(February 10, 2013 at 9:48 pm)Esquilax Wrote: You really don't get it, do you? Your personal beliefs disagree with both the bible itself, and the beliefs of mainstream christianity in most denominations. If you want to field strip the bible to get your own personal moral code then that's fine, but you need to get it through your head that your personal beliefs don't magically become the one true definition of christianity. There are other christians, they have beliefs that are different from yours, and you are not the king of the bible who can decide that they aren't true christians.If I call myself a Fireman, does it make me one? What if i drive a red truck and own a fire extingusher? Am I an offical fireman then? No. I am not. Like wise if a person who calls himself Christian or commits acts in the name of God, can not support his actions biblically, then his acts whether be deemed good bad or indifferent they are not 'Christian' in orgin despire what he may believe.
Quote:Tell me again why your personal beliefs matter when determining the motivations of a separate group of people in another country?No matter where we live all 'christians' answer to the same bible. It is this bible that we can use to inspect the spiritual 'Fruit' of another.
Quote:I certainly label the ones who burnt someone at the stake for being a witch as witch hunters. And once again, two distinct exhortations to kill witches. Two.Not only that you have used this one incodent to condemn a whole community
Quote:Alright, then let me ask you this: does the old testament reflect the will of the same god as the new testament?The Old Testament reflects the Expressed will of god without the benfit or the filter of attonement. Once attonement had been established 'righteousness' through the law was made impossiable.
Again, OT Jews Had to follow the Law to find Righteousness, Christians are found Righteous Apart from the law. That is what makes them two completely seperate religions.
Quote:Your beliefs do not equal christianity.Neither do yours. that what the bible is for. Again if their deeds can not be found in the bible as a governing light Christians exhibit, then their deeds were not Christian in nature.
Quote:you think it's less likely that 96% christian Papua New Guinea got their beliefs from a biblical source?Here you go again with that bigotted thinking. You have painted the whole "96%" of that country in a negitive light just so you can attack Christianity. I have no idea where the people of Papua New Guinea get their beliefs. If they get them from the Nt of the bible then their deeds subsequently their actions can be labled as Christian in orgin. If not then they have created their own religion based off of Biblical Christianity..
The two are not the same thing.
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