Most of this rant is guided towards the wokeist monstrosity that is modern day liberalism wrapped up in perverted, severely misinterpreted Church ideals.
This is something that I ponder about, and it's made more apparent today based off the complete destruction of my home country. Many Christians believe in free will, salvation must come from within, you must believe in God. All of this makes complete sense. But when it comes to lifting a finger to help a fellow Christian, or trying to keep their entire community from going to crap, they stop believing in free will. At that point it becomes part of God's plan, and we have to sit back and do nothing whilst the country burns.
My gf for example has gotten upset at me numerous time for being too generous and wanting to help people. It was money and time i could afford to spend, so i didnt mind at all. And if my help is what allows someone to be guided to Christ through their own journey, than Im happy. But this goes back to the crux of the matter, the Bible says it is up to us to go out and help others. When someone does just that, the Christian community immediately recoils in horror.
Sure they might do a church day here and there, but really it goes back to the issue of a "look at me and what im doing". Surprising no one, the way the modern day church helps people is the exact OPPOSITE of what Jesus said we should do. In my case, I only tend to help White people, and people in dire need of help. I give them a job of some kind, and than i pay them for the service. I can say they did something to earn that time and money. It is NOT freely given, but rather given as a factor of determination by the other person. When I help, i dont care about whether someone knows, i just do it. And if people commend me for it, that's fine. And if i dont, that's not a big deal either. We're still friends to this day, and that's what matters. Some of these people DID come to Christ through my actions, which is what the intent was the entire time. I didn't force it down their throat, i let themselves be guided to Him.
This goes into the second issue: the nature of committing to destructive ideals of the common population. Murder is a great example of this. The concept has been so badly butchered. It used to be murder had intent, as in you wanted to kill someone UNPROVOKED. However, murder as a concept has gone from the unprovoked killing of the innocent, to the provoked killing of criminals. I was talking to my gf and her family one dinner day, and we ran into a massive issue over the definition of murder. They conflated killing an innocent bystander in cold blood to caste doctrine self defense.
Of course these people live in a massive liberal shithole, but it boggled the mind how they could conflate self defense from armed assault with non escalating conversation holding. I think it's CT/NYC/NJ and a host of other liberal dumps where self defense is illegal. The problem is when someone comes with a gun and tries to kill you, you can't do anything. Shooting back is considered a crime, so its either death by criminal or death by court.
And they aren't the only people to think this, I've heard believers say self defense from getting shot at is a sin ... Get shot to prove how tolerant you are? Virtue about pacifism with your life, to prove what exactly? This then begs the question, how can modern day woke Christianity (i dont even see it as Christianity, just some perverted jewish reformation) ever move forward if it preaches an extinction doctrine?
I've also heard lying is a sin. I agree, it "can" be. But there are many many cases where not lying to prove a point will get you killed or maimed. I once had a pastor tell me all forms of lying is a sin. The question asked was if someone puts a gun to your head and asks you if you called the cops before they broke in, what do you say? The pastor didn't have a formal answer to this conundrum, just a hur dur, we hope this never happens to you. Sacrifice your family to the greater good? You'll die in a massive firefight, with no way to defend yourself, but at least you can say you didn't commit a sin.
And the OT and NT both have examples of people doing just that and Jesus forgiving them (Peter denying Jesus, and the prostitute lying about the location of the two men). The Bible even says that a sin is based off intent. It is not the lying that is the problem, it is deceiving an innocent individual that becomes the sin. If someone has absolved themselves of any responsibility or morals towards you as a person, why do we now need to honor them? Praying for your enemies can be done from a distance. You pray for their repentance, pray for them to become better people. Praying doesn't mean let yourself get shot by criminals to prove acceptance to misguided tolerance
Smedleys_Butler 0 points 1.6 years ago
If we were to know the mind of God, we wouldn't have free will, and that's just me coming from a deist/theist perspective