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Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"

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Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
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Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 12:22 pm
This was be "A Christian who follows exactly every edict attributed to Jesus Christ found in any version of the Gospels and associated texts in the Bible."
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 12:34 pm
It's going to be a short list.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 12:37 pm
(September 24, 2016 at 12:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's going to be a short list.

Given the contradictions in the various versions I would say "impossible".
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 1:40 pm
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Ah, you're a cafeteria Christian. Got it.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 2:50 pm (This post was last modified: September 24, 2016 at 2:50 pm by vorlon13.)
Absolutely positively a "Cafeteria Christian" or a scripture cherry picker of any sort cannot be a "True Christian" as they hold themselves out to be the final arbiter over Christ's teachings.

One cannot follow Christ from a position of leadership over Him.


I'm bracing for some True Scotsman fallacy crap, but like Luther, I shall not be moved on this.
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 4:32 pm
A True Christian is whatever one you happen to be talking to at the time.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 4:35 pm
I prefer my take on it because;

1) It is correct

2) It blows all the 'sincerely held beliefs crapola' out of the water when it comes to christers going to court to deny others their services because of those suppose inviolate beliefs.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 5:46 pm
Quote:Do you understand what I am saying/doing?

Do you?  Because that has never been apparent.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
September 24, 2016 at 6:15 pm
(September 24, 2016 at 2:50 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Absolutely positively a "Cafeteria Christian" or a scripture cherry picker of any sort cannot be a "True Christian" as they hold themselves out to be the final arbiter over Christ's teachings.

One cannot follow Christ from a position of leadership over Him.


I'm bracing for some True Scotsman fallacy crap, but like Luther, I shall not be moved on this.
The bible has already been cherry picked to 66 books out of over 600.

"...work out your salvation with fear and trembling."

"Be thou a workman unashamed before God, rightly dividing the word of truth."

If you are to follow Christ, you must make his ways your own and work them as you are able. Accomplishment is good but orientation is better. Even when one inevitably back slides, one can still be pointed to the summit of the mountain.
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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