Friends, as a Bible-Believing True Christian™, my sense of right and wrong comes straight from the Word of God. The Bible is the very foundation of my moral values, Amen.
When I was out street-preaching last weekend, I met an honest-to-goodness Hellbount Atheist who wanted to "debate". I asked him what was his basis for morality if he doesn't believe in God or the Bible. He told me that he empathizes with others -- he knows that an action towards another is wrong if he would not like for someone else to do it to him. He gave as an example that he knows that it is wrong to kill others for pleasure because he doesn't want to be killed, and because he doesn't want anyone to kill someone he cares about. I swiftly rebuked this Hellbound sinner with God's admonishment against following your own conscience rather than God's written laws in Deuteronomy 29:19-20 (or if you prefer, here is the Brick Testament version). Later however, I started thinking about what that evil Athian had said. At first, I couldn't quite point out what was specifically wrong with his argument. It almost seems reasonable that one could behave morally simply by empathizing with others and following one's God given conscience. I knew that there had to be a reason for the LORD's prohibition against letting my conscience be my guide, so I did what I always do when questions pop up in my head -- I cracked open my King James 1611 Bible, and I immediately found the answer, Amen. Empathy and conscience only get you so far. They can tell you a few obvious things, but there are too many things that they get completely wrong. The Bible is the only authority on what is right and wrong. Here are some examples of things that conscience and empathy tell me are ok, but the Bible clearly states as being wrong:
Praise Jesus! Pastor Billy-Reuben |
Thank you so much for re-posting that. That is truly inspired preaching by someone who clearly loves God's Word.
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Absolutely a beautiful sermon here friend. Praise the Lord! We can't and shouldn't rely on our own being to tell us what is right or wrong cuz we be fallen creatures in a fallen and dark world. We MUST rely on the Bible, God's Word (KJV1611 ONLY) to tell us what is right and what is wrong. If we rely on our own selves then we goin to get lost in sin and abomination cuz Satan be everwhere tryin to trick us.
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All this time, I've been following my conscience... I NEED to get a Bible (KJV :thumbsup:) ASAP.
Also, if you look at conscience, just noticed, randomly... Conscience :D |
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Also you can read one online at www.biblegateway.com. And for your assisted reading pleasure, Brother V has got a wonderful thread going HERE called "Bible in a Year." Good luck! :thumbsup: |
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I am a redhead, and our species is often referred to in parts of Europe as those who burned Jerusalem. (Tangentially -- Adolf, too, had a thing for Barbarossa.) Seeking the sole remaining Aramaic-speaking village by bus from Damascus, I got lost and ended up in a hamlet of Sand Negroes where most everyone had once been exterminated by Crusaders (Praise!). Desperately needing to urinate and not wanting to pull my tallywacker out in public, I strode into the ruins of some castle to relieve myself. Finished with my business, I was on my way back out when I encountered two prepubescent Sand Negroes. Both had accidents and soaked their Adidas. Pitying them was cause for reflection -- because they were suffused with folk tales about what the Godly Crusaders had done to their ancestors, I represented a primordial threat to these small savages. Their great-grandmothers had no doubt passed down tales about large pale people with ruddy beards indulging in slaughter -- when the actual white persons of yore and lore were merely engaged in liberation. The lesson to me was that (a) all savages are childlike and should be treated as such, and (b) one can always slam them against the wall and explain. Even in the supposedly enlightened metropolises rife with white metrosexuals, there are women who are so degraded by secular liberalism that they can't tell the difference between sanctioned and unsanctioned rape, for example. If they were properly betrothed, their husbands could help them make the distinction. Sincerely, Magna, née Magnus |
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^_^ i gives this classick thread a 2009 bump, cuz Pastor Billy-Rooobin preach them timeless true christain™ truths :)
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I think I found a perfect picture for your perfect sermon. It's from a Church I visited once in Alabama:
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If you were looking at a blue piece of paper, but the Bible told you were looking at a red piece of paper, which would you believe?
If you answer blue, you are using reason, which is supposedly the greatest enemy of faith. If you answer red, you are absolutely retarded. |
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Please do quote it. |
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There are so many unanswered questions, Elizabeth. |
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I am just trying to show you that listening to the Bible when your observations clearly show you otherwise is absolutely ridiculous. |
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The Bible doesn't say that women aren't as capable as men -- it says that God wants women to obey men. The Bible doesn't say that eating shellfish will kill you -- it says that God doesn't want us to eat them. So you have yet to provide me an example where the Bible contradicts my own observations. Pastor Billy-Reuben |
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Pastor, I want to thank you for stating the truths. So many naysayers in the world today and it only seems to be getting worse. Why don't people take the time to read the Bible? To of read it and removed all doubt is such a weight off of my mind. Faced with new situations from time to time, I already know what is the right thing to do.
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The atheist empathy argument is easy to refute.
I will give an example: Suppose an atheist kid gets bullied at school, he gets depressed and ends up with suicidal thoughts. At that moment his empathy and conscience tell him not only that he wants to die, but that all other people must also want to die. The result? Yet another school shooting by an atheist. |
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Follow your conscience it wil not steer you wrong.
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Haha, such people will make the argument that we should think and consider rational thought to guide us, yet when the pastor makes the valid argument that we use the ultimate rational resource (The KJV 1611 Bible), they say "no no, follow your conscience".
Great argument, guys. What if your conscience tells you it's OK to murder people? Wow, aren't you glad the depraved serial killer followed his conscience instead of the Bible? |
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