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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (38359)	3/15/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

"I am in better position to judge you than you are to judge God. No Christian worth the salt in his body would ever seriously claim, as you have, that God randomly threw people together-- making mistakes with their identity. This is blasphemy. No Christian, let alone an Evangelical Christian, worth the spit in his mouth would ever utter such pure blasphemy against the God that saved him."; I consider myself a Christian. I don't though consider myself an Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christian. I thought I've said that many times before. I do though happen to be involved with a Fundamentalist church, but I'm there just to add to my own knowledge and often I find there beliefs to be challenging, but not consistent with my understanding as to what the Bible says when I read it. I'm willing to listen and consider that I could be wrong or that I misunderstand something, but often I think that they interprete Bible verses; reading into them conclusions that they have been taught about the verses, but that they might well not have come up with from their own reading of the Bible. If you are going to be strict about reading the Bible; you want to guard against reading into pet conclusions and when the church I hang around doesn't do this; I enjoy it, but when they start adding theological interpretations and when pinned down on the meaning of Bible versus's say; "I know this verse means 'XYZ' and I'm certain about that because I'm a Christian and the Holy Spirit has told me it means that"; when it in fact doesn't say 'XYZ' at all; well, that is pretty scary stuff. I talked about how I had actually talked to two fundamentalist Christians and how each used this logic to justify how they were right about what the Bible was saying and yet after all these Bible verses were quoted; one said salvation was not by works, but by faith; the other insisted that it was by works and that anyone that believe otherwise was under Satanic influence. You can appreciate how pathetic this situation looked to me. All men are flaws in a fallen world and I don't trust that they can discern anything with absolute clarity. You would have to be without sin to be certain you were not possibly mislead by Satan. I think most Christian's underestimate how clever and logical Satan can be. He isn't some dumbo; he is the best deceiver the world has ever known. 60 Minutes wouldn't get on to him for example.