I agree guys the gospel appears simple.
But let me put one simple point. Simple by the way. The way you understand everything, literally everything goes through the filter of your brain, the readers and no one elses. It takes out what it does not like and adds in a background that is comfortable.
At each point the next step appears easy, but which is it? Look at this website, these simple ideas when planted in peoples hearts bring such variation. Sexual license. I am under grace so it does not matter who I have contact with.
I am under law, so one look, in the wrong way and I deserve death. I am perfect because I do not knowingly sin. I am a sinner because I stumble every now and then, and am very aware of my weaknesses. Everyone must know the trinity or they are lost. Without the emotional zap of the Holy Spirit it is just religion, failed hypocracy.
I am alone and empty and the Lord sounds nice, but no one cares. I follow Jesus but if God takes my child, that is too much. I hate my family because God told me I had to. Marriage is for life, even if abusive. Rape is ok if it is your wife.
Hell is eternal torture, where you are roasted screaming alive.
I could go through each statement and give you my perspective but it would not be short. All the above have been talked about, and the difference of opinion is vast. So it takes a lot of growth to take this on.
As a dad I smacked my kids. Rarely, and probably now I would not, but it showed for different people some things are terrible trauma, while others, like a day playing a rough game.
Why am I saying this? Because we need to take seriously we are the product of our life history, and that makes us come out with simple one off conclusions, which get jolted when we meet people from another background, who we then miss-understand and easily say, "they have a demon" rather than, that is interesting, why do you think like that?
But let me put one simple point. Simple by the way. The way you understand everything, literally everything goes through the filter of your brain, the readers and no one elses. It takes out what it does not like and adds in a background that is comfortable.
At each point the next step appears easy, but which is it? Look at this website, these simple ideas when planted in peoples hearts bring such variation. Sexual license. I am under grace so it does not matter who I have contact with.
I am under law, so one look, in the wrong way and I deserve death. I am perfect because I do not knowingly sin. I am a sinner because I stumble every now and then, and am very aware of my weaknesses. Everyone must know the trinity or they are lost. Without the emotional zap of the Holy Spirit it is just religion, failed hypocracy.
I am alone and empty and the Lord sounds nice, but no one cares. I follow Jesus but if God takes my child, that is too much. I hate my family because God told me I had to. Marriage is for life, even if abusive. Rape is ok if it is your wife.
Hell is eternal torture, where you are roasted screaming alive.
I could go through each statement and give you my perspective but it would not be short. All the above have been talked about, and the difference of opinion is vast. So it takes a lot of growth to take this on.
As a dad I smacked my kids. Rarely, and probably now I would not, but it showed for different people some things are terrible trauma, while others, like a day playing a rough game.
Why am I saying this? Because we need to take seriously we are the product of our life history, and that makes us come out with simple one off conclusions, which get jolted when we meet people from another background, who we then miss-understand and easily say, "they have a demon" rather than, that is interesting, why do you think like that?