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Why are so many in the Christian community not nice people?

Forget the nice, why will you be ex-communicated, on a non-legal, but equally as devastating playing field, if you go against a sacred cow: especially one that should be slaughtered? Too many fundamentalists, and others, come across as know-it-alls, when Jesus Himself didn’t! Figure that one out!

As Bart Ehrman said, “Well meaning, highly intelligent scholars often come to opposite conclusions when looking at the same evidence”. You don’t even have to come to a conclusion. Just ask an unpopular QUESTION! Ask a question about one of those sacred cows and and you can quickly get ID’d as a heretic, cult follower, or heathen. You’re not even an ENEMY, but you’re treated as a traitor.

Didn’t Jesus say we were to even love our enemies?

Even those who can read and write Greek, Aramic, and Hebrew are conflicted over which manuscript is most valid, and then what’s the translation, of the translator, who copied this manuscript, from another who copied it? I mean there are many who believe more in the “inspired KJV”, than the original Greek text. Erasmus meant well, but we now know he wound up using one of the worst manuscripts available to translate the King James Bible into. And you really do believe every word is God-inspired?

And you’re asking me to follow you?

How did much of the Christian community come to such a place where intolerance is so rampant? I’ve memorized a phrase recently that I keep saying to myself over and over in a hope that I will never fall back into such judgments, because I was once a Bible-thumping, real live, fact-fundamentalist!

My phrase? Spiritual maturity is allowing a seat at the table of discussion for suspicion (of all that we believe), and especially a place-setting for tolerance. Do that and you’ll have more non-Christians embrace you as a real person, which is one of the steps (however many there are) in the process to the possibility of being used by God to show forth His Son!

Let me take you from yesterdays commentary of the “literalizing metaphors” to what I think is a simple, valid question: unless you believe the entire Bible is literal. And if you do, I’ll be your friend regardless. But ask yourself this question. Do you really think Jesus actually told his disciples that it would be okay for them to drink poison without it harming them?

There’s a deliverance going on in the Spirit realm. Can you HEAR it?