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I'm not cherry-picking. I love Christ and all His followers. I believe and support
nearly all of Jesus' preachings.
That's cherry Picking right there.
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I'm just much more willing to accept the fact that the Bible has a few mistakes, contradictions, etc. Keep in mind, the Bible was not written by God himself, but His worshipers. Human beings are capable of error,. A lot of these things in the Bible about homosexuality aren't God's thoughts; they are just accounts of laws that Roman and Jewish officials enforced.
They most certainly are not, these dated back in practice to 1300BC in there inception.
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No Christian is going to agree with 100% of what the Bible says,
Wrong, Millions of Christians are complete biblical literalists, they have true faith and if the Bible says Jump, my God they Jump.
Just because you don't have the courage or personal integrity to follow your own faith, doesn't mean you should think everyone else is as degraded as you.
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so if you're going to judge my faith in God, why not judge every other Christian's faith in God?
I do judge every other Christians Faith in God, but that's because I judge that faith to be blasphemous.
At least they "Have" it though.
You by openly admitting to be ignoring God's work, and the Holy Churchs edicts, are pretty much commiting Apostasy.
I am not ignoring it. What are you even talking about, "apostasy"? There really is no such thing anymore. When someone begins to question their own faith, they simply establish a new one building upon the ideas of their previous faith and making slight changes to the things they don't agree with. That's what Buddha did, as well as Jesus, Martin Luther, or Mohammad. It's nothing new.
Heck, we wouldn't have all these different sects of Christianity if it weren't for apostasy.
No you wouldn't, true Christianity hasn't existed since about the 2nd century AD
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And all of these people who claim to believe everything the Bible says haven't read everything.
Oh oh, are you going to bring Pork and shellfish?
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The Bible says not to eat shellfish, not to wear clothes with multiple types of fabric in it, a widow must immediately marry her brother-in-law after her husband dies, it's okay for your husband to get your lady-in-waiting pregnant when you're infertile, etc.
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Here is a peice of knowledge, And Orthodox Jews do "all of that" they don't eat Shellfish, or wear polyesters.
The only reason Christians Don't is because...well if you knew even the first thing about Christianity you would know this FUNDEMNETAL piece of Theology.
That they are exempt from it by the New Covenant, as clearly laid out in the New Testament works.
Tada..that's Christians Following the Bible there.
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The main idea of Christianity is that Jesus is the Son of God, and he was born to a virgin and performed many great miracles and was crucified and rose from the dead three days later. The main ideas of Christianity are basically the verses found in the Nicene Creed. As long as you believe that, you are a Christian.
The first line of the Nicean Creed, necistates a complete Belife in God and the last line necesitates a complete Belief in the CHURCH.
By ignoring the Bibles stance on Homosexuality and ignoring the Church s stance on Homosexuality you are denying those two aspects of the creed.
Take a step back and listen to yourself, you are saying "I belive in Jesus and I follow him" but you are also saying you don't believe in EVERYTHING he taught, or everything God laid out in the Old and New Testament, you are a fallible weak and meager human, are throwing out Gods Holy Law as you see fit?
More-over you as a Catholic are ignoring the Church?
You should be ashamed to call yourself a Christian.
That's like me saying "Im a Muslim...but I don't believe in that Surah...and I don't really follow the Hadith" it's absolute nonsense.
To have "Faith in God" you need to have complete faith, not just faith where it's suitable for you...or faith in the bits you "agree" with.
See, people seem to think that they need to know what's morally right and wrong by way of religion; they need it to guide them. In reality, how could they not figure out that killing, adultery, etc. are wrong on their own?
Killing isn't wrong though...murder is.
That's also in the Bible by the way
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You are starting to sound like my aunt now, who I love dearly, but seems to think she must listen to everything the Bible has to say. If the Bible said you should go to work on the first Wednesday of the month dressed up as a clown singing "On Top of Old Smokey" while gargling mineral water, she would do it.
If the Qur'an told me to do that...so would i.
The fact that you as a Christian "wouldn't" do what the Bible tells you to do is absolutely shocking.
And rather sad to be honest.
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You say I should be ashamed to call myself Christian? Well, honestly, I'm ashamed to discover people such as you can be so narrow-minded.
So doing as God commands is narrow minded?
Best of luck explaining that one on the Day of Judgement
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Who are you to judge my faith?
Another Human being, with powers of reasoning and deduction, if we were not meant to Judge another by there actions we would not have been given guidelines to do as much.
The New Testament itself commands Christians to shun poor Christians and Hypocrtys and judge them by there faith and actions.
The Qur'an tells us to judge amongst ourselves by the Laws God has laid down.
Free will and intellect, gifts from God, that's what gives me the right
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God alone has the power to do that. If He thinks I'm devoted enough, fine. If he doesn't, that's fine too.
God get's the final decision, but it's a responsibility of mankind to set straight misguided individuals.
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And don't try speaking on behalf of God. That's the problem with people like you; they always seem to think they are closer to God than anyone else. In reality, we're all around the same page with Him--even the clergy.
Im further from God than most, however at least I have the common sense and integrity to be able to do as he commands, and not just pick and choose what is easy for me and ignore what is hard for me.
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All in all, I'm blessed. I'm not homeless, hungry, malnourished, or anything. As long as I have that, I'm not afraid of listening to judgmental individuals such as yourself.
Then if you are listening, apply what you are hearing.
Im no Christian, but if "You" are going to be one, then for petes sake, at least do the basic things your Religion asks of you, and not just pick and choose, and plug your ears.
Follow the Bible and Follow the Church...stop making excuses to not pull your weight, do your work, and please God.
It's embarassing to watch a person of the Book act like this.