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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (84004)9/12/2008 7:01:47 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541786
 
One can't be neutral because Christ is denying man that option.

Given my ignorance of the Bible, I google. Came up with this from Bartleby.

"'He that is not with me is against me'

A teaching of Jesus, which suggests that indifference to his message is the same as active opposition to it."

And this: "Those therefore who rejected the doctrine of Christ, and slighted his miracles, were looked upon as adversaries to him, and in the devil's interest."

biblebrowser.com

Sounds like your basic "fer me or agin me" talk. I can relate to that.

So the question remains whether rejecting the doctrine of Christ is the same thing as not believing in god. It would not seem so.

But even if it were, the denial of options is from the perspective of god. (It would never have occurred to me to look at it from the perspective of god so thanks for connecting the dots for me.) From the perspective of non-believers, neutrality and disinterest are options. One's options can hardly be constrained by what does not exist or is irrelevant.
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