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To: MtnClimber
Many churches spread the gospel of passivity. Passive people don't challenge anything.

Turning the other cheek doesn't mean "roll over and play dead."

This is nothing like what the Apostles did.

17 posted on 02/18/2024 5:06:54 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Many churches spread the gospel of passivity. Passive people don’t challenge anything.

Turning the other cheek doesn’t mean “roll over and play dead.”

This is nothing like what the Apostles did.”

Exactly right. Well said. On top of the reality that more often than not, church revenue is a priority over morality. Such as the case with hiding behind “compassionate humanitarianism” by aiding and abetting illegal immigrants coming into the country for donations and government subsidies.


19 posted on 02/18/2024 5:58:50 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Many churches spread the gospel of passivity. Passive people don’t challenge anything.

“Turning the other cheek doesn’t mean ‘roll over and play dead.

“This is nothing like what the Apostles did.”

Weak accommodationists have used this to excuse cowardice in all things. It may, I emphasize may, be an appropriate response to a physical threat. But it is in no way an appropriate response to sin and violation of God’s laws.

One citation settles that:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010%3A34-36&version=ESV

34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.


23 posted on 02/18/2024 7:44:17 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: RoosterRedux

You are SO RIGHT.....
Speaking the truth and challenging wrong was exactly what the Apostles did.
That is why they were put to death, many of them... for the gospel sake!!


27 posted on 02/18/2024 11:13:33 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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