We should police ourselves
Apr 19, 2016 07:14:25 #
We should police ourselves
If everyone obeyed the 10 commandments we wouldnt need police. The government would have to invent new crimes to keep prisons filled. Sin hurts the sinner. If someone robs a store, they dont examine the innocent. There is power in clean hands. That is why we shouldnt get angry at anothers transgression. We really dont understand sin. We really dont understand the bible. The word of God is meant to be followed, not policed. While we can choose our actions, we cannot choose the consequences of our actions. That is why we should police ourselves, as some sins are crimes. (Adultery is a crime only if you are a republican.) None of us can look at a person and know their sin. Sin is a transgression of the law. If you read the law, you see that it is easy to follow. Jesus didnt die to make it okay to steal, murder, and cheat on our spouses. Why doesnt grace free us from the tithe? There is a difference between a murderer and a person who cuts his grass on Sunday. We are all sinners. But how God looks at each sinner is no one elses business. No one can know how God will judge them. No one knows how God feels.
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:17
If everyone obeyed the 10 commandments we wouldnt need police. The government would have to invent new crimes to keep prisons filled. Sin hurts the sinner. If someone robs a store, they dont examine the innocent. There is power in clean hands. That is why we shouldnt get angry at anothers transgression. We really dont understand sin. We really dont understand the bible. The word of God is meant to be followed, not policed. While we can choose our actions, we cannot choose the consequences of our actions. That is why we should police ourselves, as some sins are crimes. (Adultery is a crime only if you are a republican.) None of us can look at a person and know their sin. Sin is a transgression of the law. If you read the law, you see that it is easy to follow. Jesus didnt die to make it okay to steal, murder, and cheat on our spouses. Why doesnt grace free us from the tithe? There is a difference between a murderer and a person who cuts his grass on Sunday. We are all sinners. But how God looks at each sinner is no one elses business. No one can know how God will judge them. No one knows how God feels.
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:17
Apr 19, 2016 20:10:22 #
fredlott63 wrote:
...For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:17
And yet the title of your Topic below this one in the forum "Faith, Religion, Spirituality" is, "We are a generation Christ would condemn."
Apr 20, 2016 02:15:22 #
fredlott63 wrote:
We should police ourselves br br If everyone obey... (show quote)
Obeying the 10 Commandments has nothing to do with control. It is not up to us to resist temptation. Obeying the 10 Commandments is wrong for a Christian.
Apr 20, 2016 07:03:27 #
mwdegutis wrote:
And yet the title of your Topic below this one in the forum "Faith, Religion, Spirituality" is, "We are a generation Christ would condemn."
This generation is not all of creation. We have changed for the worst.
Apr 20, 2016 07:05:56 #
fiatlux wrote:
Obeying the 10 Commandments has nothing to do with control. It is not up to us to resist temptation. Obeying the 10 Commandments is wrong for a Christian.
Then why pay tithes? That isn't even a commandment.
Apr 21, 2016 00:19:21 #
fredlott63 wrote:
Then why pay tithes? That isn't even a commandment.
Do not pay tithes, it is no longer necessary.
Apr 21, 2016 07:00:43 #
fiatlux wrote:
Do not pay tithes, it is no longer necessary.
Churches have sheeple giving money for pastors to dance on. I don't see anyone doing this in scripture.
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