I swear, Christians are our own worst enemy.
God and Christ and the Holy Ghost must shed an ocean of tears over the constant hostility between the Christian religions. What a waste of time and effort.
Worship as you believe and leave others to do the same in Christ’s name.
If I were God and had to put up with all this Christian on Christian bashing, I would be calling on a new Noah circa 2013 and start over again.
Now hear it comes.
“Yes, and the New Noah should be fundamentalist Christian.”
“No, Catholic!”
“No, Mormon!”
“No, East Orthodox!”
“No, Jews for Jesus!”
Really, this constant Christian on Christian bashing is getting old already. Christ is crying.
Well; you AIN'T 'god' and you cannot seem to tell the difference between MORMONs bashing Christianity, and Christianity exposing MORMONism.
Hmmm...Why aren't you worshiping then as you believe and failing to leaving others in this thread to do the same in Christ's name?
Is it because you can't tolerate what some people have said on this & other threads? Is it then you preach one thing -- "leave others to worship as they believe"; yet practice another...you actually can't stand people to religiously express what they believe -- and you had to pipe in on this thread to preach away at them...to "change their ways" so that they would stop expressing what they believe?
Do you realize that when you preach one thing & directly practice another you refute yourself?
If tolerance is one of your supposed highest religious values then please start tolerating whatever religiously you've disagreed with on this thread -- and others.
A distance ancestor of Freedom_Is_Not_Free is overhearing religious discussions 'tween followers of Jesus and the Pharisees...and elects to interject:
I swear, Jews are our own worst enemy. God must shed an ocean of tears over the constant hostility between the Jewish religions. What a waste of time and effort. Worship as you believe and leave others to do the same in God's name. If I were God and had to put up with all this Jew on Jew bashing, I would be calling on a new Noah circa 2013 and start over again.
Now hear it comes.
“Yes, and the New Noah should be a zealot.”
“No, Pharisees!”
“No, Sadducees!”
“No, circumsized Gentile converts!”
“No, Jews for the Messiah!”
Really, this constant Jew on Jew bashing is getting old already. And ya know what...
...since Jesus called the Pharisees children of the devil (John 8) and whitewashed tombstones and were making proselytes twice the sons of hell (Matthew 23), per the tolerance cult of Freedom_Is_Not_Free, Christ is actually the worst offender!
Especially since Christ not only "went after" the Pharisees, but the Saducees as well:
For Jesus even "tore down" the Sadducees on this occasion: Jesus replied, “You are IN ERROR because you DO NOT KNOW THE SCRIPTURES OR THE POWER OF GOD. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you... (Matthew 22:29-31)
The Flying Inmans, therefore, accord the April award of "Trying to OutNice Jesus" to Freedom_Is_Not_Free! *****
What we see from the above is that Freedom_Is_Not_Free is really in his post bashing others for bashing. (More self-refutation). What is worse, He winds up indirectly bashing Jesus for Jesus' bashing of the Pharisees & Sadducees. Btw, here's more of Jesus "bashing" the Pharisees:
* But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Jesus, Matthew 15:9)
* ...guard against the yeast...against the TEACHING of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Jesus, Matthew 16:12)
* ... you have taken away the key to knowledge. (Jesus, Luke 11:52)
* The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God. (Jesus, John 8:47...in fact, Jesus went on in this chapter to reference them as children of the devil!)
And:
* He [Jesus] replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ 8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” 9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!... 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.” (Jesus, Mark 10: 6-9, 13)
You see, Freedom_Is_Not_Free has made the VERY poor religious assumption that essentially there are NO Christian counterfeits. Sorry, FINF...Jesus -- as you can see above -- made no such assumption.
(I hope you don't work in retail since you seemingly -- if you applied your same lack of discernment there -- wouldn't be too concerned about counterfeit bills in circulation)