"Pat Robertson is the personification of all that is wrong with Evangelical Christianity."
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:36-40
You know Jesus was a fairly daring and courageous soul, having dinner with Matthew Levi, the hated tax collector, oh and Jesus went after the men ready to stone the woman caught in adultery, not the "adulteress"...yes, and I really like what Jesus had to say about those who profess to follow God but turn around and ignore the widows and the poor. The pharisees even had private entrances to and from the main temple in Jerusalem so as to avoid the common folk. His words still stand today, read it above. The Bible actually says alot of different things than is being espoused by some today. What is highly interesting is that Jesus was not even a Christian! He was a Jew, who even kept Sabbath...which never changed either..."I came not to CHANGE the law but to fulfill it." Fact remains who has the right to represent Him on earth when they can't even abide by his teachings???
Look at the Ten Commandments. It's simple, the first few talk about your relationship with God and the remainder about your relationship with your neighbor. In Matthew 22 Jesus merely summed it up. Nothing has changed. I think some people want to do away with that law so they can freely hate "Haitians who have made a pact with the Devil." Oh, but we are saved by grace...copout! We are accountable as that law was made for man because he obviously needed some direction and still fights it even when it is right in front of his nose.
Oh, your neighbor is the person next door? I don't think so....it's the person lying under the rubble in the streets of Port Au Prince, perhaps?
[This message has been edited by milagros (1/14/2010)]
[This message has been edited by milagros (1/14/2010)]