^thats a debatable stance ..i mean jesus saves comes from some place

No, I actually think the fact that Christianity teaches charity is what makes a lot of Christians so charitable actually... it's actually a good thing (even myself, VERY MUCH a non-Christian is able to give credit where it is due).
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Comrade Tovya said:
No, you are missing my point... God never said that the righteous will "go to heaven". It's just popular myth. And yes, it is quite relevant when you tell people that "God will allow you into the pearly gates of Heaven" when such a thing may never happen. If you truly revere God, is it not a form of blasphemy to put words into his mouth? God never stated such, and it's evil to put words into the mouth of God. No, I just showed that he did say it (if you believe the Bible is inspired). To put it roughly, Believing in God=Salvation, Believing in God=Righteousness, Therefore Salvation=Righteousness, as per the above verses. And, again, it isn't blasphemous to do what He says to do. And I'm certainly not putting words into his mouth; my arguments are purely scriptural. Hypothetically, if I told your mother that I was going to get her out of debt and move her from her cardboard box, and into a nice little house, and then never showed up... wouldn't that be wrong? And as for your last point, with that train of thought, then you are saying that God was being dishonest when he said that angels didn't have freewill? It takes freewill to make the choice to declare war on God. Angels have never had this... so how could this have happened? If God intended to give angels the freewill of rebelion, then he could have just as easily gave them to freewill to worship him by choice.. in which case there would have been no purpose for the creation of man. The Bible never says angels are without free will, and in the example you presented I argued that Satan wasn't obeying him, just that God wouldn't let him do it if he tried. Secondly, another point you are skipping is that God is unable to be in the presence of sin. Heaven is "pure" and "perfect". So if Satan really is a sinful rebel against God, then he is unable to enter Heaven and stand at the side of God to pass judgement on the man named Job. I'm fairly sure there are no verses that say God can't be in the presence in the presence of evil; after all, he is (Biblically) omnipotent and omnipresent, so from that we can see He is quite capable and must be. And if Satan really could go to war against God, he sure as heck could also make the choice to rebel against God again and strike down Job in defiance of the almighty. Again, he couldn't have because God wasn't just commanding him. The point is, Christianity's idea of righteousness is that the belief that a man/god died for you makes you perfect before God... and that's just not in line with what the Tanach (the "old" Testament) says about righteousness. I agree; I wasn't saying good works save a person, but what I was saying is that you (should) sin either less or not at all when you become a Christian, according to Paul. And don't get me started on the sacrifice thing, because that's another issue all together. God doesn't accept the sacrifice of human beings as attonement for sin anyway... and furthermore, the Torah is quite specific that human sacrifice is an abomination to God as well. And for be it from God to tell us something is evil, only to turn around and do the same thing himself. If God is not without blemish, then he's not God at all. That's more referring to someone sacrificing someone else. In Jesus's case, it was either he sacrificing himself, or God telling him to, which is kinda the same thing anyways. As it says somewhere in the NT "Greater Love has no one than this; when a man lay down his life for a friend". Here, ther is no problem with human sacrifice, as it is self. So it's safe to assume that if you truly believe that God is perfect, then we can know that he is no hypocritical tyrant that tells us not to do something that he himself would do. |
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Thatmax said:
I know what you mean, but the people running those charities wouldn't stop doing so if they changed their faith, the goodness in their hearts wouldn't disappear along with the religion.
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I'm agnostic so I really don't have a dog in this fight, but from what I have seen the less religious a person is the less likely they are to give their time or money to charity ...
HappySqurriel said:
I'm agnostic so I really don't have a dog in this fight, but from what I have seen the less religious a person is the less likely they are to give their time or money to charity ...
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Im agnostic too, my stance is that Im just gonna live life and enjoy it rather than stressing about where we came from. I just feel that the more extreme christians are going too far by thinking that they can look down on people like me, or in this case homosexuals.
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Im agnostic too, my stance is that Im just gonna live life and enjoy it rather than stressing about where we came from. I just feel that the more extreme christians are going too far by thinking that they can look down on people like me, or in this case homosexuals. |
Go to a meeting of nice "Tolerant" progressives and listen to how they talk about Evangelical Christians, Mormons, or (pretty much) anyone who disagrees with them ... I'm told that the "N-Word" was used quite heavily after the prop-8 vote in California.
I don't know whether there ever was civil disagreements, but today all politics is simply fearmongering, stereotyping and prejudice.
So much for open-mindedness and fairness....I guess "tolerance" can only go in one direction >_>
I'm not catholic, but I have some close friends that are and they are good people - some of you may not agree with their beliefs, but that doesn't make it cool to go belittling and insulting that group of people..


I think it's all about the politics and pertitions and groups.