(May 29, 2013 at 3:24 am)Esquilax Wrote: This one in my own backyard.There not.
I watched this play out the other day, and the level of shitty double speak and all round hypocrisy made me want to punch something. Gotta love that it takes a parliamentary inquiry to force the church to come forward with information about criminal activity; how can anyone claim these guys are a force for good after all this?
... And cue apologist nonsense in 3... 2...
They are men in the end. Men do good things and men do bad things in the sight of God and other men. Being Christian does not mean we are free from sin. Paul talks about this in Romans, that we are not free from sin, that He himself was still a slave to sin even though He knows what he should do, he does not do it. It is the things he does not want to do (sin) those are the things he does repeatly. He goes on to say so long as we are bound to these bodies we are bound to sin. Christian Men are like any other in that we will be judged by the same God all must give an account to. Our self appointed titles Christian, pastor, priest, bishop, pope mean nothing before God, and do not save us because this is what we call ourselves. Christ will judge us based on what we have or do not have in our hearts.