My nuns told me that they conquered by the sword
---because it was their duty do what is explicitly written.
To do what is explicitly written, is to carry a defiant banner of zealots,
but the most pro-active of the lot speak explicitly what its means & ends are
---where you must take it and can't leave it, and it's an offer you can't refuse.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
persistent atheist misrepresentation ignoring the difference between Mosaic law and Levitical law.......the "rules of the Old Testament" are not a single body of laws.......there was a moral code, a civil code and code regulating sacrifice.......Jesus specifically said to preserve the moral code but also said he came to fulfill the code regulating sacrifice and that it was no longer necessary........as to the civil code, that had been replaced by the Roman laws long before Jesus was incarnated.......as he said, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.....If that's not enough, Jesus also said that the old laws will not be changed. This means that the rules of the Old Testament, such as homosexuality being a sin, are still to be followed.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
the only mention of slavery in the NT that I am aware of is the book of Philemon, where Paul wrote....
5 Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother.
I pity those who try to say Christianity condones slavery.......they speak from their imagination rather than truth......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
I have no idea what you are trying to say. As for sword, the Bible, once again, is contradictory. Jesus says buy a sword in Luke 22:36-38, which contradicts "turn the other cheek", the Sermon on the Mount and Matthew 26:52 "for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword".
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Probably because Jesus was a socialist.
The RWNJs and/or Satanists will say "bu..bu...but Socialism didn't exist 2000 years ago you demmycunt! Fuck you and burn in Hell, cunt!!!!", but the fact remains that Jesus put spiritual "wealth" ahead of material wealth. Jesus recognized that material wealth is temporary but one's soul is eternal.
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Which is quite different from those like Paula White who believe in "Prosperity Theology"....and, worth only $5,000,000, is relatively poor compared to other pastors.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/ri...ite-net-worth/
Paula White Net Worth: $5 Million
https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/chr...n-america.aspx
Kenneth Copeland: Net Worth $760 Million
Pat Robertson: Net Worth $100 Million
Benny Hinn: Net Worth $42 Million
Joel Osteen: Net Worth $40 Million
Creflo Dollar: Net Worth $27 Million
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Iolo/Penderyn (04-03-2020)
I'm no expert on Judaism, and I think we might argue about what Jewish law enforced slavery. I think the key point, though, is that Jesus tended to go - as with the Sabbath and such - for what the old laws were trying to say. While I take your point about this, it is a bit like my own commitment to UK law: I am not in a campaign to overthrow law, but if I had any hand in it its interpretation and application would be very, very different. Just illustration, I hasten to add. I am hardly in the appropriate league for serious comparison!
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