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mharrell08:
There was a knock on my front door...2 teenage girls were standing on my porch.

Me: "Hello?"

1st Teenager: "Hello sir, we're from the Kingdom (something or another...I stopped paying attention...Babylon is Babylon to me) Church"

Me: "Oh, I'm not interested..."

1st Teenager: "Well we didn't want anything, just to drop this information brochure off"

Me: "Oh, no thank you" [I always do the 'oh, no' this and 'oh no' that...have to pretend to be surprised you know?]

1st Teenager: "Well I just want to ask you one question..."

Me (thinking to myself): "And here it comes...."

1st Teenager: "If you were to die today, do you think you would go to heaven?"

Me: "Well, if I were to die today,  I wouldn't go anywhere...I'd be dead"

2nd Teenager: **Giggles** (she must have been new...she only smiled & giggled whenever I said anything...probably surprised one could have a 'whatever' attitude when it came to burning in hell, for all eternity)

1st Teenager: "Well you'd have to go to either heaven or ..."

Me (cutting her off): "Do you have a scripture for that?"

1st Teenager: "Yes"

1st Teenager begins to open her bible...

1st Teenager: "But it doesn't say it 'exactly'..."

2nd Teenager: **Giggles** (even she found the church doctrines amusing because of their inconsistency)

Me: "Well, I believe in the resurrection...you know like Jesus?"

Both Teenagers: **Nodding in agreement**

Me (continuing): "...and you have to dead to be resurrected"

2nd Teenager: **Giggles** (told ya)

Me (continuing): "So I wouldn't live again until Christ returned"

1st Teenager: "Well you believe whatever you want to believe..."

Me (thinking to myself): 'Whatever I believe??? Paul taught that without the resurrection our faith was in vain [1 Cor 15:14 & 17]...I guess I'm like the rabbit from the Trix cereal commercial: Silly Believer, Truth is for Kids (the Few)

1st Teenager (continuing): "...and we'll believe what we'll believe" [kind of like a 'we'll see who's right at the end' sort of statement...you'd think one's life for an eternity would be more important than who's right & who's wrong, you know?]

Me: Alright, thanks

2nd Teenager: **Giggles** and walks away with 1st Teenager



Don't know about the 1st one, but the 2nd Teenager...if God was using me to plant a seed, it was with that one...but who can know? She did seem amused at the contradictions.


Funny stuff,

Marques  :D

Dave in Tenn:
Will pray for them both.  That first one needs to do some preaching to the second one...that's why they had to wrap it up so quickly.   :D  I hope she stumbles all over herself.

Roy Coates:
I just got to ask, is that a true story? cause it is a good one either way, tell me it really happened and that will ice the cake. Thanks for sharing

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: Roy Coates on July 08, 2009, 08:16:36 PM ---I just got to ask, is that a true story? cause it is a good one either way, tell me it really happened and that will ice the cake. Thanks for sharing

--- End quote ---


Yep, happened about 20 mins before I posted...every detail & word true as it happened.

Last year, 2 Jehovah's Witnesses came by with their message....I know their New World Translation has some bigger translation errors than most, but they translated 1 Cor 3:11-15 just fine...too bad the 2 on my doorstep could not explain them. Told them good-day...like Ray says, there's more than 1 way to skin a cat.

1 Cor 3:11-15 [New World Translation]

11  For no man can lay any other foundation than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12  Now if anyone builds on the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood materials, hay, stubble,

13  each one’s work will become manifest, for the day will show it up, because it will be revealed by means of fire; and the fire itself will prove what sort of work each one’s is.

14  If anyone’s work that he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward;

15  if anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved; yet, if so, [it will be] as through fire.


All Glory to God...this is why I don't get hung up on translations either, the truth is in ALL of them.


Thanks,

Marques

Roy Coates:
that's awesome ;D

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