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Old 02-11-2008, 11:44 AM   #9 (permalink)
Jester2
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Re: Who Do Men Say That I Am?

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Originally Posted by spot View Post
It's all very well trying to dodge Christianity's responsibility for interpreting the bible in such an extreme way but the results you describe are a consequence of the interpretation. If nobody comes to the Father save through the Son then where do these non-Christians all end up? In hell, of course. What do we do with the hell-bound wherever we find them on earth? Convert them or send them on their way. This isn't a Hitlerian response as you suggest, this is what the Godly do to the Hell-bound (for their own good, you understand). They go out and evangelize in order to save them.They convert those who would otherwise be damned. If any refuse salvation, why on earth not kill them? They're actively preventing the conversion of others by their example and they're worse than worthless because they're not going to Heaven, they are not destined for the Choir Celestial, they are demonic.

Now, if Christians were capable of accepting that there are other paths to God besides Christianity all this slaughter and mayhem disappears, the future becomes rosy and we no longer end up wanting to nuke devil-worshipping Iranians back into the stone age. Who's stopping them? Bloody George is, that's who, and I don't for one moment care who bloody George was, he called it wrong and he reaped the most ungodly consequences from opening his big mouth. The least his modern-day co-religionists can do is to apologize on his behalf.

Christians "need to realize we are not here to rule the world, we should be seeking a higher Kingdom"? That's perfect when the internal rules are applied internally. Reading what George wrote, though, you feel a burning desire to go out among the unsaved and salvage souls, and that's where wars start.

Why can't you simply contradict George instead?

As a believer I dont need to 'rule the world'. I have no desire to 'press' others into right belief as if I'm filling a ship of the line for the kings service, and the bible, other than commanding the beliver in going and telling does not command to kill if they dont believe.
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