Posted on 03/29/2005 5:31:58 AM PST by Quix
May God, through the power of His Holy Spirit help spread the GOOD NEWS of the love of Jesus Christ to this once dark region!
Thanks for the ping, Quix!
All who claim the Name of Christ, are not His followers.
Secular historians would like you to believe that these things were done by true Christians, but they were not.
Great classic.
Amen.
Are you really considering Hitler a Christian?
Lots of people consider themselves Christian because they were born in America.
Being in a garage doesn't make you a car.
You know the rules...
U R Welcome.
Thanks much for your Amen and prayer! Amen to your prayer!
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT POINT. THX.
Also, EVEN THE TRUTHS OF CHRISTIANITY as a RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD paradigm
CAN BECOME A DEADLY RELIGION when God is lost into a man manipulated and 'worked' philosophy of control etc.
U know the rules???
Ann Coulter?
???
missed humor?
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
AHHHHHHHH,
THAT rule! LOL.
Thanks.
So has every other group of human beings on the planet, whether the group is religious, political or otherwise, except maybe the Quakers. And I'm not sure about them
Not sure if you meant to imply otherwise, but the violence done by Christians does not have its cause in Christianity. Humans do this to each other all the time--it's a species thing--and of we course invoke the highest values of our respective cultures to justify our actions. I've seen rival groups of Buddhist monks beat the crap out of each other.
.."Secular historians would like you to believe that these things were done by true Christians, but they were not..."
So true.
I have studied history my entire life and have found most such claims to be totally bogus.
Most "forced conversions" by the way, were perpetrated by nominal Christian tyrant kings who wanted the unifying power of a single religion among their people. Of course, that was in fashion until about the 11th century.
And the charge that Christianity has, at any time, hindered scientific progress is absurd on it's face. Or maybe it's just an accident that the overwhelming amount of scientific progress in world history has been achieved in western Christendom over the past thousand years.
What an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
and accurate-to-life observation, truth.
Thanks tons.
Zimbardo, PhD writes an excellent intro to Psych text. He's famous for the prison experiment where during a holiday period, he randomly assigned students paid for the experiment to GUARDS or PRISONERS roles.
The only instruction was something like TO KEEP ORDER or something else fairly mildly worded like that. I think the experiment was scheduled to run for a couple of weeks but had to be shut down after a few days.
The guards became ruthless and viscious--even former prisoners who were switched to be guards became similarly.
Zimbardo noted, in reminding the reader about the War Crimes trials after WWII that after an exhaustive bunch of tests, the findings were conclusive. The worst war criminals were . . . . . essentially . . . . .
NO
different from the average citizen.
And that that was more frightening. It's one thing if the MONSTERS are OUT THERE. We can gang up on them.
It's quite different, if THE MONSTER is within each one of us.
Which is what THE GOSPEL is about. Christ died to prove He won over the monster of sin pollution within each individual since Adam. Apart from Christ's Blood and forgiveness from accepting The Blood's application/covering; and Holy Spirit's helping us become more like Christ and leave sin's deadliness increasingly behind
all
of
us
given the right circumstances and background,
could do virtually any deadly, horrid, hideously destructive thing.
Perhaps, DollarC would be wise to consider his own heart attitude toward God and others
MORE
and the sins of hypocrite others less.
And, as a teen pastor used to say . . . IF a hypocrite is between you and God, he's closer to God than you are.
Mr Dollar will not have to give an account for the deadly deeds of others. He will have his hands full with his own life to answer for, as will we all.
Thankfully, The Blood of Christ is a thorough Cleanser--legally, spiritually and slowly experientially.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Yup.
And, it's been rightly postulated, imho,
that apart from the Judeo/Christian values and paradigm, the scientific method would not have developed.
It required a concept of reality and a God that could be objectively studied--that there were RIGHT and WRONG ways to do things to reach certain goals.
Oh, EXCELLENT analogy, pizzalady!
Learning ABOUT Christianity from secular anti-Christian historians doesn't give you an inkling of the truth of the person of Jesus Christ, and HE is the one whose love is now being spread throughout the Middle East.
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