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To: Choose Ye This Day

Well, when the divorce rate among Christians begins to go below that of the national per capita average, maybe there will be some hope.

Christians excuse too much. That is why Christians are so much like the world.

Selfishness rules their hearts.


3 posted on 10/01/2005 10:23:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: ConservativeMind

Yes, I think pride and selfishness are two of the biggest stumbling blocks any of us face and have to overcome.

Divorce is a symptom of a much deeper malaise.

Could it stem from a culture of saying, rather than doing? In other words, it's easy to say, "I'm a Christian," but it's much harder to actually strive to live like Christ, act as He would act, speak as He would speak, love as He would love. So much harder that most of us never even try? We're content being hearers only of the word, and not doers?


4 posted on 10/01/2005 10:30:20 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (I just stepped in a big pile of sassy.)
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Another reason for that is ? is that the feminism have made inroads in the church, and the feminist, and the left have infiltrated the church and plan on subverting it.

Barbara Ehrenreich ( noted Feminist and Socialist ) made a speech at a womens collage ( Barnard Collage ) last year in June, and told the woman , as feminist to infiltrate and subvert the institutions that they go in, and one of their main institutions that they want to infiltrate and subvert, is the institution of Christianity.
5 posted on 10/01/2005 11:26:39 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: ConservativeMind
Well, when the divorce rate among Christians begins to go below that of the national per capita average, maybe there will be some hope.

The divorce rate among Christians will never again be below that of nonbelievers and will continue to grow larger percentage wise. There are two reasons for this. Not everyone who calls himself a Christian is in fact a Christian.

Also, while marriage rates have only slightly declined among Christians, marriage is rapidly becoming passe' to the rest of the world.
11 posted on 10/02/2005 1:13:05 PM PDT by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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