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American Churches are Killing Christianity
American Thinker ^ | M.B. Mathews

Posted on 04/23/2022 3:08:57 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

[T]oday’s churches are increasingly offering the same get-out-of-hell-free cards the culture offers; whatever you do is good because you are being "true to yourself" and are "following your heart" and "your truth."

That is not Christianity; that is enhanced 60’s hedonism. Want to be gay? Why not? Want to be a woman, just shave, grow long hair, take hormones, dress up, wear padded bras, and join the Navy and the women's curling team. Want to mess with little kids? Have at it, but make sure parents don’t find out. Want to be an anti-white racist, a cop-hater, a Marxist, or a corrupt pro-Russia politician with a job that pays hundreds of thousands of dollars a month because daddy lives in the White House? Go for it. Want to make personal happiness your priority? Why not? After all, what is more important than being happy? Want to avoid being insulted or suffering any form of anxiety? We will move heaven and earth to give you that safe space. Want to shut people up you disagree with? Great, happy to close down our business or website because your delicate sensibilities are offended. Want to deny that Satan exists? Better still. In fact, best.

Too many of our churches have watered down Christianity into a church of cowards, too cowed to speak up. They are told that "Jesus would never behave that way." Jesus behaved exactly that way. He was strong, not wimpy. He got angry, He didn’t slink away when confronted with disbelief and evil. He challenged His followers to give up everything for Him, to be strong and courageous, not to wuss out. He went to the cross for fallen, sinful human beings and never shrank from His mission like many of today’s churches are doing.

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To: Raycpa

EXCELLENT and concise explanation!


121 posted on 04/23/2022 5:27:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Raycpa

Good parable.


122 posted on 04/23/2022 5:28:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kevmo
It’s almost like these people never read what the Bereans did when Paul preached to them.

No, it is EXACTLY like!

People today have been convinced that understanding the Bible is WAY over their heads, and definitely not in their job desciption!

The want the easy way: someone in AUTHORITY to tell them what it means - the Reader's Digest version - the Cliff Notes summation...

123 posted on 04/23/2022 5:31:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Speak God’s word, not your word.

The evidence, as shown in FR's Religion Forum, is a reverse of what SHOULD happen.

Lots of babbling - little Scripture shown.

124 posted on 04/23/2022 5:33:49 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

The weird thing is, when I give the Cliff Notes’ version that Jesus is God Himself, suddenly they wanna go all complicated & stuff. They are antichristian bigots going after “godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6).


125 posted on 04/23/2022 5:36:38 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Speak God’s word, not your word.

The evidence, as shown in FR's Religion Forum, is a reverse of what SHOULD happen.

Lots of babbling - little Scripture shown.



126 posted on 04/23/2022 5:37:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kevmo
Without Thomas' doubt, would we have THIS Scripture??



127 posted on 04/23/2022 5:40:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gumdrop
I have read through the first 50 postings here and am dismayed by some of the comments.

And some may have been mine.

Just remember that each of us is not on the same place on the path.

Some are just starting: learning with a passion that many of us used to have but have, over the years, become disillusioned and tired of the fight.
Others are seeing evidence of a life lived with Jesus in control: wishing, hoping, and praying that somehow they could graft a bit of the Spirit they have into others.
Others are near the end of the path: able to see the Light and in a hurry to hear, "Well done..."

128 posted on 04/23/2022 5:46:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Between Thomas’s and the Bereans healthy doubt, there is plenty of reason to get the right bead on the historicity of Christ.


129 posted on 04/23/2022 5:46:38 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Kevmo
Even demons were allowed to interact with Jesus.

Not that it did them any good.

130 posted on 04/23/2022 5:50:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kevmo
Of COURSE it is complicated! That's Satan's first (only) trick: "Did GOD really say...?"

Yes - GOD really said something simple: "Don't eat of the tree."

Now read Eve's 'explanation' to her husband:

Genesis 3:6 
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.

131 posted on 04/23/2022 5:56:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kevmo

indeed!


132 posted on 04/23/2022 5:57:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: who knows what evil?
Some churches serve a ‘potluck’ while the pastor preaches the Gospel.
 
Joshua 24:15
 
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD,
then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,
whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates,
or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living.
 
As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!

133 posted on 04/23/2022 6:00:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

They want the easy way: someone in AUTHORITY to tell them what it means
***what they really want is someone in authority to tell them what they wanna hear

2 Timothy 4. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.


134 posted on 04/23/2022 6:09:40 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: All

Is there anyway for mods to black this idiot from constantly messaging me?

e: Re: Re: American Churches are Killing Christianity
From Kevmo | 04/23/2022 6:24:44 PM PDT new
Stop being a christian asshole.


135 posted on 04/23/2022 6:41:35 PM PDT by sumuam
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To: lgjhn23

I know I’m correct, I just don’t know what to do about it. I have a plan of action in mind.

There’s a book out of print which outlines the historicity of Jesus’s claim to being God Himself. It has a non-optimal title: “Jesus: God, Ghost or Guru?” by Buell and Hyder.

I have tried to buy the nonexclusive rights to reprint this book from Zondervan but they have never responded.

I would retitle it to something like: “Yes, Jesus claimed to be God Himself”. It is a great book, an excellent basis for studying God’s Word.


136 posted on 04/23/2022 6:57:41 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: troll

Is there any way to get this guy from trolling me? Sending 2 Freepmails is “constantly” messaging him? Maybe he shouldn’t have sent ME his FReepmail. Maybe he should have simply answered the question put to him. Maybe he shouldn’t have acted like a troll.


137 posted on 04/23/2022 7:02:37 PM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Elsie

My interpretation of what took place in Genesis 3:6 is not quite as simple as you want to make it. I sense a bit of disrespect for Eve, “the mother of all living”. Perhaps that same disrespect is also directed at Adam for standing by his wife having subjected herself to the punishment for eating of the tree of knowledge.


138 posted on 04/23/2022 7:06:07 PM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Kevmo

You sent me a message first and promised you would ignore me weeks ago, when I exposed you for the fraud that you are. Go back to ABC.

You’re engaging in the same kind of harassing behavior you did years ago. You’re not a conservative, you’re pro-homosexual, and pro-abortion. I know that, no matter what kind of act you put on here.


139 posted on 04/23/2022 7:09:16 PM PDT by sumuam
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To: RoosterRedux

I’ve attended many churches: I currently attend three every week. I’ve never encountered “preaching “ like what is described here.

But I have seen signs in front of some churches that made me physically ill.


140 posted on 04/23/2022 7:18:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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