Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

No hurt feelings. I understand apostasy. And we're going to get scathing as a response when heresy is the brand and hypocrisy the currency.

 

First, it’s in the Bible.

Second, the founders were largely Deists. They thought God made the world and took off from there.

 

It was a light comment. Another reason these dialogues never work.

 

what I’m saying is, Jesus saves his ire for folks who purport to be Christians (or, in Jesus’ day, children of God) not the folks who don’t believe. He said to forgive the Roman soldiers. He called the Pharisees a brood of vipers.

 

I’m not offended by it.

Most people have no real idea.

Christians did straight up works righteousness for 1500 years. Landed us in the era of indulgences and inquisitions.

 

Look if this was supposed to be a thread for only believers, I'm sorry and I'll stay off.

 

He also reserved some of his harshest judgments for liars and false prophets.

 

He wasn't too keen on idolatry, either.

 

It’s not.

I have empathy for what Write Thinking is saying. Hard ass world tho.

I think I’m at a moment in general - and have been - where, let’s not water it down. Embrace it for what it is or say eh, it’s baloney. There are a lot of disputable matters in Christianity - witness denominations! - but the non-negotiable, repeated seven million times, is that Christ is who the Bible says he is and did what the Bible said he did for the reasons that laid out in the thing. Now, again, God is God, and I’m not, so maybe there is some extracurricular loophole that isn’t in the Bible as it relates to Jesus. But it’s not in the Bible. In fact the reverse is: Jesus says there will be people who say they’re Christians, and Jesus never knew them.

 

Powerful men put the things in the Bible that they wanted to appear in the Bible. The things they didn't want in the Bible, they didn't put in.

 

The part about Jesus rebuking his disciples when a prostitute rubs perfume on his feet? Or the parable of the two brothers? Or the Acts 2
Church where everybody pooled their resources together in a picture of communism.

what power, lemme tell ya.

 

The weird, convoluted history of what made it into the Bible and what didn't is extremely interesting.

I've always enjoyed ... and wondered how ... books like Daniel (O.T.) and Revelations (N.T.) made the cut.