My understanding of it growing up was that every human is a sinner because only god is perfect. That's not to say that being a sinner makes you wicked, it makes you human.
Well, if you believe in sin. I don't really. My main problem with Christianity is other Christians, and not all of them, but the loud ones
. Actually, I just watched a film called Hell House that frankly, made me want to stab people. There was a Judgment House in my hometown, but (thank goodness), I never went. I think it's all about how you view sin. These people (in the movie) consider sin as something that sends you to hell, which basically means that you are expected to be perfect and anyone who sins and doesn't ask Jesus to save and forgive them goes to hell. In the church I grew up in, we were taught that humans cannot be perfect. That didn't mean that it was okay to go out and sin, but if you do sin, your only human and you've already been forgiven. It's just perspective, really...and how literally you take the bible. You know, if Adam and Eve were real people or if the story is a metaphor. I find that the Christians that I think this thread started about (we all know who they are) take the bible literally. There is no room for interpretation or doubt. In churches like the one I grew up in, doubt and interpretation were essential to faith. If you don't doubt, how can you have faith, you know?
I always find it odd that the "christians" who say "god hates queers" and tell us all that we're going to hell and all that other crap, who are so self righteous don't seem to remember that it was the loud self righteous Pharisees that Jesus had so many problems with. Is it better to pray loudly and tell people how much you tithe or to do it in private and keep your donations to yourself? A lot of it has to do with which parts of the bible your religious studies focus on. My church focused on the gospels while the hellfire and brimstone churches focus on the old testament and the epistles (and take every statement literally instead of in context or as an example/parable).
But that's just my two cents...
Posted on: May 01, 2008, 08:34:51 PM
Quote from: Laura Eva B on May 01, 2008, 08:25:37 PM
Quote from: Rebis on May 01, 2008, 08:00:40 PM
I'm fine with my ignorance. I'm perfectly happy with it. No one can know everything. The things I don't know are known by someone else. 
So why argue in an issue (religion) that is so contentious even in this forum ??
Laura x
Because it's fun.
