(June 30, 2014 at 7:34 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I wonder, if a person can simply pick and choose which words of Jesus they embrace and take literally--and clearly Jesus had some awful, idiotic views about unbelievers and hell-- then can I still claim to be a Christian while rejecting all the bullshit in the New Testament? (I'm down with the "blessed are the poor" and "love thy neighbor" and the general idea of redemption through suffering bits).
Cafeteriaism is clearly not endorsed by Jesus (or scripture), so how can a pick and choose christian (a FOLLOWER of Christ!!) possibly expect to ever see the pearly gates ??
And another problem with the pick and choose mind set, it seems every christian sect, church, denomination, franchise, branch, subsidiary, outlet, division, cult, location, unit, and affiliate picks and chooses a different set of edicts, dogma, strictures, commandments, rules, orders, requirements and suggestions and the result is total chaos.
Oh, wait a minute, that helps us out . . . . nevermind.
