Posted on 04/06/2007 1:40:34 PM PDT by driftdiver
When did it come to the point that being a Christian meant caring about only two issues, abortion and homosexuality?
Ask the nonreligious what being a Christian today means, and based on what we see and read, it's a good bet they will say that followers of Jesus Christ are preoccupied with those two points.
Poverty? Whatever. Homelessness? An afterthought. A widening gap between the have and have-nots? Immaterial. Divorce? The divorce rate of Christians mirrors the national average, so that's no big deal.
The point is that being a Christian should be about more than abortion and homosexuality, and it's high time that those not considered a part of the religious right expose the hypocrisy of our brothers and sisters in Christianity and take back the faith. And those on the left who believe they have a "get out of sin free" card must not be allowed to justify their actions.
Many people believe we are engaged in a holy war. And we are. But it's not with Muslims. The real war -- the silent war -- is being engaged among Christians, and that's what we must set our sights on.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/blog/2005_03_01_analog.html
No. 1: Come, Ye Daughters
Come, ye daughters, share my wailing. See ye! The Bridegroom see!
Whom?
See Him! A lamb is he.
How?
O Lamb of God, most holy, the bitter Cross Thou has taken. At all times meek and lowly, though by Thy children forsaken
See it! His patience mild
What?
Look! Upon our guilt.
Ah, where?
The sins of man Thou art bearing, else were we left despairing. Have mercy on us, O Jesu.
Look on Him, for love untold, He Himself the Cross is bearing.
Come, ye daughters, share my wailing.
See ye! The Bridegroom see! See Him! A lamb is He.
Whom? How? A lamb is he.
No. 3: Dearest Jesus
Ah, dearest Jesu, how hast Thou offended, that such a bitter judgment has been handed? Where is Thy guilt, in what the great transgression, for Thy Confession?
No. 25: Oh, sorrow!
Ah, woe! What trembling fills His tortured breast! How sinks His heart! How pale His face oppressed!
Ah, what has brought on Thee this tribulation?
Before the Judge He must appear, there is no help, no comfort near.
'Tis my own sinning, naught of Thy transgression!
Such agonies doth Hell awaken: He must for others' sin be taken.
"Tis I, Lord Jesus, all the anguish own here which you atone here.
Ah, if my love Thy stay could be, My Savior, could calm Thy fear or share it, could make it less, or help to bear it, how gladly, how gladly would I watch with Thee!
Kinda like that 'global wetting' that occured about 4000 years ago.
None of us knows the mind of God.
I think they should then be called carbon indulgences.
"I'm not a Christian and have never gone to church; I work in a newsroom surrounded by secular individuals who look down their noses at Christianity. Therefore, I'm an expert on Christianity!"
That is, if you believe in free will... I thought Luther did a great job responding to Erasmus' contention that we all have free will. (in fact, Erasmus continually contradicted himself by saying he did and then did not believe in free will.) I think Romans 9 deals pretty clearly with this.
The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.
I think he did say something about harming little ones, didn't he? That it'd be better for those who do so to have a millstone hung around their neck and thrown into the sea. What a nice guy.
I think those people who think pro-choice is A-OK often are the same ones that find a human killing an animal or wearing a fur coat revolting, Sadly enough...
A FUNDAMENTAL BELIEVER WASHES ALL THIER REASONING THROUGH THE ENTIRE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD.
I just finished reading "Do as I Say (Not as I Do)" by Peter Schweitzer. EXCELLENT read and definitely illustrates your point here.
I agree. But that’s what these social liberals claim they’re doing.
Just how far is that supposed to go? Because he eventually went to the cross and atoned for our sins. I don't think we can do that kind of thing. We should be willing to rather die than believe heresy. I know many who have given up all only to also give up the truth. (E.g. frankly, Mother Teresa, in her own words, didn't seem too worried about Hindus etc. accepting the truth of Christ which IMO makes all her works for naught.)
The fact is, the Media, not Christians, are obsessed with abortion and homosexuality, and how most Christians aren't willing to adjust their standards on those issues.
of course. I find it interesting that he also didn't say much about slavery. Yet these same liberals would have a fit if we were to use that as justification for slavery.
But he also wasn't a namby pamby and judged rather harshly at times.
'harder for a rich man to get to heaven'....
But nothing shall be impossible with God
'you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold'...
What does lukewarm mean? Moderate? unwilling to take a stand for truth? Blown and tossed by every wind of doctrine?
I'm not sure where you're going with this, it seems kind of vague.
One would have to wonder if in the 1960's/1860's any supposed Christian leader was saying "When did Christianity suddenly become a single issue, like Racism/slavery?"
It's also not about a social agenda (which goes hand in hand with a political agenda). You're falling for the bait and switch.
lol BIG old red flag. I missed that one too! No wonder he's liberal.
Also Philippians 3:2-7
Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
Hey, why's he studying for his masters degree? He should just have his wife teach him.
/sarcasm
It is odd too that he says he's tired of those who 'pimp' God even as he jumps on the pimping bandwagon.
BAHAHAHA!~
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