To hear Christians tell it - you would think that before Jesus people knew nothing of love or kindness or charity. And now they're here to tell everyone how love is supposed to be done properly - the "good news". Anyone else notice this?
2007-03-12 04:20:34 · 16 answers · asked by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, indeed...
My Christian sister has a poem up in her home about marriage needing three people -- the husband, the wife and Jesus. It says that no marriage is complete without Jesus in the middle of it and they are doomed to fail without him.
Yet born-agains have the highest divorce rate of all religions.
Hmm.
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2007-03-12 04:25:55 · answer #1 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. I'm a Christian and I know for a fact that I did not invent love.
God is love. He is the very personification of Love. He invented it - because he is it.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a sounding [piece of] brass or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophesying and am acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are [gifts of] prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially; 10 but when that which is complete arrives, that which is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a babe, I used to speak as a babe, to think as a babe, to reason as a babe; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the [traits] of a babe. 12 For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known. 13 Now, however, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
2007-03-12 11:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is silly...we did not invent human characteristics and people lived thousands of years before us I am sure, practicing love, charity and compassion. I am sure there are many non Christians today who also practice these things...I have even seen this here on YA. Frankly not enough people, Christian or non, practice these things in our world today.
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg
2007-03-12 11:26:28 · answer #3 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is what they have been taught for 2000 years. In order to pull people into the faith they made all others look bad. As a Pagan I have all of these traits, I have seen miracles been by Pagan gods/goddesses. They ca not see there are many paths to having a good soul. So they have t6o look down at those of us who know better
2007-03-12 11:28:06 · answer #4 · answered by raven blackwing 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The good news is we're all sinners, but Christ has already taken the punishment for us if we'd just believe that.
Love and kindness is good, but it's not the point of Christianity...
2007-03-12 11:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why, considering they stoled most if not all the pagan holidays and traditions because they wanted to convert people to their way of thinking. Raised a Christian but now born again Pagan.
2007-03-12 11:38:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not all do, but those who do arrogantly assume that no one can be good without being a Christian are generally those with very limited experience with people outside of their own faith.
2007-03-12 11:24:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe some of 'em do, but it's a no brainer we were practicing kindness during the nomadic period.
duh.
2007-03-12 11:25:07 · answer #8 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
But we didn't invent those things. They were round long before Jusus.
2007-03-12 11:24:36 · answer #9 · answered by Skippy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is love... He made the ultimate sacrifice for us.
2007-03-12 11:46:15 · answer #10 · answered by RDEEMD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋