moses wrote on Sep 23
rd, 2017 at 3:40pm:
Brian Ross wrote Reply #1938 - Yesterday at 4:35pm
Quote:And they and their churches say they were, Moses. I will put my money on what they believe they had been taught rather than what you claim Christ taught.
Of course you want to portray them as being true followers, that is your modus operandi to excuse islamic terrorism.
Where have I done that, Moses? Where? Here's your chance to quote back to us, me "excusing Islamic terrorism"... If you can.
Quote:While the truth is they were totally at odds with the teachings of their founder, You can prove me wrong by quoting the teachings of Christ they were abiding by. It's simple are you being dishonest or not?
Their Churches taught them what they believed, Moses. Tsk, tsk. Take your ire out on your religions' Clergy, not me.
Quote: Quote:No, I am genuine, Moses. I also believe you are. I have never accused you of anything but obscuring what Christians have been taught.
Don't try and change the goal posts. My position is rock solid e.g. whatever they were taught or told in order to commit atrocities is in direct disobedience to the doctrine preached by Christ.
Disagreeing with you is "moving the goalposts"? Tsk, tsk.
Quote: Quote:I would say that being scourged (whipped) hurts a great deal, Moses and that is how Christ is usually portrayed laying about himself, left, right and centre when "cleansing the Temple".
You would say? Well of course you would.
But what does the Christian gospel say?
John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen;
and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
It doesn't say anywhere that He actually hit anybody does it?
You're trying to present hypothesis as fact.
No, I am referencing the version of The Bible most evanglicals swear is "divinely inspired", Moses - the King James' version:
Quote:Matthew 21:12-13King James Version (KJV)
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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Now, how, with a Scourge, does one "drive out" people from a building, Moses? By gesturing it at them or actually striking them?
Quote: Quote:The fact that is mentioned, graphically portrayed as being right and correct would suggest it was being used as an example to his followers in The Bible, now wouldn't it, Moses?
It is mentioned to support the ideology that houses of worship are just that, not commercial activities.
It is used as an example of violence being committed by a violent God against humanity...
Quote: Quote:The fact that it is often used to justify attacks on people by Christians suggests what to their ideas of it's appropriateness?
O.k. be more specific where have these attacks taken place? What are you talking about?
Why bother, you will simply make excuses for them as you always do, Moses.
Quote: Quote:Violence is still violence, Moses. Christ committed violence. Christ's example is used to justify violence. Tsk, tsk, obscuring the facts once again?
What violence?
How do you know there was any actual physical violence against men?
It simply says He chased money lenders,cattle and sheep out of the synagogue.
Your merely using intentionally incorrect conjecture to try and equate Christian doctrine as espoused by Christ as being no better than islamic doctrine taught by muhammad.
It will never work, the two doctrines speak for themselves resulting in:
1/. men who commit atrocities are disobeying the teachings of Christ.
2/. muslims who commit atrocities are 100% obeying the preaching of muhammad and the verses in the qur'an.
As always obscuring what the Churches
taught their followers, Moses. How typical of you to try and do that again and again. Tsk, tsk. Your Christianity is as faulty as are all religions - created by men, justified by men and used to subjugate all others.