Comments on: Avoid responsibility by wasting time with Jesus? http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/ Just another WordPress site Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lachwill http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-2256 lachwill Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:09:19 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-2256 True Christianity, by which I take to mean following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, has no opposition between developing relationship with God and with people. His teachings, Matthew 6:14 "if you forgive others their sins, your father will forgive your sins - but if you do not forgive others their sins, your father will not forgive your sins." Matthew 25:45 "whatever you did not do for the least of these you did not do for me." Nothing new in this. Maybe distorted by Christians, but if you go to the source you find it pretty strongly expressed. True Christianity, by which I take to mean following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, has no opposition between developing relationship with God and with people.

His teachings,
Matthew 6:14 “if you forgive others their sins, your father will forgive your sins – but if you do not forgive others their sins, your father will not forgive your sins.”

Matthew 25:45 “whatever you did not do for the least of these you did not do for me.”

Nothing new in this. Maybe distorted by Christians, but if you go to the source you find it pretty strongly expressed.

]]> By: ricky http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-2133 ricky Fri, 20 May 2011 16:48:24 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-2133 These people are weak minded, and are scared of their world. They fear death and they fear life, we should be mindfull of their many insecurities. Unfortunately this is our majority. Tony Abbott makes them feel secure. in my workplace the worst bigots (how suprising) are the christians, usually the kooky baptists, who hate the coons (that is actually how they talk) god help us, ha ha These people are weak minded, and are scared of their world. They fear death and they fear life, we should be mindfull of their many insecurities. Unfortunately this is our majority. Tony Abbott makes them feel secure. in my workplace the worst bigots (how suprising) are the christians, usually the kooky baptists, who hate the coons (that is actually how they talk)
god help us, ha ha

]]> By: Lawrence http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-1152 Lawrence Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:20 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1152 The whole constitution of human society exists for the express end, I say, of teaching the two truths by which man lives, Love to God and Love to Man. The love that enlarges not its borders, that is not ever spreading and including, and deepening, will contract, shrivel, decay, die. The man thinks his consciousness is himself; whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the consciousness of the universe of truth. To have himself, to know himself, to enjoy himself, he calls life; whereas, if he would forget himself, tenfold would be his life in God and his neighbours. The region of man’s life is a spiritual region. God, his friends, his neighbours, his brothers all, is the wide world in which alone his spirit can find room. Himself is his dungeon. If he feels it not now, he will yet feel it one day—feel it as a living soul would feel being prisoned in a dead body, wrapped in sevenfold cerements, and buried in a stone-ribbed vault within the last ripple of the sound of the chanting people in the church above. His life is not in knowing that he lives, but in loving all forms of life. The whole constitution of human society exists for the express end, I say, of teaching the two truths by which man lives, Love to God and Love to Man.
The love that enlarges not its borders, that is not ever spreading and including, and deepening, will contract, shrivel, decay, die.
The man thinks his consciousness is himself; whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the consciousness of the universe of truth. To have himself, to know himself, to enjoy himself, he calls life; whereas, if he would forget himself, tenfold would be his life in God and his neighbours. The region of man’s life is a spiritual region. God, his friends, his neighbours, his brothers all, is the wide world in which alone his spirit can find room. Himself is his dungeon. If he feels it not now, he will yet feel it one day—feel it as a living soul would feel being prisoned in a dead body, wrapped in sevenfold cerements, and buried in a stone-ribbed vault within the last ripple of the sound of the chanting people in the church above. His life is not in knowing that he lives, but in loving all forms of life.

]]> By: Mim http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-1151 Mim Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:13:38 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1151 I know of a student doing a music degree that told their teacher they couldn't practice their instrument because it interfered with their relationship with God. A handy and versatile excuse. I know of a student doing a music degree that told their teacher they couldn’t practice their instrument because it interfered with their relationship with God. A handy and versatile excuse.

]]> By: The Atheist http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-1150 The Atheist Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:40:27 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1150 That's certainly something that's crossed my mind, and I've said as much elsewhere on this blog. That's one of the reasons I found the article so refreshing. That’s certainly something that’s crossed my mind, and I’ve said as much elsewhere on this blog. That’s one of the reasons I found the article so refreshing.

]]> By: Guy http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/#comment-1149 Guy Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1149 Isn't the whole point of being christian to avoid death and achieve everlasting life ? Only god offers this, not the people around you. So why bother with them ? Isn’t the whole point of being christian to avoid death and achieve everlasting life ? Only god offers this, not the people around you. So why bother with them ?

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