What sets you apart from the rest of the world? Do you spend Sunday in church but live as the rest of the world during the week. Do you dress inappropriately to impress your pagan friends, speak vulgar language, love the material things of the world. Do you think of yourself more highly than you should.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 says:
14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? 16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:
“I will live in them
and walk among them.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
17 Therefore, come out from among unbelievers,
and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch their filthy things,
and I will welcome you.
And I will be your Father,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.[d]”
2007-08-22 14:18:15 · 11 answers · asked by Praise to the Trinity 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear un-believers, Since you do not believe you have a hard time understanding this scripture but God has shown his love for you through the sacrifice of his son Jesus Christ. But unless you can understand how you have broken God's laws and deserve punishment you will never be able to turn from your sin and receive the free pardon that is available to you. The Bible says:
"If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. 14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
2 Corinthians 5:13-15
Since Christ has died for us so are we to die to ourselves. That is why we are to set our selves apart from this world and its ways. A hard concept for an un-believer to grasp.
2007-08-22 15:10:21 · update #1
I am not your judge, I ask this question to get you to think about your walk in Christ. Did not Jesus say "You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?" Mathew 7:16.
Are you living as Christ has commanded? This should always be a question that a Christian would want to be sure the answer of. I myself constantly am examining myself through reading scripture, prayer, and listening to other teachers of the word. I have backed up all my statements with scripture or have let it do the talking. The only question you would need to ask yourself is am I speaking the truth or not. Read the word and find out for yourself.
2007-08-22 15:24:10 · update #2
My pagan friends know I'm a Christian. I'm sure, given the fact that I'm STILL a sinner, that they can find reasons to call me a hypocrit IF they are looking for them. But they know that I absolutely unequivicably believe and that I try to be true to my beliefs.
One of the keys for me is trying my best to keep my sins LOW profile.
2007-08-22 14:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Just_One_Man's_Opinion 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think generalizations are often not helpful. There are many Christians who realize that Wiccans are usually not hurtful people. They might think we are misguided in our choice of religion, but they don't count us as evil. Also, Wicca and witchcraft are not the same thing. Witchcraft is a technique which, like prayer, is used in many religions other than Wicca. Wiccans, who choose to abide by the Wiccan Rede, will generally not use magic for harmful purposes, but there are plenty of witches who are not Wiccans who are under no such constraints. And on what grounds do you judge us "the least evil of any religion"? That's a pretty bold claim to make, and I'm curious about how you arrived at that conclusion.
2016-05-20 04:15:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can't team up with non-believers??? Maybe he is talking about religion, but on other things maybe, but Christians are supposed to Love everybody even our enemies and I don't think we should give into peer pressure too much, if we want to be friends with a pagan does that does not mean we should be like a Pagan too!!! we could still be friends but I don't have to "dress inappropriately to impress your pagan friends, speak vulgar language, love the material things of the world" sure Pagans have a different view on what is right and what is wrong, and we as Christians supposed to live by our own standards of what is good and what is evil.
Bottomline: that does not mean we can't be friends with Pagans we just wouldnt join you in your Voodoo spells or other similar things that are not Christian, other than that we are ok, if we can't agree on ANYTHING why the hell are we still hangin out together then???
2007-08-22 14:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any pagan friends other than online. I don't go to church on Sunday because my parents won't let me go (it's complicated), but if I could, I would. I don't dress inappropriatly and I have never sworn in my life. I don't love material things, either. I give money to charity whenever I can. I scold people when they say the Lord's name in vain or when they swear.
What I don't understand is why you're asking such a question. Pagan people aren't terrible people. It seems to me like you think that religion makes a person wonderful or terrible. I know a lot of wonderful people of other religions and a lot of terrible Christians (look at Hitler).
2007-08-22 14:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by music_literature_freak 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LoL!
I am so glad that i am a Pagan and not a deluded christian like you!~NOT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE HATEFUL LIKE YOU!
Where is you love for fellow man?
Where is your acceptance?
Is it your place to judge?
Why are you so full of hatred?
Why are you concerned with the actions of another when you need to work on yourself?
Why do you think it is that many people cant stand christians?
I will tell you why.
Because of the bigotry of people like you.
You do your faith no justice.
All you have done with this question is to devalue your fellow christians.
Congratulations on that, well done.
Tsk Tsk
Ariel
2007-08-22 14:44:30 · answer #5 · answered by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of my friends know that I'm a Christian; most of them are Christians also. The ones that aren't still respect my beliefs.
Did God recently appoint you as our judge, and I missed it in our church bulletin last Sunday???
Matthew 7:1 -- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2007-08-22 15:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by kaz716 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i am in the the world , but not of it .but i am all thing to all men so i may win some for christ . we must not become snods because of the wonder gift we have received .
2007-08-23 06:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by robert c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trust me, as a pagan, we know you christians very well. Your bible and your behavior line up completely.
2007-08-22 14:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what sets me apart from the rest of the world?
i don't follow the world.
2007-08-22 14:23:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no... in my city here in the Philippines almost everyone are believers, specifically catholic.
so its actually the other way around.
2007-08-23 05:26:03 · answer #10 · answered by hamster-de-combat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋