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Originally posted by theRhenn
reply to post by schadenfreude
A "christian" countering his own religion? I dont think so. You've watered down the term quite a bit in your post.
A christian is more than someone who believes in Christ. It is someone taking up the cross and being CHRIST LIKE. That's hardly the case here.
You're taking scripture and arguing against it. How can you be a christian if you're calling the bible, the origin of your "faith" a lie?
That's like me saying "I'm not a racist, but all black people are criminals".
2.2 billion Christians (32 percent of the world’s population).
These are the words of the Amen
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by schadenfreude
You said I didn't say the gates of hell are defensive.
I didn't' "say" that, now you have the immeasurable pleasure of taking your own advice and re-reading what I said. My, my you are a testy little one aren't you? Relax, this is just a simple dialogue. I already admitted I stopped reading the OP at the period of the sentence I originally copy/pasted.
You'll have to pardon my contempt. Let me explain myself for a brief second. You see, I expect attacks on the body of Christ from those outside if Christianity, after all you need to be fairly good-natured when toying with the human puppets of demons (hat tip The GUT), but what really gets under my skin is when Christians assume the role of accuser of the brethren.edit on 8-8-2013 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by schadenfreude
There are five offices in the church. Apostle, prophet, teacher, preacher & evangelist.
And there are nine gifts from the HS. Discernment, tongues, interpretation, prophecy & faith. Healing, wisdom & miracles.
Wisdom. Understanding. Counsel. Fortitude. Knowledge. Piety. Fear of the Lord
charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, long-suffering, humility or gentleness, fidelity or faithfulness, modesty, continence or self-control and chastity.
Which one of the main five are you? Which one of the nine gifts do you have? Do you know?
Originally posted by laurentius
the state of the world today is america's fault. and that's a fact.
"Accuser of the brethren" is another verse that some christians use as a bat to beat other christians to DEATH with. Am I to assume that you are calling me this term, or sharing this trait? You do realize who "the accuser" is right?
and no, please don't explain your interpretation
Originally posted by schadenfreude
reply to post by Krazysh0t
When Christians were acting Christ-like, they brought Rome to it's knees. When they went WILLINGLY to the lions, ppl jumped out of their seats when they saw it AND JOINED THE CHRISTIANS. iirc, it was 7 romans, for every one christian martyred.
Christianity today no longer has that influence, least in America. But to deny that influence ever happened, well that's just disingenuous, don't you think?edit on 8-8-2013 by schadenfreude because: (no reason given)
Roman executions typically were considered a form of public spectacle. When coinciding with a game day, they usually took place during the midday break between the morning animal hunts and the afternoon gladiator matches. A favored method was exposing an unarmed criminal to lions or bears. Since it’s pretty clear that Christians were at times sentenced to death by beast (see 1 and 2 above), one may surmise that some of them met their end via lion in front of a Colosseum crowd, but we have no sure knowledge of this. The entertainment value of executions was apparently low due to their sheer number — many people found them boring, either leaving for lunch or sticking around and writing letters to friends about the tedium.
Considering that the Bible told us that the world would come to it's end this way, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
The state of the world today is the church's fault