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Oh, so its only "liberals and progressives" that want to sin?
Not conservatives, who advocate for war and the death penalty despite "Thou shall not kill"?
Not conservatives, who resent having any of their precious income going to help the poor?
Not conservatives, who shun anyone who is not the same color, religion, nationality or sexual orientation?
I think liberals and conservatives are equally guilty, they just choose different parts of God's law they want to ignore.
Your broad brushing conservatives is just as ridiculous as his broad brushing liberals and progressives.
Wait, were you just being sarcastic and it went over my head? lol..
They believe they can sin 24/7 and just say "Jesus Wept" and everythings' ok. not true
My belief is that when I fall and sin, if I sincerely say that I'm sorry and repent and make an honest effort to not do it again, then I am forgiven. And this is because Jesus died on the cross so that we could receive forgiveness for our sins.
Now if I fall, and never get up and say screw it, I don't care, I'm going to keep doing my sin, that's where it can get ugly. God wants us to get close to Him. And of course we can't be close to Him and be out sinning all the time. Something's gotta give, but it's OUR choice what we do. I am currently choosing to try to be as close to God and his Son as possible, so I am changing my lifestyle as quickly as I can.
Oh, so its only "liberals and progressives" that want to sin?
Not conservatives, who advocate for war and the death penalty despite "Thou shall not kill"?
Not conservatives, who resent having any of their precious income going to help the poor?
Not conservatives, who shun anyone who is not the same color, religion, nationality or sexual orientation?
I think liberals and conservatives are equally guilty, they just choose different parts of God's law they want to ignore.
While I don't think that's a fair characterization of all or even most conservatives, your last statement has alot of truth to it. There are many liberals and progressives that are looking for loopholes that will allow them to sin, but there are just as many if not more conservatives that use their legalism and their purposely narrow views to justify thinking in unloving ways and miss the heart of God's laws. They have a common disease I like to call "Imrightism." From my experience, liberals and progressives can develop it as well, but not to the same degree because of the nature of how they think.
This is a rather serious disease because the carrier not only often leans to the far right politically, but they have an uncontrollable desire to believe they are right about everything thing they believe without further research. They want so badly to believe they have all the big answers in life that develop tunnelvision while looking at those answers and they have 100s of different creative ways of saying "it is the way it is and thats the way it is!" For many of these individuals, anyone who believes something slight to the left of what they believe are labeled by them as "Unbelievers, New Agers, Athiests, Communists, Marxists, Maoists, and sometimes even Hippies.
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..ok I'm having too much fun with this one Most of that was silly exaggerated stereotyping because I haven't done a goofy post in a while, but it also comes partially from my experience as a former sufferer of Imrightism. I still show some occasional symptoms, but I'd like to think its in remission
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Your broad brushing conservatives is just as ridiculous as his broad brushing liberals and progressives.
Wait, were you just being sarcastic and it went over my head? lol..
I should not have broad-brushed conservatives that way. Of course, not all conservatives are guilty of the behaviors I listed. I was just trying to illustrate how those on the right can be sinful as well. I think the poster I was responding to needed some concrete examples since his political bias was clearly clouding his thinking.
God's love is so much higher than we believe. This world has a lot of "unlove" in it, but we need not curse the darkness because darkness already has its own curse built in.
God's love is so much higher than we believe. This world has a lot of "unlove" in it, but we need not curse the darkness because darkness already has its own curse built in.
You are absolutely right, Heartsong.
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Most of that was silly exaggerated stereotyping because I haven't done a goofy post in a while, but it also comes partially from my experience as a former sufferer of Imrightism. I still show some occasional symptoms, but I'd like to think its in remission 
