FadingCB said:
I don't think she was judging u, and it is up to God to judge not us. It's just that if you do follow the Bible in any way it does say it's the living word, the truth, and you are not supposed to half believe or you are luke warm and God will spew you out like the salt of the Earth. You can believe as you will and have the right to do so, just pointing out that it's like believing fire is hot and then saying it's cold too. You can't have it both ways, either you believe in it or don't as half believing is spoken of badly in the very Bible some say they believe only half of.
Ok, here's something that I find very hypocritical in the bible from the Old Testament to the New.
God has said through prophets that Women are not to preach, or have a place of, well, verbal power in a church. Their place is in the home. So, according to the Bible Women are not to preach, or work otuside the home for that matter in the Old Testement.
Then why do Ruth and Ester have thier own books, why was it Mary who was the first to see Jesus as a risen deity? It was she who had to tell the others that the Messaiah came. Techinically she was the first to preach after the ressurection.
So which is right, according to what you say there is no lukewarm, God doesn't do inbetween, yet the role of women in Christianity has been very much in the gray.
I became very disallusioned when the Bible when I realized that Women were not suposed to be preaching. That 86 year old lady who got fired from teaching sunday school after 60 years because the new preacher didn't want her there is ridiculas and stupid.
This is another excuse of why its ok to judge as a christian, the "Bible says this and that." I don't believe it. I do believe in God, Jesus, sure, the Book, not so much. Its my God given right that I can pick and choose, and therefore be "lukewarm". If it doesn't make sense, yes I will question it and pick through it. Did the holy spirit guide the book? Well seeing as how it has been abused nearly as much as it has been for good, that idea should be up to each indivisual to choose.
That's how change is made and how progessive thinking will always win over. Jesus was the world's biggest progessive thinker. He wanted change, hated the buracratic control of his religion, and preached open-minded thinking.
Somehow it got lost in translation.
Oh, and then there's my favorite: Orginial Sin.
One of the reasons why I hate it when people tell me what's in the book. I know what's in it, I can read. And I choose to believe what I want to. I don't need someone to yell and scream at me on a stage to tell me what I should think about what I read. Church is for those who want it. I prefere to keep my indivisuality and free will. My good deeds don't need to be sanctioned by a minister/preist/preacher.
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