Posted on 07/12/2012 9:34:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Did she ever really believe in Jesus?
Good way to cancel out any validity in her story. No way to really tell.
I don’t think she ever had FAITH to begin with. She has no true religious insight. The worst part of it is the effect on her immediate family - really bad.
In light of scripture’s teachings against women assuming a public role in congregational worship (cf I Corinthians 14 & I Timothy 2), her faith couldn’t have been too Bible based anyway. That’s the problem. Once Christians, quasi Christians and pseudo Christians start ignoring plain Bible teaching, there is no logical stopping point.
Psalm 14:1
“The fool[a] says in his heart,
There is no God.
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.”
I’d say that about covers this one!
—One was the contradictory nature of the Bible;—
IOW, she had no personal relationship with Christ. The Bible is not the foundation of the relationship. It enhances it.
Do I stop believing my wife exists if I find apparent contradictions in her diary?
—Did she ever really believe in Jesus?—
This.
I’ve read stories of long time servers in the ministry, some even relatively famous that completely gave up the faith. The real question is, “did they REALLY believe, or were they just going along with something that seemed to make sense - at first”.
She gives the appearance of a tolerant and reasonable person. However history has shown that when people like her (former religous people turned athiest)obtain power they can become nasty terrible people. The Mexican, Russian. and Cuban revolutions were full of born again athiests who tortured and killed the people they had once worshipped with and even their own families. It will be interesting to follow her career.
I would guess, no.
“she is now happy and at peace with her decision.”
She will be until she faces Christ at the White Throne Judgment.
How many people have wrestled with the notion that the God that Jesus worshiped would torture people for eons and that after setting up them up for failure and such things.
But this was a pastor, a shepherd and as such had a responsibility not just for their own faith but those she taught to vigorously seek out the truth of the Bible and it is evident this simply never took place.
A soldier who doesn't practice constantly with their sword soon looses its protection.
Sounds like she had a flawed notion of God from the beginning. God isn't there to 'solve our problems'. He made us rational beings to do that for ourselves. However, if we have no moral underpinnings for our actions, our problems will never be solved.
I guess she needs to ask herself, in the absence of some sort of morality, which is, at its base, religious teaching of some sort, how are humans supposed to 'reach out to each other', and solve any of our problems in a just manner?
Probably had a lot to do with the fact that she was acting directly contrary to God's Word.
She didn’t say much about Him, did she? She used the word “Christian” but never used the word “Christ”.
I suspect Mizz MacBain’s problem wasn’t so much that the Bible is “contradictory,” but that it was contradicting HER.
Nothing left to explain....."she" doesn't believe anything in the bible if "she" thinks "she's" ever qualified to be a pastor.
“The solution has to be when one human reaches out to another.”
Name me one atheistic charity.
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