The incoherence does not
matter to the person rejecting the official account because it is resolved at a higher level of abstraction, namely the unshakable belief that the official account of an event is wrong.
Not exact matches
As a
matter of fact, when he will walk into the temple of God, declaring himself
to be God, it is then that it will all make sense
to Israel, they will see that they have been deceived, and when they
reject him, he begins a slaughter of God's
people that will be unparalleled in all of human history.
The reason it is so often a
matter of dispute is that
people differ in what they mean when they use the word, and since deep emotions are tied in with the conviction that the Bible is inspired,
to doubt the kind of inspiration one believes in is apt
to seem like
rejecting the Bible outright or making it no different from any other book.
Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything
to win a proselyte only
to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse
people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought
to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral
matters, when they ought both
to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend
to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue
to practice the evil of their parents by
rejecting those whom God sends
to them now (Matt.
If Christianity continues
to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins
to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things,
people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't
matter - your needs now
matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will
to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you
to not be
rejected.
«
People send a letter saying they would like
to consider joining,» Lander said, «and then we have a conversation, and there is the
matter of dues, we do have rather heavy dues... and then we take a vote, though we have never
rejected anyone.
Ms. James has been telling allies and potential supporters that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's operation is pushing her
to reject the Working Families Party — or risk losing his support if she seeks the Democratic Party nomination, according
to five
people familiar with the
matter, including three who spoke directly with Ms. James.
Anyone who thinks
people are a good thing rather than a menace, and who believes humans can find solutions
to our problems if we put our minds
to it, should
reject the population - control argument and make the case for full freedom of choice on reproductive
matters.
For that
matter, many
people who call themselves Christians probably don't know the extent that it claims
to be fact based (in the original writings), and have come
to reject physical facts of the universe in favor of «faith», not knowing that their own writing states that they should not do so.