I asked my self the same of you and your ilk. Reading your posts is as much much as reading “Ask The Imam” (www.askimam.org). Reading as you twist scripture to represent your worldview is fun and funny.
You speak of abominations...and I go back to Leviticus...next time you hit the hairdresser you are, by your own words, condemning yourself to hell. For Leviticus tells us cutting hair is an abomination. So is eating pork or lobster. Puts an extra meaning into the phrase “a damned good meal.”
You are no doubt a fine imam (imama?) at your madrasa. You wrote, “committing one sin is as offensive to God as violating all of them..” (capitalization and punctuation are important). But frankly, no, a child stealing a pencil and Josef Stalin are not condemned equally to eternal damnation. In your cult, perhaps, but then again that is your cult and your business.
Someone Freepmailed me a quote that I think is appropriate for people just like you: “Scaring old white people for fun and profit.”
Forfeited the debate, I see.
I invoke Godwin's Law for comparison to islam.
It's the religious equivalent of comparing someone to nazis.
I would like to suggest a bible study to you on the laws of israel ..there were civil laws, ceremonial law and moral law..
Perhaps a study would help sort out your confusion .
I just googles this up for you.. you can start here, because you are very confused .
http://shogiwar.webs.com/Xian_Is_True/3_Types_of_Law.html
The commandments are moral law, they reflect the character of God, and are impossible to keep . The purpose of then is to show us our need for a Savior..because no one can keep them...
It was James ( a catholic favorite) that said breaking one is the same as breaking them all. Not me
God can not stand in the presence of ANY sin, Until men understand how Holy and righteous He is, they will see themselves as good enough ..worthy enough
Maybe in YOUR mind a child stealing a pencil is not equal to stalin...but then we do not have the mind of God ..we do not see things from a spotless holy perspective ...we see sin as it relates to us, not God
How does God look at a lie? Is a lie damning? read Acts 5 1-11
God punishes what we would call a mistake or trivial ...
Uzzah was struck dead for steading the ark.... two priests were struck dead for using the wrong fire...
Until we see our lives as God sees them, we will never really repent..
You know we should be frightened . white or black , or brown.. we should all stand in fear and awe of a holy God that is also a just judge..no one will get probation my friend..
Paul said “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Romans 1:16).
All sin is wickedness to God
Mark 1:14Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
15And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Luke 13:3I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all peris
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You've already been corrected about Leviticus. Maybe you missed it...
DR.E: There is a difference between the Commandments of God and the ceremonial laws of the Jews. The ceremonial laws have passed away with the advent of Jesus Christ. The commandments of God are eternal.
And I asked you what you thought James meant by his remarks in James 2:10-11.
So far, you're without an answer.
No surprise there.
I'll give you the verses again, ever hopeful for your discernment...
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law." -- James 2:10-11" "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Wow. Do you even know the rules for this forum? You appear to be breaking them left and right (mostly left.).
Under the Law, they are...
***So is eating pork or lobster. Puts an extra meaning into the phrase “a damned good meal.”***
Except the New Testament did away with dietary laws, just like circumcision.
Mark 7:18-20 And [Jesus] said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" ( Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
Acts 10:9-16 9The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 11and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13And there came a voice to him: "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." 14But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common." 16This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
Jesus declared all foods clean. The vision came to Peter as well.
Why do you call that an abomination?