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GAK-Canadian
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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Location: Penticton B.C Canada
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Posted: Fri 29 May, 2009 12:02 AM
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I can understand that people get frustrated with what they see as the "church" doing what it does. The institutional church in nothing more than a system of man. How it can call itself the church is beyond me. I left it a few years ago and have far more understanding today than I ever have. When you read the stuff the preaches like to leave out you start to see a whole lot a difference to what the church was to be and not what it has become.
There are a lot of good people but unfortunately it's the hosers that get the most attention, which the media loves to flood out there. Then there is the holier than thou attitude and the looking down on people. They have judged the world well over a millennium and now they are being judged. They abused power and now they have lost most of their power.
Look at the life of Jesus, he did not go out a pick fights with people of the world but it was with the religious, self righteous, Pharisees, Sadducee and teachers of the law. He ate with what many would have considered lowlifes, unclean etc. He loved the unlovable and did not judge them. Yes we where told to live a certain way and to be different, but he did not go to them and say, hey you sinner you are evil. He did not go to the Romans and try legislate his beliefs. If people asked him questions he would answer them.
We have this problem of going out and telling people they are sinners and not living a life where people would come to us. If someone asks then you are free to tell them what you believe, they can accept that or not but it is not our place to tell them they are sinners and evil etc. We are told not to judge the world, which can be very hard as that is what we have been taught. We can hold other believers accountable for it is biblical and how to deal with issues are laid out in the new testament.
The Bible is unique, it is written with some instructions that are for all believers to follow. Then there are things that are in there that give direction and is applied differently depending on the person. To some they feel it is bad to have a drink and to them it is so. To others it is not a problem and to them rightfully so. Neither is wrong, for some it would effect their lives, for others it would not.
I have people say the bible is full of contradictions, then I look at them and chuckle to myself. It is much like this. A good business person will look at numbers and can make sense out of them. I could look at the same numbers and be scratching my head. We both can read numbers but only one understands them. How can people who do not believe possibly understand the bible? Another kinda good example, Shakespeare, it may be English but how many get confused by it? 
What people also do not take into account is there are some things that are lost in translation.
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Curtis
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Posted: Sat 30 May, 2009 6:24 PM
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How can you deny that the bible is full of contradictions? Of course it is. Anyone who has read it, regardless of belief or disbelief, should know that's true.
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