Posted on 10/07/2017 7:56:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The same reason lots of people love to have money, but hate having to work for it.
Or it’s kind of like saying, “I love this country, but I’m kneeling for the National Anthem!”
Words in writing?
Jesus said to identify Him as God through what He said, not any other way. I know the feminine mind would prefer to see Jesus in the flesh and not pay attention to what He said as evidence, however, this is not the kind of dependency He was for.
Where is justice and care when you cannot even make an effort to read the texts for yourself.
In other words they might be worshipping a Jesus that is not mine, ie mine is One that knows me and praises us making the effort to know Him in every way we can with a certain effort of interpretation through the heart. To not want to know is the foundation of sin, of worshiping gods who do not know you but pretend, like a politician or a billionaire Kalif sheik who has no inkling of what factory or business he really owns.
Easy. Some people like the idea of the cartoon hippy Jesus, but they don’t like the idea of a God (Jesus) that will stand in judgement.
Because, the Catholic Bible was not written by God but by Man.
Are you British putting that extra ‘e’ in your last word?
Yeah, but the priests won’t let me read it anyway /sarc
Simply because they have been taught, or believe a false doctrine. This “Jesus is love” stuff, and that’s it. No Holy and perfect God, no condemnation or justification. Simply, Jesus is love, He loves me, I love Him. Done. It is infantile in it’s understanding of the Creator of the universe.
because they love only parts of Jesus but not all. They have not made Him LORD in their hearts and minds and lives.
Jesus constantly referred to The Law, which is Torah. Without having read that, Jesus cannot be fully understood.
All Bibles came from the Catholic Bible.
What are you really trying to say?
Priests read the Bible every day?
Just attend a Catholic Mass. (not sarc!)
And who wrote the King James version? Men across the centuries assembled, wrote, rewrote, and reassembled the different versions across all denominations.
An ignorant statement at best.
How about we read the Bible and try to live our lives properly.
Lots of people get so wrapped in the messenger, they forget the message.
To answer the question in the title:
Because it is easier to create your own false god than to learn and walk in true righteousness.
A lot of people has turned from the solid word of God and are now comfortable with any image of Jesus that satisfied them. I personally know people who automatically bow down to pray to a wooden crucifix and has pictures of Mary in their homes, but their lives say something else apart from righteousness.
She said that she's a Catholic and goes to mass, but one day her mother told her in the most strongest terms ever when she was younger that she is Never to read the Bible or pray to anyone else except Mary. Jesus was off limits. Only the priest was allowed to break & teach religious matters to her and the priest was to be god to her.
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