I believe that ALL who ever existed will live in God's Kingdom!

[Buckeye Homer]

Do you?  

The basis for my belief is based on the scriptures.  I will say that expressing this doctrinal belief has generated a lot of anger against me by many of my Christian brethren, albeit not in this community - yet.

 

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[Cullenator]

Does the basis of your belief extend to stoning the children that dont respect you?

How about wearing clothing of different materials?

How about sleeping with female slaves?

[Cullenator]

Jesus said "the only way to the Father is through me."

Meaning that all of the Lavitical law and even the decalouge are in fact null and that the only way to salvation is accepting Jesus as your savior.

 

Do you embrace that?

[Buckeye Homer]

7 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

...and that the only way to salvation is accepting Jesus as your savior.

 

Do you embrace that?

Yes.

[Buckeye Homer]

15 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

Does the basis of your belief extend to stoning the children that dont respect you?

No.

[Buckeye Homer]

23 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

How about wearing clothing of different materials?

I found the following explanation.

"

Most Christians would agree — the levitical law that wins the prize for weird is Deuteronomy 22:11:

“Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.”

Why on earth did God make such an odd prohibition? I used to roll my eyes at this one.

In its ancient context, though, the law had a perfectly logical reasoning. Both the priestly garments and the tabernacle weavings were a combination of wool and linen. The priest’s white undergarment was linen, and the brightly colored vestment was wool. So it was prohibited for laypersons to dress in the same way."

[Buckeye Homer]

47 minutes ago, Cullenator said:

How about sleeping with female slaves?

I believe this guy provides a good perspective on some of the commandments regarding "slaves".

 

Edited March 17 by Buckeye Homer

[cookinwithgas]

1 hour ago, Buckeye Homer said:

I found the following explanation.

"

Most Christians would agree — the levitical law that wins the prize for weird is Deuteronomy 22:11:

“Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.”

Why on earth did God make such an odd prohibition? I used to roll my eyes at this one.

In its ancient context, though, the law had a perfectly logical reasoning. Both the priestly garments and the tabernacle weavings were a combination of wool and linen. The priest’s white undergarment was linen, and the brightly colored vestment was wool. So it was prohibited for laypersons to dress in the same way."

Christians are, by need, experts at picking and choosing rationalizations for what should still be followed and what should not, which most of the time makes their lives a lot easier. 
 

Being gay could be rationalized as easily as this but it’s not.  After all back then people needed to breed more often and earlier because half of them would be dead by 25 or something and they had to have more little Christians back then. We clearly don’t have the need to procreate like that anymore. So why are so many people that consider themselves hardcore Christians not just using the same reasoning? All of a sudden, something we don’t have to fight over anymore!

[cookinwithgas]

1 hour ago, Buckeye Homer said:

I believe this guy provides a good perspective on some of the commandments regarding "slaves".

 

Who the hell cares it’s a book collected from scraps of other religions and rewritten and reinterpreted by men in power for centuries to adjust to their whims. You want slavery? We gotcha covered. You hate slavery? So do we too! 
 

it’s just a different form of astrology, another con game.

[Happy Panther]

I believe if you have to declare your religion loudly I'm probably not interested.

[Buckeye Homer]

3 minutes ago, cookinwithgas said:

it’s just a different form of astrology, another con game.

What is a "con game", the Bible, belief in a creator and an afterlife, or both?

[cookinwithgas]

1 minute ago, Happy Panther said:

I believe if you have to declare your religion loudly I'm probably not interested.

There’s even a verse about not doing that that’s on the ignore side list lol

[Buckeye Homer]

Just now, Happy Panther said:

I believe if you have to declare your religion loudly I'm probably not interested.

Well, this is a discussion community and management has invited its guests to engage in discussions on a wide variety of topics in this particular sub-forum.  It's my understanding that guests here aren't required to read, let alone respond (as you did), to posts that are of no interest to them.  There are many threads on many discussion forums that don't interest me.  I don't enter into those discussions to announce that I am disinterested in the subject matter.  I try to follow the mantra of "live and let live" but it appears that you don't share that philosophy.  

[Buckeye Homer]

7 minutes ago, cookinwithgas said:

There’s even a verse about not doing that that’s on the ignore side list lol

It's telling to me that unbelievers become triggered upon seeing/hearing the name of Jesus.  I believe there is a spiritual cause for their aversion.  

Anyway, perhaps nobody here is interested in the topic of this thread and maybe it's better to stick to discussing football.