[taxcontrol]

I have given up trying to understand the peanut.

[SoldierDad]

I personally would not accept Jimmy Carter as an authority on this subject. I’ll accept the words of Jesus and my Lord God instead.

[Mr. Lucky]

What could be worse than getting the Gospel wrong?

How about selling out all of Christendom to The Ayatollah?

[M203M4]

[Always Right]

So Carter was a worst Sunday school teacher than he was a President. Really hard to believe.

[Kirkwood]

Hard to believe this guy was president.

[tractorman]

Jimmy must have forgoten the last half of John 3:16.

.....and whoso believeth not shall be damned.

[bedolido]

Campaign 1976 / Carter / Playboy Interview / Reaction

Bowdlerizing Jimmy

[twigs]

And I have been asked often, you know, in my Sunday School classes, which are kind of a give and take debate with people from many nations and many faiths—what about those that don't publicly accept Christ, are they condemned?

That's fairly unusual for a Sunday School class. They are usually attended by believers who are looking for more depth on what they believe. Or if they are attended by non-believers, which is a good thing, they are attended by seekers. It sounds here like Jimmy's class is a tourist attraction and he's been lead astray by beliefs of the attenders.

[TommyDale]

"...Mr. Carter stated once again his belief that there is salvation outside of faith in Christ."

Unbelievable. He reads from a completely different version of the Bible than I do.

[mikeus_maximus]

He seems to be a man of limitless arrogance, and he can believe what ever he wants.

I'll believe Christ: "I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father but by Me."

[joebuck]

"Yes, I do. I remember two things. One is that in John 3:16, which is probably the best known verse in the Bible—"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son." And Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, for instance, said we should love our neighbors, but also love those who despise us and hate us and our enemies. So, the opportunity for everyone to be saved through the grace of God with faith in Christ applies to everyone."

How in the world do you connect those dots? This proves that senility kills rational thought before ego.

[miele man]

Jimmah’s first statement on John 3:16 is absolutely incorrect. This verse is: “So God loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.

Yet another typical example of liberal, modernistic, “itching ears” private interpretation.

[Paperdoll]

Jimma Cotta will take his peanuts roasted - for all eternity.

[JohnnyZ]

Best way to start a fight between religious folks:

arguing about Justification.

God's infinite mercy is available to all. But one way or another, you have to accept it.

[ModelBreaker]

Mr. Carter has dismissed biblical inerrancy and once suggested that his faith would not be shaken, even if Jesus did not perform some of the miracles attributed to Him in the New Testament.

So that brings up the question, what is Mr. Carter's faith. If it would not be challenged by finding out that Jesus did not commit miracles and raise from the dead, then his faith is little more than "there was a guy 2000 years ago who said some cool stuff." He leaves himself some wiggle rooom with the word "some." But I wonder if this kind of "Christian" even believes in the resurrection as something that really happened? If they do, how can they ignore what He says?

[prophetic]

The apparent contradiction in Mr. Carter's argument comes with the second paragraph of his answer, in which he argues that God's grace and forgiveness is extended even to those who do not profess faith in Christ.

Well the patient cant be cured of the disease until they actually take the medicine. To have the Grace offered is a way different from saying that Grace is somehow Universally Applied!!

[bpjam]

I guess there is no point in believe in Christ at all then since everybody gets the golden ticket at birth. Here I was thinking that only us Jews got the free pass.

If you don't need to believe in Christ (or God) for salvation, then what is your purpose for living here on Earth? How do you know there is any salvation at all? And if there is none, why bother living a good life?

Hmmm. It must be tough to be a secularist and have people believe you are a Christian. Probably creates a lot of uncomfortable moments at cocktail parties.

[prophetic]

Meanwhile in recent news in the UK, a certain priest has now come out of the closet and admitted to being GAY and has gone on public record that Christ death on the cross not in no way for atonement for sin.

He said it was God's (Jesus) way of "Identifying with the sufferings of Humanity" and nothing else.

The heretics are really coming outta the woodwork now.

[moondoggie]

I have an uncle who thinks like Carter.

He always says that we're all God's children and it's only here on earth that we divide ourselves, but to God we're all judged equally.