| What would Christ Think
Posted: 8/30/2005 6:55:05 PM | If Christ returned today?
What would he think of the Church that He founded? | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 8/30/2005 7:00:41 PM | | I for one think that there would be cause, ...in many cases, for him to successfully sue for defamation. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 8/30/2005 7:27:53 PM | | I think he would understand that it appears to be human nature to try and control others using whatever methods are available to us. He'd have to acknowledge that it's his own fault leaving us alone with so little to go on. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 8/30/2005 11:37:44 PM | Tell me did He? really?
Him I know not of a reference of this in the Bible.
People where either hating Him for what they thought he was or they were suffering with Him. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 11:40:22 AM | | Read revelations in the Bible........it very clear and full of what he's going to do-during the tribulation and what he's going to do, when he comes back at the end of it. And, we can't be that far away from that happening either! | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 12:05:22 PM |
If Christ returned today?
What would he think of the Church that He founded?
I like to believe when he returns his church will be like a beautiful bride, pure without fault, holy, magnificiant.
Matt 21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple [of God], and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple , and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold the doves. 13 And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers. 14 And blind and lame came to him in the temple , and he healed them. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 1:06:37 PM | Well there wouldn't be much point in returning then would there? Judgement day would be over before lunch, The exiles would be gone by noon, and you could have the rest of the day off before starting life anew in Paradise where you would be forced to sing Gods praises for ever. Sort of like what the Chinese School children did when ever Mao was about!
I can't wait for that, can you?
Ed.. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 1:10:08 PM | | I think he would have much the same opinion of what's become of his teachings as the founding fathers would of our current political system. I suppose you could take that either way, but it's not a ringing endorsement from me. | |
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Joined: 9/20/2005
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 1:36:56 PM | Well there wouldn't be much point in returning then would there?
Apparently there's going to be a big dew, you won't want to miss.
Judgement day would be over before lunch, The exiles would be gone by noon, and you could have the rest of the day off before starting life anew in Paradise where you would be forced to sing Gods praises for ever.
I don't think it's a judgement day, rather the day of judgement and the destruction of ungodly men, which in all likelyhood will not be a 24 hr period of time.
As for praising God;
Luke 6:45 The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked [man] out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
I can't wait for that, can you?
It's not like I can speed things up. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 3:40:11 PM | | I don't think he would be very pleased at all. The new pope is no-where near as good at connecting with others, especially youth, as JP2 was. Pedophiles, scandals--he'd be pissed, very very pissed off!!! | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 4:29:09 PM | | Given that the world is reading something of an accurate account, the same as he thought back then... "Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do!" | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 4:47:16 PM | | He would apologize to the money changers he beat the crap out of in the temple.They were mild crooks compared to the sleaze we have polluting the airwaves now. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/6/2005 5:04:53 PM | | ^^^I don't remember reading about Christ using violence of that nature. I thought He was supposed to be a meek guy who turned the other cheek... am I wrong? | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 11:16:51 AM | I don't remember reading about Christ using violence of that nature. I thought He was supposed to be a meek guy who turned the other cheek... am I wrong?
You've never read the story of how he cleared the temple of the money lenders?He was not only a bit violent during that incident,if you read the account of the Last Supper,he told his disciples to arm themselves with a sword and if they could not afford one,to sell some of their clothing and buy one.A sword in that time was the equivalent of a US Army issue .45. | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 12:18:24 PM | | What would Christ think about the state of the church ... He would do the same thing he did back when He exposed the hyprocisy of the Scribes and Pharisees of that day . And He would probably be put to death for being deemed a heretic . The mainstream churches of today have little to do in the proper teachings of the christian way . Their works speak for themselves by the numerous accounts of sexual abuse and underhanded dealings with the political powers that be . I remember watching an episode of 20/20 where they examined the Vatican and its wealth . Well in this episode they brought forth evidence that the Vatican owns a great deal of shares with some of the most wealthy businesses on the planet (exxon was one, along with many others ) also owned shares with a pharmaceutical firm that produces the very birth control pill that the pope condemns . Things that make you go hmmmm . The scriptures indicate that these and other false teachers will have their day . | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 12:25:28 PM | | Good afternoon Taurus ... if you have the time could you please give me the scripture that you referred to in regards to Jesus telling his disciples to arm themselves with a sword . Thanks | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 12:50:20 PM | ^^^ I'm skeptical of that one, too. I know that Scripture does show Jesus saying, "I do not bring peace, but a sword."
and, everyone knows this one (but they might not know it's from the Bible):
"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." | |
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Posted: 11/7/2005 1:32:34 PM | | Wow - there's actually something that I agree with "wonkavision" about! :) I think that if Jesus came back today and looked at His church....that he would weep. Alas, too many of today's churches and Christians have lost their way.... | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 2:28:01 PM | | Good point flyguy ... maybe the sword that Jesus was referring to in regards to taurus' statement was the 'sword' mentioned in a christians suit of armor found at Ephesians 6:13-17 ... "... and the sword of the spirit, that is , God's word ." Because like you mentioned flyguy, after Peter cut the ear off of a slave of a high priest He said those words at Matthew 26:52 ... he who 'lives by the sword ..dies by the sword' . The battles that Christians were to engage in were those dealing with spiritual warfare ..2 Corinthians 10:3-5 . | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 3:09:24 PM | I think he would say "Oi!" then go smoke a hash pipe, like the laid back, black, hippie, rabi he was!    | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 5:24:43 PM | if you have the time could you please give me the scripture that you referred to in regards to Jesus telling his disciples to arm themselves with a sword .
Luke 22:36 | |
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| What would Christ Think
Posted: 11/7/2005 5:44:59 PM | taurus;
I think you have fallen into the trap of taking things out of context; the point of the swords was analogous. Christ did not give His life for violent men, but to show them that violence is not the way. He knew that one would use the sword to take of the ear of another, this enabled Him to heal the man, thus one sword would have been enough. He knew this just as He knew His life was about to end the way it did. You see how dangerous it is to take things out of context? Isn't it bad enough that the words have been twisted beyond clarity? | |
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Posted: 11/7/2005 9:04:08 PM | | Taurus, your quote was almost exact from the Book of Luke. But many parts of the teachings of Jesus had meanings to men then that are different now. The interpetation that you got from that verse is accurate if you take the words for what they mean today. Myself, I tend to side with the others, I don't beleive that he meant for his deciples to literally take up swords and defend themselves or to do harm to others. At the time that Jesus spoke these words he had previously told Peter that he would deny having known Jesus by the time the rooster had crowed the third time. This was all before the crucifiction and Jesus was explaining to them what was about to happen, and what to expect in the days and years to come. So no I don't beleive it was meant in the literal form that you took it.... | |
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Posted: 11/7/2005 11:08:46 PM | | Thanks taurus ... though it does state at Luke 22:36 that Jesus instructed his disciples to purchase a sword this would not indicate that his disciples were to use it for warfare. Rather he desired to have a sword available among his followers on that night in order to demonstrate he did not intend to resort to the sword but would give himself up voluntarily in harmony with God's will. Thus when the apostle Peter did react and try to put up armed resistance, lopping the ear of Malchus , Jesus ordered him " Return your sword to its place , for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52, John 18:10,11) | |
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