Posted on 02/19/2010 9:16:23 AM PST by MaestroLC
To me, it seems a sincere and forthright apology, that I don’t think he even owed anyone. He has to answer for his choices, but he doesn’t have to answer to me for that.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, deserves a second chance.
I can’t wait to see how he recovers.
An observation: everyone lies. Everyone sins.
This could not have been easy. As for his faith, that too is also his own deal. He has Buddhism as a philosophy. If he doesn’t have God yet, well, he doesn’t have God yet. I think its a shame too, but everyone arrives at it in their own time, if they arrive at salvation at all.
I think the thing that puts people off about Christianity is that Christians mistake salvation for perfection. Christians are saved. That’s it. Many are still the same miserable a$$holes they were prior to finding Christ.
I’ll blame Elin if she doesn’t DUMP HIM.
I thought tigger was a douchebag before all of this happened.
Bruinator,
You know what, it really annoys me when people say stuff like what you are saying because this complete misinterpretation of the Bible has raged in modern Christianity.
There is no place in Scripture where judging is seen as bad. In fact, we are told to practice godly judgement and are told we will be part of the “jury” so to speak in NOW heaven later.
It IS a Christian’s place to judge some things. Not a person’s soul because we can’t know that. But, we are to judge actions.
“By your fruits you shall know them.”
And furthermore, those who use “let him without sin cast the first stone” have no idea what that verse is really saying.
It is a cautionary tale against judging others for a sin you have never repented on yourself but is also tied to the Old Testament requirement that to execute required just witnesses. Jesus knew that those in question were all hypocrites who were sinning in their motive to stone the woman...they wanted to get Jesus.
As for there being no difference in sins, the Bible makes it clear in multiple places there IS a level of sin, with sexual sins pretty serious.
No, we are not talking about mortal v. other sins....that isn’t real. But, some sins ARE worse than others. There is a reason why some carry weightier penalties this side of heaven.
If there is something I can’t stand, it is people spouting off this holier-than-thou crap that is simply a twisting of what the Bible really says.
Yes, Christian, we are to discern right from wrong and condemn what is wrong, not tip-toe around and say it doesn’t matter.
The same people who've been writing his material since he got caught, corporate lawyers. Tiger's proven that he's a prolific liar and could care less about hurting people. His words carry no weight whatsoever.
“Christians are saved. That’s it. Many are still the same miserable a$$holes they were prior to finding Christ.”
A Christian is a new creation battling that old self.
But, I would agree with you one one point....ALL Christians are still in that old self the same miserable selves.
Paul admitted correctly....as I hope I honestly do in my heart....that though he loved Jesus, he was the chief of sinners and hated it.
Every believer still has a large part of that fallen nature that keeps trying to keep us corrupt.
I thought he did a good job. He’s going to come back anyway; too much money invested in him.
I guess I am hoping that maybe that “knowledge sometimes make a bloody entrance” smacked him into doing something right. He is an extremly immature young man; but he is the best golfer ever as he can do it all.
Needs to be repeated. Too many people today gleefully cast judgment on others mainly because it makes them feel better about their own failings. FReegards.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
True. Yet, most of us would never make a public apology for something Tiger has cried is a private issue. You don’t keep a private issue private by making a public apology.
The man screwed up. It happens to the best of us. And honestly, the only way he will clean up his image is to start playing golf again and stay out of trouble. It will take a while, but this is the only way.
It’s sad that in this day speculating on the sincerity and motivation of someone apologizing for extramarital affairs qualifies as news.
"I'm sorry," he says in public. In private this equates to, 'Now can we get back to signing some more lucrative sponsorship deals now that an apology has been made.'
If he pays back the money he received for endorsements based on his squeaky clean, family man image, then I might start to believe he is sorry.
Based on my 53 years of experience on this Earth I'm betting that the majority of those on FR judging this man call themselves Christian.
Nope, he throws them away like the trash they were.
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“If he pays back the money he received for endorsements based on his squeaky clean, family man image, then I might start to believe he is sorry.”
Are you under the impression whether you believe him or not matters in any way?
Here's a pre-Tiger tidbit: CBS anchor Katie Couric posted on her Twitter account this morning:
"Getting ready to cover tiger's statement. Being at the epicenter of such humiliation, and judgement must be very painful."
ABC reporter Jake Tapper, a much more frequent Tweeter, wrote back:
"@katiecouric i assume you're talking about the pain his wife and children feel, not him."
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