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I am of the belief John that should you make a choice
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Well, the author of Ephesians 2:8-10 is of a different opinion. From memory - "By grace you are saved through faith,
and that not of yourselves. You have to ask yourself what is the referent noun of the pronoun "that" doing in the sentence. Going further - "It is a gift" - and again ask yourself what "it" is doing in that sentence.
Patting oneself on the back for even having made the correct "choice" is precisely the sort of thing that the rest of verse 10 states as a reason for faith itself having been a gift in the first place - and is precisely what nameadvertising is saying.
The thing is, you don't choose what you believe. Take Bigfoot, for example. Some people believe a large primate lives in the Pacific Northwest. Some people do not believe a large primate lives in the Pacific Northwest.
I don't know what you believe about Bigfoot, but if I offered you a million dollars to change your mind about Bigfoot, you couldn't actually choose to believe one way or another about it - even with a huge payoff. I mean, sure, you could *say* you believed, but really you'd just want to fool me in order to get the money.
And that is precisely the reason why you see bawling teenagers coming up for altar calls at camp meetings for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th time. What you can do, quite easily because I
used to do it is to present a very persuasive Gospel presentation that will inspire people who've been trying to "make that choice" convince themselves that "this time I really mean it" and then "commit their heart to Christ" over and over and over. They're looking for that payoff, because they know if they can't make themselves believe it, they are going to Hell.
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Forget global warming and climate change
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Ummm... you didn't get the Christian memo on global warning, Chris. It's a secular humanist lie promulgated by scientists (you know, those folks that believe in evolution) and people who worship an earth goddess. Christians aren't supposed to accept global warming as a scientific consensus.
As for the second part of your sentence:
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it is religion which will consume and pulverize our existence.
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Well, yes Chris, that is the point. We should support war in the middle east, arm the modern country of Israel to the teeth, and antagonize the crap out of everyone there, so there will be a nuclear war which makes Jesus come back.
On the "Christian with a capital C" scale, you're not making the cut if the notion of a flat out cataclysmic armed religious conflict is, in your mind, "a bad thing".
Help me out here Mr. RaptureReady! Can I have a witness!