Originally posted by Kieran
huh. Let me, in my imperfect English, try to 'splain it one more time.
The more I talk, the more I push people the other way. This isn't about me and my ego, this is about me doing the right thing by my God and Savior. So, in that light, you win the debate.
Even if that means you believe I am being WASPY or can't take the heat. (hah!)
so what if it pushes them away? why do christians buy houses? why do y'all have jobs and make long term investments and why are you worried about pushing someone away? if the building was on fire you'd shake them and beg them to run for their lives and jesus 'done' told you it was so why don't you get off my tv screen and get shakin!
you are supposed to believe that jesus could come back at any moment! why don't you sell everything you own take off walking - sleeping as little as possible and having faith that the lord will take care of you - just spending all your time trying like hell to save souls and spread god's word?
because it wouldn't go over well in this day and age? so what- did it go over well in jesus' day? how did they receive him and his disciples?
it might distance people? so what - that's a cop out, your actions would probably do more to convince people than your weirdo threats. all these preists have been making excuses for you all to live comfortably over the centuries but if you really believe shouldn't you be out there doing what he told you and smiling at the sky?
"There have been many "facts" over the centuries that later, under the scrutiny of enlightened reason, turned out to be less than factual"actually iron - in this day and age our understanding gets more complex but not necessarily wrong - i could describe the motion of some thing using newtons laws but einsteins are more precise - bohr's model of the atom wasn't perfect but it was close, heisenberg understood it much better- even the greek idea of circular orbits was at least close - kepler straightened that right out and so on and so on.... it just keeps getting clearer and it may be impossible to ever know the full truth but we don't need to.
- it's all about understanding that you don't have all the answers and spending your efforts trying to make closer and closer approximations of the truth- what else ya gonna do, just read genisis and leave it at that? that's wasting our ability.