Posted on 01/19/2015 7:47:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Je Suis Bible Thumper.
With a name like ‘Eichenwald’ he cannot be pro-Christian and must deny Christ’s divinity or else he would have to convert to Christianity.
It’s in the “cover story” link of the actual article.
The huge amount of comments is at the “cover story” link with the entire article.
The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin
By Kurt Eichenwald / December 23, 2014 6:54 AM EST
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/02/thats-not-what-bible-says-294018.html
Oh, my!!
Guess Eichenwald's less-than scholarly piece means tomorrow night's "address" can't/won't include any scriptural justification for the "fair share" politics of so-called "progressives."
Anyway, those who study the history of liberty versus tyranny understand that "fair share," when used by politicians, is just "slavery" by another name. Government "masters" buy votes in exchange for retaining their "master redistributionist" status, while their "voters" yield up freedom for themselves and future generations.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
All who doubt the wisdom of Lewis, as well as a bit of proof that the "Left" "picks and chooses" scriptures, might watch the video of a National Prayer Breakfast a few years ago. There, a President arrogantly misappropriated Jesus's spiritual challenge to individuals, claiming those words as validating and authorizing abusive use of coercive power by himself and his cronies to "take" from some in order to buy votes and accumulate more power to themselves--all in the name of "helping" the beneficiaries of such unconstitutional "takings."
Hear Samuel Adams:
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
I’ve always found the end of that story to be very interesting. She didn’t ask for forgiveness, but he gave it to her anyway. He did that a few times in the Gospels. Why? Isn’t it a tenant of Christianity that we must ask for His forgiveness?
A perfect description not of fundamentalists, but of progressive "christians" who only got into christianity in order to "reform" and politicize it.
The Pharisees broke at least 3 laws.
What’s a “Newsweek?”
RE: What’s a “Newsweek?”
LOL, I knew this question would pop up sometime.
In fact, whenever I post a TIME magazine article, the question: What’s a “TIME” eventually pops up.
Looks like Newsweek is well on the way to being out of business.
At 5:46 the question is asked about islam allowing Women to be stoned to death.
She said that Stoning Women to death comes from the Bible.
At 5:46 the question is asked about islam allowing Women to be stoned to death.
She said that Stoning Women to death comes from the Bible.
When the Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus after”catching her in the very act”, they neglected one minor detail.According to Old Testament both parties were to be stoned. WHERE’S THE DUDE?
What is lost here with the way the writer opens the article is that the Pharisees brought the woman to Jesus as a ploy to get Jesus in trouble with the Magistrate.
Remember, this is propaganda.
It is laying the ground work for the Roberts’ court to start banning orthodox Christians by saying they are not “real” Christians.
Expect number of church leaders to go pro gay marriage real soon.
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