(March 30, 2018 at 1:14 am)Godscreated Wrote:(March 25, 2018 at 10:12 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: FTFY.
95% of Christians would renounce their religion this very minute if there wasn't "very much loophole" circumventing Matthew 7:1. And since that is something that actually came directly from the mouth of God, God's word doesn't really mean shit to the believer.
I see you love to cherry pick, I'm sure there's a job for you in a cherry orchard. There are verses that follow that one and at the end it says once we have corrected our problem we can help others correct their's. Since you recognize those words came directly from the mouth of God why are you disobeying them even in this very post.
GC
Allow me to clarify: according to Christian belief those words come from the mouth of God. If I was to point out to a fundamentalist Muslim or Jew that they eat bacon, I would not have to take on on the religious beliefs in question in order to point out that the person in question didn't follow them.
One of my favorite Christian authors is Leo Tolstoy. He agrees with my assessment here (or, more precisely, I agree with him, because he introduced me to the idea). He said that Jesus gave a number of clear commandments that nobody follows (or even attempts to follow). And at the same time, these very same people point the finger at nonbelievers for lacking a moral compass. He took Matthew 7:1 literally. In fact, he took every word from Jesus in the Bible literally. And instead of trying to square the circle when something elsewhere in the Bible contradicted what Jesus says, he took Jesus's commandment to be the more compelling of the two. (BTW, he was excommunicated from the Orthodox church for heresy.)
