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The Offensive Truth: Relativism and Our Kids
Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 6/20/2007 | Chuck Colson

Posted on 06/20/2007 8:58:09 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback

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1 posted on 06/20/2007 8:58:10 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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2 posted on 06/20/2007 8:59:07 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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Most of you are Christians; all of you know where relativism has gotten us. Don't miss this one.
3 posted on 06/20/2007 9:00:08 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: Mr. Silverback
It's deeply ingrained. I have known many Christians who believed that God is love, and therefore it is wrong to be judgmental. Homosexuality? Who are we to say that it's wrong? Wicca rituals? Let's not be the first to cast a stone!

For me, caring about others means being judgmental and helping people get on to the right path, and telling them when they are on the wrong path.

4 posted on 06/20/2007 9:09:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

As long as the kids themselves think Christianity is true what’s the problem? The Catholic Church used to teach that it was the ONE TRUE CHURCH. Well that offended a lot of people so it was changed to the Catholic Church teaches the FULLNESS OF TRUTH. That is, other religions have some truth but we have the most there is to be had. So the kids can just say Christianity contains the “fullness of truth.” If the kids are uncomfortable with that, then why the heck are they even Christians at all?


5 posted on 06/20/2007 9:13:16 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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"The students went nuts. All but one of the eight leaders completely balked at the concept of distinguishing Christianity as true and other religions as false"

Sound like good Buddhists to me. Oh, wait a minute.
6 posted on 06/20/2007 9:16:39 PM PDT by ndt
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“One young lady had met with her pastor, who told her no one can be sure of truth”

If someone stabs another person, and that person dies, it is murder. That is the TRUTH.


7 posted on 06/20/2007 9:35:16 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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Lesson 10 leads the kids through a series of choices to learn to recognize the difference between matters of truth and matters of taste.

Speaking of truth, meatball is the only acceptable pizza topping. Pepperoni, mushroom, sausage, and the like, are sins. This is such an obvious truth that no further explanation is required, because we meatball-topping-pizza-eaters have a monopoly on all truth. Anyone who believes otherwise is a relativist headed down the wrong path, and has no business being out in public trying to sell us normal folk on their evil toppings. We must teach...no, instill...no, wait, ram this down the throats of our children or we will all perish!

8 posted on 06/20/2007 9:36:06 PM PDT by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

“All but one of the eight leaders completely balked at the concept of distinguishing Christianity as true and other religions as false.” “

Some “leaders”


9 posted on 06/20/2007 9:40:52 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; Mr. Silverback

“One young lady had met with her pastor, who told her no one can be sure of truth”

Pontius Pilate would have agreed. (”What is truth?”)


10 posted on 06/20/2007 9:43:06 PM PDT by Graymatter (New legislators. No new laws. ... Let's clean house. And senate.)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions

You have it completely backwards! All toppings are good in the eyes of God, except anchovies. The anchovy eaters must be wiped from the face of the earth.


11 posted on 06/20/2007 9:43:08 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
As long as the kids themselves think Christianity is true what’s the problem?

The quotation from John in the article. Jesus made it pretty clear what his opinion on this particular subject was. And the great commission. We are to tell all men about Him. We can either say:

* "He is the way, the truth and the light. Noone comes to the father but thru Him."

* "He is a way, He knew the truth, and he's one of the ways you can find the light."

One is biblical. The other isn't. If you are evangelizing to folks, eventually you have to be prepared to answer that question. No sense being scared of it. If you have a question about that, you really aren't a Christian.

12 posted on 06/20/2007 9:46:59 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions; All

For evidence for why Christianity alone says what happens thousands of years before it happens, please see http://www.direct.ca/trinity/y3nf.html. This is the signature of God.

Other “religions” don’t do this. Not Islam, not Bhuddism, not Hinduism, not Zoroastrianism, not B’haism. Whatever their spelling, they are the words of men and not God.


13 posted on 06/20/2007 9:47:34 PM PDT by ROTB (Our Constitution...only for a [Christian] people...it is wholly inadequate for any other.-J.Q.Adams)
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To: durasell

“The anchovy eaters must be wiped from the face of the earth”

I agree. I don’t like “salt pizza” !!


14 posted on 06/20/2007 9:49:10 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: ROTB

Are you saying that Christianity is a tool for predicting the future?


15 posted on 06/20/2007 9:49:43 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The anchovy eaters are a slippery slope. Fish pizza is unnatural. Where will it stop? Lox pizza? Sushi pizza? Blackened Sea Bass (with a hint of basil) pizza?


16 posted on 06/20/2007 9:51:38 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

LOL!


17 posted on 06/20/2007 9:52:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

We are actually discussing this topic in my Bible study right now.

We just started the topic, and I need to read up on it.

What does it mean to not be under the law?


18 posted on 06/20/2007 10:02:43 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Mr. Silverback

Less than 10% of Americans who call themselves Christian possesses a Biblical worldview.

Which means:

More than 90% of Americans who call themselves Christian do not possess a Biblical worldview.

2/3 of Born Again Christians assert that there are no absolute moral truths.
What does that mean? Sin really doesn’t exist.
Ergo – Redemption was not really necessary
Ergo – Christ died for nothing
Begs the question – Why the need to be Born Again?

4 out of 10 say they are “absolutely committed to the faith”.

44% of churched youths agree with this statement: “Humans are capable of grasping the meaning of truth”.

85% of churched youth agree with this statement: “What is right for a person in a certain situation may not be right for another person in the same situation”.
(Relativism and situational ethics)

62% of churched youth agree that: “Nothing can be known for certain except that which is experienced in your life”.

Why I believe the Bible and have a Biblical worldview:

“I choose to believe the Bible because it’s a reliable collection of historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses that report supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific prophecies and claim that their origins are divine rather than human in origin.” Dr. Voddie Baucham


19 posted on 06/20/2007 10:03:40 PM PDT by uptoolate (How can a Holy, Righteous, and Just God NOT kill me for what I said, thought and did yesterday)
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To: Freedom_no_exceptions

With the tagline you’ve got, I take it you are kidding. Its all right to be exclusive when it comes to America, patriotism (freedom no exceptions), but not when it comes to religious matters?


20 posted on 06/20/2007 10:03:53 PM PDT by sasportas
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