American Churches are Killing Christianity

American Thinker ^ | M.B. Mathews

[Elsie]

EXCELLENT and concise explanation!

[Elsie]

Good parable.

[Elsie]

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...

[Elsie]

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.

[Kevmo]

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).

[Elsie]

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.

[Elsie]

Without Thomas' doubt, would we have THIS Scripture??

[Elsie]

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..."

[Kevmo]

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

[Elsie]

Even demons were allowed to interact with Jesus.

Not that it did them any good.

[Elsie]

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.

[Elsie]

indeed!

[Elsie]

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!

[Kevmo]

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.

[sumuam]

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.

[Kevmo]

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.

[Kevmo]

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.

[wita]

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.

[sumuam]

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.

[gitmo]

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.