I am AMAZED......

[Auntie]

.......at some of the things Christians profess to believe.




....just a minor rant.

 

[dignitized]

auntie: sokay its one well shared!!

 

[Auntie]

Today at 01:15 PM Br. Max said this in Post #2 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=667691#post667691)

auntie: sokay its one well shared!!

YES! I thought this would be something we could ALL agree on!

 

[waterwizard]

Today at 01:06 PM Auntie said this in Post #1

.......at some of the things Christians profess to believe.




....just a minor rant.

You are so right.  And right now, I believe I'll have a sandwich. 

 

[Auntie]

Today at 01:27 PM waterwizard said this in Post #4 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=667714#post667714)

You are so right.  And right now, I believe I'll have a sandwich. 

Just look out for those killer tomatoes.

 

[jseek21]

I agree. Can we narrow the field down?

I see a major problem with the modern Christian church, as many others do. I will not share these problems yet, but would like to see what these beliefs are that amazing you all.

 

[Auntie]

Today at 01:43 PM jseek21 said this in Post #6 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=667746#post667746)

I agree. Can we narrow the field down?

Narrowing the field will cause us all to be in disagreement. As it stands now, everyone in this thread is in total agreement with each other. Even those who don't reply, but just read, will completely agree with the original post. How wonderful that we can ALL agree on something!

 

[njtupmom]

I have often wanted to ask what bible have you been reading??!!!

 

 

[jseek21]

We are to be cobelligerents, not allies.
We have thrown out the unity and love that the Bible calls for so we can have a false sense of unity, a false unity. Not one based on truth and love, but based on compromise. Instead of resting on the absolutes given by Scripture we make our own absolute: the absolute that there is no absolute. This is not for which we are called!
We must have a Christian revolution. Love and untiy, yes. But let us understand that if we are to have it, we need to know what it is. We need what the reformation of the sixteenth centuary built on, that which derives from Scripture itself - that God is not only a God of love, but a God of holiness. He is a god with character. Everything is NOT equally right before god, and because of this we have absolutes and categories.
Here, then, us the basis for a revolution built on truth. We can, by God's grace, build again. To be a real revolutionary, you must become involved in a real revolution - a revolution in which you are pitted against everyone who has turned away from God and His propositional revelation to men - even against the user of god words. This is a revolution in which we may again hope to see good results, not only in individuals going to heaven, but in Christ who is lord becoming Lord of our culture - to give us , even in this fallen world, something of both truth and beauty.

The man who sacrifices truth for a false sense of unity tears apart the church from the inside

 

[Terri]

I agree with you jseek21.

The problem I run into is trying to figure out what to say to someone who may be at a different level of maturity.  You don't want to hurt their faith--even when you feel they are in error--WHAT DOES ONE DO? 

 

[Auntie]

Jseek,

The problem is, one man's truth is another man's state of deception, each basing their truth on scripture.

 

[Susan]

Blah, yeah. . .I agree with the OP, and there are probably people here who would think similar things about me

LOL, I think this is one topic on which we can agree ~.^ : none of us can agree on anything but the basics.

Nevertheless, I'm happy we do agree on the basics. -^.^-

Come to think of it, the differences will be one of the miracles of Heaven: that I will be able to sit and eat with people whom I have denounced the secondary and tertiary beliefs and practices of and who have denounced my secondary and tertiary beliefs and practices, as brothers and sisters.

 

[jseek21]

Today at 01:22 PM Terri said this in Post #11 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=667798#post667798)

I agree with you jseek21.

The problem I run into is trying to figure out what to say to someone who may be at a different level of maturity.  You don't want to hurt their faith--even when you feel they are in error--WHAT DOES ONE DO? 

One must answer the questions put forth with truth, even the truth that may be offending, in love. Paul says to preach the truth in and out of season. How can a young person become mature without hearing what will grow them. One must speak the truth in love. Truth will not hurt their faith; not speaking will.

Today at 01:27 PM Auntie said this in Post #12 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=667810#post667810)

Jseek,

The problem is, one man's truth is another man's state of deception, each basing their truth on scripture.

True. However because there is an absolute there must be one side that is right and one side that is wrong. Thus one side is basing their ideas on scripture, while the latter is taking scripture out of context, changing its meaning, or missing the point altoghether.

 

[Auntie]

Today at 10:00 PM jseek21 said this in Post #14 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=668539#post668539)



True. However because there is an absolute there must be one side that is right and one side that is wrong. Thus one side is basing their ideas on scripture, while the latter is taking scripture out of context, changing its meaning, or missing the point altoghether.

I mostly agree, except I think ALL good Bible believing churchs have at least SOME truth, some more than others. Isn't it strange how we always believe our truth is the correct truth, and the other guy is the one out in la la land somewhere.

 

[jseek21]

I do believe many churches have a semblence of truth. Because it is He who saves, He can even save a person who may not understand the jots and tittles. I merely state that there is an absolute truth; and yes, there are churches out there that teach everything right.

 

[Auntie]

Today at 10:21 PM jseek21 said this in Post #16 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=668578#post668578)

I merely state that there is an absolute truth; and yes, there are churches out there that teach everything right.

I would be very interested in knowing the names of theses churches that teach "everything right".

 

[Auntie]

Hello?

 

[Terri]

Today at 10:00 PM jseek21 said this in Post #14

One must answer the questions put forth with truth, even the truth that may be offending, in love. Paul says to preach the truth in and out of season. How can a young person become mature without hearing what will grow them. One must speak the truth in love. Truth will not hurt their faith; not speaking will. 

Thanks jseek21--please pray that God will strengthen me and help me to know and to share His Truth in love.

 

[dignitized]

Jseek: I can say that I agree that there are churches that have majority shares in the Truth of God, but I'll be we disagree on what churches those are. so who is right?

 

[jseek21]

Yesterday at 10:25 PM Terri said this in Post #19 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=668694#post668694)

Thanks jseek21--please pray that God will strengthen me and help me to know and to share His Truth in love.

I shall.