RE: Is Voudu a Christian Religion, or How to Classify Religions
January 12, 2015 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 11:41 am by Drich.)
(January 12, 2015 at 10:40 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Christians are really spotty about enforcing franchise agreements. (and we won't even talk about how high I set the bar for claimants)
I'd think one would be more likely to see a Voudun handling serpents and/or drinking poison (the Haitian water would qualify, BTW) and that is in fact listed in Scripture as a way we could ID a believer.
So Drich is incorrect.
We all agree on the greatest commands. That's what makes us Christian. Worshiping the one God is the highest of the high commands it is the quintessential requirement for Christianity. If you can not limit your dealings with the one God then you are not Christian.
Christ's own words:
Mat 22:36 He said, “Teacher, which command in the law is the most important?”
37 Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and most important command. 39 And the second command is like the first: ‘Love your neighbor[b] the same as you love yourself.’[c] 40 All of the law and the writings of the prophets take their meaning from these two commands.”
(January 12, 2015 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I also infer, Drich is referring to one of the 10 Commandments in his post, and I must also point out Matthew (one of the 4 gospels since there seems at times to be limited familiarity here with the gospels*) fails to record Jesus endorsing that commandment, instead, He is noted as pruning the list to 5 or so. This would be another insuperable difficulty with Drich's claim the Vouduns aren't Christian.
*case in point
I love it when you guys put on your exegitical hats!
Nice try but again In the passage above Christ Himself outlines our greatest command.
(January 12, 2015 at 10:53 am)dyresand Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I also infer, Drich is referring to one of the 10 Commandments in his post, and I must also point out Matthew (one of the 4 gospels since there seems at times to be limited familiarity here with the gospels*) fails to record Jesus endorsing that commandment, instead, He is noted as pruning the list to 5 or so. This would be another insuperable difficulty with Drich's claim the Vouduns aren't Christian.:
*case in point
10 Commandments were destroyed by moses...
:Facepalm:
(January 12, 2015 at 10:54 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Wiki notes the existence of snake charmers in Haiti, and I would suspect that implies indigenous poisonous serpents, as the excitement of watching a snake charmer is considerably reduced if the serpent is nontoxic.
So we have deadly serpent handling in Haiti too.
I'm pretty satisfied, as I trust most everyone else here is, that Drich is incorrect.
Maybe if you keep saying Drich is incorrect the rest of the sheep will follow suit? Is that your line of reasoning?
