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Human beings are slothful by nature and we tend to seek the easy path. We like one step solutions and simplified formulas. Why labor patiently with a chronic condition when we can frame it as a demon that can be cast out in a ten minute prayer? And the CCC's characterization of homosexuality...

Meat is harmful to the earth, leaving a carbon footprint many times larger than that left by those who wisely abstain from meat. Didn't you know that?

This post gets my nomination for the most intelligent response so far. Hi John. That's a very thorough list and I can't help but agree with many points of false teaching. But as a general point, I don't think people go to churches that teach anything they don't believe. The pretrib rapture...

Very well said!

I'm trying to reconcile this overtly ecumenical tone with your two threads that claimed that real Christians pay tithes and speak in tongues. But I digress. I try to be careful when using the "you're not a Christian" card which is a sword that can cut both ways when wielded clumsily. In...

Claiming victory you haven't actually won makes you look just a little silly. Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38) “Can anyone forbid water...

Even the woman at the well understood Jesus was Jewish. I keep seeing people toss around arbitrary definitions of being a Jew that are simply based on ignorance. Being a Jew isn't even necessarily based on birth. People forget that even in the Old Testament people converted to Judaism, most...

Thank you guys. I think that many of the bloopers of witnessing are because of a lack of effort, looking for shortcuts and the easy path to preaching the gospel without actually having to personally relate to people. I see this in billboards (Eternity, smoking or non?) tracts left in restrooms...

It's a topic rarely visited I think partially because we all don't feel we do enough when it comes to preaching the gospel, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on this. I'm going to ask two questions. 1. What technique, confluence of circumstances and conditions, or concerted strategy have...

Every baptized Christian receives the Holy Ghost, whether they speak in tongues or not. Again you demonstrate a myopic understanding of this topic.

That's very true. Many Christians are guilty of making up what LDS believe based on obscure writings and records of what Smith or Young taught. Having spoken to them at length, they live a faith that's far more rational and less eccentric than the weirdness of the cult from which they...

The social justice Jesus taught and the whorified version of it taught by Democrats are very different things. I think there must be a rational side of you that understands this.

Doesn't seem to help.....

^^^^ This.

Get ten more to agree with you and you'll still be wrong. Truth isn't arrived at by consensus, it's absolute. In this OP and the OP on your tithing thread, you clearly were parading yourself as a great Christian because of tithing and speaking in tongues, and more importantly, both OP's that...

I'm sure everything I said to Aspen applies to you too, along with all Leftists who think that Christ and Belial are Facebook friends. I have nothing but harsh words for any Christian who dances with the devil, justifying wickedness and attempting by moral clammishness to harmonize good and...

RANDOR, why does it seem to me you're always promoting how good a Christian you are? First with the tithing and now with the tongues, you seem to think this is a contest. I expect this from new Christians but you say you've been saved for decades. Yet in all that time you've failed to discern...

Husband and father of four. I'm fairly certain I'm not a girl. But I appreciate the enthusiasm. :)

Did you not understand that fundamentalism has nothing to do with the cold/hot/lukewarm thing? Two completely different subjects. Start a thread on it if it interests you.