Most of my hate mail is from ticked off christians. If you want to question an answer I've given you - fine, I will expand on it, or clarify it. Whats with attacking me personally though? Are you taught that at church, along with other misconceptions about other groups outside your scope of knowledge?
2007-04-19 01:23:38
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Generally, those who quote the Bible the most understand it the least. I was raised in a fundamentalist home, studied Bible classes every day in Christian school, attended services three times a week, etc. I thought that I had a very good grasp of Scripture. I could look up a verse with lightning speed, quote extensive passages. But when I was about 18, I read the Bible again, and found that my fundamentalist educators had presented about 10% of the actual Bible, and overlayed that with all kinds of traditional interpretations that had nothing to do with the actual reading. I found, for example, that the Bible describes a local flood, that Adam and Eve were allegorical, that Moses did not part the Red Sea. There is no rapture, the Book of Revelation was never meant to predict the end of the world. All human beings will be saved, there is no such thing as "separation from God," the early Christians and Apostles had no problem with Hellenistic paganism and made no distinction between the God of the Christians and the Gods of the Greeks, there is no such thing as Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, Devils or Demons, there are no prohibitions against attending pagan festivals in honor of the gods, Christianity was meant to be a continuation of the Mysteries (and not an original religion fabricated from scratch), Jesus was an educated, Hellenized Jew who spoke Greek 99% of the time and spent most of ministry hanging out in the Greek cities of Syria, 99% of the miracles in Scripture describe perfectly mundane, natural events (but are interpreted as the fulfillment of God's divine plan for the universe), most (if not all) of the miraculous visions in Scripture were actually dreams, etc.
2007-04-19 08:19:32
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answered by NONAME 7
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There is never a time when you can conveniently interpret and not convict yourself. You answered your question with your statement...or was that a judgement. Being a little wrong is like being a little pregnant. You are, or you are not. The most important word being you. The instructions in the Bible are for you. You have to decide to live Holy. Whatever they do is their business. You can tell someone what is right, wrong correct, holy, etc., but you can't make them do anything. If you are taking care of you, perhaps they will live in your example and take care of themselves....holy.
2007-04-19 08:17:22
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answered by rooseveltq 3
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Good question.
Hate and evil are the most infectious of diseases known to man.
Whenever we hold to hate, or condemn, we ensure evil begets evil.
Jesus told us of a cure- a window into the mind and heart of the universe- the forgive, to love our enemy.
Yet the very people who profess to follow his teachings seem to be the worst offenders of hate, cursing and occassional evil.
There was a time, before the internet, when their ignorance could be excused. Now that the internet exists and such people can access divine wisdom such as http://one-heaven.org in a few seconds they have no more excuses in the eyes of God.
Do you really think as christians that God and Jesus is going to continue to stand by as you blaspheme in his name by your hate, your love of perpetuating evil?
The game is up.
See
http://one-faith-of-god.org
No more will a person be able to call themselves a follower of Jesus and still hate and curse...
2007-04-19 08:09:59
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answered by Anonymous
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If you ever read the bible Jesus will tell you those who are not saved will go to hell. If someone on here admits they are not saved well I hyst take them to the bible and say what Jesus said, Ye Must Be Born Again.
2007-04-19 08:13:36
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answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6
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When Christians repeat what God says in His Word, that those who do not believe in Christ will suffer eternal destruction, they are not cursing anyone to Hell. They are stating a fact that God has revealed to us in the hope that it will turn people to Christ so that they may have eternal life. Christians do not delight in the fact that many are going to hell, we are seeking to warn them. No one in their right mind wants anyone in hell especially Christians who have the love of God in them.
2007-04-19 08:18:31
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answered by oldguy63 7
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I don't know about any real christians, but I pretend to be a christian and tell people they are going to hell, I don't see many real cases of non-troll christians doing this, at least not in the tone you put it.
2007-04-19 08:08:49
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answered by poseidenneptune 5
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Some people are just hard to love. Luckily it is not about our ability. We all need Jesus. : )
PS: You do not seem what is blasphemy, Bible believing Christians do not do it, nor they curse people to hell. It is your choice if you end up in hell...so blame yourself.
2007-04-19 08:21:05
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answered by SeeTheLight 7
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Just like you aren't perfect and make many mistakes we Christians aren't perfect and make many mistakes. The only one that is perfect is God so don't come on here asking these ignorant questions because everyone makes mistakes.
and maybe its because we are always being bashed by non-believers. how do you think wee feel when you guys are always criticizing us. you guys just can't take it because we lash back even harder and we know where we stand.
2007-04-19 08:14:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Because they take Jesus's death as a greater example of how to be than his life.
... And because they haven't yet acknowledged the divinity of David Bowie.
2007-04-19 08:15:16
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answered by Nihilist Templar 4
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