BecauseHeLives wrote:All of them are obviously afraid to actually comment directly on your experience, Sterling. They prefer to simply talk in circles. You don't have to be a Christian or a "believer" to see the irony in your post and that the person obviously valued the lives of fowl over the lives on an unborn baby. It's funny but in the same respect it's exceptionally UNfunny.
As far as Christians having abortions: I believe that most people who call themselves Christians are not in fact Christians. They may simply be believers. Believers are not always saved and don't necessarily have the holy spirit guiding their lives.
Make in me a new heart..... o'Lord.
Bless you Sterling for you perseverance and being steadfast.
The words you use show that you simply cannot communicate with people who disagree with you. When you identify a foetus as an unborn baby, you automatically discount other people's beliefs that an early foetus is not yet a baby, but only a potential baby. Nobody is talking in circles. However, people on this blog do come from differenp positions and they have very different world views. I understand clearly that you consider a fertilized egg to be a full human baby that should have all the rights of a baby born healthy or a child or an adult.
I simply disagree with you. That doesn't make me any less Christian than you or Sterling. In fact, in my world view, it makes me more Christian because my views are more in concert with what Jesus said and taught. And equally important, with what Jesus did NOT say or teach. I do not accept later church leaders as the equal of Christ. That includes Paul, and other Christian writers, right up to and including the current pope. It certainly does not include people like Martin Luther, Oral Roberts, James Dobson, Warren Jeffs, or any of the people who claim to know more about God's mind than Jesus Himself knew. The best guides that we have to what Jesus actually taught are the 4 gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the later gospels and partial gospels found at Nag Hammadi. This is because they appear to be the earliest Christian writings that have been preserved.
Some of these writings were rejected at the Council of Nicaea called by Emperor Constantine in A.D. 325. History shows that there was wide disagreement about which of the writings were truly representative of Jesus, and equally important, which writings supported the beliefs that the powerful men of the time wanted in the church. (Women were excluded from that council). Peter himself disagreed with Jesus about the place of women in the Church. And of course, after Jesus died, Peter's views were what guided the early Christian church. Sadly, Peter was not prepared to accept Jesus' teachings on the role of women, and I choose to believe Jesus and not those who subsequently rejected so much of what Jesus taught by word and example.
I wish the Lord
would make you a new heart, and one that is prepared to accept the equality of all people, the equality that Jesus modeled---but that my and your church reject.
