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To: MacDorcha
Your initial retort to my statement was that Christianity is nothing without Family.

No, it wasn't. That's why I chided you for not reading it. I identified our creation in the image and likeness of God as reaching its fulfillment in the family. Our understanding of God begins the same way the Bible begins and ends, with family bonds.

The difference in our positions is in understanding that Christ wasn't just saving sinners, He was rebuilding a family. We aren't pardoned criminals, we are adopted sons and daughters. Christianity isn't only about a sacrifice on the Cross for the expiation of sin but about the sacrificial offering of the New Covenant, reforging our familial bonds with God Himself.

It's a very important distinction and it reaches beyond simply memorizing one verse of one book of God's Library to embrace the whole of His Word.

140 posted on 07/10/2007 2:55:04 PM PDT by pgyanke (Duncan Hunter 08--You want to elect a conservative? Then support a conservative!)
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To: pgyanke

You just said that I don’t understand what you are saying. You also restated (in a very round about, yet very clear manner) exactly my point.

You are focusing on the Family issue of the Bible.

The Bible mentions money more than it does Love or family bonds.

Listing lineage does not constitute family bonds.

You read into it all that family bonds and the familial relations we all have are trumpeted throughout the Bible. I say “Bull”.

The reason for this is that our relationship with God is a personal choice. And while the wife is saved through the faith of the husband, someone has to take God into their own heart FIRST. You don’t get saved by simply following doctrine anymore than I would be a Buddhist for shaving my head, wearing a cloth, and moving to Tibet.


142 posted on 07/10/2007 3:11:17 PM PDT by MacDorcha (<---NERD!)
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