The Church Thread: Chapter I Verse I

[RollTide_HTTR]

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Asking a psycho about his mental state of being is probably a wasted question. Crazy never thinks they're crazy; everyone else is.

Don't want to derail the thread so I'll avoid specifics but my entire family is currently dealing with a situation that proves this point to a T.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

“Christian, Catholic, Mormon. Anyone preaching that Jesus is God, essentially, the Trinity, a concept created by man, by Paul. He’s not God. God, the father alone, is God,” he said.

Asked whether he was ever victimized by a Christian, he replied no, and said his family is Christian and that he had a good childhood.

“I don’t hate Christians. I’m after the pastors that are leading them astray,” he said.


I have acquaintances on Facebook who express similar beliefs (not the killing part, of course).

They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.
John 16:2

 

[BamaInBham]

The flood I have always just seen as a complete reboot into creation 2.0. If someone had wanted to they could have gotten on the ark. It’s also a story I have heard as a child so I have never overthought it too much.

But right now I am in a period where Israel moves into the promised land and wipe out thousands of people. Many of them were probably just minding their own business and got killed. Was everyone worshipping Baal all the time and deserved death.

Just comes into conflict with what I have always thought of as a loving God. I hope He forgives me for that.

A couple of things to consider that might help some. One is that God had been dealing with these inhabitants of Canaan, who were vanquished by reluctant Israel for 700-800 years. But they refused to repent: Worshiping false gods, engaging in temple prostitution, offering their children as sacrifices, engaging in sodomy, even as part of their worship, violent and corrupt. He would give them a taste of what would come if they refused to repent, with fire from heaven on filthy Sodom and Gomorrah. He then told Abraham that He would give them 400 more years. A total of 700-800 years is a lot of time.

Another thing to consider is that probably over half of their population was under the admittedly vague “age of accountability”, therefore, because of His mercy, they are today with the Lord.

As the NT is arranged, the first letter, which is to the Romans begins thusly, “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, for that which is known about God is evident within them because has made it evident to them. For since the creation of the of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so they are without excuse.”

He continues in the same vein through the middle of chapter 3, having made it clear that all men are lost, and cannot save themselves. He then makes it clear that He has provided salvation through faith in His Son Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. That’s why He said through Peter ~30 years earlier, “There is no other name under heaven whereby you must be saved.”

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1938416759763259711

“Pro-life” Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker - from Jackson County TN - outraged about taxpayer money being spent to “keep old people alive.”

 

[CrimsonJazz]

“Pro-life” Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker - from Jackson County TN - outraged about taxpayer money being spent to “keep old people alive.”

Sounds like he would fit right in up in Canada. I'll volunteer to help his dumb ass pack.