Mark 23: 8 "But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters. 9 Don't call anyone on earth your father. All of you have the same Father in heaven. 10 None of you should be called the leader. The Messiah is your only leader. 11 Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others. 12 If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored."
What does this mean? Well it means evangelical Christianity will NOT be replacing the Constitution. It means that the mainstream Christianity which is based on Paul's ideas is false. It means that anyone attempting to force Christ into anyone's lives with any kind of authority is a false authority and should be ignored.
I agree with this post, but in the sense that we are respecting everyone as equals and that their interpretations of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are valid like anyone else's. There is no Christian hierarchy. There is no authority but Jesus, and no, none of you Bible thumpers here infesting this site don't speak on His behalf. As I clearly spelled out, authority belongs ONLY to Him. NEVER any of you.
Why do you believe authority on truth belongs to the self? To the individual?
Seems quite useless for God to give us a book that got corrupted immediately (so did He lie when He said He'd preserve His word or was that also made up?) and then give us no other way to know what is true other than simply making it up as we go along in our own minds.
Your lack of faith in God is palpable. You worship the self instead of Him. Paying lip service to authority belonging to Christ doesn't change this because your belief in that is based on the self.
And the irony of you using only the parts of the Bible you agree with, while throwing the rest out because you don't like it. Meanwhile, without the Bible in its fullness you would believe none of the stuff you currently do, as there would be no reason to.
Then you attack other people for believing what they do and sharing that truth with others because they believe if they don't those people's blood will be on their hands when they go to Hell. Doesn't matter if you agree with them, but that is what they are doing, and you attack them for it with an ironically "holier than thou" attitude.
Mark 23: 8 "But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters. 9 Don't call anyone on earth your father. All of you have the same Father in heaven. 10 None of you should be called the leader. The Messiah is your only leader. 11 Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others. 12 If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored."
What does this mean? Well it means evangelical Christianity will NOT be replacing the Constitution. It means that the mainstream Christianity which is based on Paul's ideas is false. It means that anyone attempting to force Christ into anyone's lives with any kind of authority is a false authority and should be ignored.
I agree with this post, but in the sense that we are respecting everyone as equals and that their interpretations of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are valid like anyone else's. There is no Christian hierarchy. There is no authority but Jesus, and no, none of you Bible thumpers here infesting this site don't speak on His behalf. As I clearly spelled out, authority belongs ONLY to Him. NEVER any of you.
Why do you believe authority on truth belongs to the self? To the individual?
Seems quite useless for God to give us a book that got corrupted immediately (so did He lie when He said He'd preserve His word or was that also made up?) and then give us no other way to know what is true other than simply making it up as we go along in our own minds.
Your lack of faith in God is palpable. You worship the self instead of Him. Paying lip service to authority belonging to Christ doesn't change this because your belief in that is based on the self.
And the irony of you using only the parts of the Bible you agree with, while throwing the rest out because you don't like it. Meanwhile, without the Bible in its fullness you would believe none of the stuff you currently do, as there would be no reason to.
Then you attack other people for believing what they do and sharing that truth with others because they believe if they don't those people's blood will be on their hands when they go to Hell. Doesn't matter if you agree with them, but that is what they are doing, and you attack them for it with an ironically "holier than thou" attitude.