Rockhound quote:
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This has come up again and again, and always in the same pattern - if someone disagrees with creationism or another fundamentalist position, then they are not 'true Christians'
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Not true.
You most certainly can disagree, and you most certainly should be able to disagree without someone changing the subject and accusing you of not being a "true christian".
The only problem was that YOU wrote a post that said my position cannot be the position of a true christian BECAUSE in your view I was not "turning the other cheek.....loving my neighbor".
You are perfectly representative of the world at large that believes the Sermon on the Mount and complying with its directives is the goal for christians.
The Sermon on the Mount:
NOBODY can keep the precepts and laws contained therein. It is a sledgehammer intended to show everyone that they cannot do it. Jesus said if you even DESIRE to sin, in God's eyes you are guilty as if you did it.
Jesus changed the Law to a even more impossible standard - a standard that only Jesus would fulfill and keep. Nobody can love their enemy, nobody can refrain from lusting in their heart, nobody can cease from hating - ONLY Jesus could. He preached all these things so we would come to the conclusion that we CANNOT live up to this Divine standard.
This Sermon was shoes that only Jesus could fill - the Law Incarnate.
When He fulfilled the Law God crucified Him thus killing the impossible standard that mankind could not keep.
The purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is to make mankind conclude that they cannot do it, it is intended to drive them to the GOSPEL, which is the only other God ordained alternative, something we can do.
The Sermon on the Mount's purpose is to scare the hell out of you and drive you to the gospel (way of faith) as the only other way to relate to God through the risen Christ.
Does this mean we can sin ? I didn't say that. Remaining in sins is not an alternative. The gospel embraced will have God free you from your sinning nature as we pursue the gospel/faith.
Rockhound wants to ignore my pointy points and lump it all to be hate
filled ranting. Then he asserts himself superior and justifies it with a pea brained citing of scripture.
YOUR lifelong understanding of the Sermon is error !
The goal is not imitation through carnal discipline, rather, spiritual fruition via the power of the gospel.
I hate the destruction of the Constitution by persons who have successfully changed original intent. In my opinion every true christian should hate that too.
If you say you don't hate then you are a liar. Everyone hates. A true christian is hated by the world because Jesus said a servant is no different from his master. They hated Jesus - they will hate you too.
Whats a true christian ?
Paul the Apostle.
If your christianity doesn't cause a riot - then you are a luke warm compromiser who cares more about the praise of men than of God.
I really don't care what non christians think of me, but if any god damn fundementalist says one critical word about me then I will PROVE from scripture that YOU are the worst piece of God damn shit on the face of the Earth.
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