Reply to: Implementing theological matters in day-to-day living

[rob s]

I desperately need my own island.

[mos]

If someone stole from you, and you subsequently found out that it was out of character and done from absolute desperation, what would you do?

Poll to follow...

they all say that.

[mudskipper]

It makes more sense if you gizoogle it.

2 Macks 2:23 From there Elisha went up ta Bethel fo' realz. As he was struttin along tha road, some youths came outta tha hood n' jeered at his mutha****in ass. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they holla'd. Y'all KNOW dat tulip, mutha****a! "Go on up, you b

[BrilloPad]

So Christians should be giving the shirt of their back to the bankers ?

2 Kings 2:23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!"

2 Kings 2:24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

HTH

[amcdonald]

I believe the bible does spefically state that if someone steals from you give them more and do not take revenge etc (I think Jesus mentions that if someone steels your cloak offer them your shirt).

However, very few Christians like it when you point this out to them after they have had their stuff nicked.

So Christians should be giving the shirt of their back to the bankers ?

[NotAllThere]

Jewish fellow, I believe.

[d000hg]

Or you could also quote Matthew 10:35:
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.


So basically, the son of god, who is himself, and who got his own mother pregnant to have himself, to repent for sin which he himself created, came to start a bunch of fights in families. By provoking argument, we're therefore allegedly being 'christian'.

No?

No. And who said Jesus was a Christian?

[sasguru]

Why people who are so ignorant on the subject of religion keep banging on about it beats me.

Do you mean religion as a whole or Christianity? I know a fair bit about both - having been brooght up as a Christian (and read the Bible extensively as the precocious child I was) and also having explored and read about other belief systems/religions as well as some of the psychological/neuroscientific lit. on religiosity.
And my conclusion is that of all the belief systems, the older ones such as Buddhism, are more mature and more useful to human beings, being less prescriptive and more understanding of the true human condition.

[rob s]

If you were genuinely interested you'd find a commentary on Luke 6:29 (you know, on the internet). But you're only interested in provoking arguments.

Or you could also quote Matthew 10:35:
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.


So basically, the son of god, who is himself, and who got his own mother pregnant to have himself, to repent for sin which he himself created, came to start a bunch of fights in families. By provoking argument, we're therefore allegedly being 'christian'.

No?

[MyUserName]

It hardly takes the Infinite for that.

What do you mean?

[d000hg]

Has it occured to you that a being of unlimited power can make jokes that go over your head?

It hardly takes the Infinite for that.

[MyUserName]

Has it occured to you that a being of unlimited power can make jokes that go over your head?

Muhahahahaha

But can it make jokes that go over it's own head?

[bobspud]

Bible or religion aside. I need people around me that I can trust. If I am allowing a cleaner into my home and the VCR is in danger of leaving with team I would rather give them an extra large job and offer them 500 notes to sort it out for me.

On the other side to this issue I would make it known that If I ever had to come looking for something that went missing again they would not be dealing with the police...

[Zippy]

Has it occured to you that a being of unlimited power can make jokes that go over your head?

Muhahahahaha

When you find such a being let me know.

<they only hung me the right way up yesterday>

[doodab]

It is not hard to follow, it is not the bible that is hard to understand. What is hard to understand is why people cannot see there is no more truth to it than there is to any other religion that has ever (and will ever) be invented.

The bible is full of attrocities, contradictions and scientific mistakes and yet it is penned by a being of unimited intelligence. These things cannot both be true but we can verify the first by reading the bible which just leaves the second.

Even a being of unlimited power makes more sense, if there is nothing he cannot do then can he cook a curry that is too hot for him to eat?

Has it occured to you that a being of unlimited power can make jokes that go over your head?

Muhahahahaha