Hooray for Legalism

#1 07-20-2007, 11:39 AM

Worth reading:

Hooray for Legalism!

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Everyone knows that alcoholism is an ugly destructive force in our world. Your book goes so far as to say that everyone who drinks beer or whatever also likes alcoholism and thinks it is good, and wants their kids to become alcoholics and drive drunk too.

Thanks legalism.

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And last winter I stopped sleeping with my wife, because I know that people who enjoy sex support rapists and AIDS and pregnant teens and abortion and sex slaves and child pornography and all of that.

She divorced me, but that’s OK, because I still have you, and you keep me safe.

Brett Prince · #2 07-20-2007, 12:01 PM

Ron,

The article does have some truth, although I have never met anyone who was so off the deep end that they stopped having relations with their spouse.

On the other hand, the fact that I refuse to have a drink makes me legalistic? Yes, the idea of just telling him to his face that this will send him to hell might be over the top--but I am legalistic if I refused to have a beer?

The reverse would be true, then, as well. I would be legalistic if I had it in my head that if someone asks me to have a beer--I must. That's just as legalistic.

#3 07-20-2007, 12:05 PM

I offer no agreement or disagreement on any or all of the points.

I did not write it.

I simply posted it for the reading pleasure or disdain of others... and to allow you all to converse about it.

Carry on...

COOPER · #4 07-20-2007, 01:56 PM

Beer is good.

COOPER · #5 07-20-2007, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Brett Prince

Ron,

The article does have some truth, although I have never met anyone who was so off the deep end that they stopped having relations with their spouse.

On the other hand, the fact that I refuse to have a drink makes me legalistic? Yes, the idea of just telling him to his face that this will send him to hell might be over the top--but I am legalistic if I refused to have a beer?

The reverse would be true, then, as well. I would be legalistic if I had it in my head that if someone asks me to have a beer--I must. That's just as legalistic.

There are worse things than a TOO many beers...........:sshhh like mean spirited bible thumpers.....that scream Holiness or hell on street corners.

stmatthew · #6 07-20-2007, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by COOPER

There are worse things than a TOO many beers...........:sshhh like mean spirited bible thumpers.....that scream Holiness or hell on street corners.

IGNORANT POST OF THE DAY

Tell that to the 10's of 1000's of families that have lost their children to a drunk driver. I am sure they will understand.

Funny I have never heard of one innocent person being killed because a preacher on a street corner preached a holiness or hell sermon, have you??

BreakingFree · #7 07-20-2007, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by stmatthew

[b]Funny I have never heard of one innocent person being killed because a preacher on a street corner preached a holiness or hell sermon, have you??

Physically or spiritually?

COOPER · #8 07-20-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by stmatthew

BEST POST OF THE DAY

Tell that to the 10's of 1000's of families that have lost their children to a drunk driver. I am sure they will understand.

Funny I have never heard of one innocent person being killed because a preacher on a street corner preached a holiness or hell sermon, have you??

Yes, every time some one is turned away from Jesus because of this.

Drunk drivers kill the flesh man and mean preachers are killing the spirit man. Whats the diff?

Are Guns the same?

Are all Guns to be banned too?

stmatthew · #9 07-20-2007, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by BreakingFree

Physically or spiritually?

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Originally Posted by COOPER

Yes, every time some one is turned away from Jesus because of this.

Drunk drivers kill the flesh man and mean preachers are killing the spirit man. Whats the diff?

Funny, I never knew that preachers saved or made anyone lost. It is the Spirit of God that draws, and it is the choice of the individual to respond or reject. I have been around the road, and have seen the fall and demise of many men, but not one has made me turn back. I MADE the choice to follow Jesus. He became my all in all, and I do not follow another.

SO for the one that chooses Christ, all the mean preachers in the world will not hold them from an intimate relationship from him.

BreakingFree · #10 07-20-2007, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by stmatthew

Funny, I never knew that preachers saved or made anyone lost. It is the Spirit of God that draws, and it is the choice of the individual to respond or reject. I have been around the road, and have seen the fall and demise of many men, but not one has made me turn back. I MADE the choice to follow Jesus. He became my all in all, and I do not follow another.

SO for the one that chooses Christ, all the mean preachers in the world will not hold them from an intimate relationship from him.

Not true if the "Christ" and "Christianity" they were shown was the wrong one. However, the right one can be found if that person is able to break free and has a true desire to know Him. But a time of spiritual dryness and even death can occur first in the process of healing.