(March 28, 2013 at 12:54 am)Godschild Wrote: I noticed that you said practiced Christianity, you should have tried living it. Practicing Christianity is nothing more than making it another religion. One can practice baseball for a long time, but if you do not get into a game you've never played baseball, same with Christianity.
smax Wrote:I call bullshit right here. What, in your mind, constitutes the difference between living and practicing? And, please, spare us all any hocus pocus here. Provide real examples of the difference in action or conduct?
I'll bet your description will fail to establish any significant difference.
In fact, I'll bet most Christian churches would much prefer a member who is compelled to practice the faith rather than someone who rather ambiguously claims to "live" it.
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smax Wrote:By the way, Godschild, you claim that I don't understand scripture and yet you do not even seem remotely familiar with it. If you were, I seriously doubt you would have taken such great offense to the word "practice", which is used numerous times in the New Testament to describe exactly what Christians should be doing.I'm using these same verses to answer what I did not hide above.
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Examples:
Philippians 4:9
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
And, finally, the clincher.....
Luke 8:21
He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”
Better think up a better argument, and fast!
Each of those tell of the person/s living out what they practice, something you did not say about your practice. Even though I said to practice baseball is not the same as playing the game, practicing will make for a better player when he is playing. You ever hear of live what you practice or maybe this one "be doers of the word and not hearers only." Living in a relationship with Christ is what separates Christians from all the rest.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.