Since we draw our LIFE from God - we draw our capacity to think and love from God. Even as God is creative - so is our consciousness creative. With our minds and hearts - we actually form the plans of our own lives and experiences. And what kind of lives do most people plan and form in their minds? If someone annoys or hurts them - they retaliate in some way or another - they believe that if their eye is taken - they must expect the adversary’s eye in return. Most people believe that whoever kills should be killed as punishment and compensation - they believe that whoever robs them should pay the price - that whoever steals their wife - should be killed as punishment and compensation as well. Most people believe in the extraction of payment for every evil thing that comes their way. Since it is human nature to hurt others - and they have been taught to retaliate - their lives are a continual scene of warfare - warfare in the home amongst husbands - wives - children - neighbors - public figures and between nations. God knows nothing of this warfare in our lives - but knows the stress in our minds and bodies arising from this warfare - but can do nothing - nothing to ease our pain - until we ourselves stop the warfare. We ourselves must cease our fighting and live in peace with our families - neighbors - employers - public figures and other countries. Only then - can the Love of of God take place in our minds - hearts - bodies and lives. Only then will we be able to recognize and see the Love of God being done in us - and for us by God.
"This guy is dangerous"...i could not agree more....we may actually have to come out of our safe, protected, vaulted ceiling churches...stop glad-handing the high-rollers that show up on time every weekend...and go out into the neighborhoods...befriending and serving and sacrificing--eat, cry, celebrate, love...."this guy is dangerous" was the rally cry of the sanhedrin some 2000 years ago...
evidence of design cannot stay only with a creation first mentality...it must include a vision, that all humans are worth the blood of very God...worth His time and effort and resources...and since He was willing to give all for all of us...we must prove "design" by seeing the eyes of our Father in the eyes of the weak, downtrodden, prostitue, tax collectors, the lost...and me...proof of a Designer, will only come through rediculous acts of love from followers who have met Him...
GOD NEVER PUNISHES ANYONE! Actually, Jesus made it VERY CLEAR in his "stump speech," usually called the Sermon on the Mount, that God NEVER punishes anyone (in Matthew 5:38-48)! Jesus, at least one time, got on a "mount," to compare and contrast his view God with that of Moses, even to the point of giving this speech from an elevated position, an unmistakable symbol for Mount Sinai, to the Jews in his audience. From there, he taught his followers that Moses' view that one limit revenge to only one eye for an eye (a relative improvement from 2, 20 or 100 eyes for one eye) should only return good for evil, "if slapped, turn the other cheek," and to love YOUR enemies (Note, he did not say "our" enemies!). Then, he said why, "So you can be just like God the Father (verse 45)! The last thing God would ever do, according to Jesus, is turn right around and be the CAUSE of human suffering, just because people have not yet realized how much God loves them unconditionally and has already forgiven them of all their sins! Yes, God hates the BAD THINGS WE DO to one another, which is what Jesus defined as "sin," but he made it clear that God loves the sinner! The very essence of the Good News is that, no matter how bad a person has been, s/he is never beyond the reach of God's love and forgiveness, so it's NEVER too late to REALIZE one is a child of God and, from that point on, begin to act accordingly! The false gospel, however, twists the Good News message of Jesus inside out! Instead of presenting God as the One who loves the entire world, so much so, He gave His begotten son, they would have you believe God loves only a small portion of the world (which is why they make it seem as if God punishes "them," not "us")! Instead of Jesus dying for all our sins, they would have you believe he died only for some of our sins! Instead of upholding the biblical view that salvation is FROM SIN, they would have you believe "salvation" is FROM GOD! Those who think they are following Jesus when, in fact, they are perpetuating hate, suffering, and revenge, are are doing the very things Jesus, steadfastly, stood against (Matthew, Chapter 25)! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Rightly-Dividing-Word-Properly-Interpret/dp/B091LSMD9N
Campolo is not a false teacher but an incomplete one. He is however a breath of fresh air blowing into the stagnant religious atmosphere of hypocrisy that can be found in our churches. If Campolo would balance his teaching with repentence he would be the perfect preacher.
@@Mitzi73 Any teacher who doesn't teach repentance is a false teacher and people that believe and follow him have no hope of eternal life.If I AM AN habitual liar, always stealing that which belongs to others, sleeping with men /WOMEN THAT I am not SCRIPTURALLY married to,if I Am a woman and is sleeping with another woman ,if I Am a MAN SLEEPING WITH ANOTHER MAN AND CONTINUE IN THOSE SINS.... WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY????
Since we draw our LIFE from God - we draw our capacity to think and love from God. Even as God is creative - so is our consciousness creative. With our minds and hearts - we actually form the plans of our own lives and experiences.
And what kind of lives do most people plan and form in their minds? If someone annoys or hurts them - they retaliate in some way or another - they believe that if their eye is taken - they must expect the adversary’s eye in return. Most people believe that whoever kills should be killed as punishment and compensation - they believe that whoever robs them should pay the price - that whoever steals their wife - should be killed as punishment and compensation as well. Most people believe in the extraction of payment for every evil thing that comes their way. Since it is human nature to hurt others - and they have been taught to retaliate - their lives are a continual scene of warfare - warfare in the home amongst husbands - wives - children - neighbors - public figures and between nations. God knows nothing of this warfare in our lives - but knows the stress in our minds and bodies arising from this warfare - but can do nothing - nothing to ease our pain - until we ourselves stop the warfare. We ourselves must cease our fighting and live in peace with our families - neighbors - employers - public figures and other countries.
Only then - can the Love of of God take place in our minds - hearts - bodies and lives.
Only then will we be able to recognize and see the Love of God being done in us - and for us by God.
No, God just doesn't *discriminate* between rich and poor. He punishes all sinners alike.
"This guy is dangerous"...i could not agree more....we may actually have to come out of our safe, protected, vaulted ceiling churches...stop glad-handing the high-rollers that show up on time every weekend...and go out into the neighborhoods...befriending and serving and sacrificing--eat, cry, celebrate, love...."this guy is dangerous" was the rally cry of the sanhedrin some 2000 years ago...
evidence of design cannot stay only with a creation first mentality...it must include a vision, that all humans are worth the blood of very God...worth His time and effort and resources...and since He was willing to give all for all of us...we must prove "design" by seeing the eyes of our Father in the eyes of the weak, downtrodden, prostitue, tax collectors, the lost...and me...proof of a Designer, will only come through rediculous acts of love from followers who have met Him...
GOD NEVER PUNISHES ANYONE!
Actually, Jesus made it VERY CLEAR in his "stump speech," usually called the Sermon on the Mount, that God NEVER punishes anyone (in Matthew 5:38-48)! Jesus, at least one time, got on a "mount," to compare and contrast his view God with that of Moses, even to the point of giving this speech from an elevated position, an unmistakable symbol for Mount Sinai, to the Jews in his audience. From there, he taught his followers that Moses' view that one limit revenge to only one eye for an eye (a relative improvement from 2, 20 or 100 eyes for one eye) should only return good for evil, "if slapped, turn the other cheek," and to love YOUR enemies (Note, he did not say "our" enemies!). Then, he said why, "So you can be just like God the Father (verse 45)! The last thing God would ever do, according to Jesus, is turn right around and be the CAUSE of human suffering, just because people have not yet realized how much God loves them unconditionally and has already forgiven them of all their sins! Yes, God hates the BAD THINGS WE DO to one another, which is what Jesus defined as "sin," but he made it clear that God loves the sinner! The very essence of the Good News is that, no matter how bad a person has been, s/he is never beyond the reach of God's love and forgiveness, so it's NEVER too late to REALIZE one is a child of God and, from that point on, begin to act accordingly! The false gospel, however, twists the Good News message of Jesus inside out! Instead of presenting God as the One who loves the entire world, so much so, He gave His begotten son, they would have you believe God loves only a small portion of the world (which is why they make it seem as if God punishes "them," not "us")! Instead of Jesus dying for all our sins, they would have you believe he died only for some of our sins! Instead of upholding the biblical view that salvation is FROM SIN, they would have you believe "salvation" is FROM GOD! Those who think they are following Jesus when, in fact, they are perpetuating hate, suffering, and revenge, are are doing the very things Jesus, steadfastly, stood against (Matthew, Chapter 25)!
Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Rightly-Dividing-Word-Properly-Interpret/dp/B091LSMD9N
Campolo is not a false teacher but an incomplete one. He is however a breath of fresh air blowing into the stagnant religious atmosphere of hypocrisy that can be found in our churches. If Campolo would balance his teaching with repentence he would be the perfect preacher.
He is a false teacher...I read and study my Bible so that men like this can be given a thumbs 👎👎👎👎👎 down.!!!!
@ Yeah I wrote that 11 years ago. I have now seen the light.
@@Mitzi73 Any teacher who doesn't teach repentance is a false teacher and people that believe and follow him have no hope of eternal life.If I AM AN habitual liar, always stealing that which belongs to others, sleeping with men /WOMEN THAT I am not SCRIPTURALLY married to,if I Am a woman and is sleeping with another woman ,if I Am a MAN SLEEPING WITH ANOTHER MAN AND CONTINUE IN THOSE SINS.... WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY????