While browsing the archive of humor items on this forum, I ran across a number of disturbing posts, which, according to my standards, contradict key principles of Christian life and practice. To my knowledge, everyone here professes to be a Christian. And In such light, I would ask that everyone here would consider the following.
The above scripture indicates clearly that it is the believers responsibility to honor God through his or her daily actions. It also clarifies the fact that our thought must be brought under the authority of Jesus Christ if we are to see the fullness of salvation. In such light, I present the following Standard for Christian Humor:
1. All Jokes must maintain all due reverance for God. Jokes that include Christ or the Godhead as a represented character cheapen the gravity of redemption and the the Christian faith, and should be thus avoided. The fullness of God's glory would kill us if we beheld it with our earthly bodies. Such glory and power is not to be reduced to an object of mindless humor.
2. All Jokes must respect Christian ethics and standards. A joke with an immoral or possibly unsavory theme underestimates the importance of holiness. We, as believers, being new creatures, transformed unto holiness, zealous of good works, are expected to, with our own lives, daily make a reflection of Jesus Christ. Representing an omnipotent God who hates sin, it is therefore of utmost importance that we not become tollerant there toward.
And so I ask that everyone here exercise sufficiant disgression in regards to the presentation of humor. And as a rule of thumb, if you would blush to read your joke to your Pastor, Sunday School teacher, Parent(s), Spouse, Children, or Siblings, then please, for the sake of others and your own, do not post it here. Thank you.
In Christ,
- Joshua
We are bid in Philippians 4:8 as follows:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
The above scripture indicates clearly that it is the believers responsibility to honor God through his or her daily actions. It also clarifies the fact that our thought must be brought under the authority of Jesus Christ if we are to see the fullness of salvation. In such light, I present the following Standard for Christian Humor:
1. All Jokes must maintain all due reverance for God. Jokes that include Christ or the Godhead as a represented character cheapen the gravity of redemption and the the Christian faith, and should be thus avoided. The fullness of God's glory would kill us if we beheld it with our earthly bodies. Such glory and power is not to be reduced to an object of mindless humor.
2. All Jokes must respect Christian ethics and standards. A joke with an immoral or possibly unsavory theme underestimates the importance of holiness. We, as believers, being new creatures, transformed unto holiness, zealous of good works, are expected to, with our own lives, daily make a reflection of Jesus Christ. Representing an omnipotent God who hates sin, it is therefore of utmost importance that we not become tollerant there toward.
And so I ask that everyone here exercise sufficiant disgression in regards to the presentation of humor. And as a rule of thumb, if you would blush to read your joke to your Pastor, Sunday School teacher, Parent(s), Spouse, Children, or Siblings, then please, for the sake of others and your own, do not post it here. Thank you.
In Christ,
- Joshua
