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I am not sure what he is. I think he has worked himself up into some sort of craze.

Worse. He's tiresome.

If your that tired, you might want to stop working so hard against threads about the birth of Jesus.

JT,

Do you have a problem with my post of a Christmas message?

Jiveturkey said,
"I feel honored, couldn't come from a better group of A-holes. Most important day of the year besides Christmas"

Sounds to me like you recognize the birth of the Savior and value Him.

What were those teachings/ doctrines of devil's?

Aww....now Crappy is pouting.


Bwess his widdew heart.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."

What religion does that sound like???
It sounds like the one that I used to belong to before I trusted Christ as my Savior. Seafood on Fridays because they didn't consider it to be meat. Hmmm.
Who was forbidden to marry???
I think it was the dudes that we were taught to call"Fathers."
In fact they are still forbidden to marry all the way up to Francis, who calls himself "Holy Father."

"The Beast adopted new raiment and studied the ways of Time and Space and Light and the Flow of energy through the Universe. From its studies, the Beast fashioned new structures from oxidised metal and proclaimed their glories. And the Beast's followers rejoiced, finding renewed purpose in these teachings."

—  The Book of Mozilla, 11:14

Religion is violent.

Religion is the illusion of knowledge and wisdom.

In religion, the gravitational pull is away from treating people well and toward some kind of rule keeping rather than relationship building. People sometimes create a religious belief where they’re right with God by following rules or rituals or traditions, and it’s OK for them to not treat other people well. They think going to church on Sunday, memorizing Bible verses, or not eating bacon makes them right with God. But, no matter what one does or doesn’t do, if one doesn’t treat other people well, then they’re not right with God.

Jesus made it crystal clear what the mark of being one of His followers is. A religion where rules and rituals and traditions replace the priority of treating other people well is the polar opposite of following Jesus, according to Him. People have been mistreated in the name of religion; and people have been mistreated in the name of Jesus. People have been rejected in the name of Jesus…when Jesus died for these people. I just don’t think Jesus is fond of it when self-professed ‘Christians’ mistreat people that He died for.

Jesus said that the thing that is going to distinguish you, the thing that should be a stamp on your behavior and a stamp on your lifestyle, is the way you treat other people. He’s telling us to love other people the way that He loves us. And not to substitute that for rules or rituals or traditions. He doesn’t want His followers to be characterized by and distinguished by rules and rituals and traditions. The priority of following Jesus is how we treat other people.

The violence visited on the Hebrews was punishment for their rebellion against God.

Would that be a loving god?

Yes.
Yes. What would happen if you let your children run wild?

Loved his SNL skits!

Violence would be the morally incorrect solution.

Teach them a better way than resorting to violence. What happened to "though shalt not kill"?

That was man's" solution " to the baby Jesus after the wise men / God's people approached Herod.
Love personified came into the world.
King Herod and all Jerusalem were troubled.
Herod murdered all of the toddlers and infants.
Guess what?