Thursday, February 19, 2015

Will Quoting Scripture Make Christianity Irrelevant? Not Exactly

In response to this article. I somewhat support it, I just disagree with the headline. I think the pastor has his head on straight.

I don't think Christianity will be irrelevant if it continues quoting the bible. I think it will be irrelevant if christians continue quoting it to nonbelievers, or quoting only the parts that contribute to the point they're trying to make instead of just trying to understand the whole and contribute to a larger effort to understand the truth. So often do they forget that Moses and others argued with God and actually convinced God to change the plan. Or how about the entire new testament? Or maybe they haven't even finished the old testament. As long as it's about ego instead of truth, it's not doing any good. Nobody likes it. Even christians don't want any part of it. Even bigoted argumentative christians--the ones who do this--don't like it. Nobody knows everything there is to know about anything. Until Christianity in culture becomes a symbol of that concept, it's screwed in America.

Closed minded arguments are significantly different from open-minded debates. A skill this country is lacking, that the church could be leading in by example. Instead much of the church tends to empower hate, fakeness, and blind belief. But we can't say anything about it because they do it "in the name of love". If it's not in the name of truth, it's not truly in love.

You can't browbeat people with scripture. Jesus loved everyone. He only spoke about scripture with the rabbis. And when he did he mostly only asked questions. Idk why this is so hard to understand. You can talk about the bible getting jacked with over the centuries all you want, but that stuff is still there.

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