Posted on 11/30/2006 2:05:10 AM PST by Dallas59
So this man has rejected the belief that in Jesus alone there is salvation. Now he wants the rest of us to believe what he believes. Those whose faith is in Christ alone are the true troublemakers. He's smoking crack.
Why do you take pleasure in the death of the wicked? God does not.
"Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways!" (Ezekiel 33:11)
BUMP
Says he.
One does not tell the true by omitting half the story. (1) The Crusades were in fact an attempt at the RECONQUEST of formerly Christian lands. That reconquest was successful in Spain, which gave the Crusades their name, and in Sicily, taken by the Normans. (2) The First Crusades was a response to Muslim aggression, to the actions of Turkish barbarians. And their counter response was every bit as savage as anything the Crusaders did. (3) Christian actions did no more than set back the Turkish advance, which after 1400 swept on to the gates of Vienna, to the near(reconquest) conquest of Sicily and a menace to Italy. Only the power of the Hapsburgs stood between the Turkish domination of the whole Mediterranean basin and indeed Europe itself. Eventually it was forced to recede by the combined efforts of Austria, Poland and Russia, and later by the efforts of France and England in the Mediterranean. Action, followed by reaction is the history of the relations between Christians and Muslims. (3) The Koran is obviously an anti-Christian and anti-Judaic document. It denies what the Bible says about the Jews; It denies what it says about Jesus.
It is COWARDICE and also the dumbing-down of the universalist spirituality; that it doesn't matter if you worship Jesus, Mohammed or a quartz crystal.
By golly, you missed it!!
I, being a broken-glass Republican, do not especially like it when President Bush is referred to as Mr. Bush or just Bush. However, I do not go into spasms when someone does this.
Neither do I. What I "had",was no spasm. But when I have one, I'll be sure to let you know.
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If the seminary professor is a compromising, liberal type it's a toss-up as far as I'm concerned.
But my opinion of the professor doesn't matter -- which is why I suggested that he make sure his house is in order with the One whose opinion does matter.
Ditto that !!!!!!!!!
Do you refer to Queen Elizabeth as Mrs. Windsor?
2000 years or 1400 years of co-existence (not saying peaceable) says something.
I'll look that story up some night when I'm feeling more loving toward our dear Muslim friends. ROFL
Tell the Muslims that they should give up their designs on a universal Califate! Hypocrite and apostate are two words that come to mind here.
liberal theologian oxymoron
Re- Somethings are so stupid that only an intelligent person would believe them...
"Fascism is always descending on the United States, but somehow it keeps landing in Europe (Wolfe). Goldberg writes about "liberal paranoia" (tip: Kathy):
If the Christian base of the GOP gets its way, "All government employees - federal, state and local - would be required to participate in weekly Bible classes in the workplace, as well as compulsory daily prayer sessions." We would all have to carry religious identity cards that "would provide Christocrats with preferential treatment in many areas of life, including home ownership, student loans, employment and education." Non-Christians would be indulged as second-class citizens, "but younger members ... would be strongly encouraged to formally convert to the dominant evangelical Christianity." Homosexual sex would be illegalized, while "known homosexuals and lesbians would have to successfully undergo government-sponsored reeducation sessions if they applied for any public-sector jobs." Dissidents would be on the run, the popular culture censored by bureaucratic Cotton Mathers, and "the mainstream press and the electronic media would be beaten into submission."
All of that is according to James Rudin in his book "The Baptizing of America."
Mr. Rudin is a few cards short of a full deck.
Try substituting "Moslems" for "Christian", "Islam" for "Christianity", and "Koran" for "Bible".
Then, his ridiculous screed actually makes sense.
Don't think so. You're apparently just shy and wouldn't want to openly say what you would be very happy people inferred.
Vagueness: it's not just for liberals any more.
Why are you so quick to assume that this newspaper is correct and that this faithful Christian man is lying? The newspaper completly misrepresented his views and owe him an apology. Rather than issue one they let him write an essay for the paper expressing his true views. Which are nothing like what the paper attributed to him. You should read them before you cast stones.
Hmmm. I am a baptist and the our doctrine says nothing about a Christian kingdon on earth except of course the one that Christ himself establishes all by himself at the end of the age. They must be talking about the Catholic Church perhaps?
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