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Post by DaveJavu on May 14, 2024 16:02:38 GMT
Even though I am not a Christian and will very likely never be, I still think that the world would be a much better place if Christians (or the people who say they are) behaved and talked the way they are supposed to. Some do, at least as far as I can tell, but they are very rare.
There are some things that Jesus said that I find interesting.
1) The passage where he says "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
I mean, could it be any clearer? Jesus wanted his followers to separate the questions of state and those of religion. You have to be mildly insane or very stupid not to get that!
2) "let he who without sin cast the first stone"
Jesus obviously thought that no man and more generally no group of men were entitled to voluntarily take a human life as a punishment, no matter what the person had done. If he wanted to put restrictions to that statement, surely he would have stated them.
To name two.
Yet there are legions of self appointed Christians who scurrilously violate these principles, even though they are about the most straightforward things Jesus ever said.
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Post by Mercy for All on May 14, 2024 16:10:33 GMT
Even though I am not a Christian and will very likely never be, I still think that the world would be a much better place if Christians (or the people who say they are) behaved and talked the way they are supposed to. Some do, at least as far as I can tell, but they are very rare.
There are some things that Jesus said that I find interesting.
1) The passage where he says "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
I mean, could it be any clearer? Jesus wanted his followers to separate the questions of state and those of religion. You have to be mildly insane or very stupid not to get that!
2) "let he who without sin cast the first stone"
Jesus obviously thought that no man and more generally no group of men were entitled to voluntarily take a human life as a punishment, no matter what the person had done. If he wanted to put restrictions to that statement, surely he would have stated them.
To name two.
Yet there are legions of self appointed Christians who scurrilously violate these principles, even though they are about the most straightforward things Jesus ever said.
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