Imperial_Samura
Anticrust Smurf
Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
I reject the characterization that you hold of me being a million times preferable to my brother in Christ Marchello. I am on equal footing with my brother in Christ, and I give preference to him.
Well that is nice and all, the whole "birds of a feather" - sadly I wasn't asking for your permission to make the comparison. Your style of preaching is preferable to "I don't listen to dead people because they are DEAD and if you don't agree with me you are DEAD."
People like that do more harm then good for your cause.
Contrary to what you and the world believes...most "religious" people are NOT Christians...they are "religious" but LOST. What JIA believes is based on the "truth" of the Scriptures and because of this...he is NOT part of the so-called "religious" community of "christians" who do NOT hold to the Scriptures as the SOLE AUTHORITY in things pertaining to God [Jesus Christ]. I, as does JIA, believe that the ONLY revelation of God to mankind is the Scriptures...and they ALONE are the ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY by which we are to believe and live our lives in service and obedience to Him [Jesus Christ our SAVIOUR and GOD].
😆 😆 😆 Oh dead, you do make me laugh. You aren't following a religion because your God is right? You are following God, not religion? Dear me. Dear, dear me. Maybe you should take your protest up with... theological scholars and historians who spend there lives writing books about Christian religion.
I really don't know what type of glasses you wear to see the world in such a way - but Christianity is a religion. Christians are religious people. All Christians are religious, but not all religious people are Christian.
***The Scriptures do NOT defend the existence of God...they DECLARE Him: "In the Beginning God..." You are not compelled to believe in Him...that is your choice [albeit the wrong choice]...but because you don't believe He exists is NOT proof that He DOESN'T exist.
Who says our lack of belief is why we say God doesn't exist? Did you ever stop to think maybe it is the profound lack of proof God exists that makes us not believe?
Did you ever stop and think maybe it is the fact that numerous parts of the people don't actually work with historically and scientifically verifiable facts why we don't believe?
Did it ever occur to you maybe it is the unpleasant things like anti -homosexuality and the like that the Bible apparently promotes sometimes that turn people away and make us question the claim of a "Good God."
The scripture doesn't defend God... because it CAN'T. One has to have proof to do that. And it, and you, don't. It makes a claim knowing there are going to be people happy to believe regardless of the improbability of the claims. Regardless of the lack of proof.
That is what He did for us...
Correction. That is what you say he did for us. I see no proof of it. And even if he did do it - I resent the raping of my free will in such a fashion. God should not be messing with humanity. It should be our right, nay, our responsibility to deal with a sin. He had no right to take it from us.
I didn't ask Jesus to do this, and nor do I accept he did.
***Not so. The reason that you say it doesn't add anything to the discussion is because you do not want to face the truth...it inflames your "sensibilities"...you do not want to face the fact that you are a sinner...that there is a God that does not look kindly upon sin...and that He requires that all men repent of their sins or face the penalty for them. In your convoluted way of thinking...if you can eliminate God from existence...then you can become the God of your own existence...answerable to no one!
No, I accept the things I do wrong - I learn from them and I live with them. I am not the one who is happy to pass it off to Jesus. To amply a mythic band aid to the souls of man. It is people like you, in your denial - "I believe in Jesus... that makes me good."
It is garbage of the highest decree. Being a Christian no more makes one good then being white. Or rich. Of the member of a club. And all these other ways of social validation died out - I am confident so to will religious superiority - and it will be a good day when it does.
Yes it does...God holds all men responsible for their refusal to acknowledge what He has shown them of Himself in His creation. Even those who have never had an opportunity to hear the Gospel have received a clear witness about the existence and character of God...and have suppressed it. If a person will respond to the revelation he has, even if it is solely a natural revelation, God will provide some means for that person to hear the Gospel.
Oh - how easy to lie when one believe it.
The Aboriginals of Australia - here for 20,000 years or more showed no sign of knowing anything about the Christian God. There religion and culture had nothing in common - how do you explain that? Oh wait, you claim they were shown and merely repressed it. Garbage.
Society after society can be studied and except the ones around the area in the Middle east not a single one supports Jewish claims that would evolve into Christianity. Not a way. To imply that they all knew and merely suppressed it is the biggest load of absurdity I have had the misfortune of hearing today. Face it - they didn't show any knowledge of God because he didn't come to them. Something nonexistent can't.
You are no expert on the interpretation of Scripture and, therefore, not in a position to make such a statement from a position of certified knowledge. Therefore your pronouncement is purely personal and subjective...not one based on fact...and must be rejected out of hand.
And who is an expert of interpreting scripture? Clearly not thousands of scholars who have dedicated their lives to it and whose views are the same as his.
Oh wait - the only people who are right are the ones who agree with you! Yes, it is easy to be sinless when one declares themselves above sin. It is easy to be right when one claims that everyone who disagrees is automatically invalid.