RE: Bible-less Christians
July 19, 2013 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2013 at 4:22 pm by Bad Writer.)
(July 19, 2013 at 3:02 pm)christcahinkilla Wrote: The christians that never pick up their bible are better off, they agree with the 'do good to others' idea that the ideology cloaks itself under but once you get into the deeper themes of the bible that's where the brainwash happens.
Most Christians I know haven't picked up a Bible a day in their life. They've seen verses interspersed throughout our society here and there, and they take the good things from those verses at face value (though often out of context, as floating verses have a tendency to be).
They take the sum total of these good feelings they get from these snippets of their religion, and they, in essence, end up making their own religion out of it, or rather a set of morals that they attribute to Christianity, even though, in many cases, this new moral code can look very different from what is actually proposed in the Bible.
(July 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm)ronedee Wrote: Do you believe in fellowship, helping and loving one another?
Do you feel that you are striving mostly for good in your life?
Are people more important than material things in your mind?
Yes, yes and yes.
(July 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm)ronedee Wrote: "IF" these things are true in your life... you could be "...of the other flock."
Meaning...?
(July 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm)ronedee Wrote: Ultimately, we are not defined, or judged by a book, but by our hearts and deeds.
I can write a book that defines me. That book would, for all intents and purposes, explain to those reading it who and what I am. But there is no one book like that for everyone. I'm with you on that.
(July 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm)ronedee Wrote: Personally, if I were the "same" person brought up a pagan I would still be the way I am.... Because God chose me! I had little to do with it.
I think who we are in life is always due in large to the influences we have throughout the years. There are case studies set up to explore this, and because of this work we know for a certainty that this is the case. I would wager that you might look the same, but I bet you would act very differently. Too bad you add the mystical invisible man into the equation; now you can spin your story however you want because all you have to do is say, "goddiditandmademethisway".
