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Old 01-26-2016, 05:14 PM
 
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Only Christians who have read the Bible cover-to-cover. That automatically excludes about 99.9% of them.
What do you mean by this?Most christians have read the bible cover to cover.
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Old 01-26-2016, 09:01 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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What do you mean by this?Most christians have read the bible cover to cover.
David you are young in Christ. Few read the Bible carefully, but just about all those who do can give you a pretty accurate account as to how many times they have read it. As if the number of times one reads Scripture makes up for the great number of failures to put it into practice in their own lives.

For awhile on the Christian thread it went around and around about the six clobber verses regarding homosexual acts. There was thread after thread started because, in effect, the world was coming to an end because a pitifully small number of gays were going to get the right to marry. There were claims it would "weaken" traditional marriages. (I have yet to hear any poster report his marriage ended because gays are getting married).

But for those six verses there are around 3000 that talk about justice and mercy, caring for strangers (sojourners from other lands), taking care of orphans and widows, etc. No one is interested in talking about 500 times as many verses that command, instruct, and warn us regarding how we treat the poor.

It's as if God felt it necessary to instruct us 500 times more about what we should do because He sees into our hearts that we really are more about instructing other people about what they shouldn't do.

Think on that awhile--and be sure to point it out to your SS teacher and pastor anytime they begin talking about the sin of those outside the church.
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Old 01-28-2016, 09:24 AM
 
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It's quite possible the cherry tree George Washington took an axe to was a simple metaphor for the Cross, or Christianity. Maybe he booted the Christ story out of his life because he couldn't tell a lie, or be part of a lie. Surely, this is all hypothetical, but is there any proof Georgie was a Christian? His monument doesn't look like a cross. Maybe he was simply a deist. Who knows, maybe he was a closeted atheist. Cass sounds like a quack doctor trying to control people's minds.
It has been proved that the cherry tree story was not true.
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Old 01-28-2016, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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It's quite possible the cherry tree George Washington took an axe to was a simple metaphor for the Cross, or Christianity. Maybe he booted the Christ story out of his life because he couldn't tell a lie, or be part of a lie. Surely, this is all hypothetical, but is there any proof Georgie was a Christian? His monument doesn't look like a cross. Maybe he was simply a deist. Who knows, maybe he was a closeted atheist. Cass sounds like a quack doctor trying to control people's minds.
???? The cherry tree story is *known* to have been invented by a man writing a character-building children's book about the national hero. (Cherry Tree Myth*·*George Washington's Mount Vernon) I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Washington whacked down a few trees in his time, maybe even a cherry tree or two, but I highly doubt he ever thought of it in any such metaphorical terms, as he seems to have been a thoroughly down-earth man.

There are good reasons for thinking he was a nominal christian. He was known to attend church with Martha, but he usually slipped out before communion. When he knew he was dying, he did not send for a clergyman, and his last words were a question about the temperature. He was definitely not the kind of fervent christian that a lot of people make him out to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi...rge_Washington
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Old 01-28-2016, 03:52 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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You cannot make men forsake Jesus to take an office for an elected office , separation of church and state or not , and it would be criminal to make people reject God or that ...... See Jesus spirit abides of His people and He will not go unless people fall into sin ... So if man are forced to forsake Jesus spirit that it would a sin to take the elected office
True, but that doesn't mean people have the right to push for unconstitutional, discriminatory laws that favor fundamentalist Christianity at the expense of the rights of all others. When a person is elected to office, they swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not the Bible.
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