#192899 - 09/21/10 04:18 PM
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ghoti
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
I know many Christians who make an effort to live up to the model of Jesus, but I've also met many who fit this quote perfectly. It's the main reason why, even though I have deep respect for Jesus and try to use him as my role model, I refuse to call myself a Christian.
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#192906 - 09/21/10 05:37 PM
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What I find is the ones most vocal abt their Christianity tend to be the least like Christ. Hi Paulwa...lol
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#192914 - 09/21/10 07:21 PM
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I don't believe Paulwa would deliberately hurt anyone and he
can take a punch.
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#192931 - 09/22/10 04:50 AM
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MerryA
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I don't believe Paulwa would deliberately hurt anyone and he
can take a punch.
I don't think he would deliberately hurt someone PHYSICALLY but he sure does sling the crap and make wild claims without any proof other than his "gut" - I think he doesn't care who he offends or hurts with his words.
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#192943 - 09/22/10 10:29 AM
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Skylark
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I question those who are too vocal about their "christianity."
One's deeds should speak for them. Not their words.
I admit Paulwa amuses me with his strange view of the world, life, and Christ. It makes him a predictable one-trick pony, and that just bores me.
But -- live and let live. Christ speaks to all who listen -- and never in the same way to any two people.
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#192955 - 09/22/10 12:13 PM
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Thank you Skylark, I agree. MerryA if repeating the words of Jesus christ offends anyone or hurts them I guess there is nothing I can do about that. He did offend a lot of people so that they were angry enough to put Him to death. His words really hurt and cut those who disagree with Him. His commands were very difficult for us to follow so He gave us the gift of His Holy Spirit to comfort us and help us to follow His way. Being Christiian is not an easy path to follow unless you do as He says and give Him your burdens and just walk by faith that He will take care of things as you struggle along day to day. That is the only way and know that God will judge you and you cannot fool Him in any way.
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#192965 - 09/22/10 12:42 PM
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IMO if there was one single resounding message Jesus brought, it was that we were to stop practicing revenge and to show kindness to our enemies instead. The Christian extremists who constantly spout off about fear and hate and advocate violence toward others apparently never got that message.
How can anyone claim to be a Christian and yet have missed that? IMO that's what Gandhi was getting at.
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#192988 - 09/22/10 02:25 PM
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Beats me how anyone can home in on one message of Jesus Christ and then attempt to cut Him off in every other way. Jesus is God and He created all.
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#193008 - 09/22/10 05:20 PM
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Thank you Skylark, I agree. MerryA if repeating the words of Jesus christ offends anyone or hurts them I guess there is nothing I can do about that.
You are not that dense. Quote Scripture - except you don't. You give your opinion and damn people to hell based on your "gut" feelings or lies you heard on FoxNewless. Your hateful words have to do with politics and Islam - when you DON'T quote Jesus.
BTW - there is ALWAYS something you can do about the hate you spew.
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#193027 - 09/23/10 11:13 AM
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ghoti
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Beats me how anyone can home in on one message of Jesus Christ and then attempt to cut Him off in every other way. Jesus is God and He created all.
If you have really read the Gospels, there is only one message from Jesus that resounds over and over. He told us to stop practicing an eye for an eye and love our neighbors instead. Do you disagree?
If you're speaking to me when you say "cutting him off in every other way" then I don't get what you mean. I see Jesus as the ultimate role model and try my poor best to emulate him.
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#193042 - 09/23/10 04:32 PM
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To you, Ghoti, Jesus was just a man and not God or the son of God and by Jesus own words in the bible you have sentenced yourself to eternity without Him in your life. I deduce this by what you have said in the past and that you don't believe the bible is the word of God. That makes you secular and an unbeliever in Jesus Christ. That is ok with you because you have chosen your own path and it is ok to take Jesus words to live by but they won't save you because Jesus says He is the only true path to God and any other way leads to hell. So if you are satisfied with your path of choice the good fortune to you.
MerryA you are just full of something, but it is not the truth.
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#193209 - 09/27/10 11:36 PM
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ghoti
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Paulwa, IMO Jesus was just a man who died 2000 years ago and he isn't going to ever return. I believe he carried an important message to us that was inspired by the creator but most of his claims of divinity were either delusional or greatly exaggerated by the authors of the New Testament.
If I'm wrong then I will gladly face whatever consequences result, but if you're wrong you will have wasted your lifetime clinging onto ancient mythology. The only evidence supporting your belief is a single 2000-year old book, and there are lots of other books that make very different claims and are firmly believed in by other people.
You have chosen to reject all those other books and believe in the Bible, while I reject the Bible, too. I find the whole notion that the creator spoke openly to so many people 2000 years ago and then just decided to stop communicating with us a ridiculous concept.
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#193210 - 09/28/10 07:17 AM
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I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church and a have stong understanding of Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian demoninations as well as Catholic and Morman doctrines. I was confirmed an Episcopalian in 1980. I am hard pressed to recognize most of what Paulwa proclaims as Christian doctrine.
That having been said, I am working on being more tolerant of those with distorted versions of history and reality.
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#193211 - 09/28/10 08:05 AM
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Greg
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I am working on being more tolerant
it ain't working
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#193214 - 09/28/10 09:56 AM
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MerryA
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I am working on being more tolerant it ain't working
Sure it is - I haven't smacked you in some time - and you have deserved quite a bit of smaking! LOL
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