tavarish I do not understand how you misundersood what I wrote. My point is this many claim to be christians saved by the grace of God but when they use the church only for personal gain and leave Christ out of their lives they show what they truly worship money,power,good standing in their community and so forth. As for the Scotsman you can boot him off the road and here's why Christ said that we could tell by their fruits who the true christians are. Christ also said that many would come before Him and say Lord, Lord haven't I done this and that in your name and I will say to them leave me for I do not know you. So you and your Scotsman buddy can forget the idea of a christian defending or judging another christian Jesus has already set guidelines on this. Christains make mistakes all the time we are not perfect that's why we accept Christ as our redeemer. Tavarish you want to apply logic to a supernatural being and logic can not prove or disprove God. Your logic might disapprove of God but your logic can not disprove what it can not define.
Redfish and chatpilot I do believe the misinterpreting of scripture is the greatest cause of division in the chrisitan church that and pride. Most of this came after the reformation when everyone that could read started interpreting scripture without the understanding of the scriptures especially the NT. Because of wide spread illiteracy people grabbed onto what felt right to them and today we have a church divided by the misinterpreting of the scriptures. I personally do not believe anyone denomination is entirely correct. I do disagree with some of the interpretations of the Southern Baptist chruch of which I'm a member.
No I will not reveal the two denominations that I believe are totally incorrect in their beliefs. Paul instructed us not to ride the holier than thou horse over others. He said we should continue to live what we preach before others and I believe Paul meant all people. When Paul was in Greece he did not condemn them for their belief in other gods He made an opportunity to introduce them to the unknown God and some believed and some did not and from that christianity spread throughout Greece in the years to come. I'll stop at that some may think I'm preaching.
Redfish and chatpilot I do believe the misinterpreting of scripture is the greatest cause of division in the chrisitan church that and pride. Most of this came after the reformation when everyone that could read started interpreting scripture without the understanding of the scriptures especially the NT. Because of wide spread illiteracy people grabbed onto what felt right to them and today we have a church divided by the misinterpreting of the scriptures. I personally do not believe anyone denomination is entirely correct. I do disagree with some of the interpretations of the Southern Baptist chruch of which I'm a member.
No I will not reveal the two denominations that I believe are totally incorrect in their beliefs. Paul instructed us not to ride the holier than thou horse over others. He said we should continue to live what we preach before others and I believe Paul meant all people. When Paul was in Greece he did not condemn them for their belief in other gods He made an opportunity to introduce them to the unknown God and some believed and some did not and from that christianity spread throughout Greece in the years to come. I'll stop at that some may think I'm preaching.
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.
