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Love Thy Neighbour? Video Of The Jerusalem Brawl

Aussie Pete

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This sort of makes one wonder what the world is coming to - Christians brawling over areas of the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion... but according to all reports, fights are not uncommon in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre among the representatives of Christian denominations who are responsible for maintaining its different chambers.

Greek Orthodox and Armenian worshippers traded blows in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Israeli police moved into the shrine, which many of the faithful believe contains the tomb of Jesus, to restore order and apparently arrested two clerics.

Dozens of worshippers took part in the melee - in the red corner, the Greek Orthodox and in the blue corner, Armenian denominations. But this was no gentleman's boxing match - the groups traded kicks and punches, knocking down tapestries and toppling decorations at the site in Arab East Jerusalem.

[THE FIGHT CLUB VIDEO AND FULL STORY]
 

Agoraphobic

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If it was any other group, it'd have been called a good scrap. I hope people would stop referring to that part of the world as The Holy Land; seems more hate emanates from there than anywhere else.
 

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Why go to FTrash website when you can watch it here below.

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Dozens of worshippers took part in the melee - in the red corner, the Greek Orthodox and in the blue corner, Armenian denominations. But this was no gentleman's boxing match - the groups traded kicks and punches, knocking down tapestries and toppling decorations at the site in Arab East Jerusalem.

Long time ago, after the first Church was descibed in the book of Acts, the followers of Christ was splitted into 3 major denominations.

1. Roman Catholics
2. Orthodox (Eastern Europe)
3. Protestants (Martin Luther Reformist)

The first 2 departs from the teaching in the bible. And are mostly rituals and have faith in men like Pope and things, such as idol worships, Mary, rather than Jesus. The above fight is due to a fight for rituals..

Only the Protestants are closer in spreading the word of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
 
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Long time ago, after the first Church was descibed in the book of Acts, the followers of Christ was splitted into 3 major denominations.

1. Roman Catholics
2. Orthodox (Eastern Europe)
3. Protestants (Martin Luther Reformist)

The first 2 departs from the teaching in the bible. And are mostly rituals and have faith in men and things, such as idol worships, rather than Jesus. The above fight is due to a fight in rituals..

Only the Protestants are closer in spreading the word of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation

tt is what the catholcis are saying abt u too, so ur going to hell i think u should repent in front of the pope soon or ur salvation will be naught!
 

TeeKee

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tt is what the catholcis are saying abt u too, so ur going to hell i think u should repent in front of the pope soon or ur salvation will be naught!

Salvation is only by faith only, not by deeds, so no matter how much you do, all your efforts will come to nought if you don't have faith!

Romans 1:17 (New International Version)

17For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[a] just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Romans 1:17

Paul says that Christ dwelled in Him through the Holy Spirit. This indwelling of God's Spirit enables us to be faithful. Christ's faithful mind is imparted to us and becomes part of our mind. If we provided the faith to obey God, it would be self-righteous. Our righteousness must come through the faith of Jesus Christ.


Martin G. Collins
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Romans 1:16-17

First, in the spiritual sense, "eating" occurs primarily when one hears and reads. A person ingests messages and concepts into the mind through words, which establish and nourish his pattern of life. Those words, if one permits it, create a faith upon which one bases the way he lives. This faith is almost entirely dependent upon the quality of what is heard and whether a person believes it enough to follow it. These verses reveal only the words of God or Christ, His gospel, His truths, will form the faith that leads to salvation because they will form the correct beliefs and thus the correct way of life. This is the faith of Christ; the person who has it believes what Christ believes. This is a simple, understandable, true formula.

Zephaniah 3:1-2 shows what happens when a person rejects or disbelieves His words: "Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city! She has not obeyed His voice, she has not received correction; she has not trusted in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God." That person comes to great dismay. This does not mean we cannot have words other than God's in our mind, but the children of God must filter everything through God's words to test their validity before they allow themselves to believe them firmly enough to make them part of their belief system.

Put another way, there is faith and then there is the faith, the faith that brings salvation. This faith arises from believing God's words. What we believe will determine our conduct and attitudes whether or not we stop to think about those beliefs because what is contained in the heart will come out (Matthew 12:34-35). Only God's words truly produce spiritual strength. In our recent past, "eating" and believing the wrong words set the church up for the scattering that has occurred. For quite a while, worldly things gradually corrupted the spiritual health of God's children, weakening them through spiritual malnourishment and changing their faith.

I Corinthians 1:10 provides a first-century account of a congregation suffering from this process of ingesting the wrong words: "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." Division troubled this congregation because the members held dissimilar views on beliefs that are basic to spiritual unity. I Corinthians shows disorder, confusion, argument, and offense as symptoms of spiritual weakness.
 
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imperialarms

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Salvation is only by faith only, not by deeds, so no matter how much you do, all you efforts will come to nought!

Romans 1:17 (New International Version)

17For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[a] just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Yes thats why in the Bhagavad Gita it is written,"those who have faith in me Lord Shiva,O arjuna will be saved from the eternal fires of Hell."

Repent NOw!!!!!
 
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