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It amazes me that the instructions to love God and each other that permeates Christ's instructions to His disciples have been supplanted with "precepts and doctrines of men" that violate those instructions in the name of obeying God. It is a travesty of human vanity and hubris pretending to speak for God and ignoring Jesus.
Now that’s rich! You ignore Jesus in the latter part of John 3:16.
Not that I know of. I'd have to believe in pettiness to think you would be punished for getting it wrong. Before I concluded atheism I felt God to be love. So, no, you need not fear. You didn't answer the question though. Are you about to pull a Jimmy and just keep asking me questions back until I have to go?
Not that I know of. I'd have to believe in pettiness to think you would be punished for getting it wrong. Before I concluded atheism I felt God to be love. So, no, you need not fear. You didn't answer the question though. Are you about to pull a Jimmy and just keep asking me questions back until I have to go?
No, I won't be punished for being wrong. In fact, if I am wrong there is no consequence for sins, rejection of God, or anything else. I will happily spend the eternity in heaven in presence of Hitler, Stalin and Ted Bundy.
No, I won't be punished for being wrong. In fact, if I am wrong there is no consequence for sins, rejection of God, or anything else. I will happily spend the eternity in heaven in presence of Hitler, Stalin and Ted Bundy.
Well, no because they'll be in hell with Anne Frank. gotcha!
It sounds like you are terrified of the thought that Bible and Jesus might be right, and you are wrong.
I'm not terrified, but I'm willing to admit their are so many contradictions that one has to bring wisdom to Scripture in order to get anything out of it. That's why I left fundamentalism and you have not.
I'm not terrified, but I'm willing to admit their are so many contradictions that one has to bring wisdom to Scripture in order to get anything out of it. That's why I left fundamentalism and you have not.
Based on your description of fundamentalism, you were never a 'fundamentalist'. I don't know what you were, but your description is unfamiliar to me.
"Participants seek to live their faith in what they believe to be a 'postmodern' society. What those involved in the conversation mostly agree on is their disillusionment with the organized and institutional church and their support for the deconstruction of modern Christian worship, modern evangelism, and the nature of modern Christian community."
Well, that is the very broad definition. It leaves one breathless when reading it all at once! It begs the question – why use any label at all? Why not just be followers of Christ; Christians? Whenever a movement arises and starts to change meanings of words, be very cautious...
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