will never leave you.
17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth...you
know him, because he lives with you now and later will be
in you.
18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans--I will come to
you.


another unqueness in Christian GOD is the Holy Spirit the helper promised to say with us forever

Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will live in them. To those who desire a relationship with God, who believe in Jesus, God does not remain outside our lives. He is not "out there" and we simply do our best to obey him. No. He comes to live inside of us, giving us his life in us. Giving us the power to obey him.

Jesus says in these verses:

20 When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am
in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

23...and we will come and make our home with each of them.

 

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Sanctification

Sanctification - involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the new gracious principles implanted in the soul in regeneration. In other words, sanctification is the carrying on to perfection the work begun in regeneration, and it extends to the whole man (Romans 6:13; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Colossians 3:10; 1 John 4:7; 1 Corinthians 6:19). It is the special office of the Holy Spirit in the plan of redemption to carry on this work (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13). Faith is instrumental in securing sanctification, inasmuch as it (1) secures union to Christ (Galatians 2:20), and (2) brings the believer into living contact with the truth, whereby he is led to yield obedience "to the commands, trembling at the threatenings, and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come."

Perfect sanctification is not attainable in this life (1 Kings 8:46; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; James 3:2; 1 John 1:8). See Paul's account of himself in Romans 7:14-25; Philipians 3:12-14; and 1 Timothy 1:15; also the confessions of David (Psalms 19:12-13), of Job (42:5, 6), and of Daniel (9:3-20). "The more holy a man is, the more humble, self-renouncing, self-abhorring, and the more sensitive to every sin he becomes, and the more closely he clings to Christ. The moral imperfections which cling to him he feels to be sins, which he laments and strives to overcome. Believers find that their life is a constant warfare, and they need to take the kingdom of heaven by storm, and watch while they pray. They are always subject to the constant chastisement of their Father's loving hand, which can only be designed to correct their imperfections and to confirm their graces. And it has been notoriously the fact that the best Christians have been those who have been the least prone to claim the attainment of perfection for themselves." (Hodge's Outlines).

 

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HOLY SPIRIT IS THE HELPER !!!

 

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Did Jesus Claim to be God?Yes!

 

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Detecting design? Most persuasive argument ever.

 

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කුරුසෙ ඇන ගහද්දි තමන්ටවත් පිහිට වෙන්න බැරි වුන කෙනා කොහොමද බන් අපිට පිහිට වෙන්නෙ? මට උඹලගේ දෙවියන්ගේ පිහිට එපා..ස්තූතියි..

පුතේ මම ඔබේ දහම් දන්නවා වුනාට ඕබතුමා මගෙ දහම 1% වත් දන්නෙ නැ, දෙයක් වැරදි කියන්න අඩුම තරමෙ 50% වත් දැනගෙන ඉන්න ඔනේ මම හිතනවිදිහට,

හොදයි පොඩිකාලෙ ඕය ප්‍රශ්නෙ මම දෙවියන්ගෙන් හැවුවා එකාලෙ නමුත් ඇතතටම එතුමන්ට මරණයෙන් ගැලවෙන්න බැරි වුනා ද?

Jesus Arrested

47 While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people. 48 Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.” 49 Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

50 Jesus replied, “Friend, do what you came for.

Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him. 51 With that, one of Jesus’ companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

52 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword". 53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”

55 At that time Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me. 56 But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted him and fled. මම හිතන්නෙ දැන් කාරනාව පැහැදිලි ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙට පුලුවන් කම තිබුනා අවස්සනම් දුතයක් සෙනාවක් වුනත් ගෙන්න ගෙන සටන් කරන්න නමුත් එහෙම වුනා නම් එතුමන් අපු කර්යට මොකද? වෙන්නෙ

Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

ඇයි එහෙනම් ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ මැරුනෙ

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

අපි දන්නවා පාපය නිසා අපට මරණය උරම වුනා එකෙන් බුදුකෙනෙකුට උනත් ගැලවිමක් නැ ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙගෙ පුත්‍රයාට අවස්ශ් නම් එකෙන් ගැල වෙන්න තිබුනා නමුත් පියාණන්වහන්සෙගෙ කර්ය ඉ‍ටුකිරිමට ඔහු මරනයට පත් වුනා.

ඕබ දැන් අහයි හරි දෙන්නම මැරුනා නෙ කියලා .......

ඔව දෙදෙනාම මරුනා නම්ත් එක්කෙනයි නැගුට්ටෙ එ නාසරිය ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ

පාපය මරණය ගෙනදුන්නා, ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ ජිවනය ගෙන දෙන බව ඔප්පු කරන්න ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ මරණයට පත් නොවුනා නම් තමයි පුදුම

 

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"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

මේ කියමනත් ගොඩාක් සුවිශෙස එකක් ගොඩක් අය බල්න්නෙ ලොකයෙ පැස්සුම් ලබන්න සම්මාන ගරු බුහුමන් ලබන්න, නැති නම් ජිවිතය ලොකු ප්‍රශ්නයක් කියලා එ දෙයින් පැන යන්න නමුත් ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ කියනවා මේ ලොකය තුල ඕබලාට කරදර ගොඩකට මුහුන දෙන්න වෙනවා කියලා සතය් වෙනුවෙන් එ විතරක් නෙමෙයි මා තුල ඔබලා හට සතුට සමාදනය තියෙනවා කියලාත් කියනවා ...... මතක තියාගන්න වචනය "මා තුල" එනම් ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ තුල ඕබට සමය තිබෙනවා කියලා

මෙයත් ඉතා සුවිශෙය ඉගැන්විමක් මොකද ලොකයා බලන්නෙ ලොකය දිනන්න නමුත් ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ කියනවා I have overcome the world කියලා එනම් මේ ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙගෙ කැමැත්තට විරුද්ධව තමයි ගොඩාක් දුරට ලොකයා කටයුතු කරන්නෙ පාලන පන්තියෙ සිට නිර්දන පන්තිය දක්වාම වන්චාව දුශනය පිරි පවතිනවා අසාදරණය හැම තැනම එහෙනම් ජෙසුස් වහන්සෙ කියන කතාව හරි අපිට ලොකයෙ දිනන්න දෙයක් නැ පරද්දන්න දෙවල් ටහ්මයි තියෙන්නෙ

 

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He knows everything !

 

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Why Jesus is so unique

Our life contains a thousand springs
and dies if one be gone;
Strange that a harp of a thousand string:
can stay in tune so long.

There is an old adage that says you can give a hungry man a fish, or better still, you can teach him how to fish. Jesus would add that you can teach a person how to fish, but the most successful fisherman has hungers fish will not satisfy
There is a second but not so obvious truth. "I am the Bread of Life," said Jesus. "He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty." Notice the power implicit in the claim.

At the heart of every major religion is a leading exponent. As the exposition is studied, something very significant emerges. There comes a bifurcation, or a distinction, between the person and the teaching. Mohammed, to the Koran. Buddha, to the Noble Path. Krishna, to his philosophizing. Zoroaster, to his ethics.

Whatever we may make of their claims, one reality is inescapable. They are teachers who point to their teaching or show some particular way. In all of these, there emerges an instruction, a way of living. It is not Zoroaster to whom you turn. It is Zoroaster to whom you listen. It is not Buddha who delivers you; it is his Noble Truths that instruct you. It is not Mohammed who transforms you; it is the beauty of the Koran that woos you.

By contrast, Jesus did not only teach or expound His message. He was identical with His message. "In Him," say the Scriptures, "dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily." He did not just proclaim the truth. He said, "I am the truth." He did not just show a way. He said, "I am the Way." He did not just open up vistas. He said, "I am the door." "I am the Good Shepherd." "I am the resurrection and the life." "I am the I AM."

In Him is not just an offer of life's bread. He is the bread. That is why being a Christian is not just a way of feeding and living. Following Christ begins with a way of relating and being.

Let us use Buddhism as a specific example. It is a system that is gaining a following among many in Hollywood. It is often very simplistically defined as a religion of compassion and ethics. The truth is that there is probably no system of belief more complex than Buddhism. While it starts off with the four noble truths on suffering and its cessation, it then moves to the eightfold path on how to end suffering. But as one enters the eightfold path, there emerge hundreds upon hundreds of other rules to deal with contingencies.

From a simple base of four offenses that result in a loss of one's discipleship status is built an incredible edifice of ways to restoration. Those who follow Buddha's teachings are given thirty rules on how to ward off those pitfalls. But before one even deals with those, there are ninety-two rules that apply to just one of the offenses. There are seventy-five rules for those entering the order. There are rules of discipline to be applied-two hundred and twenty-seven for men, three hundred and eleven for women. (Readers of Buddhism know that Buddha had to be persuaded before women were even permitted into a disciple's status. After much pleading and cajoling by one of his disciples, he finally acceded to the request but laid down extra rules for them.)

Whatever one may make of all of this, we must be clear that in a nontheistic system, which Buddhism is, ethics become central and rules are added ad infinitum. Buddha and his followers are the originators of these rules. The most common prayer for forgiveness in Buddhism, from the Buddhist Common Prayer, reflects this numerical maze:

I beg leave! I beg leave, I beg leave.... May I be freed at all times from the four states of Woe, the Three Scourges, the Eight Wrong Circumstances, the Five Enemies, the Four Deficiencies, the Five Misfortunes, and quickly attain the Path, the Fruition, and the Noble Law of Nirvana, Lord.

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious.

Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face. To truly understand this complicated theory, one would almost need a graduate-level understanding in philosophy and psychology.

By contrast, in a very simple way Jesus drew the real need of His audience to that hunger which is spiritual in nature, a hunger that is shared by every human, so that we are not human livings or human doings but human beings. We are not in need merely of a superior ethic, we are in need of a transformed heart and will that seek to do the will of God.

Jesus also taught and held up a mirror, but by His person He transforms our will to seek His. It is our being that Jesus wants to feed. Christ warns that there are depths to our hungers that the physical does not plumb. There are heights to existential aspirations that our activities cannot attain. There are breadths of need that the natural cannot span.

In summary, He reminds us that bread cannot sustain interminably. He is the Bread of Life that eternally sustains. And He does it as no other has ever done.

 

[Y2K]

Why Jesus is so unique

Our life contains a thousand springs
and dies if one be gone;
Strange that a harp of a thousand string:
can stay in tune so long.

There is an old adage that says you can give a hungry man a fish, or better still, you can teach him how to fish. Jesus would add that you can teach a person how to fish, but the most successful fisherman has hungers fish will not satisfy
There is a second but not so obvious truth. "I am the Bread of Life," said Jesus. "He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty." Notice the power implicit in the claim.

At the heart of every major religion is a leading exponent. As the exposition is studied, something very significant emerges. There comes a bifurcation, or a distinction, between the person and the teaching. Mohammed, to the Koran. Buddha, to the Noble Path. Krishna, to his philosophizing. Zoroaster, to his ethics.

Whatever we may make of their claims, one reality is inescapable. They are teachers who point to their teaching or show some particular way. In all of these, there emerges an instruction, a way of living. It is not Zoroaster to whom you turn. It is Zoroaster to whom you listen. It is not Buddha who delivers you; it is his Noble Truths that instruct you. It is not Mohammed who transforms you; it is the beauty of the Koran that woos you.

By contrast, Jesus did not only teach or expound His message. He was identical with His message. "In Him," say the Scriptures, "dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily." He did not just proclaim the truth. He said, "I am the truth." He did not just show a way. He said, "I am the Way." He did not just open up vistas. He said, "I am the door." "I am the Good Shepherd." "I am the resurrection and the life." "I am the I AM."

In Him is not just an offer of life's bread. He is the bread. That is why being a Christian is not just a way of feeding and living. Following Christ begins with a way of relating and being.

Let us use Buddhism as a specific example. It is a system that is gaining a following among many in Hollywood. It is often very simplistically defined as a religion of compassion and ethics. The truth is that there is probably no system of belief more complex than Buddhism. While it starts off with the four noble truths on suffering and its cessation, it then moves to the eightfold path on how to end suffering. But as one enters the eightfold path, there emerge hundreds upon hundreds of other rules to deal with contingencies.

From a simple base of four offenses that result in a loss of one's discipleship status is built an incredible edifice of ways to restoration. Those who follow Buddha's teachings are given thirty rules on how to ward off those pitfalls. But before one even deals with those, there are ninety-two rules that apply to just one of the offenses. There are seventy-five rules for those entering the order. There are rules of discipline to be applied-two hundred and twenty-seven for men, three hundred and eleven for women. (Readers of Buddhism know that Buddha had to be persuaded before women were even permitted into a disciple's status. After much pleading and cajoling by one of his disciples, he finally acceded to the request but laid down extra rules for them.)

Whatever one may make of all of this, we must be clear that in a nontheistic system, which Buddhism is, ethics become central and rules are added ad infinitum. Buddha and his followers are the originators of these rules. The most common prayer for forgiveness in Buddhism, from the Buddhist Common Prayer, reflects this numerical maze:

I beg leave! I beg leave, I beg leave.... May I be freed at all times from the four states of Woe, the Three Scourges, the Eight Wrong Circumstances, the Five Enemies, the Four Deficiencies, the Five Misfortunes, and quickly attain the Path, the Fruition, and the Noble Law of Nirvana, Lord.

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious.

Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face. To truly understand this complicated theory, one would almost need a graduate-level understanding in philosophy and psychology.

By contrast, in a very simple way Jesus drew the real need of His audience to that hunger which is spiritual in nature, a hunger that is shared by every human, so that we are not human livings or human doings but human beings. We are not in need merely of a superior ethic, we are in need of a transformed heart and will that seek to do the will of God.

Jesus also taught and held up a mirror, but by His person He transforms our will to seek His. It is our being that Jesus wants to feed. Christ warns that there are depths to our hungers that the physical does not plumb. There are heights to existential aspirations that our activities cannot attain. There are breadths of need that the natural cannot span.

In summary, He reminds us that bread cannot sustain interminably. He is the Bread of Life that eternally sustains. And He does it as no other has ever done.

good one

 

[සිංහළයා]

good one

රෑද?

 

[Y2K]

රෑද?

ha ha ha

 

[ibnanv]

Will you drink poison for me? Mark 16:18

Believers are told in Mark 16:17-18 that they can drink "any deadly thing" and "it shall not hurt” them. But I don't think you would be naive enough to drink any arsenic offered. Perhaps I'm wrong and you would be willing to test the Book's veracity-"lay it on the line" so to speak?
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Biblical Errancy Pamphlets by Dennis McKinsey Pamphlet 1 Q16.(Mark 16:15-18 NIV) He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. {16} Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. {17} And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; {18} they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."


IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN JESUS THEN DRINK