RE: Indoctrination & Mental Gymnastics
January 14, 2015 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2015 at 10:30 pm by Full Circle.)
(January 14, 2015 at 1:03 pm)Lek Wrote: You can have a zillion different interpretations of many different biblical doctrines, but the thing that makes a christian a christian is faith in Jesus Christ.
I hate to have to point this out but that’s only your interpretation. I have spoken to many True Christians (whatever that entails) that don’t agree with your salvation assessment.
I still don’t understand how the inspired word of God can be so misunderstood, can you?
Quote:I could say that I don’t believe in evolution because there so many different variations of how we evolved to what we are now.
There’s only one Theory of Evolution.
Quote:Just because christians disagree on interpretations of scripture doesn’t mean that we are not together as followers of Christ. My christian brothers and sisters come from many different denominations. We're all one in Christ.
So you say and yet...
“Sectarian violence among Christians has been noted from the time of the first Christian schisms to the present day.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_v...Christians
Apparently being One With Christ doesn’t preclude having a cross burned in front of your church (KKK to Catholics in the US South) or having a school bombed (Northern Ireland) just to name a few.
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption