The testing involved following the instructions Christ gave i.e. When he said surrender all of your possessions and follow him I did. When he said pray in secret I did. When he said donate in secret I

The recent comment I made right before this one explains it more. I read the Parables of Christ, did everything it said to do and discovered some of what it is pointing to. Please refer to my previous

One of the things I like is the example of not "mistaking the finger for the moon". When someone points at the moon, you have to move your eyes away from the tip of their finger to look in the

I agree that we often don't need validation, but I think validation is healthy SOMETIMES too. Being in like-minded company feels good if you are used to being around people that constantly disagree with

Wow @freedompoint I think you are the first Christian I met who actually agrees with me on that! It's nice to meet someone with a similar perspective. Thank you 😊 @chrisrice

Thanks @freedompoint it's another platform like @partiko but is web-based and uses artificial intelligence to recommend other posts and users. P.S. I am using this account to reply since my @chrisrice

I think the biggest blow to the Parables of Christ was including the Letters of Paul in the creation of the Bible. The bar that Christ set for salvation was extremely high, but the bar that Paul the Apostle

I don't agree that a good man (or woman) will not bear bad fruit @freedompoint. I actually think it is more mixed than that. Every human being bares both good and bad fruit. Some people bare more good

Wow @ayerz and congrats! I'm so happy to see you back on Steemit too. It is a little different now since Hardfork 20 made it more difficult to post, comment and upvote, but I'm still happy with this platform

Thank you for posting another episode @kenmelendez. I ran out of Steem Power on @chrisrice so I am using this other account to comment. As it stands now, I can only post one to two comments a day. I would