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0zzymand0s
I don't have any beef with those who are actually "Christ-like." If you live as Christ lived and do as he did, you are salt of the earth as far as I am concerned. Sadly, it has been my experience that most who claim to be Christian are anything but. They pray loudly and openly to glorify themselves. They keep more than 1 coat or 1 pair of shoes. They pay more attention to (and seek to emulate) Paul of Tarsus than they do Jesus Christ.
DeadSeraph
jimmyx
for all of you constant religious whiners...it's not what you believe, nobody cares. it's what religious people have tried to do with that belief. go to your churches, pray and sing, speak in tongues, go through all the rituals you want. that is not the point, and most of you know that already.
Is that so? Maybe you can explain to me then why someone found it necessary to go so far as to hack my account and post anti-christian rhetoric under my name in just such a thread as the OP is referencing? What was that? an effort to liberate me from my own archaic, outmoded bronze age belief system? Was it an altruistic act veiled as an invasion of my privacy and dignity?
The OP is 100% correct.edit on 11-1-2014 by DeadSeraph because: (no reason given)
You've already built such an impossible standard for what a Christian must be to really be a Christian
ketsuko
0zzymand0s
I don't have any beef with those who are actually "Christ-like." If you live as Christ lived and do as he did, you are salt of the earth as far as I am concerned. Sadly, it has been my experience that most who claim to be Christian are anything but. They pray loudly and openly to glorify themselves. They keep more than 1 coat or 1 pair of shoes. They pay more attention to (and seek to emulate) Paul of Tarsus than they do Jesus Christ.
See? This is my problem with all of it. This is the default position. Oh, you are a Christian? Then you must be some worldly bastard who just mouths these things and doesn't believe them at all. And if anyone dares raise their head to say, "but ..." You feel justified in shouting them down or ignoring them.
You've already built such an impossible standard for what a Christian must be to really be a Christian (you do know that Christ was perfect and that no one else is or can be, right?) that no one else will ever measure up as far as you are concerned and thus you don't have to give them any credence. It's a very naet position to take, especially since no one posting on the 'net could possibly fit your standard.
Way to make a self-fulfilling prophecy.edit on 11-1-2014 by ketsuko because: (no reason given)
Stormdancer777
reply to post by BO XIAN
Though . . . I think, usually, the understanding so many have on the other side is quite shallow, cursory, glib, greatly flawed. Interestingly . . . even some who have evidently lived as a "Christian" and studied it extensively somehow end up sounding like they've never had more than a shallow EXPERIENCE of Christ. That's more than a little mystifying, puzzling.
Exactly, somewhat the point I made on another topic if someone debating the Bible doesn't even reference the Bible or have any Biblical knowledge whatsoever, their agenda is obvious, I have seen points made by atheist that have no bases in the text, the Bible can be so complicated.
They are just parroting what they have heard.edit on 103131p://bSaturday2014 by Stormdancer777 because: (no reason given)
when we truly should be afraid is when everyone loves us and enjoys every word we say. That's normally a sign that somewhere in our lives we're compromising and becoming friends of the world. Something Christ explicitly warns us against.
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reply to post by Grimpachi
That would be because the mainstream theory of evolution has no scientific basis. There is no way for ape to become man. We all change within our own species, but creatures can not become a new species.
Much of what science observes regarding missing links within "human evolution" is evidence of cross genetic manipulation, which is recorded not only in the Bible, but the Sumerian tablets, Greek mythology, and other ancient myths. Why does "science" continue to ignore these factors.