Approximately 70 percent of active-duty U.S. military personnel identify as Christian, which translates to roughly 910,000 soldiers and service members out of a total active-duty force of about 1.3 million.
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The good man that turned bad out of necessity
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So are all of those Christians wrong? Are all of those Christians doomed?
I'll answer for you.... No they're not, because you don't have to follow the example of Jesus and the apostles to be saved.
Yes.
That’s in Jesus’ hands. They will explain what they did and why they did it to Jesus. Willfully disobeying him is rejecting him.
You haven’t demonstrated the ability to reliably answer for me.
You know that they aren’t. Beyond that, you don’t stand on solid ground.
Yes I do because you have already told me that rapists and murderers will be in heaven, and the victims of these people could possibly meet them again.
Seems to me that the Bible, the rule book can be ignored as long as you are sincerely sorry.
So I'm reiterating what you've said previously.
And, what's the point in having a set of rules and a set of role models that can be ignored?
Is salvation attained by faith alone, or by works? Or by being sorry?
No. I told you that no one is going to heaven and that only those who repent will be allowed to enter the Kingdom of God.
Why?
Is Shrek based on a real character, and if so, did it sound like Eddie Murphy?
I’ve never watched Shrek.
Because of videos like this mostly...
But also because... It's a weird story, even for the bible.
You should. It's a funny movie.
Atheists dismiss the point made in Bible stories, “weird” or not.
You should. It's a funny movie.
I’ve heard that it is. I’ll try to keep an eye out for it.
I mean, why not have stories involving dragons and such? If the purpose of the story is allegory, why not make it more exciting? I posed this question once to a pastor and he said it would seem unbelievable.
To which I said, compared to what? You got people rising from the dead on a regular basis. It wasn't just Jesus, you had Lazarus, and all the graves in Jerusalem opened up at one point with the dead greeting the living. Apparently resurrection was something of a banality at the time.
Dragons seem tame by comparison. Everyone expects them to show up in these ancient stories, it's practically a prerequisite. I think the closest you get is Lucifer changing into a dragon while he's fighting the arch angel Michael during the battle of heaven.
He wasn’t riding a dragon.
Does the fact that the story isn’t about a man and his dragon influence your decision about whether the story is or isn’t an allegory?
He may have a valid point but I don’t like his answer. My father used to tell me when we were discussing billiards and beer at the tavern, “Don’t shoot a scared stick.” (I was five at the time but I was still able to catch his drift.)
Not really. I genuinely want to know how Christians just shrug at the story and treat it like it's another Tuesday.
Really? I'm 38 and I don't get it.
I think it’s pretty simple. God can do anything (within the boundaries of his character.)
Really? I'm 38 and I don't get it.
Act with confidence. The pastor you spoke with gave, imo, a shaky answer. (Shooting pool without confidence is losing pool. Steady, not shaky, is key.)
I prefer the 2000 suicidal pigs story.I think what matters is how we approach the talking donkey story.
Is Shrek based on a real character, and if so, did it sound like Eddie Murphy?
You know the Bible says that he did both.
Why then do you ask? Readers should remember that you have said that you aren’t here to learn.
There is only one account of Jesus reading text throughout the Bible, and one of him writing something in the dirt, although there's no record of what he wrote.
Literacy rates at the time were pitifully low, between 3 and 5 percent.
Literacy rates at the time were pitifully low, between 3 and 5 percent.
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