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Originally Posted by revrandy
Another book which highlights how the Bible has many of the same stories as other faiths is The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur. I read this when I was in seminary... it certainly allowed me to ask a whole series of questions others didn't like to hear.
The one that got the most shock and awe was:
How do we know Jesus was really a God and not some corner evangelist with a great PR machine? Prof loved it and our class spent 90 minutes discussing it.
Tom Harpur has written a number of books (he was a professor of Theology, specializing in the NT and the NT in Greek). The Pagan Christ should be required reading by all theologians, and is a well written book. Many fundamentalists denounced the book, because it did challenge their faith.
I found his follow up book, "From Water to Wine" not as well done.
Your problem is seeing the world as "sides." Christ followers see ALL people as living in God's world--and to be treated by other than fundamentalist BS. Following Christ is not about attacking 'sin'--it's about living an exemplary life that others wish to imitate.
Get a bible education, sonny. You badly need it.
Learn to love other people instead of running them down. That's the education YOU need.
Learn to love other people instead of running them down. That's the education YOU need.
Says the pot from the closet door..I really hope that means LOVE the LGBT, the MUSLIM, the ADDICTED, the HOMELESS, the HUNGRY, the MARGINALIZED, the LONELY, the HINDU, the HISPANIC, the WOMEN, theosewho belife differently than you and every human on the planet?
Learn to love other people instead of running them down.
You should do that. Loving members of the gay community instead of complaining about them and seeing them as conduits for disease would be a good place for you to start.
You should do that. Loving members of the gay community instead of complaining about them and seeing them as conduits for disease would be a good place for you to start.
No, you want me to love the sin and the sinner. Shame me all you want, but I don't want to stand before God on judgement day and explain how I encouraged people to continue in a path of destruction.
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