Biggest threats to Christianity

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miktre

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Nuhen said:
1) You show plenty of compassion for the Palestinians, but no compassion for the Israelis.

2) Do you refrain from shaving your beard? Do you eat pork or shellfish? Do you work on Saturdays?

I'm not saying you HAVE to do these things.
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Israel has state of the art weapons and has over 300 nukes gets 3 billion from us every year and is not occupied.

OT doesnt say not shave your beard it says don't round it off : goatee ect
I don't eat shellfish or pork for health not because I think it will make me unclean before the Lord.
Christ fulfilled the Sabbath, I find rest in Him everyday.
 
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Cup-of-Ruin

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Brackenzee said:
Don't be absurd. We don't like what's happening to the Palestenian people any more than you do. The difference is we're not using ridiculous exegesis and racist language to imply that the entire nation of Israel is evil.
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Israel are a people not geographical state, it is proven that most inhabitants of the military state of Israel today are not descended from Jacob/Israel.
 
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jesus_be4_religion

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I think a big threat to Christianity is the humanitarian movement it has almost became a religion in itself. What I am speaking of i have experienced at work. There is a guy at work who loves to doing humanitarian things but he hates when you mention God it actually angers him. He pulls a lot of people to him by doing good things but not pressing they know a God or have any purpouse.
 
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jesus_be4_religion said:
I think a big threat to Christianity is the humanitarian movement it has almost became a religion in itself. What I am speaking of i have experienced at work. There is a guy at work who loves to doing humanitarian things but he hates when you mention God it actually angers him. He pulls a lot of people to him by doing good things but not pressing they know a God or have any purpouse.
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Hmmm, that's an interesting view. It's like when homosexuals argue that if Christians were so righteous, they would adopt all the kids who don't have parents. They then use it turn the argument against us. I don't like that at all because it's extremely biased and one-sided.
 
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oopsies said:
Hmmm, that's an interesting view. It's like when homosexuals argue that if Christians were so righteous, they would adopt all the kids who don't have parents. They then use it turn the argument against us. I don't like that at all because it's extremely biased and one-sided.
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We should be adopting all the children who need parents. I am convicted when I hear that. What I dislike is when Christians complain about the state of the world - abortion, euthanasia, homelessness and than criticize the governments efforts to address the issues, while failing to solve them within the church. We should be the largest body of adoptive parents, caretakers for the old and sick, and shelterers of the homeless.

It is maddening. The fact is if the Church (and I am speaking of my own here - Catholic) didn't drop the ball we would be managing all education, medical care, science, and mental health care.

Here's a success story - the LDS church rallied together and adopted most of the kids with behavior problems in my state - they literally emptied agency after agency about 5 years ago. It was amazing and it should have spurred us all on to pitch in.
 
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navyairwarrior

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Cup-of-Ruin said:
A little old lady knocking on my door with a bible is not a threat to me, however a international, atheist ,antichristian nuclear armed banking elite of psycho slave merchants from Babylon rebuilt, seeking to conquer the world and enslave it, well now that is a threat to me, and all Christians, if you know what I mean?
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Yah, that would be a threat if it ever actually happened. How can you claim atheism is to blame when you have people like Bush who are running the country who claim that God told him to invade Iraq. I don't ever remember hearing of an atheist starting a war because of their lack of belief in a god.
 
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navyairwarrior said:
Yah, that would be a threat if it ever actually happened. How can you claim atheism is to blame when you have people like Bush who are running the country who claim that God told him to invade Iraq. I don't ever remember hearing of an atheist starting a war because of their lack of belief in a god.
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Do not fear man, who can destroy the body, but God, who can destroy the soul.

I don't even watch any of the news that is shown by the media today. If there is a enemy of true faith, it is the media, and the false religion that they put forth, which is demonic and full of lies. It takes the listener by deceit and tricks them into believing that humans are good. It is not a big step from there to there being no God at all.
 
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aspen said:
We should be adopting all the children who need parents. I am convicted when I hear that. What I dislike is when Christians complain about the state of the world - abortion, euthanasia, homelessness and than criticize the governments efforts to address the issues, while failing to solve them within the church. We should be the largest body of adoptive parents, caretakers for the old and sick, and shelterers of the homeless.

It is maddening. The fact is if the Church (and I am speaking of my own here - Catholic) didn't drop the ball we would be managing all education, medical care, science, and mental health care.

Here's a success story - the LDS church rallied together and adopted most of the kids with behavior problems in my state - they literally emptied agency after agency about 5 years ago. It was amazing and it should have spurred us all on to pitch in.
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But not everyone can do it and even so, non-Christians have an equal responsibility. Who told them to dump the kids on the streets in the first place? Who told them to have multiple partners knowing that it is quite likely that they will end up pregnant. There's such a thing as being responsible for your own poor decisions. But those who "clean up" the mess shouldn't be blamed for not cleaning up ALL of the messes.
 
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miktre

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navyairwarrior said:
Yah, that would be a threat if it ever actually happened. How can you claim atheism is to blame when you have people like Bush who are running the country who claim that God told him to invade Iraq. I don't ever remember hearing of an atheist starting a war because of their lack of belief in a god.
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You never heard of communism? It's atheism thats killed more than all other religions combined. First thing they did was burn the churches.
 
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glenwood74

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WOW. There are a lot of people here really in love with their own opinions.

There is no threat to Christianity. We already won. It happened 2000 years ago. God isn't afraid of any of these worldly problems, and we shouldn't be either. Just love God and love your neighbor, and Jesus will take care of the rest.

God bless you all!
 
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SLAGITOR

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the top 5 threats to christianity are knowledge, science, love, reality, and google.
 
Captain_Mal

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miktre said:
You never heard of communism? It's atheism thats killed more than all other religions combined. First thing they did was burn the churches.
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Actually, statistically speaking if we were to go through all of history Christians have killed the most people.

To blame a religion or an ideal like communism, atheism, and Christianity is silly. People kill, not ideas.
 
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jesus_be4_religion said:
I think a big threat to Christianity is the humanitarian movement it has almost became a religion in itself. What I am speaking of i have experienced at work. There is a guy at work who loves to doing humanitarian things but he hates when you mention God it actually angers him. He pulls a lot of people to him by doing good things but not pressing they know a God or have any purpouse.
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The humanitarian movement is a movement dedicated to helping people in need. If that is a threat to Christianity, then Christianity is a sick, self-serving religion and Yeshua is a threat to Christianity. Yeshua (Jesus) was the world's greatest humanitarian.

Actually, the very fact that the humanitarian movement is "almost becoming a religion in itself" shows that those "evil" non-Christians follow your bible better than you do.
 
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Just look at how humanitarian those JEws are in Israel eh eh particularly towards the palestinians.
 
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Captain_Mal said:
Actually, statistically speaking if we were to go through all of history Christians have killed the most people.
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I think this statement would hold greater credibility if you could at the very least provide a source... statistics are really nothing unless the subject pool is clearly identified and the standard deviation is available as well. I mean, I could claim the opposite too!

Captain_Mal said:
To blame a religion or an ideal like communism, atheism, and Christianity is silly. People kill, not ideas.
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I can agree with this. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree. I've heard far too often from people who simply say "Well, you Christians are terrible people because you started the Great Crusades."

Following their logic, then what they are essentially suggesting, though not outright but I wouldn't put it past them, is that all Germans are terrible people and their history, culture, and way of life is a threat to humanity because of the Nazi's and WWII. Except we know they would never say such a thing but somehow it's ok to blame the actions of some people on a religion.
 
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miktre

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Captain_Mal said:
Actually, statistically speaking if we were to go through all of history Christians have killed the most people.

To blame a religion or an ideal like communism, atheism, and Christianity is silly. People kill, not ideas.
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You couldn't be more wrong, theres more people alive today than have died in the past 6,000 years.
Look how many died during the communist movement, no way Christians killed that many in the 1800 years before that. They did it all in the name of atheism.
 
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miktre

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Captain_Mal said:
The humanitarian movement is a movement dedicated to helping people in need. If that is a threat to Christianity, then Christianity is a sick, self-serving religion and Yeshua is a threat to Christianity. Yeshua (Jesus) was the world's greatest humanitarian.

Actually, the very fact that the humanitarian movement is "almost becoming a religion in itself" shows that those "evil" non-Christians follow your bible better than you do.
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Whats with the guy in your avatar giving the satanic 'mano cornuto' hand sign. I also see you are not a Christian. Whats the point?
 
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Curtis295

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carpetmanswife said:
none of the above...sometimes i think the biggest threat to christianity...is christians.
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I would say the biggest threat to christians is, well, people! As the years pass and each generation is taught "tolerence, or to be global citizens" which is the new teachings rocking the world, christianity seems to be put to the side, by those who want nothing more to see it forgotten from the face of the earth.

We as christians can just keep speaking out so that people will still here the words of the gospel, even as our politicians, teachers, scientists, etc keep trying to silence us!
 
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miktre

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charisenexcelcis said:
Nuhen, this will go nowhere. What I do is put mitre on iggie. That keeps me from falling into sin. lol.
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This is mainly because charisenexcelcis has promoted many lies about the rapture. He has been shown verse after verse and still denies simple truths. He chooses rather to promote a lie and false doctrine that will befall many Christians in the last days. He shall be held accountable for his lies.
 
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mpaper345

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hello,

The biggest threat to Christianity is man's pride and greed which all stems from the flesh.Man without God will go by their selfish and arrogant nature which they will do away with religion unless it is a benefit to them.Man without God will pervert the truth and spread whatever they believe is right and influence some people who will influence other people.False religions are a threat to Christianity like the New Age religion that will soon be the religion of the world in the antichrist kingdom because it is based on occultism and they have an occultic interpretation of the Bible that will be part of the one world religious system.
The Bible says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.This is talking about the New Age religion that claims all religions are valid but they view them all as occultic.They claim Christianity at least in the outer circle but have an occultic interpretation of the Bible.They get in touch with their guiding spirit which is a devil that tells them what to teach to set up the antichrist kingdom.
The love of money is the root of all evil because money is a way that man exalts himself above other people and use it to have influence over other people.

Matt
 
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