PeterS

How many times have I pointed this out? Today's religious right, under the guise of Evangelical Christianity, is a political movement that hides behind Christ, not standing alongside him.

If you attack them they snivel and cry that you are attacking Christianity using projection to defend their miserable position...

woodguru

The hard right doesn't represent anything that resembles what christianity is supposed to be

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Funny, a pair of atheists trying to dictate what Christianity should be.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Who better than someone looking at from the outside.

Christians can not be objective, especially those who have strayed from Christianity to prosperity gospel.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Not sure if I know a perfect Christian myself. At the same time, I'm not sure if I know a l*****t with morals, and without hypocrisy. I know a lot of people on both sides of the issue. Some are worth being around, some aren't at all. I have problems with both myself.

The two other posters on this thread are (or claim to be) old, wealthy, WHITE men. They claim to be for the downtrodden, the underprivileged, the minorities while sitting in their glass mansions telling my middle class self that I'm over paid for busting my ass for a living that is getting worse every day.
These two individuals rail against the right, and Christians while doing EXACTLY what they rail against, and more. You're one of em too.
Lump everyone into one category, and excoriate them without ANY consideration.
Me, I don't do that. Except with l*****ts. There is a vast difference between a l*****t, and a liberal.
I'm done.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

At home and abroad, the American people plead for broad-mindedness and tolerance. Abroad, our ambassadors use all of their powers to influence warring parties to come to the conference table in a spirit of give-and-take. There is a sense in which the world needs broad-mindedness and tolerance.

However, in the realm of Christian experience there is a need for intolerance. In some things Christ was the most tolerant, broad-minded Man who ever lived, but in other things He was one of the most intolerant.

Tolerance Can Become Too Stretched
One of the pet words of this age is tolerance. It is a good word, but we have tried to stretch it over too great an area. We have applied it, too often, where it does not belong. The word tolerant means liberal and broad-minded. In one sense, it implies the compromise of one’s convictions, a yielding of ground upon important issues.

We have become tolerant about divorce, the use of alcohol, delinquency, wickedness in high places, immorality, crime and godlessness. We have been sapped of conviction, drained of our beliefs, and we are bereft of our faith.

The sciences, however, are narrow-minded. There is no room for careless broad-mindedness in the laboratory. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level; it is never 211. Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees; it is never 33.

Mathematics is also narrow-minded. The sum of two plus two is four, never five. Geometry is narrow-minded. It says that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points on a plane. A compass is narrow-minded; it always points to the magnetic north. If it were broad-minded, ships at sea and planes in the air would be in danger.

If you should ask a man the directions to New York City and he said, “Oh, just take any road you wish, they all lead to New York,” you would question both his sanity and his t***hfulness. Nevertheless, we have somehow gotten it into our minds that “all roads lead to Heaven.”

But Jesus Christ, who journeyed from Heaven to Earth and back to Heaven again, who knew the way better than anyone who ever lived, said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).

Jesus Was Intolerant Toward Sin
He was tolerant toward the sinner, but intolerant toward the evil that ens***es the sinner. To the adulteress He said, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more” (John 8:11). He forgave her because He loved her; but He condemned her sin because He loathed it with a holy hatred.
God has always been intolerant toward sin! His Word says: “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil …” (Isaiah 1:16).

“Awake to righteousness, and do not sin” (1 Corinthians 15:34).

Christ was so intolerant toward sin that He died on the cross to free men and women from its power. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Sin lies at the root of most of society’s difficulties today. Wh**ever separates a person from God disunites that person from others. The world’s problems will never be solved until the question of sin is settled.

The cross is God’s answer to sin. To all who will receive the blessed news of salvation through Christ, it crosses out—cancels forever—sin’s power.

Forest rangers know the value of the “burn-back” in fighting forest fires. To save an area from uncontrolled fire, they carefully burn away the trees and shrubs to create a safety barrier. When the forest fire reaches that burned-out spot, plants and animals standing inside the area protected by the burn-back are safe from the flames. Fire is thus fought by fire.

Calvary was a colossal fighting of fire by fire. Christ, taking on Himself all of our sins, allowed the fire of sin’s judgment to fall upon Him. The area around the cross has become a place of refuge for all who would escape the judgment of sin. Take your place with Him at the cross; stand by the cross; yield your life to Him who redeemed you on the cross, and the fire of sin’s judgment can never touch you.

God is intolerant toward sin. That intolerance sent His Son to die for us. He has said “that whoever believes in Him shall not perish.” The clear implication is that those who refuse to believe in Him will be eternally lost. Come to Christ today, while His Spirit is speaking to your heart!