Originally Posted by
t.nie
skids, it is one thing for someone speaking publicly to express ideas such as "stay away from the vipers" "beware of the wolves in sheep's clothing" as a means of teaching and admonishment and instruction.
It is quite another to attack an individual personally with those kind of words. Christ never singled out a single person and viciously attacked them. He did admonish people, he did offer words of correction, but he never did it with a malicious heart or to deliberately single out one person and shame them or attack them. Christ did everything as we are instructed to: Reach out with love and compassion and kind words.
As far as "passing the christian test" that is completely false. The bible tells us that only god knows the heart and he will judge. This is legalism, and legalism is at the core of why god gave man the messiah. Because man, no matter what god said to do to purify himself and be holy in the presence of god, couldn't help but try to circumvent the rules. So god said fine, let's just get rid of rules because man can't live by rules, i will send my son who will live a blameless, sinless life and be crucified as a sacrifice and this sacrifice will cover all sins. Then man will only have one choice to make... Accept christ was the savior and be forgiven or choose to reject it. And there is no "test" that man can administer to another man to know what is in the heart. Only you and god know where you stand.
As far as my politics, here is exactly where i stand on the dem vs rep thing.
Republican positions i support--no same sex marriage, ban abortion, personal responsibility.
Dem positions i support-address wage inequality, raise taxes on the wealthy instead of favoring them, overturn citizens united and curb the influence of the wealthy to purchase our governance, raise the minimum wage, expand higher education through government programs to assist the underprivileged, expand access to quality health care.
I have said it before and i will say it again-- i am socially conservative and fiscally liberal. I believe government is there to protect us from the wealthy and powerful who will exploit the nation for their own ends if allowed to by government, and the only thing standing in between us and a corporate oligarchy serving only itself is government. It is plain to me that the wealthy in america know this, so the plan has been for many years to do everything to purchase and control the government. To this end, citizen's united was a huge step toward corporate ownership of all the people in our government.
This election is a huge turning point because of the supreme court appointees that hang in the balance. If this goes one way, we might get some change in america that is good for the common people instead of just the wealthy. If trump gets elected, america is over as we know it. We will continue even further down the road of corporate ownership and control of america and all the people in it.
Oh, and one last thing-- if you met me in real life, i would be the same person you see on here. Like me or not, i am not a different person when i am typing on a keyboard or talking to you face to face.
And the "righteous anger" excuse? I think some people love to use that because its like the abuser saying to the victim "i only did it because i love you!" it's just an easy excuse to be right when you know you're wrong.
And here is the verse in matthew, even when christ was "righteously angry" he did not call anyone specifically a thief, he did not attack any individual with personal insults, he addressed them as a group and described what they had done to god's temple. Big difference.
12 and jesus went into the temple of god, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 and said unto them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.