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Originally posted by Dallas
But seems to me its' not up to You to pass judgement on Others..
Dallas
Originally posted by Dallas
Seems to me you are missing things eternally. God is there for us if we choose to accept him or Jesus Christ..its not I feel up to you or others to decide that if negative beliefs and negative critisisms are upheld by others.
It's up to you. Its up to others to believe or disbelive; to follow Christ's teachings or not following his sufferings. But seems to me its' not up to You to pass judgement on Others..
Dallas
Originally posted by jfdarby
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How can you say that Christians are right in saying that the ONLY way to heaven is through Christ AND say that God created all people? Hopes that will help as far as the people that had never heard of the word and of Jesus and The Word will not be Juged by it OK....
Originally posted by dbrandt
Originally posted by Snowman9
NOw Christianty is a huge dogma full of coruption and manipulation and hate. As I listen to so called Christians, blast gays and others, it saddens me that theses so called Christians are so lost. So many rely on what there religous leaders say, instead of reading and researching on there own.
[edit on 14-5-2005 by Snowman9]
Snowman9
I am missing some info so I'm back tracking on posts to find out this info. You say God hates sin. But when a christian says the gay lifestyle is sin you have a problem. God hates sin and homosexuality is a sin according to God.
How are we lost? If a gay person is killed in a hate crime I totally agree that that is wrong, but by calling a sin a sin, what is the problem that you have with that?
Originally posted by dbrandt
Originally posted by Dallas
But seems to me its' not up to You to pass judgement on Others..
Dallas
Sorry to butt in but ,I'm really trying to understand something.
So if someone does something wrong, and a christian tells you it's wrong that's where we cross the line? That's what I am getting out of this.
Even if we know that someone is doing something wrong by God's standards, we are to shut up. We are to let you continue to do this thing. Is that what is being said here?
Originally posted by Snowman9
No one likes to be preached to.
Vegetarians think eating meat is wrong. Do you want them to enforce this on you when you are eating at outback. No of course not. There is a time and place.
One situation I was in.
I used to live at the beach and in the summer, a motel rented out to a Church. They would walk over to my yard and tell me about Jesus and Alchole. Why I sholud not be drinking and so on. I was having 1 beer while I was cooking my Chicken.
I tell them to get lost. There is a time and place and a correct way to do it. Besides though only GOd has the right to jude someone, when it comes to spirtuality.
You cant change somone unless they are ready to be changed.
[edit on 15-5-2005 by Snowman9]
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How truly simplistic your thinking! Equating that to today then, when those with influenza; sars; polio; malaria; tuberculosis or any others are isolated, it is not to halt or slow the spread of the disease, it is because god speaks to the medical authorities that those contracting same have sinned.
Originally posted by dbrandt In the Old Testament God said lepers must be put outside the camp. They could not live with the rest of the people. Leprosy was also contagious. It could spread through all the people. ...
God, in the Bible, also uses leprosy as a symbolic means for sin. Leprsoy is destructive to a person, so is sin.
Originally posted by SomewhereinBetween
How truly simplistic your thinking! Equating that to today then, when those with influenza; sars; polio; malaria; tuberculosis or any others are isolated, it is not to halt or slow the spread of the disease, it is because god speaks to the medical authorities that those contracting same have sinned.
Should you or any of your loved ones find themselves faced with death from such an illness, will you promise to gather enough strength to come in here and tell us how you or your loved one(s) has sinned and that torment is your punishment?
Originally posted by dbrandt
Where you came up with I said people who get diseases because they sinned I don't know. You missed the point.
But as long as you bring it up, that can happen. Example, If someone has sex with a prostitute who has AIDS and they get Aids, I could argue that they have the AIDS virus because of sin(immoral sex).
Originally posted by riley
I'd say you had a good argument there but are records of prostitutes who have a developed a natural immunity to aids because of their 'sinful' lifestyle.
Originally posted by saint4God
I thought there are those who can be carriers of the HIV Virus without contracting AIDS, but this is the first I've heard of AIDS 'going away'. Please advise.
Originally posted by riley
Those are the ones I was reffering to- I never said it 'goes away' or that they aren't HIV positive... it just doesn't develop in them.
How many that now preach "exclusion" of certain groups can actually say they know where they are headed after the end of their "existence"?