Our cell phone versus our Bible

[Relic]

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Our cell phone versus our Bible

(author unknown)

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several time a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go, "Hmm. Where is my Bible?"

Oh, and one more thing. ..
Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill. Not only that, there are NO dropped calls between God and man.

It makes you stop and think, doesn't it?

"Where are my priorities?"



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[Orion]

I can't clip my bible to my belt.

A bible will take up a lot more room in my pocket.

If I get a message on my cell phone, I know it is someone else, not PERHAPS me calling myself.

The other person on the other line is a live person whom I know is there.

The text in the text message is personal to me, not a broad wide global message to everyone.

I can here the person on the cell phone now. (a play on the "can you hear me now). The Bible, I always wonder, "are you hearing me now?"

 

[jgredline]

Hmmm
I usually carry or have a bible everyplace I go...My cell phone, I leave in my truck and seldom use.

 

[destiny]

What if we treated Jesus (the word become flesh) like we did our cell phones? 8-)

 

[mia]

We have a cell phone only for emergencies, and rarely use it. But these things can be said for many other items as well.
What a beautiful society we would be living in if everyone followed that advice...
It really makes one stop and think.
Thanks for posting those thoughts.

 

[Lewis]

I can't clip my bible to my belt.

A bible will take up a lot more room in my pocket.

If I get a message on my cell phone, I know it is someone else, not PERHAPS me calling myself.

The other person on the other line is a live person whom I know is there.

The text in the text message is personal to me, not a broad wide global message to everyone.

I can here the person on the cell phone now. (a play on the "can you hear me now). The Bible, I always wonder, "are you hearing me now?"

There are electronic Bibles you know. That fit in the palm of your hand and small enough to go into your pocket. They are called Electronic Pocket Bibles' they even come with a concordance.

 

[Relic]

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I have the KJV on bible on CD's. Many times I'll listen to it as I'm doing
things around the house and the yard. I place the portable CD player in
my pouch purse and clip it around my waste.

Also, aside from listening to the books of the bible on CD during study
time, I'll even take time to listen to it when I can't sleep at night. I'll put
some Psalm in and then I can fall back asleep. It's a good thing.

CD player is the most updated I have gotten. I don't have those new
fangled gadets... ipod's, and Berry thingies and cell phones that do
everything but microwave your food and listen to the command "Beem
me up scottie! "


I don't even have a cell phone except for the one someone gave to me in
case I need to make a 911 call. As long as I keep it charged, I can use
it, it's free to anyone who needs to access the 911 service. Otherwise I
don't even subscribe to cell phone service.


Too much busy-ness!
If I want to talk to someone they can wait until I get home or until I
return their call. I don't need to be accessable to people 24/7 like that.
It's like, where's the quiet time, and the time for other things besides
having to answer your phone at the whim of another? Sheesh. :-?


I suppose I'm just old fashioned.

This world is becoming way too busy.
Too many people are always on the phone
as if they have become some kind of borg. :robot:


:o


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[jgredline]

For the life of me, I can't get myself to hear the bible on Cd's or what ever...I bought me an IPOD and I used it for 2 weeks and sat there afterwards for about 3 months until I gave it to my Daughter...I just can't listen to taped sermons because I tend to pick them apart... sigh...Infact the only folks I can listen to are Adrain Rodgers, J Vernon Magee, Alister Begg and John Coursen...
Thats it...and even then I have to be trapped in the confines of my truck...
Talk radio, I do like....TV is just back ground noise for me, unless there is a Formula 1 race, the Colts or Lakers are playing...and of course Fox news... 8-)

I do read allot and spend allot of time reading...I think it has more to do with the fact that I really did not learn to read until I was about 11-12 years old...and fell in love with it...Actually, that was about the time I also learned to speak English :o Gosh lots happened to me then...I was also born again and baptized at 12....Anyway, its been nice thinking back to all the wonderful teachers who took me under their wings...

 

[Vic C.]

I don't own a cell phone, but I do own a hand-held, electronic Bible. KJV too. :-D

 

[Orion]

There are electronic Bibles you know. That fit in the palm of your hand and small enough to go into your pocket. They are called Electronic Pocket Bibles' they even come with a concordance.

Touché, my friend, . . . . . . . .touché. :P

 

[Orion]

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This world is becoming way too busy.
Too many people are always on the phone
as if they have become some kind of borg. :robot:


:o


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You know what makes me think of the Borg? Whenever a pastor has the congregation read from the Bible at the same time. If they would all just say, "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. . . . ." I would probably run out of the building screaming!! :

 

[Vic C.]

You know what makes me think of the Borg? Whenever a pastor has the congregation read from the Bible at the same time. If they would all just say, "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. . . . ." I would probably run out of the building screaming!! :

Well then, choose the "collective" you wish to spend eternity with, while you still have the chance to choose. ;-)

Josh 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

 

[Relic]

Well then, choose the "collective" you wish to spend eternity with, while you still have the chance to choose. ;-)

Josh 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

You crack me up Vic! :


Love your sense of humor in showing truth in the Word!

So true, so true! We choose which gods/ or God we serve!



phone-Borgs are little gods-of-the-world-of-telecommunications.

phone-Borgs are a new hybrid of people called homogabus.

:robot: :robot: :robot: :robot:


Not only are there homogabus's who allow telecommunications-gods to control their daily lives by distractions leading away from JHVH GOD, but there are even gods who are called gods-of-doubt, that people serve without even knowing it! Sneaky little gods. :robot:

I thank GOD I do not serve the god-of-collecting-doubt. I choose to not collect doubt! And I Praise God, I do not serve the god-of-collecting-confusion. I choose to cast out collections of confusion, by HIS HOLY WORD.
I used to be bound to the god-of-collecting-despair. But MY GOD, JHVH GOD has set me free from the bonds of little collective demons and from giving them so much power and control in my life!

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE! That is, IF you choose to believe the HOLY WORD OF JHVH GOD, THE HOLY TRUTH OF JHVH GOD, and to stop listening to those little liar-gods... be them borg-gods or doubt-gods, gods-of-confusion, or gods-of-despair, or gods-of-distraction from the TRUTH OF JHVH GOD, we need to choose this day whom we will serve!
It took diligent study to get to the place in which those little gods faded from out of my life! THE TRUTH OF JHVH GOD SET ME FREE INDEED! I relied on HIS WORD, instead of allowing those little liar-gods to enter into my mind to create the havoc they so loved to do. 8-)




Vic! That scripture is one of the many scriptures that are so important to embed into our hearts!

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.



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[jgredline]

You crack me up Vic! :


Love your sense of humor in showing truth in the Word!

So true, so true! We choose which gods/ or God we serve!



phone-Borgs are little gods-of-the-world-of-telecommunications.

phone-Borgs are a new hybrid of people called homogabus.

:robot: :robot: :robot: :robot:


Not only are there homogabus's who allow telecommunications-gods to control their daily lives by distractions leading away from JHVH GOD, but there are even gods who are called gods-of-doubt, that people serve without even knowing it! Sneaky little gods. :robot:

I thank GOD I do not serve the god-of-collecting-doubt. I choose to not collect doubt! And I Praise God, I do not serve the god-of-collecting-confusion. I choose to cast out collections of confusion, by HIS HOLY WORD.
I used to be bound to the god-of-collecting-despair. But MY GOD, JAVA GOD has set me free from the bonds of little collective demons and from giving them so much power and control in my life!

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE! That is, IF you choose to believe the HOLY WORD OF JHVH GOD, THE HOLY TRUTH OF JHVH GOD, and to stop listening to those little liar-gods... be them borg-gods or doubt-gods, gods-of-confusion, or gods-of-despair, or gods-of-distraction from the TRUTH OF JHVH GOD, we need to choose this day whom we will serve!
It took diligent study to get to the place in which those little gods faded from out of my life! THE TRUTH OF JHVH GOD SET ME FREE INDEED! I relied on HIS WORD, instead of allowing those little liar-gods to enter into my mind to create the havoc they so loved to do. 8-)




Vic! That scripture is one of the many scriptures that are so important to embed into our hearts!

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.



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Amen

 

[Relic]

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jgredline,

You quoted my post before I made the type-o correction.

I don't serve the god-of-JAVA ( :morning: ) anymore!


I serve JHVH GOD! :-D



I use to have 4 to 6 cups a morning. :crazyeyes:
But, with the Help of God, in whom I can do all things according to His purpose, I now only have maybe one, or two.

HIS HOLY WORD helped me to quit smoking too! :bday:


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[jgredline]

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jgredline,

You quoted my post before I made the type-o correction.

I don't serve the god-of-JAVA ( :morning: ) anymore!


I serve JHVH GOD! :-D



I use to have 4 to 6 cups a morning. :crazyeyes:
But, with the Help of God, in whom I can do all things according to His purpose, I now only have maybe one, or two.

HIS HOLY WORD helped me to quit smoking too! :bday:


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God indeed gave you the strength, but you still had to ''choose'' to stop

 

[destiny]

We aren't just puppets on a string after all!! Yay for free will!!

They never leave apologetcis so they won't see that :-D


Onward soldiers!

 

[jgredline]

We aren't just puppets on a string after all!! Yay for free will!!

They never leave apologetcis so they won't see that :-D


Onward soldiers!

: because it's true... :-D

 

[Relic]

: : : HILLARIOUS!!!!!! : : :

Even a stubborn old horse has the freedom of choice to make move, or not. In more ways than one! : : :



jgredline,

YEP! Can't make a move onward without making a choice! :-D



Amen Destiny!

Dwelling in Apologetics is not the only way to study the bible!

If one refuses to choose to see from a different perspective, then what you have is a limited perspective.

There are lessons in it all.


If one person sees poop. . . per chance. . . how is it another see fertilizer? 8-)

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[jgredline]

Relic
I for one am glad you ''chose'' to post this here in the general forum...