Christians are coming together over ideology and not denomination.
In the U.S.A., Conservative Catholics, orthodox, and Protestants are coming together to fight the Liberal Christians with their twisted errors. We must stick to the Bible, natural law and fight the relativist liberal Christians who believe in Gay Marriage, abortion, Euthanasia, "tolerance" for sin, femnist ideas, and not judging other religions, ideas, behaviors, sin.
2006-06-23 08:16:39 · 6 answers · asked by enigma21 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My church is kind of like that. We are a methodist church but with an open policy. Anyone is welcome with no judgement from the church. After all, Christ did say all should come to the temple and worship him. He didn't truly specify.
And to whoever says we should make our own decisions, we have. We CHOSE to believe in God. Just because YOU have problems with who you are and where you belong, don't take it out on those who have figured it out.
2006-06-23 08:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by jennanna 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Is this a report on the "body of Chirst" awaking or just stirring ? You know that a sleeping body must at times stir....but what are the chances that so many of such differing views and dogma can actually function as one ? You are one individual and You can not figure where YOU stand--in your last statement you say that you must make a stand against the "toleration of sin" and then say you should come to a place where you do not judge sin.....Case in point--as far as the body is concerned for far too long it has truely been a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing
2006-06-23 08:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm sure not getting any points for THIS answer, but....
I don't really see this as you do; and what I do see, I don't like much at all.
First of all, both extremes (conservatives and liberals) tend to dehumanize each other and ignore the reasons why the other side promotes the values it does.
Both sides are usually fighting for a side they actually believe in because it embodies something good -- and two "goods" are coming into conflict. No wonder you can't agree on anything; both of you are slamming worthwhile values in each other's stances, and so both of you are justified in standing up for the good.
Personally, I will say that I see the conservative movement as much to blame for the current state of our country as the liberals whom you seem to be dumping all the blame on.
The only reason the liberal Christian extreme got the clout it did in the U.S. was because the conservative movement essentially bogged itself down in hypocrisy, judgmentalism, and callousness towards the poor, wounded, and socially abandoned/ostracized.
(That's a very simplified explanation, but for now, it'll have to do.)
Conservatives are extremely good at intellectual ideology but still wrestle with how to apply it in a way that is truly loving towards other people.
Liberals are extremely good at empathizing with the pain of others and seeing needs in the community, but have trouble adhering to a strict standard.
I wish we could stop treating each other as enemies to be destroyed, accept our own shortcomings as people in order to get that "beam" out of our own eyes, and then come to the table together so that we can help clean the speck out of our brother's.
And what of the unbeliever?
The more the religious right tries to wield political power to enforce a theocracy on the secular United States, the worse the reaction is going to be from the people we're supposed to be wooing to God's side.
So far, most of them just see Christianity as an ugly mess -- and, at least on the large scale of things, I don't blame them.
2006-06-23 08:32:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I got that, but those kind of Christians are really annoying. They get an idea in their head that, "This is what God wants", and really, they're just a bunch of idiots that don't know what they're doing. They should definately read the bible more thoroughly. The other religions aren't evil, and they shouldn't insult them.
2006-06-23 08:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by Meg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says there will be a great apostacy in the end times. They want religion and not God himself.
2006-06-23 08:37:22 · answer #5 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ideology is for idiots. learn to think and analyze subjects and come to your own independent conclusions.
2006-06-23 08:21:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋