I sometimes get angry at my fellow Christian because of the way they treat people and that by association my beliefs are perverted. One thing that always astounds me is the need to stop non-Christians from sinning, such as preventing homosexuals from getting married. Are they not sinners by definition? How does them getting married hurt me? When Rome and the Jews persecuted, killed and imprisoned Christians what did the founders of the church do? What did Paul do? Was he concerned about helping people and telling them about the teachings of Jesus or try to lobby for the temple prostitutes to be outlawed.
I don't have all the answers but watching the way Jesus dealt with tax collectors and prostitutes in the new testament it seems a far cry from the way modern Christians treat sinners. We need to show Gods love to them first, any sinful actions if they are sinful will be changed when the sinners heart becomes something new.
Showing posts with label christianity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christianity. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Death Penalty to the Amish
I was talking to one of my Christian friends who had a cousin that was attacked and abused. He said that the person who did it should "fry in the chair". It reminded me of a story a while back in which a young kid hit and killed a whole family of Amish people. The only one in the buggy to survive was the father and son. The mother and all the remaining children were killed.
To normal people forgiving the high school student that took away your entire family would seem too much to ask, yet this Amish farmer went out of his way to get the charges dropped against this kid. Every year the kid who is now married and has children of his own returns to the Amish farmers house where they have dinner together.
There was another example of this in the Amish school house shootings in which they urged the public to forgive the man that had committed such a horrible crime. Evening looking at the story of Jesus in the bible someone who came to help people was put to death by the very people he was trying to help. His last dieing act was to forgive the people that had committed this crime.
Why are evangelical Christians so filled with hate instead of forgiveness when the most important figure in their bible forgave what seems to be unforgivable.
To normal people forgiving the high school student that took away your entire family would seem too much to ask, yet this Amish farmer went out of his way to get the charges dropped against this kid. Every year the kid who is now married and has children of his own returns to the Amish farmers house where they have dinner together.
There was another example of this in the Amish school house shootings in which they urged the public to forgive the man that had committed such a horrible crime. Evening looking at the story of Jesus in the bible someone who came to help people was put to death by the very people he was trying to help. His last dieing act was to forgive the people that had committed this crime.
Why are evangelical Christians so filled with hate instead of forgiveness when the most important figure in their bible forgave what seems to be unforgivable.
Labels:
christianity,
death penalty,
forgiveness,
jesus
Which is more valuable a baby or a jew.
Every day I am surrounded by Christians that say there is a holocaust going on in our country. So I ask them if you were alive during Nazi Germany and had the chance would you have killed Hitler to prevent the death of 6 million Jews? They always answer without hesitation YES. When it comes to abortion something they see as murder it is a different story. They not out trying to kill abortion doctors so the question is, is a Jewish life in Nazi Germany more valuable than an American baby?
Abortion doctors are not hard to get to they do not have the protection of secret service or armed guards. Each one according to you kills thousands of children over their life span as a doctor. Over one million a year in the united states alone are aborted.
Why are you not on a roof or planting a bomb?
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/abortionindex.html
Abortion doctors are not hard to get to they do not have the protection of secret service or armed guards. Each one according to you kills thousands of children over their life span as a doctor. Over one million a year in the united states alone are aborted.
Why are you not on a roof or planting a bomb?
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/abortionindex.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)