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Yes, but by a noob who generally does nothing but start shit in here, anyway.
Irvine511 said:
that's not my question.
my question is: what would you do if your personal experience conflicted with your Biblical beliefs? who do you trust -- your eyes and ears or the Bible?
i'm really very curious and not trying to tease out a particular response.
u2bonogirl said:okay. now THAT was just an example of christians being slammed in a really mean way
I really dont see it get slammed that oftenfinanceguy said:
The difference is, all of us 'pesky lubrils' lined up to condemn it.
When Islam gets slammed, I don't see the conservatives saying a word, for the most part.
deep said:80s, you claim you attend no church or rarely, you don't use the Bible to support your beliefs
financeguy said:
When Islam gets slammed, I don't see the conservatives saying a word, for the most part.
Doh..sorrySicy said:Best thing to do is not quote pictures like that because then I have more posts to remove.. lol.
80sU2isBest said:To be fair, does it happen?
80sU2isBest said:
So, let me get this straight, one last time.
You really think that we're more likely to hear veiled insults aimed toward Islam than we are to hear outright, in your face insults aimed at Christians?
BonoVoxSupastar said:
I see a lot of insults towards fundalmentalism or those that won't separate THEIR beliefs with politics, but I don't see that as Christianity.
I think there are core beliefs that define Christianity and then there are many beliefs right outside the core. Beliefs that have divided the church several hundred times over. These will be the issues that divide Christianity till the end of time and I just have to accept that.
Jesus never promoted anything in politics, but he didn't ignore politics either. He said give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's and give unto the Lord what is the Lord's. Now Jesus knew the political system at the time wasn't perfect, he knew it wasn't the most moral but he didn't care to inflatrate it. Why? Because he knew that was never the way to get to people's hearts. I think your faith should guide your decisions, but you have to be able to discern what's best for the people at the same time. Let's take the Sabbath for example(I'll stay away from all controversial ones right now) let's say the right got all the other laws they wanted and now they decided to push for an ammendment to make work on the Sabbath illegal. This would be inserting your faith without benefit to the majority of the people.80sU2isBest said:
You talk about beliefs outside the core of Christianity, and yet you say that someone keeping his/her Christian beliefs out of politics is a good thing. Is that a core belief? What verse in the Bible promotes keeping Christian beliefs out of any other area of a person's life?
80sU2isBest said:
In fact, the Bible promotes letting Christ be Lord over all area of your life.
BonoVoxSupastar said:I think your faith should guide your decisions, but you have to be able to discern what's best for the people at the same time. Let's take the Sabbath for example(I'll stay away from all controversial ones right now) let's say the right got all the other laws they wanted and now they decided to push for an ammendment to make work on the Sabbath illegal. This would be inserting your faith without benefit to the majority of the people.
That's why so much of the left gets pissed off because the things the right want to ban or force etc either aren't a benefit or they don't hurt anyone, they're just enforcing their faith for the sake of enforcing their faith.
80sU2isBest said:
You talk about beliefs outside the core of Christianity, and yet you say that someone keeping his/her Christian beliefs out of politics is a good thing. Is that a core belief? What verse in the Bible promotes keeping Christian beliefs out of any other area of a person's life?
In fact, the Bible promotes letting Christ be Lord over all area of your life.