Perhaps “worship” is a bit of a loaded word; we have different interpretations of what the word entails, and are building our arguments around our specific meanings of the word. I suspect that is why we have been talking past each other all this time. I think you mentioned earlier (correct me if I’m wrong) that you have been guilty of occasionally slipping into this type of worship as well. If this is the case would it be fair to say that this type of worship is something everybody could be guilty of? If that’s the case I would have to ask why is the finger being pointed at the conservative doing this if this is something everybody does?
Yes, everybody is guilty of it at times, it's just more of a question as to who, or which type, or which side, more fully recognizes it more, and maybe offers up a little bit more resistance to it maybe, and is actually trying to improve in it, and get maybe better at or in it, vs those maybe maybe don't as much, or do or don't maybe much more less so, etc...
I’m reminded of the saying; if everybody is special, nobody is special. In the context of this conversation; If I worship everything, I worship nothing.
Maybe if you were to do that perfectly equally with everything that might be true, but as we all know that just is not true, etc...
The problem with Jesus is that he never wrote anything down. The only thing we know is what other people claimed he said. So I am reluctant to look at the Bible, the Koran, or the other books people wrote, and judge Jesus based on what those men said of him.
Well, I guarantee you the men that wrote about Jesus were not lying at all, etc, that was punishable by death amongst the Jews, etc...
If a copyist or scribe got caught even misspelling or misusing or even mispronouncing or miscopying even one letter of even one word, when it came to those kind of documents, etc, he was to be killed and put to death immediately, etc...
But then, take them all as true for minute OK, and which one do you think more accurately represents or portrays or talks about such a One who is a true Son of God, or Son of the God, or gods, etc...?
Analyze the man/men talked about and who they were, and what they did, and maybe what they also didn't do, etc, which One do you think most accurately would a be a true Son of God, or Son of the gods, etc...?
Who had the "character"...? or persona or personality, etc...? Behavior, etc...?
Who performed miracles, was raised from the dead, etc...?
However; if Jesus spoke of thoughts as the sin of murder (as opposed to actual murder) the sin of adultery (as opposed to actual adultery) etc. If Jesus is the religious leader, he can make anything a sin that he wants!
He's not doing that, (making anything a sin He wants, etc), but is just "telling it like it truly is", and how it always was, or was all supposed to be, from the very beginning, etc...?
As I said earlier, I don’t agree everything Christians call sin is bad.
Now I don't at all mean this is any kind of offensive way, so please don't take it that way, but, are you really even a Christian at all, etc...?
I ask only because it would help me to know who I'm really talking to only, etc, so please don't think I mean it offensively, OK...?
God Bless!
