I’m not saying that trump is the anti-Christ, but Christ is for sure the anti-trump.
You ever read the Bible? There’s this guy in there, Jesus?
Everything Jesus is for, Trump is against, and everything Jesus is against, Trump is for.
If that doesn’t make Trump an anti-Christ, I guess I don’t know the meaning of the world ant-Christ.
When I click on it, I get a face full of PhotoBucket telling me that I have an Ad Blocker installed so I can’t see the image. Which is a point in favor of running AdBlock software, I guess. Also, who still uses PhotoBucket for this stuff?
But he helped steal that Supreme Court seat that will someday stop the babykillers. That’s all that matters to a lot of them.
He can’t be, because he does know what he wants as well as how to get it.
Because something Jesus and his apostles never mentioned trumps everything Christ did tell them to do, which they preach against. ![]()
These people are not Christians.
Yes, they are.
No, you don’t get it - they’re not true scottish christians.
Hey, Christians: If you don’t want me to view your House as a shithole then clean it up. Don’t expect me to just look at the parts that aren’t fucked up and say the real House is a great place to live.
If they are, why are they so violently opposed to Christ’s teachings?
If I ask them, they will probably say that it is the others that aren’t following the true teachings of Jesus. That’s the wonderful thing about the Bible( and several other religious screeds)-If you look hard enough, you can find justification for what you already believe.
Jesus spends most of his time talking about loving your neighbor, healing the sick, helping the poor. I guess I’d have to fall back on that Colbert quote on this. Jesus told you what to do and they should just admit that they don’t want to do it.
And one of my new favorite bible verses, not just for what it says but for the numbering;
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Because they want to be. Jeshua isn’t around to slap them one, so the only thing stopping them from doing whatever they want is themselves and each other, and themselves and each other would rather do whatever they want.
There’s is nothing magical about claiming to follow “Jesus” (which wasn’t the guy’s name) that either forces you to follow his morals, or even to know enough about him to know what his morals (or name) are.
In view of your latest post, I want to point out that you too are cherry-picking the bible to support what you choose to believe you should do. You simply are less of an asshole than the people who use Jesus as justification for choosing to be assholes.
Eleven times the bible tells us to love our neighbors. It is God’s second highest law (Love God, love your neighbor). I just picked a time when John pretty much says the same thing.
If you want to call yourself a Christian but you don’t believe in what the guy preached, you may as well call yourself something else, because you aren’t actually a Christian. This is why I refer to these people as ‘cultural’ Christians, clinging to remnants of what they no longer believe.
You forgot the safety option. You can still be a Christian because no matter what you do, declare yourself saved and forgiven and everything resets until you sin again.
I’m not saying that there aren’t eleven separate verses in the bible that say to love your neighbor. I’m saying that within the other thirty-one thousand verses that are not saying to love your neighbor, people have found ways to endorse all kinds of behavior that, despite you apparently not liking, are still justified using the exact same justification you are using, and which are thus as legitimately Christian by the logic you yourself are using.
The bible is great for justifying damn near any behavior - except the behavior of claiming that other people aren’t able to find justifications for their behavior in the bible.
You should start a thread in GD on how to tell real Christians from fake Christians.
Fake Christians have brown skin.
Fake Christians have crosses on their business cards and business vehicles.
Everywhere they go, they make sure everyone around them knows they’re Christian.