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Originally Posted by disgustedviewer
Do not judge so that you will not be judged” Matthew 7:1
That is the first thing i want to discuss. You people are doing exactly what it says in the bible not to do. It states in Romans 3:23 that all men fall short of the glory of God. Who are you to wrongly judge someone else when in the eyes of God you are no better than them. You hide behind bible verses that you misinterpret to suit your own wishes.
John 8:7 states, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." It seems to me that you are ignoring this very important verse. Can you honestly say that you are without sin? the only one whom is without sin is God. Since Romans 3:23 states that all men fall short of the glory of God, then i would suppose that you are not without sin.
How dare you attempt to give yourself rights that are not given unto you by God the father. Until you learn humility, and learn that the bible is not there to be twisted until it suits your own desires, you will forever be a hypocritical man.
So preacher man, how does it feel to know that there's someone whom you can't use the bible to argue with?
p.s. i'm an ordained reverend, and i can't stand to see such blasphemous use of the Lord. I hope you have learned something, and if not, i would be glad to teach you a little bit about the book you so abuse. good day.
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Romans 3:23 is in the past tense. This is very important. It is true that I have sinned, and I have fallen short of the glory of God. But that's not all there is to say on the subject. You see, I believe that having been washed in the blood of Christ washes us clean of all sin. Not just some sin, all sin.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Now, clearly you disagree with that. Clearly, you think Jesus Christ was a jumped-up huckster who doesn't have the power to cleanse His followers of sin, so His death was all for nothing. Well, this is a free country, so if you really want to denigrate the sacrifice He made for us then you can, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't claim to be a Christian while doing so.
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.