Hello,
I am not a Christian although I have tried. I have studied the bible and at one time I was. In my younger years I was even called on by God to be a Pastor. Now on with my story.
I was in another forum discussing the current issue in the middle east. Another gentleman came in and announced that he would support a war with them and everyone on that forum knows he is a Christian. I like to debate by nature so I called him out on his want for war.
Luke 6:37-Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
My way of seeing this verse is that you just don't judge. In order to say we should go to war you have to conceive an idea of judgement to earn the merit of a result. I told him that what he was doing was wrong.
Here is my issue. I believe the bible is very literal and rather simple in terms of what it wants out of people. I believe there is to much of a case with people of picking and choosing what they want to follow. I ended up shutting down the person I was talking to when he said "You cannot judge me, God will do that when I die", I told him I was not there to judge him, told him I have read the book he is supposed to follow and proceeded to tell him that now I understand how the majority (in my eyes) of Christians think, they can ignore what the bible teaches and answer for it when they die.
So I wonder, if the bible appears to me to be very literal in the writings, why do people have such a hard time following it?
I am not a Christian although I have tried. I have studied the bible and at one time I was. In my younger years I was even called on by God to be a Pastor. Now on with my story.
I was in another forum discussing the current issue in the middle east. Another gentleman came in and announced that he would support a war with them and everyone on that forum knows he is a Christian. I like to debate by nature so I called him out on his want for war.
Luke 6:37-Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
My way of seeing this verse is that you just don't judge. In order to say we should go to war you have to conceive an idea of judgement to earn the merit of a result. I told him that what he was doing was wrong.
Here is my issue. I believe the bible is very literal and rather simple in terms of what it wants out of people. I believe there is to much of a case with people of picking and choosing what they want to follow. I ended up shutting down the person I was talking to when he said "You cannot judge me, God will do that when I die", I told him I was not there to judge him, told him I have read the book he is supposed to follow and proceeded to tell him that now I understand how the majority (in my eyes) of Christians think, they can ignore what the bible teaches and answer for it when they die.
So I wonder, if the bible appears to me to be very literal in the writings, why do people have such a hard time following it?