I know I have "sinned", called human nature.
"everybody" has at a time stole a cookie, told a little lie or ran trough a red light.
All are "sins" in their own respect
Do you believe we are all sinners?
Sister Jean
2012/03/28 15:25:51
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Whizzy 2012/03/28 15:43:42
Isaiah 64:6 - "For we have all become like one who is unclean [ceremonially, like a leper], and all our righteousness (our best deeds of rightness and justice) is like filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away [far from God's favor, hurrying us toward destruction]."
I know that verse by heart.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
This obviously does not mean infants.
But in another place in the bible, it says that there is a general "age of accountability." Do you know what that is?
God commanded those who were twenty years old and above to pay a ransom for their souls because anyone nineteen years and below were consider by God to be children and were under the protective head of the household. If he was only nineteen he was not old enough to pay a ransom for his own soul, he was still covered under his father’s ransom. (Ex. 30)
Proverbs 20:11 King James Bible
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
That is, in my belief, (which i perceive as fact,) correct! The age is really not a direct limitation or whatever so follow me............
lets say, a Godly couple has a kid, and by the age of 5, that child can tell you for a fact who Jesus is in his life and tell you scripture from the Bible he learned it from, he has passed the age of accountability. Which means, he understands the concept of Christianity and accepts it and willingly chose (and is choosing every day) to live his life the way his God wants him to.
on the other hand, a similar couple has a kid and is born with autism. It may take him muuch longer to grasp the concept and understand it with depth. He may be 9 years of age before he understands his religion. If thats the case..up to that point he is under the age of accountability. He cannot be held accountable for his un-Godly actions because he doesnt perceive his actions, etc, in the Godly mindset a Christian has.
Did that help you understand?
What I can do is behave exactly as every primate behaves. I can harm my fellow humans. I can harm other animals. I can harm myself by doing what I know isn't good for me.
My ethos doesn't allow me to do the first two but, sadly, I err with the last. I find it impossible to resist a hot fudge sundae when it's waved under my nose.
http://www.walkingintruth.org...
^^^
Check that out.. just a little example of how many times that statement is mentions
Would you torture and kill your own child because your neighbor knocked over a liquor store?
Redemption was not a new concept, either. Mithra, a god who antedated Christianity, sacrificed himself for humankind. He was also said to have been born on 25 December, of a virgin and to have been visited by shepherds. Mithra, in modern scholarship, is seen as the god in charge of the precession of the equinoxes and was called Sol Invictus...the Unconquered Sun. Modern scholars have seen references to Mithra as far back as Plato (429-347 BCE), although formal reference to the cult, itself, came later, after the Romans took it up. The parallels between Mithra and Christ are so many and so exact that Tertullian wrote that Mithraism was the work of Satan; given that Satan knew of Christ's eventual birth and death, he deliberately created a religion to mimic...
Redemption was not a new concept, either. Mithra, a god who antedated Christianity, sacrificed himself for humankind. He was also said to have been born on 25 December, of a virgin and to have been visited by shepherds. Mithra, in modern scholarship, is seen as the god in charge of the precession of the equinoxes and was called Sol Invictus...the Unconquered Sun. Modern scholars have seen references to Mithra as far back as Plato (429-347 BCE), although formal reference to the cult, itself, came later, after the Romans took it up. The parallels between Mithra and Christ are so many and so exact that Tertullian wrote that Mithraism was the work of Satan; given that Satan knew of Christ's eventual birth and death, he deliberately created a religion to mimic that AHEAD OF TIME, in order to keep people from believing in Jesus. I, personally, consider that to be miserable scholarship, on Tertullian's part, but really good weaselling. The concept of a redeemer was also present, though not required, among pre-Christian Gnostic groups.
The problem arises through using the Jewish Yahweh as the putative father of the putative Jesus. The Old Testament displays a primitive war god with none of the attributes currently assigned to Jesus. Yet, if your graphic is accurate, Jesus was involved in, and approved of all the heinous crimes attributed to Yahweh in the Tanakh. Melding a monotheistic religion with a pagan culture, as Paul had to do the moment he started allowing Gentiles into his sect, has produced a god who could not possibly be what he is claimed to be.
Say it is your belief and I won't even answer. Everyone is entitled to believe whatever comforts them.
I, for one, prefer to read long comments that show the responder is considering the topic than one-worders that do not. I think that the one-worders have other agendae, begging your pardon, Sister.
After all, the engine that drives SH is discussion.
I know that if I hated something, I wouldn't go out of my way to create it. That's just stupid, isn't it?
Christianity is a blood cult, a death cult and its followers think themselves blessed if a primitive prehistoric war god doesn't burn them alive for all eternity...for something he invented in the first place.
"God of Love" indeed.