RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
September 21, 2020 at 8:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2020 at 8:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 21, 2020 at 8:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 21, 2020 at 8:02 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: GIA is a christian. He's not looking to dismantle any of it's tenets.
Immaterial, really.
Boru
(September 21, 2020 at 8:07 am)Sal Wrote: Í don't accept the premise of 'sin' as usually represented in Christian theology.
GIA does.
We may have to simply disagree, here, Boru. I think that it is material to the discussion that GIA is a christian and is affirming the christian concept of sin as described by jesus in new magic book as well as the christian tradition of moral inversion in the face of gods plan. There's nothing in any of that that could or should be construed as an attempt to dismantle christian tenets. What GIA is insisting is not that christian tenets are wrong, but that christians are doing it wrong.
I know, I know, every kind of christian believes that about every other kind. If we wanted to be super pedantic we could correct him on even more fundamental ground. Jesus never said shit because the character in new magic book was never a real boy. The authority of an imaginary character having or having not said a thing is a non-starter.
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