RE: Human Reason and Christian Denominations
April 6, 2018 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2018 at 3:45 pm by Jenny A.)
Both Jesus and Paul were predicting imminent heaven on earth in the form of socialist equality. Jesus preached that to be part of that, one should give everything away and begin to act like that kingdom where already there. You have to twist pretty hard to avoid believing Jesus was wrong about the timing, if nothing else. But how you can reconcile the Gospels with capitalism is beyond me. As I understand it, the line is Jesus was preaching what you had to have done to survive the kingdom of God if he didn't die for their sins. Oddly, he failed to mention that last bit. Nor did he say some of you standing here won't taste death before the coming of the kingdom of God, unless I'm crucified in which case the kingdom of God will just mean that believers will be resurrected. He said the former but not the later.
When Paul said, better to marry than burn it was not an endorcement. If you can read The Gospels and Paul's letters and argue heterosexual marriage is the bed rock of Christian society, you have already done so much rationalizing that a little more here and there is hardly surprising.
When Paul said, better to marry than burn it was not an endorcement. If you can read The Gospels and Paul's letters and argue heterosexual marriage is the bed rock of Christian society, you have already done so much rationalizing that a little more here and there is hardly surprising.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.