Perhaps Baldimo, the Lord is trying to humble you by allowing you to display such arrogance as to claim to know Him on an international forum, then quoting something 100% wrong.
No superior dance for you Miss Church Lady. Sit down please.
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:Who in his Time interview states he has never prayed for Saddam Hussein. Very Christ like, Junior.
Matthew 18:21,22 "Then Peter came and said to Him, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.'"
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm
You're missing the point.
When Jesus made that sort of statement or similar statements about turning the other cheek and what not, there was always a built in assumption, i.e. that everybody in the picture was quasi-reasonable at least and capable of learning from such an example.
All of the original Christians were Jews. Kind of like what I told a buddy of mine once who asked me what the difference was between a crow and a raven: I replied it was like the Masons and the Shriners, i.e. that you had to be a crow for six or eight years before they'd LET you be a raven...
Jesus in fact was telling Jews how to conduct themselves in dealing with other Jews for the most part, at least early on; the idea of preaching the gospel of Christ to gentiles came a bit later.
None of these kinds of admonitions is applicable in the case of outright barbarians like Saddam Hussein. Note the way the admonition is phrased, i.e.
Quote:
"Then Peter came and said to Him, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.'"
Notice that you do not read anything like:
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"Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall the barbarian burn our villages, steal all of our chickens and sheep, rape all our women, kill everybody they can get their hands on, pull our city down to the last stone and plow salt into the region, and I still forgive all that ****?" Whereupon Jesus said to him: "Whattsa matter Bubba, ain't you got no sense of humor??"
I mean, copies of the new testament can be found online and aren't that hard to search. Let me know if you can find anything like that; I never have.
are you saying that Jesus, who knew he was to be arrested, convicted, flogged and crucified had a built in assumption that people were quasi reasonable? Nice try....
[You don't seem to have gotten it. ANY lesson is intended for somebody capable of profiting from it. A true barbarian like Hussein cannot profit from any of Christ's examples.
swolf wrote:[You don't seem to have gotten it. ANY lesson is intended for somebody capable of profiting from it. A true barbarian like Hussein cannot profit from any of Christ's examples.
You're saying then that the infallible Christ cannot change all mens hearts? tsk tsk tsk.....glad I'll be judged by Him one day and not you......you're one tough, cold hearted mofo....
Baldimo,
What the hell are you talking about? The hypocracy of Christianity in America is legendary.
Cycloptichorn
Cycloptichorn wrote:Baldimo,
What the hell are you talking about? The hypocracy of Christianity in America is legendary.
Cycloptichorn
