Peace to you,
bluegreenearth wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:00 pm
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Replying to tam in post #168]
I appreciate receiving your thoughts on this issue. However, I was unable to detect an response to my last questions: Whatever it may be that best explains the hatred and violence committed by people who claim Christianity incited their actions, would it be reasonable to at least hold Christianity accountable for not having established or updated itself with more clearly written guidelines that couldn't possibly be misinterpreted to suggest it was inciting hatred and violence?
Sorry, I did not answer the last question because I did not think it would apply anymore (to me and what I shared in my posts).
The interesting thing that has caught my eye in your question is your suggestion for an update. If Christendom (the religion) were truly from Christ, then it should not need an update - that implies there might have been something wrong with the base; the foundation (Christ and His word). It suggest that the religion may have been steadily progressing for a couple thousand years (getting better and better as time goes on and people become more 'civilized'), but that is not the case. The words from Christ that I have shared were there at the start.
Some might think then that we might need a reset, but isn't that the justification that so many have used to form new sects, new denominations? They claim to be 'taking it back to the beginning', and then they just go on and follow the same patterns as those who came before them (teaching a mixture of truth and falsehood). One has to come out completely (stop touching the unclean thing), tear the house (your faith) all the way down to the foundation cornerstone (Christ) and then let Him build you back up upon Him (upon Truth).
Update or reset; that stuff does not work with religion. Two thousand years should have proven that about Christendom. That religion is not from Christ. He is not at its head.
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Stop touching the unclean thing and I will take you in."
"Come OUT Of her, my people! So that you do not share in her sins..."
("Her" is not specifically religion, but the sects and denominations of the religion "Christianity" are among her daughters.)
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So I find your question to be difficult to answer. An 'update' is not going to fix things (if you could even get that divided house to come together and form a united update), and might even deceive more people. Religion is about gaining adherents
after itself, after all. Religion is not about truth. So whatever gets people in the doors and continuing to pour in the $$, that is what it will do.
Nor should there be any need for an update, because Christ has not changed; His commands did not change; His word has not changed. How much more definitive can you get than His own words that I have shared throughout this thread: love your enemies, do good to those who wrong you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who persecute you, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, be merciful, do not judge, forgive... including the examples of Him asking forgiveness for those who persecuted Him, even to His execution, of His rebuke to His own disciples when they asked about 'calling down fire' or His rebuke to Peter when Peter committed violence against another during the arrest of Christ, or His going peacefully even though He could have called down an army of angels; or his teaching of turn the other cheek, give to those in need - including one's own enemies; etc, etc, etc...
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But if I have misunderstood your question - and/or - how it applies to me and to my posts, perhaps you could rephrase it for me? Thank you!
Peace again to you,
your servant and a slave of Christ,
tammy
