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Date Posted: 21:14:00 08/11/00 Fri
Author: Mr_Dedhed
Subject: oh yeah and....
In reply to: necessary-evil 's message, "You're not a Christian." on 07:59:31 08/07/00 Mon

I don't call myself a Christian for moral authority, if anything I'll call myself that for immoral authority. I believe in the very basic teachings of Christianity, but the bible teaches us that God is an eternal asshole and from my experience he isn't. When i read through the bible TWICE, i could never believe how people would want to worship such a power craving bastard that God seemed to be, but in my life what i feel as God's presence does not fit those Bible characteristics. I am a Christian and it is really funny when people tell me I am not especially when Christianity is such a unorganized non-doctrine religion in this day and age.

-Mr_Dedhed

> > And for the record, I am Christian though I don't
> > believe the bible has an accurate depiction of God.
> I
> > can't stand church and I can't stand other
> > Chhristians. (Well for the most part. There are a
> > bunch that I do like.) This is all because of many
> > bad experiences at church and with other Christians
> > that make me not proud to be one.
>
> I'd be interested to know what your justification for
> calling yourself a Christian is. At its core, the
> Bible claims to teach us about the character of God
> and the human race's relationship with God. If you
> don't believe in the accuracy of the book that is used
> for the basis of Christian (and in the case of the old
> testament, Jewish) teaching, then you can't really
> call yourself a Christian. You're just lying to
> yourself. You're using the "Christian" label to lend
> yourself moral authority, and then you turn around and
> negate any such claim that you would have to that
> title. How silly.
>
> Try rereading the Bible and accept it or reject it.
> Judge it on its own merits, and additionally, don't
> judge it by people who call themselves "Christian",
> many of whom are like you -- identifying themselves as
> Christians without a clue as to what they are saying
> about themselves. How can you trust them to not play
> the hypocrite when they are just like you, and you
> apparently do it so well? The Bible must stand or fall
> on its own merits because no one has the capacity to
> live a perfect life.
>
> necessary-evil
> Necromancer

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