Originally posted by FMF
But your manifesto is purely one of copious words about thoughts, and not one of deeds or of the practical application of your beliefs to the details of living a vivid life.
Such things you always run a mile from.[/b]
But I have been reading your stuff for years and your posts scarcely ever deal with anything to do with a "better way to be a human being".
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For years we have seen you act as a policeman here. You seem to be on a mission to make sure no one believes anything too much.
"Militant middle of the road" is how one person once put it.
Someone else said some people are "cautious failures."
Christ is more than a better way to live. Christ is the perfect life.
The gospel is that Christ is not only the perfect life but that He is available to live in us.
1.) Christ is the Perfect Life
2.) Christ is available to blend and compound into man's life.
This is probably an abomination to you because you think
1. God is not.
2. Christ is not God-man
3. Christ is not perfect living
4. Christ is not available to be applied to our living.
5. There is no need for salvation.
Indeed you seem to stear well clear of anything like that, choosing instead to offer only this elaborate blend of vanity and a myriad of assertions.
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This thread is steering quite directly into living with Christ.
This thread is giving attention to the Source of the highest form of living - Christ.
Here Jesus indicated that if the tree was good the fruit would be good. This thread is about how believers should give utmost attention to the Source - the life into Whom we are grafted as saved people - into Christ.
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by the fruit the tree is known." (Matt. 12:33)
Many of us Christians are learning to give utmost attention to the tree. The fruit produced will be fine if the right right tree is the source.
I have called upon you numerous times to talk about how your spiritual ideology might be translated into a better way to be a human being, something which countless Christmas I have known do as a matter of course.
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The benefit of this teaching will not "translate" into anything useful for you because of the above mentioned points of your ideology.
1. God is not.
2. Christ is not God-man
3. Christ is not perfect living
4. Christ is not available to be applied to our living.
5. There is no need for salvation.
I hear you saying, "Well how can you make all this of some practical use for me who doesn't believe God exists, who doesn't believe Christ is the Son of God, who doesn't believe Christ rose or that Christ is available, and who essentially is on his own and needs no redemption or salvation from God ?"
I can't.
But your manifesto is purely one of copious words about thoughts, and not one of deeds or of the practical application of your beliefs to the details of living a vivid life.
Such things you always run a mile from.
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Its it a little peculiar that you seem to be a "against everybody" here.
You have spoken disdainfully about my writing. Let me say that the only time I just may sit up and do more than a cursory glance at your posts is when you actually start to write something positive about
Spirituality.
To police the
Spirituality thread making sure that no one stands for anything too much, seems to be your mission here.
Anyway, i like the term "Manifesto" there. The Christian's "Manifesto" is the New Testament. And we have thousands of models of communities on the five continents where many are
"inheriting the promises" and followers of those who are, with patience and a teachable spirit.