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Why Are There So Many “Bad” People in Church?
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| 04 / 03 / 2015
| Denis Akhalashvili
Posted on 03/06/2015 9:56:03 AM PST by bad company
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To: bad company
Plus, the church is often where you find people after they’ve discovered how badly they can mess up their own lives thinking that they didn’t have to listen to God’s Word. I ask myself why churches seem to have more old people than young ones and this is why. As you age, you realize how limited you are and how much you need divine help. The young often have to figure this out the hard way first before they pay attention.
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:28:32 AM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
To: bad company
Just like you don’t need to see healthy people in a hospital you don’t need to see sinless people in church.
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:33:05 AM PST
by
MeganC
(You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Could It Be...? SATAN!!!
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:34:37 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: CyberAnt
How can you grow and be well with God? Read His Word. Far too many church goers, spend one or two hours with God a week, how sad. Open the book, read His words, they are the spiritual food that is needed to nurture that new life inside.
We are all sinners and not good enough, the last perfect man on this earth got up and got out of here a long time ago!
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:36:48 AM PST
by
thirst4truth
(Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.)
To: bad company
"there is none good but one, that is, God."
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:39:15 AM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: Mount Athos
Just as sick people need to go to the hospital to get well, just as there are lots of other sick people there, sinners need to go to Church. They need to repent and reconcile themselves to God.
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:41:09 AM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: BlackAdderess
“I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?”
Sounds like a belief in karma. Hearing that a bad person has come to grief, some observe that `karma’s a b!tch’.
Not unlike Schadenfreude.
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posted on
03/06/2015 10:54:53 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
To: elcid1970
Kinda makes the caste system make sense.
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posted on
03/06/2015 11:08:54 AM PST
by
BlackAdderess
("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
To: BlackAdderess
One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing? That's a people that don't read the bible thing. Having traveled from Evangelical protestant to Eastern Orthodox, I have found it lurking everywhere.
To: elcid1970
Sounds like a belief in karma. Exactly, and by extension a disbelief in God.
To: bad company
Like my grandma use to say, “you don't want to go to church because there are so many hypocrites, you really aren't going to like hell.”
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posted on
03/06/2015 11:17:40 AM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: bad company
The concept of eternal forgiveness is a powerful tool for hypocrites. If you’re in the market for excuses to monger confession and being “saved” are perfect for you.
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posted on
03/06/2015 11:39:19 AM PST
by
discostu
(The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
To: bad company
Remember Jesus calls sinners.
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posted on
03/06/2015 11:48:34 AM PST
by
Biggirl
(2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
To: thirst4truth
But you do need the fellowship of other Christian believers as well. That is also said in the Bible. Hebrews.
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posted on
03/06/2015 11:50:33 AM PST
by
Biggirl
(2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
To: bad company
There are just as many bad people in Church as there are outside of Church.
For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
To: taxcontrol
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posted on
03/06/2015 12:02:42 PM PST
by
Biggirl
(2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
To: BlackAdderess
One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?
I suggest studying the Book of Job for answers on that topic. Job is far richer in meaning than it may appear on the surface. The Matthew Henry Bible Commentary is a good place to start for studying it.
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posted on
03/06/2015 12:03:19 PM PST
by
PieterCasparzen
(Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
To: BlackAdderess
One thing I do have problems with is the idea that bad things only happen to people who deserve it. Is that a Catholic thing or a Protestant thing?
I believe that is an Old Testament thing.
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posted on
03/06/2015 12:23:16 PM PST
by
rwa265
To: bad company
Cause that’s where all my friends are...
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posted on
03/06/2015 12:34:26 PM PST
by
Iscool
To: bad company
Why Are There So Many Bad People in Church? Where should they be/
Church is not a rest home for saints. Church is a hospital for sinners.
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posted on
03/06/2015 12:42:28 PM PST
by
MosesKnows
(Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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