(September 24, 2016 at 2:50 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Absolutely positively a "Cafeteria Christian" or a scripture cherry picker of any sort cannot be a "True Christian" as they hold themselves out to be the final arbiter over Christ's teachings.The bible has already been cherry picked to 66 books out of over 600.
One cannot follow Christ from a position of leadership over Him.
I'm bracing for some True Scotsman fallacy crap, but like Luther, I shall not be moved on this.
"...work out your salvation with fear and trembling."
"Be thou a workman unashamed before God, rightly dividing the word of truth."
If you are to follow Christ, you must make his ways your own and work them as you are able. Accomplishment is good but orientation is better. Even when one inevitably back slides, one can still be pointed to the summit of the mountain.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
