Not exact matches
I'm sure there are plenty of
Christians who are still willing to go against their Lord's teachings and attack people they claim are their
God's enemies when in fact they really are their own enemies and they are just using their
Gods name to mask their vile hatred and wicked hearts.
satan possesss all the postmoderners who try to blot the
Name of
God out of our Nation's Government and the ones that try to silence the proclaimation of the gospel by attacking
Christians who pray and hand out Bibles and excercise their religion publicly.
Scott I agree with you there are «
christians» like myself who preach and teach the truth and try to restore the good
name of a child of
god
When
Christians or Muslims kill in the
name of their religion, that is indeed IRRATIONAL and the result of the IRRATIONAL BELIEFS in «
God».
to be a true
christian you have to be understanding to everyone and be there for them and pray for them... not call them
names and make nasty remarks... that is not of
god..
my appologies folks — im a lousy
christian — but still im a
christian - i seen enough miracles in my life «personal life to» to show me there is a
god that is there and does care — nad he deserves more than hes getting here on this blog site ---- if no one else will ill say it — thank you
god — in jesus
name — please show these folks that when it comes to things — you do nt play — thx.
How many people has
christians killed in the
name of
god?
I don't know how many people here are from Aurora — Co, but some comments are not helping in any way the survivors and families.I respect all religions in the world and I also respect the opinion of those who don't believe in
God or anything.But, instead of blasphemy the
name of
God, send your positive thoughts and energy to those who survived this tragedy.Even though some of you show no signs of good
Christians you should show at least signs of good neighbors.You still can be an Atheist and have compassion for others!Don't let the evil be inside you, Aurora — CO needs to heal in peace!!!
Islam is on the rise and going through 3rd world country pains like the
christians did when they killed in the
name of
god and ruled with religion.
I'm just tired of people who say there is no
God saying I am stupid for my beliefs when they act in moronic things and do things just as bad as
Christians do in the
name of what they believe.
the problem with some
Christian is they don't know
god... even just by acknowledging God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your name and God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
god... even just by acknowledging
God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your name and God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
God they'd be a step in the right direction... but then Jesus said many will come and say i saved life on your
name and
God will respond «I do no know you» your name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of god and god's wisdom
God will respond «I do no know you» your
name is not in the book of life those who are and have never separated from the side of
god and god's wisdom
god and
god's wisdom
god's wisdom...
Satan was of
God's first born sons and
Christian gospels have given Him many other
names such as serpent, snake, dragon etc..
There is so much falsehoods under the
name of
God that this little test will cause us to think, and the
christians don't want that.
With that being said,
God forbid your a
Christian, in a forum on Satanist using the
name Judas and trying to «tak the **** out of people» (what ever that means).
There are people of many
Christians traditions that have been abused in the
name of
God.
We might all want to remember that not so long ago
Christians were responsible for massacres in the
name of
God.
So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the
name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to
God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.
Christians have voted to put their
God's
name on everyones money, add «Under
God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.
So...
Christians can call you
names, make judgements about you and tell you what their all loving «
God» is going to do to torture you for not believing!?!? Wow.
They seem to worship the Republican party, racism and guns 1st and foremost and just throw
God and Jesus»
names around like just calling oneself a
Christian makes one a
Christian (w / o actual behavior modification in line with the Bible's teachings.).
Also, you seem happy to forget the millions who were killed in the
name of the
christian god.
Taking your
gods name in vain is only a crime to
Christians and does not pertain to everyone... you can't be punished in a Secular country for doing so.
Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great
God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a
Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good
name of the medieval church.
As
Christians we worship a
God of many
names.
A true
Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for
God's
name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».
The good news is that Jesus has survived the embarrassing things that we
Christians have done in His
name, as found in the dark side of the history of fundamentalism, the messiness of the religious Right, and even more recently, in folks who burn the Koran and hold signs that say «
God Hates Fags,» all in the
name of Christianity.
They acknowledge the
God of Israel, even though they do not know his
name, just as truly as other
Christians deny him when, according to the Q tradition, they perform wonders in the
name of Jesus while practicing lawlessness.
WE
Christians, believers in Christ (therefore the
name), worship the
God and Father of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Why would a
Christian accept that it is OK to have a commemoration to Jesus
named after a fertility
God and then not just follow the mandate layed out by Jesus on Passover to remember him.
Christians are by no means immune to this — in fact, they're often worse because they find ways to justify their actions in the
name of
God.
Tell that to every
Christian or
God fearing person who died do to some religious over-zelous wingnut who harms someone else in the
name of their religion.
But when we see this happening to a man
named Jesus in our Bible, and because we know that Jesus is
God, we
Christians don't even bat an eye at it.
It's time we as
Christian's celebrated the holiness of
God by keeping His
name holy.
Please note every Easter I send an email asking we bury the hatchet in the
name of
God, and for our kids and because we profess to be
Christians....
If you don't beleive the Bible is the Holy word of
God do what ever you want, but don't take on Christ's
name calling yourself a
Christian and not follow His teachings.
In the lead up to the convention, Florida pastor Rodney Baker submitted a resolution titled «Maintaining Appropriate Content in Products Distributed by LifeWay
Christian Bookstores» for consideration expressing that the convention «expresses dissatisfaction with «The Blind Side» and any product that contains explicit profanity,
God's
name in vain, and racial slur.»
Indeed, when the good faith of the Jew unveils the bad faith of
Christian belief in
God, the
Christian can become more truly open to the Christ who points to the end of the old creation, the end of reality as such, and ushers in that new creation of total liberation, which no longer can even be
named as reality.
Therefore, when the
Christian acknowledges his own existence in a truly Godless world he must repudiate both the
name and image of
God.
What constitutes a
Christian congregation, we urged, is the practice of the public worship of
God in Jesus»
name.
What can the
Christian fear of the power of darkness when he can
name our darkness as the fulfillment of the self - emptying of
God in Christ?
Christian extremists don't typically blow up other people in
God's
name.
Rather than being mute and numb in response to the advent of a world in which the original
name of
God is no longer sayable, the
Christian can live and speak by pronouncing the word of
God's death, by joyously announcing the «good news» of the death of
God, and by greeting the naked reality of our experience as the triumphant realization of the self - negation of
God.
(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred
name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century
Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the
name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any
god to surrender possession of his secret
name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.
All the time we're still
Christian enough to call to
God in the
name of Jesus — the very Jesus who warned of hell where the «worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.»
Then, to add insult to injury, Nycloe Termel, read from Philippians, leaving out any mention of Jesus Christ, which was the main point of Philippians 2: Therefore
God exalted him [JesusChrist] to the highest place and gave him the
name that is aboveevery
name, that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongueacknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God theFather.It was a shameless display of offense to
Christians and Christianity so as not to, apparently, offend anyone else.
He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere
name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the
name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that
Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a
Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our
gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against
Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.
We take our inhuman behavior; we bless it with religious phrases and religious jargon; then we beat on one another in the
name of
God so that Catholics and Protestants feel justified in killing each other in Ireland, and
Christians and Moslems do likewise in Lebanon.
There's a lot of
Christians killing other
Christians, likely in
Gods name.»
Blake
named God as Urizen or Satan at the very moment when he discovered the apocalyptic significance of the death of the
Christian God — as witness his first prophetic poem, America.
For example, praising
God by
naming both an attribute and action of
God would avoid the mistaken dualism that sometime creeps into
Christian piety and prayer when divine actions and attributes are separated.