Could someone have given 'us' that impression? Hmmmm?
(Church-Lady reference courtesty of ~Morg~)
2007-05-01 09:48:03 · 29 answers · asked by morgorond 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because you were created in God's image, of course.
2007-05-01 09:50:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No way... they couldn't have given us that impression. I wouldn't think that after seeing so many within a group make it their business what everyone else was doing and think they have some authority by telling everyone else their flaws. While ignoring the fact that they have flaws by giving the "Well, I'm saved... Jesus doesn't see my sin... I'm a believer so it's different".
Of course they've given us that impression. They take the moral high road with all of us Non's, looking down on us and give us the ol' "you're going to hell... but God loves you" bit... yes, we want to see this perfection they claim they have... If they actually repented as they claimed, there would be something at least close to perfection. "be ye perfect as your god in heaven is" (paraphrased from the Bible... direct command from Jesus)
2007-05-01 10:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again- semantics. When Christ said to be perfect, the audience he was speaking to understood culturally and semantically what he was saying was to be blameless, which makes more sense idiomatically to a people whose cultural semantics are so very different than those 2000 years later in America or anywhere else. Linguistics is a fascinating study
People who cannot or will not in this time understand this basic fact are gaining something of importance from their ignorance the rest of us can't see.
2007-05-01 09:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the mythical christian holy book, which they claim to believe is absolute truth and claim to follow, says "by their works shall ye know them."
Since they claim to believe in and follow that book which tells them how to live and what rules to follow, I would expect them to follow its rules. They don't, by and large.
So by their own books' reasoning, they're not christians. 'Cause their "works" are pretty much like everybody else's who's NOT a christian -- in other words, human. For all the fire & brimstone, that christianity thing sure doesn't make people better human beings, that's for sure.
Peace.
2007-05-01 09:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i does not call somebody evil, there are a good sort of non-believers who stay stable ethical lives. i think of that the sentiment could be coming from the fact made that "in case you're actually not for me, you're against me" i'm uncertain the place that's interior the Bible. If God is stable, and devil is evil, then the two attainable aspects to be on are stable and evil. consequently, utilising good judgment, in case you're actually not with God you're evil. that's crude, yet i could wager that's the place human beings are coming from in the event that they say that. upload to it, Jesus pronounced that there is not any one stable, not even one. additionally, i don't accept as true with the reasoning that God is conserving His infants from the evil human beings. Heaven and Hell are basically the two options that loose Will supplies us. We get what we choose. i don't prefer to think of of hell as a place of punishment, an eternal spanking in case you will. i think of that's basically giving the folk what they chosen in the time of their existence. they chosen to haven't any God. If God is all goodness, then hell, the absense of God is in undemanding terms a place with not something stable in it. in case you opt for no God, then interior the top you have chosen to haven't any stable on your eternal existence.
2016-10-14 07:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Name one.
2007-05-01 09:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I expect objective science from Atheists. Although, there is no perfect human, we all have charachter defects. I am not Christian but will pray with them and honor their beliefs as long as they do not condem my personal (provided to God to my People) Native American spirituality, provided by God here in America.
2007-05-01 09:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by nativearchdoc 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I get a kick out of it. Non-believers put Christianity on a pedestal just so they can throw stones at us. It's funny how we don't claim to be perfect, just the opposite. We realize we are imperfect and want to be better people. Yet people love to kick us down. Go figure.
2007-05-01 09:52:39 · answer #8 · answered by Rick 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pointing out the hypocrisy of your beliefs is one of the easiest ways to demonstrate how wrong they are.
But we don't expect perfection from you. We just expect you to at least be decent human beings, which quite a few of your numbers are not. (A majority in fact)
2007-05-01 09:53:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
As a non-believer I don't expect perfection from anybody, christians included.
What I do expect is logic, reason, education, and knowledge of things that challenge their beliefs. Yet they usually don't seem to show this...
Instead what I usually see are misconceptions, a distinct lack of education, fallacies, and knowledge of things that is so warped that it is unrecognizable as reality. =P
2007-05-01 09:52:49 · answer #10 · answered by Mike K 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
it is not expecting perfection as much as it is expecting that there better be perfection on the other end of some (some, not all christians are obnoxious with their beliefs) of the endless preaching
2007-05-01 09:51:55 · answer #11 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋