The Bible also clearly states that Christians should live together and share all their wealth, "to each according to his need". Sounds pretty Communist to me.
"Marx...taught that God was a projection of man's radical alienation: from himself, from his
labor, and from a human community cruelly divided by class barriers. Man's salvation, in
Marx's view, thus lay within history, in the creation of a mundane utopia whose coming
would be hastened when men were no longer bewitched by the false promises of a kingdom
to come in the time beyond time."
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Dude, you really like to argue for its own sake, I gather. Obviously I wasn't saying that the Bible established the philosophy of Communism in every form which we now see it. Fucking duh. I was saying that the disciples of Jesus specifically espoused a certain lifestyle in the beginning of the Book of Acts which is fundamentally Communist (i.e. "We should all pool our money and divide it up equally." )
And I only did that to point out how many radically different and sometimes contradictory things the Bible says, for the purpose of making the point that to discuss "Christians" in such broad, general terms is pretty ignorant and inaccurate.
Jack wrote:Everyone in this thread needs to eat their corn flakes.
I am going to follow Jack's adbice and eat some corn flakes( frosted or not) and stay the hell out of this discussion/argument before I say something that makes all of you hate me more than Ja nell already does. Love to you sexy:::::::::::
jet wrote:Nope, not at all. That is what the Holy Spirit is for. The Father, Son, and The Holy Ghost
Yes they are all supposed to be equal and of the same essence, just with different roles according to the Christians I live around. So maybe it just depends on the individual Christian, but if Jesus was just a regular person filled with the Holy Spirit, then why is he said to be seated at the right hand of the Father to this day, and what is the diff. between him and other Christians who claim to be spirit-filled. (Jesus supposedly poured out the Spirit for each person to receive)???
Dude, you really like to argue for its own sake, I gather.
lol Jack you are the last person on this board to be up in arms about this. I seem to remeber a very argumentive ex-cowboy. :p
Nope. I was always having to clarify my position; I was rarely, if ever, trying to change anyone else's mind. Only attempting to get people to understand my own opinion.
jet wrote:Nope, not at all. That is what the Holy Spirit is for. The Father, Son, and The Holy Ghost
Yes they are all supposed to be equal and of the same essence, just with different roles according to the Christians I live around. So maybe it just depends on the individual Christian, but if Jesus was just a regular person filled with the Holy Spirit, then why is he said to be seated at the right hand of the Father to this day, and what is the diff. between him and other Christians who claim to be spirit-filled. (Jesus supposedly poured out the Spirit for each person to receive)???
It really does depent on the type of Christianity you follow. Some believe they are all the same, others believe they are all three completely seperate....I tend to believe they are together but seperate at the same time. I'm non-denominational and have very liberal thinking for a Christian.
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