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  • Born Again Bob
    True Christian™
    True Christian™
    • Sep 2006
    • 2318

    #1

    You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

    Dear Friends,

    Ever wonder if YOU are a member of that dizzy, daffy, delusional bunch known as the John 3:16 Christians? Well, in the tradition of that great American humorist Jeff Foxworthy, I suggest you might be a John 3:16 Christian if...

    ...you've ever used the words "God" and "loves" in the same sentence without adding the words "to kill"
    ...you tell your non-Baptist friends you'll "see them in Heaven" -- and don't mean it as a practical jest
    ...you haven't picked out which lawn chair you want to ascend bodily into Glory with
    ...you're against banning any book in the public schools...unless its the only one that can save the kids from eternal fire and darkness
    ...you consider tithing to be *shudder* optional
    ...in Scriptural debates, you cite to the New School Jive Bible for the Deaf
    ...you've passed an abortion clinic without throwing a brick
    ...you thought the Passion of the Christ really should have omitted the Jews
    ...you've ever caught yourself enjoying sex or mackerels
    ...Hustler doesn't bother you -- you're idea of pornography is The 700 Club
    ...you watched the Teletubbies and couldn't spot the gay one
    ...you once said "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"
    ...you consort with black people who aren't the help, politicians, or professional athletes
    ...you know someone who thought about voting for Bill Clinton
    ...when doing laundry, you refuse to separate your whites from your coloreds
    ...you can rise to speak at School Board meetings without anyone rolling their eyes
    ...to you, being a "family values" hardliner means saying people probably shouldn't have sex with their own children
    ...you've listened respectfully as someone outlined the differences between paganism and wicca
    ...you think the First Amendment protects dipping a cross in urine, but not setting it on fire
    ...you're not taking harp lessons
    ...you put more stock in what science has said in the last ten years than in what God said during the 4,000 years before Christ

    bab
  • Father Thomas Martin
    Pedantic Pubescent Pedophile Papist Proselytizer
    • Jul 2007
    • 1015

    #2
    Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

    So is John 3:16 invalid to you?...I guess you ain't a "Bible Christian" then!
    ACTS 5:29

    But Peter and the apostles said in reply, "We must obey God rather than men."
    There you have it-so WHAT'S STOPPING YOU COWARDS?

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    • Born Again Bob
      True Christian™
      True Christian™
      • Sep 2006
      • 2318

      #3
      Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

      Dear Friend,

      That verse certainly is valid. A John 3:16 Christian merely rips out all of the Bible around it.

      Sound familiar?

      Yours in Him,
      bab

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      • Brother Temperance
        Senior Usher
        True Christian™ missionary to the Unsaved Kingdom
        A very nice young man
        True Christian™
        • Sep 2006
        • 15621

        #4
        Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

        Originally posted by Born Again Bob View Post
        Dear Friend,

        That verse certainly is valid. A John 3:16 Christian merely rips out all of the Bible around it.

        Sound familiar?
        To be fair, that's not actually what Thomas Martin does. He just takes Deuteronomy 6:5 (And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might), and then flips ahead to Matthew 1:16 where Mary is mentioned, cuts that out and pastes her name over "the LORD thy God." Then rips out the rest of it.
        O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.



        God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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        • JennyD
          Honorary True Christian™
          Sweet Placid Sister
          Forum Member
          • Dec 2007
          • 9567

          #5
          Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

          Brother Temperance, I believe that was the most beautiful, succinct description of Catholicism I've ever heard!
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          • Cheshire
            True Christian™
            True Christian™
            • Jan 2008
            • 213

            #6
            Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

            Amazing!
            Of course, that dirty catholic will never cease whining now, but... I'm sure Jesus likes the joke, and will laugh harder when the catholic is burning in hell.
            Repent, or be tortured in nasty ways with sharp, pointy things!

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            • Seeker
              Thank you Pastor Pistle!
              Forum Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 966

              #7
              Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

              You might be a John 3:16 Christian if..

              1) You only attend Sunday night service once a month for the potluck afterwards.

              2) You feel it is okay to wear jeans Sunday night but not Sunday morning.

              3) You always make sure you have a hanky and a pocket of breathmints.

              4) You still tithe off the net(and claim it on your income tax return)

              5) It's okay to skip church for football

              6) You stand on the 3rd verse when singing the wonderful hymn 'How Great Thou Art.'

              7) During Prayer request time you raise your hand and say " I have an unspoken prayer request."

              8) You let your kids hang out with Catholics.

              9) You walk out in the middle of a tongue interpertation to use the bathroom.

              10) You find it is okay to hang out in the nursey during Sunday night preaching.

              11) Everyone knows that the back pew is yours!

              If the Lord leads you to it, he will get you through it.

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              • Seeker
                Thank you Pastor Pistle!
                Forum Member
                • Aug 2007
                • 966

                #8
                Re: You Might Be A John 3:16 Christian If...

                12) You are lucky to be a deacon because only Brother Smith was the only one that was not divorced in the church.

                13) Every 3 months you get to fill the water in the Babtism tank and hand the girls white tee-shirts and a towel.

                14) Your collection plate is made out of velvet with black handles and not a plastic bucket.

                15) You only close your doors on Saturday nights and tell your children to stay out.

                16)You got promoted to a Wed. night greeter.

                17) Your highlight of the week was waiting to see the Royal Rangers in their uniform and of course the daisies and prims too.

                18) You take the whole youth group out to Wendy's for a chocolate shake and afterwords play pictionary at your house.

                19) You have to be on a waiting list to sing a solo on Sunday night.

                20) If you use John 3:16 verse and say even the demons and devil believe, but they still are going to hell. (I always say Jesus did not die for them, so that does not matter, fool)

                If the Lord leads you to it, he will get you through it.

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