Whats up with all the self righteous here?

[Gods-Justice]

I am newbie here and all I see so far is a bunch of gay bashing, fat man bashing and inquisitor self righteous pomp in the spirit of the early inquisition.

Have we as Christians forgot these important verses?

James 3:1

[ Taming the Tongue ] Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

James 4:11

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

John 8:7 (New International Version)

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:12

[ Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ ] Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinnedâ€â€

 

[Nikki]

You soon wil learn to ignore certain people. Some people come to forums to ruffle feathers. Others just can't let something go and they'll post the same topic 30 times. It's quite annoying, yes, but there are some really good, loving people here. I've learned SO MUCH since coming to this particular forum. While I don't agree with everyone, I have the knowledge that I can always turn to my bible when in doubt of in times of need.

Welcome!

 

[Vic C.]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it? ;-)

 

[Nikki]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it? ;-)

:o : : :

 

[Gods-Justice]

Well I am Christian that is 350 lbs and have gay friends.

I struggle with disorders of food and pray to be healed.

I just get so turned off by all the judgement coming from folks, especially when some are supposed to be mods. I have been in other boards with mods that were more neutral on topics but some still put me down because I assocciated with gay men. That is main reason I left those boards.

We are all sinners and constantly berating the gays and whatever else is just so stupid.

Of course gays know the opinion of the Church! Why do they need to be constantly reminded and put down.

Makes no sense to me.

Thanks so much for welcome Nikki!

 

[Gods-Justice]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it?

On subway to work all I hear from the pulpit on AM radio is abortion bashing, gay bashing, and liberal bashing.

All judgemental stuff.

No kindness or friendliness.

Are we not supposed to reach out to the sinner and be friends instead of enemies?

No one is going to be converted and turned from sin by these methods of mean spiritedness and self righteous pomp.

All we do by cutting others down is drive them further from Bible and Jesus talk. It is bad way to evangelize and it is the predominant method I see coming from the leaders.

Above all else Jesus despised this kind of convertioning technique. Remeber the parable of the good samaritan and the pompous mans prayer versus the sinners prayer?

Jesus loves the humble that keep silent. Not the pompous with a blow horn saying you are worthless.

 

[Vic C.]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it? ;-)

:o : : :

Not you Nikki... soma, I mean Gods-Justice. 8-)

 

[Nikki]

Nevermind what I wrote.

 

[Nikki]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it? ;-)

:o : : :

Not you Nikki... soma, I mean Gods-Justice. 8-)

Are you SERIOUS? OK. I'm MAD NOW! :evil:

That is so childish! Do people not have ANYTHING better to do? UGH! I just put all my business out in my post too. Off to delete it because I'm tired of trying to help "new" people feel welcome only to find out that I'm saying the same thing over and over again to the SAME PERSON! :evil:

 

[Drew]

I think that one can usually tell the difference between "bashing" and a more compassionate claims that certain behaviours are sin. We need to at least have a forum to explain why we think that certain behaviours are indeed sinful - not all such discussion springs from dishonourable motives. There is certainly a fair bit of bashing in these forums, however.

 

[Lyric's Dad]

I am newbie here and all I see so far is a bunch of gay bashing, fat man bashing and inquisitor self righteous pomp in the spirit of the early inquisition.

You are right. We should lay off all sins except that of lying. Especially lying to fellow Christians, eh? What ya say "newbie?"

 

[destiny]

Whats really sad is theres no way someone truly wanting out of homosexuality could come to this forum and find anything more than extreme confusion.
The reason this board is such a draw for this topic is because it has become a platform for promotion and argument.

 

[Solo]

I am newbie here and all I see so far is a bunch of gay bashing, fat man bashing and inquisitor self righteous pomp in the spirit of the early inquisition.

Have we as Christians forgot these important verses?

James 3:1

[ Taming the Tongue ] Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

James 4:11

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

John 8:7 (New International Version)

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:12

[ Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ ] Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinnedâ€â€

You sound just like Soma-Sight.

Does the Bible say anywhere that Homosexuals and sexually immoral persons will not enter into heaven?

Does the Bible teach us to accept sin and live in it?

Does the Bible teach not to socialize with those who claim to be brothers in Christ?

We should pray for those lost that are mixed up in all kinds of sin, and we should teach them how to be born again so that God can clean up the sinners from the inside out. But if one of these continues in that sin then they should be judged and put away from among the brethren.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

[stovebolts]

We'll, if this is soma... I'm sad to say but that's the end of the road...
Usually, I'm a pretty trusting guy... and it gets me in trouble because I want to believe those around me and I want to trust my fellow Christian.

But then there comes a time where I need to heed scripture... and I recall reading that there will be blemishes among us, those who seek to corrupt us through lies and deceit. If this is Soma, then my heart goes out to you that you will get right with God and stop this deceitfull foolishness.

You see, Saul was God's annointed and thus, David respected God enough not to cause harm, for he knew Saul would bring destruction upon himself.., and Saul sought the power of the Lord, and through that seeking, he turned and got lost in what the purpose of God's commandments were for... And he became foolish and didn't wait for Samual to come and present the offering...

Soma, narrow is the gate that leads to life, but wide is the gate of destruction. Take care of your walk with the Lord and the Lord will take care of your needs. Wander from the instructions of the Lord, and you heap destruction upon yourself. Do not be as the tax collector and if you are, do not be suprised on how you are treated...

Peace.

Jeff

 

[John the Baptist]

That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it?

On subway to work all I hear from the pulpit on AM radio is abortion bashing, gay bashing, and liberal bashing.

All judgemental stuff.

No kindness or friendliness.

Are we not supposed to reach out to the sinner and be friends instead of enemies?

No one is going to be converted and turned from sin by these methods of mean spiritedness and self righteous pomp.

All we do by cutting others down is drive them further from Bible and Jesus talk. It is bad way to evangelize and it is the predominant method I see coming from the leaders.

Above all else Jesus despised this kind of convertioning technique. Remeber the parable of the good samaritan and the pompous mans prayer versus the sinners prayer?

Jesus loves the humble that keep silent. Not the pompous with a blow horn saying you are worthless.

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Hi, John here: Salvation is personal between Christ & oneself. It is not what you think of others, or what others do or think of you. These things are all the devils side issues to get us away from the Truth! Both class can read this Truth & talk or post it. The persons can be evil even, but that does nothing to the truth, it is still truth.

And sin??? 1 John 3:4 tell's the universe what sin is! See it in the King James!! That is the Godheads WORD. The ETERNAL COVENANT

And about making Judgements? We hear of wheat & Tares growing together. Folks say that 'you' (me, us) are judging me!! :
Now please pay attention, ok? What we are to do, is to hate sin! Never the sinner. Can that be done? Surely! But only by a person who is recreated or Born Again. John 3:3.

And we are talking about a persons [post]. We know nothing about what is inside of the heart of any poster. This is what the Wheat & Tares growing together means.

Now about OPEN SEEN DOCUMENTED SIN! As defined in the 1 John 3:4. Ones heart (mind) is seen only by God. OPEN sin is not that case! All and any OPEN SIN can be detected by the Eternal Hebrews 13:20 Covenant of God as being broken, if it is being done OPENLY & CONTINUALLY or has been done as such. Got that?? See James 2:8-12

OK: all are sinners. Fact!! It is not the one time sin that is the sin against the Holy Ghost, it is the End or Maturity that finishes the sin. James 1:15 1 John 5:16-17. God put the tree in the Garden to test Their Perfect creation. They were perfect, yet, They created Adam & Eve (mankind) with freedom of choice. They were not created perfect in MATURITY. This they had to develope! Now as we too are clearly seen again in Romans 8:1 as perfect, [/u](NO CONDEMNATION) we too are to mature!! All of the provisions are there from 'eternity' (do you understand what Born Again means? As Adam was before sin!) for this purpose! See Philippians 4:13 & 2 Corinthians 12:9.

What God REQUIRES(see Nahum 1:9) is that we grow & Mature in all Truth as we are 'LED' as in Romans 8:14. We will either Mature one way or the other as James 1:15 tells us. We will finish the process in our lifetime & it will be finished one way or the other.

God wants & requires us to Obey Him. Acts 5:32. And this is a growing & Maturing process! And what about the most who profess to be Christians???
Christ tells us who they are that are in the Broad way path, those who do not care enough. See Matthew 4:4 & Revelation 17:1-5.
Yet, we cannot or do not want to try to judge ones 'motives'! But, if one openly is going against the 10 Commandment Covenant of God, that is a different kind of judgement that we are required to make! See 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 & 1 Corinthians 6:1-3, or Matthew 18:11-18.

---John

 

[bibleberean]

I am newbie here and all I see so far is a bunch of gay bashing, fat man bashing and inquisitor self righteous pomp in the spirit of the early inquisition.

I can't stand those types of people... :evil:

Contact the administrators so we can put a stop to this!

Be sure to give the thread, quotes and specifics so that the guilty can be corrected.

Thanks,

Robert

 

[Nikki]

We'll, if this is soma... I'm sad to say but that's the end of the road...
Usually, I'm a pretty trusting guy... and it gets me in trouble because I want to believe those around me and I want to trust my fellow Christian.

But then there comes a time where I need to heed scripture... and I recall reading that there will be blemishes among us, those who seek to corrupt us through lies and deceit. If this is Soma, then my heart goes out to you that you will get right with God and stop this deceitfull foolishness.

You see, Saul was God's annointed and thus, David respected God enough not to cause harm, for he knew Saul would bring destruction upon himself.., and Saul sought the power of the Lord, and through that seeking, he turned and got lost in what the purpose of God's commandments were for... And he became foolish and didn't wait for Samual to come and present the offering...

Soma, narrow is the gate that leads to life, but wide is the gate of destruction. Take care of your walk with the Lord and the Lord will take care of your needs. Wander from the instructions of the Lord, and you heap destruction upon yourself. Do not be as the tax collector and if you are, do not be suprised on how you are treated...

Peace.

Jeff

Good post. Right now, I'm having a hard time believing that he has a girlfriend in the hospital. What if that's a lie too? Everytime he gets caught lying or just being plain ignorant, he goes into pity party and saying he's sorry, but his girlfriend is sick....blah, blah, blah.

I'm done with him. I think the best thing we could all do it put him on ignore.

 

[John the Baptist]

We'll, if this is soma... I'm sad to say but that's the end of the road...
Usually, I'm a pretty trusting guy... and it gets me in trouble because I want to believe those around me and I want to trust my fellow Christian.

But then there comes a time where I need to heed scripture... and I recall reading that there will be blemishes among us, those who seek to corrupt us through lies and deceit. If this is Soma, then my heart goes out to you that you will get right with God and stop this deceitfull foolishness.

You see, Saul was God's annointed and thus, David respected God enough not to cause harm, for he knew Saul would bring destruction upon himself.., and Saul sought the power of the Lord, and through that seeking, he turned and got lost in what the purpose of God's commandments were for... And he became foolish and didn't wait for Samual to come and present the offering...

Soma, narrow is the gate that leads to life, but wide is the gate of destruction. Take care of your walk with the Lord and the Lord will take care of your needs. Wander from the instructions of the Lord, and you heap destruction upon yourself. Do not be as the tax collector and if you are, do not be suprised on how you are treated...

Peace.

Jeff

Good post. Right now, I'm having a hard time believing that he has a girlfriend in the hospital. What if that's a lie too? Everytime he gets caught lying or just being plain ignorant, he goes into pity party and saying he's sorry, but his girlfriend is sick....blah, blah, blah.

I'm done with him. I think the best thing we could all do it put him on ignore.

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Hi Vic, John here:
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

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That wouldn't be a "judgement" post, would it?
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"When the final line is over
It's certain that the curtain's gonna fall
I can hide inside Your sweet sweet love
For ever more"

You tell me? : ---John

 

[John the Baptist]

Hi, I found this 'post' on another site: It is a part of a post by a Eugene Shubert. I thought it worth the trouble of posting it here?
---John
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Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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This is instruction that my critics and detractors need; I understand it. But if they presume to be teachers, I will listen.

All you teachers of the Law, please reconcile Matthew 7:1-2 with the following judgments:


“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.†John 7:24.
“I have written you in my letter not to associate with immoral peopleâ€â€not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked man from among you.†1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Godâ€â€having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.†2 Timothy 3:1-5.

 

[Vic C.]

Am I reading the above post correctly? Are we told we are to judge with righteous judgement? That's what John 7:24 appears to be saying. 8-)