Hateful "Christians"
Many people call themselves Christians but do not follow or obey God's laws in the Bible. What are the most fundamental rules God gives us?
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul (Deuteronomy 6:5).
2. Love your neighbour as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18).
Jesus said these are the two greatest commandments, and all God's laws and the writings of the prophets (the Old Testament of the Bible) - hang on these two commands. (Matthew 22:34-40)
Anybody, therefore, who calls themselves a Christian but is openly hateful towards others, is disobeying God and will be judged by God for this.
This ATLAH church uses the Bible to defend its view that Jesus would stone "homos". I have no idea how they could come to that conclusion from John 8:1-11. This passage tells the story of Jesus and a woman caught in adultery. The teachers of the Law brought this woman to Jesus, because they wanted to trap him. They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"
Jesus said, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, until only Jesus was left with the woman. Jesus asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Lessons from this story:
a) Do not think you are more "righteous" than other people. We are all equally guilty in God's sight. Therefore, do not pass judgement on another.
b) Show love, mercy and forgiveness, not hatred.
c) Only Jesus, who was without sin, had the right to stone the woman. But he chose to show grace and mercy to her instead.
d) Jesus would show loving kindness to a homosexual person, not stone them to death. Yes, in God's eyes, homosexuality does deserve death. But God doesn't want to kill us, he wants to have a relationship with us. So instead of killing us (and "homos"), God himself came into the world in the form of Jesus the Messiah, and he let us kill him - we "stoned" Jesus, we killed him, we nailed him to a cross and he let us, because he came to take our punishment for us.
e) This does not mean it's ok to choose a homosexual lifestyle. Jesus would tell them to "go now and leave your life of sin".
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul (Deuteronomy 6:5).
2. Love your neighbour as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18).
Jesus said these are the two greatest commandments, and all God's laws and the writings of the prophets (the Old Testament of the Bible) - hang on these two commands. (Matthew 22:34-40)
Anybody, therefore, who calls themselves a Christian but is openly hateful towards others, is disobeying God and will be judged by God for this.
This ATLAH church uses the Bible to defend its view that Jesus would stone "homos". I have no idea how they could come to that conclusion from John 8:1-11. This passage tells the story of Jesus and a woman caught in adultery. The teachers of the Law brought this woman to Jesus, because they wanted to trap him. They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"
Jesus said, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, until only Jesus was left with the woman. Jesus asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Lessons from this story:
a) Do not think you are more "righteous" than other people. We are all equally guilty in God's sight. Therefore, do not pass judgement on another.
b) Show love, mercy and forgiveness, not hatred.
c) Only Jesus, who was without sin, had the right to stone the woman. But he chose to show grace and mercy to her instead.
d) Jesus would show loving kindness to a homosexual person, not stone them to death. Yes, in God's eyes, homosexuality does deserve death. But God doesn't want to kill us, he wants to have a relationship with us. So instead of killing us (and "homos"), God himself came into the world in the form of Jesus the Messiah, and he let us kill him - we "stoned" Jesus, we killed him, we nailed him to a cross and he let us, because he came to take our punishment for us.
e) This does not mean it's ok to choose a homosexual lifestyle. Jesus would tell them to "go now and leave your life of sin".
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