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What do you think the Good News of Jesus Christ is?
- Thread starter jah59
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Sounds like pretty much everyone, to me.
roger1440
I do stuff
Gee, you have such insight. Did you figure that one out on your own?
serp777
Well-Known Member
That's your personal, individual interpretation that may or may not be the correct way of interpreting things
Password
Member
No, Jesus Christ through Charles Spurgeon did, and I shared it with you guys.
Is there even any such thing as a "correct way of interpreting things"?
serp777
Well-Known Member
Exactly the point. Interpretations are irrelevant.
A lack of singular "correctness" does not create irrelevance.
No, that is not my "personal, individual interpretation"...it's the sane interpretation. Don't try to legitimatize the harmful interpretations of lunatics just to buttress your little anti-religious schtick. That's cheap and ugly.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Well that leaves me out.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Of course there isn't, that's why we have so many religions, all thinking they know the truth.
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
Jesus was very clear on what his Gospel meant.
Luke 4
The Spirit of the Lord is in me,
because he anointed me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to tell the captives they are free
and to tell the blind that they can see again.
God sent me to free the oppressed
and to announce the time when the Lord will show his favor.
Does anyone disagree with that?
Luke 4
The Spirit of the Lord is in me,
because he anointed me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to tell the captives they are free
and to tell the blind that they can see again.
God sent me to free the oppressed
and to announce the time when the Lord will show his favor.
Does anyone disagree with that?
What a bunch of pure bs. You can't be taken seriously after dropping that turd.
serp777
Well-Known Member
Well an interpretation that isn't correct probably isn't useful, and therefore probably ins't relevant. Since, like you said, defining an incorrect interpretation of religious documents is impossible, then how are they relevant to anything?
Starfish on the beach.
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
Interpretation of historical consensus that has since been refuted has spawned dozens of religions with millions of followers. To say, therefore, that this interpretation is "incorrect and therefore irrelevant" is incredibly naive and insensitive.
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CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
I am going to say this again in big word until you people understand.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
As God also sent me, Jesus never had the monopoly on God.
Making things big doesn't make them any more or less true. It's just annoying, and actually quite counter-productive to what you're trying to accomplish, since it sets up peoples' defensive barriers, making them less susceptible to your message, and far more susceptible to the Straw Man's lies.
...that passage is also just a small piece of the Gospels.
serp777
Well-Known Member
I never really understood why the starfish story was convincing or persuasive. While the old man was uselessly saving individual starfish, an ecologist was preventing chemical dumping which would save millions and millions of starfish.
I'm still left wondering why a few star fish matter at all, which the old man didn't explain.
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
That small piece is his overall message...it's his gospel.