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Joanna

May 08, 2015, 10:33:10 AM
Hello

I am glad I have found this site.  I'm naturally a universalist in my views. Up until the age of 16 I was brought up in a liberal Church of England church which didn't mention hell at all. I'm from England.   At aged 16 I was invited to an evangelical group which said if I wasn't saved I'd go to hell.  Since then I have been against the hell doctrine. I now go to a nice Methodist Church which doesn't teach hell But teaches the love of God.

newlove

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May 08, 2015, 10:54:02 AM
Welcome Joanna
I too am from uk but have been here in France
decades.
Look around its very intetesting and
thetes alot of knowledge in the docs
and through the posts.

eaglesway

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May 08, 2015, 11:45:36 AM
Welcome Joanna :o)
The Logos is complete, but it is not completely understood. http://www.hell-is-a-myth.webs.com/

lomarah

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May 08, 2015, 03:47:57 PM
Welcome Joanna! Your story fits with your name meaning, "God is gracious." Beautiful! Glad to have you.  :HeartThrob:

Joanna

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May 08, 2015, 03:57:38 PM
To me Christianity and church is about finding comfort and refuge in God from the troubles of this world and not about fear and punishment. It is lovely being a Christian if everyone is saved and you are not reminded of hell.

rosered

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May 08, 2015, 04:11:42 PM
 

  Welcome Joanna   !!
Jesus is the reward  !!

Lazarus Short

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May 08, 2015, 04:54:55 PM
Welcome!  :friendstu: :gimmefive: :friendstu:
Socrates taught Plato.  Plato taught Aristotle.  Aristotle tutored the son of Philip of Macedon.  This boy grew up to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people.  That's philosophy.

Jesus spoke the Truth.  He blessed the poor.  He healed the sick.  He even raised the dead.  He died on a cross for us, lived again, and came back long enough to tell us to love one another.  That's religion.

YHVH = Behold the Nail, Behold the Hand = Jesus

Tom

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May 08, 2015, 05:18:11 PM
Welcome sister. You were blessed to have started out in a church that didn't preach about "hell" so you could know better when you went to one that did. I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church that not only taught about "hell" but also purgatory and limbo. I think all three places are false doctrine now, and I heard the church even got rid of limbo since I was in it. I left that church when I was young, and I tried the Protestant Church years later. But these days I don't belong to any church. I'm content to just be a member of the ecclesia, the body of Christ. I get most of my fellowship here on the forum and wherever else I can, but I don't know any like minded local believers. You'll find different opinions about various things here, but most folks believe in universal reconciliation.

micah7:9

#9
May 08, 2015, 06:10:53 PM
Welcome!  :friendstu: :gimmefive: :friendstu:

Psalm91:4

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May 09, 2015, 09:56:59 AM


Hi Joanna,

   :girlheart: :hiya: :angelharp:

Welcome!    :)

Searching_For_The_Truth

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May 10, 2015, 06:38:01 AM
 :welcome:

Dandelion

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May 22, 2015, 03:30:22 AM
Welcome, Joanna.

Glad to meet you. I hope you enjoy it here. I am very new, as well. I think this is a great place.

Hope to talk with you, soon!   :welcome:
7"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened....

Matthew 7:7 -8
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