I don’t know what you’re talking about anymore, your words do not represent my beliefs nor what I’ve said in this thread. But your bottom line seems to be the desire to completely dismiss, with extreme intensity, the entirety of my relationship with Jesus Christ - to deny, in fact, its very existence.
And this even though I quoted Jesus’s own words on loving God and one’s neighbor as the greatest commandment, and therefore comprising what I believe to be the essence of being Christian.
So the fact is that there is simply no way for a Christian to hear that and attack me as hatefully as you have in the name of Christianity. Therefore what you are doing on this thread towards me is wrong. It is hate, not love, and it is dedicated towards trying to hurt me, not sharing your faith. And that “emotion” you sneer at is the very love that Jesus Himself said is the essence of His teaching. Without that, all that’s left are dry words and the splitting of hairs to convince others they are damned, just as you are doing towards me.
That’s why I reject that for being a denial of what Jesus taught. Jesus taught love, and he was killed because of that very teaching by people who felt the same rage over it that you are expressing towards me here.
So wake up and look at what you are doing - it is not God’s work. It is your ego alone, and it is an intellectual effort to escape the love Jesus said must be the bottom line in any interpretation of his words.
Yet you would rather try to get people to reject Jesus entirely, than have to face that criteria yourself! Jesus warned against such behavior very specifically - “better a stone around your neck and drowned.”
I pray you find a way to understand your faith without the need to hate and hurt and destroy those who think differently than you, and to be able to recognize those who share your love for Jesus - and you do love Jesus, right? And that love is the point here, right?
In the mean time however, I am tired of your angry belligerence and your constant insults, and I will not be responding to you again.
May the love of Jesus calm your burning heart, and soothe your fevered mind. And may the Lord protect everyone’s faith from being harmed by your loveless attacks.
Peace be with you.
I pray
God does not hear the prayers of a person who denies the deity of His Son and of His sacrifice on the cross for sin:
Pro 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
and I will not be responding to you again.
You never even said anything of any value, so it makes no difference whether you stop posting or keep on going. It's all the same.
Jesus taught love, and he was killed because of that very teaching by people who felt the same rage over it that you are expressing towards me here.
This is one of the real reasons why Christians will reject you. Christ was not killed because people did not like mere teachings about being loving or kind, as the atheists like to believe. He certainly taught such things, but His crucifixion was His own doing, and it was to save all who believe from their sins.
Christ is not a mere "philosopher" giving you a system to live your life by. Christ is the Lamb of God, who shed His blood for His people.
I pray
God does not hear the prayers of a person who denies the deity of His Son and of His sacrifice on the cross for sin:
Pro 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
and I will not be responding to you again.
You never even said anything of any value, so it makes no difference whether you stop posting or keep on going. It's all the same.