UllysesS.Archer
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I've seen posts on the Charleston shooting linking it to everything from race to homosexuality, yet the one point missed is that this boy shot up a Christian church.
I don't agree with Southern Baptists in all things, nor do I agree with most Christian denominations in all things. I guess the denomination I most closely agree with is Seventh Day Adventists, yet most of them don't eat real meat, except for chicken and turkey(they eat soy burgers, YUCK).
What seems like light years to most of us, Christians are being beheaded, abducted, assaulted, raped, and tortured. Yet, it's honestly not that far away from us, just across a big body of water., and in some places we can even get to without ever getting on a boat or a plane.
It's one thing if a missionary goes to South America, or Africa or any other continent and runs into people who never met a missionary and they end up dead because of it, most missionaries understand that this is a possibility, and can happen. Yet, when you have people actually hunting Christian missionaries, just to murder them, well, that's something totally different.
And though, many people in civilized countries claim that Christians do more damage than good, please explain to me how helping people build houses, and giving medicine, and teaching people to grow gardens is a bad thing. Yes, they might wish to inform people of the Lord Jesus, but that is not a pre-requisite of anything listed above. Just as anyone who shows up at our local food pantry, does not have to be a Christian, and when we ask if we can pray with them, and they decline, we don't withhold food from them. That is not our job. Our job is to help others, and try to maintain morality in this world.
Anyone who is a racist, and claims Christianity, I will call out and judge publicly, because the Bible gives me the right to judge any who claim Christianity.
No, I don't believe in homosexual marriage, and will never recognize it, no matter if it gets me locked up, just as I wont recognize a divorced man as a minister, I don't care the circumstances, the Bible says that man is not able to be a minister, or even a deacon or elder in the church.
Are these beliefs I have, enough to kill me over? For I would gladly lay down my life for them. The question is, are you willing to take it?
I don't agree with Southern Baptists in all things, nor do I agree with most Christian denominations in all things. I guess the denomination I most closely agree with is Seventh Day Adventists, yet most of them don't eat real meat, except for chicken and turkey(they eat soy burgers, YUCK).
What seems like light years to most of us, Christians are being beheaded, abducted, assaulted, raped, and tortured. Yet, it's honestly not that far away from us, just across a big body of water., and in some places we can even get to without ever getting on a boat or a plane.
It's one thing if a missionary goes to South America, or Africa or any other continent and runs into people who never met a missionary and they end up dead because of it, most missionaries understand that this is a possibility, and can happen. Yet, when you have people actually hunting Christian missionaries, just to murder them, well, that's something totally different.
And though, many people in civilized countries claim that Christians do more damage than good, please explain to me how helping people build houses, and giving medicine, and teaching people to grow gardens is a bad thing. Yes, they might wish to inform people of the Lord Jesus, but that is not a pre-requisite of anything listed above. Just as anyone who shows up at our local food pantry, does not have to be a Christian, and when we ask if we can pray with them, and they decline, we don't withhold food from them. That is not our job. Our job is to help others, and try to maintain morality in this world.
Anyone who is a racist, and claims Christianity, I will call out and judge publicly, because the Bible gives me the right to judge any who claim Christianity.
No, I don't believe in homosexual marriage, and will never recognize it, no matter if it gets me locked up, just as I wont recognize a divorced man as a minister, I don't care the circumstances, the Bible says that man is not able to be a minister, or even a deacon or elder in the church.
Are these beliefs I have, enough to kill me over? For I would gladly lay down my life for them. The question is, are you willing to take it?