poll where do you stand

If I remember correctly the first question was:

Is unity more important than doctrine.

Unity is important but Brother James tells us in Scripture that "The wisdom that is from above is first pure THEN peaceable.

Al Quaida has unity!

I checked false on Mother Teresa because I read her comment that terminally ill patients should not be upset by witnessing to them.

(My paraphrase of her words.)

I voted all False, also.

 

Is this a poll about the Quakers?

 

I voted all false.

When people tell a mate of mine they "just want to love Jesus", he asks "And exactly which Jesus is it you want to just love?"

Pete

 

Interesting poll; I was stunned that some Baptist Christians voted yes on some of them.

Just for the record, the mustard seed was the smallest seed used agriculturally at the time...

A note on good works: Christian 'good works' are those which Christ does through the person; they are never what we do on our own, no matter who seems to benefit.

One can be extraordinarily sincere (check in with any teen) and still be sincerely wrong. For instance, last night at dinner we were talking about the news and my 18 year old daughter informed me that she had seen in the news before dinner that one out of two people who received the smallpox vaccination would die. I nearly choked. I have not seen the program she is referring to, but I know she was wrong and had misinterpreted something she heard! Nevertheless, she continues to sincerely insist she is right.

About Mother Theresa -- I'm not sure the Catholic Jesus is a different Jesus, but the Catholics have made Him essentially ineffectual in their doctrine by demanding rites and going through Mary for salvation and then declaring the necessity of Purgatory should you not be up to scratch at the moment of death. In addition, Mother T -- as mentioned earlier -- said quite clearly that her goal was to help Hindus become better Hindus before death, Buddhists become better Buddhists, Christians become better Christians, etc. The ultimate destructive ecumenism.

Something to mention, however, is that anyone can answer a poll such as this. There is no record of who answers, so there is no way to really know if only Baptists answered or if atheists or Catholics or anyone else did... that's why the poll forum is below where anyone registered on the BB can respond.

 

Temptation is not sin.

I stand by what I have said, except I should have also added that heterosexual lusts are also sin.

[ January 28, 2003, 09:46 AM: Message edited by: Baptist Believer ]

 

Gina, When I don't understand a question, I always say "no"

 

Lust: Stong desire to possess or enjoy: sensuous desire.

Temptation: That which lures or entices; the state of being prompted to do wrong things.

I realize that there is a difference, however, does one ever run up against sexual temptation without first seeing it?

You see someone; you are tempted; you develop unclean thoughts in your mind; therefore you lust.

"If you have lusted in your heart, you have already committed adultery". I think the same would apply to homosexuals.


Sue

 

A lot of good sincere people are in hell today. Except you believe that I am He you shall die in your sins. John 14.6

 

I agree, except I would say that lust is an activity while temptation is neutral -- not an activity. That is, temptation is the place of decision for good or evil. Jesus was tempted just as we are, yet without sin.

In many situations, no. But the fantasy life can be a place of sexual lust where the opposite sex is objectified without another person even entering into the situation.

Not necessarily. You have skipped the portion of the process where the person makes a decision to continue in the temptation (to eventually fall into sin) or to walk away from it.

If Jesus was truly tempted as we are, I'm sure He faced sexual temptation -- but He did not sin. (I do not doubt that Jesus was tempted by the way.)

I agree. But it applies to homosexual lusts as equally as it does to heterosexual lusts. The real issue here is sexual sin, not the version of sexual sin.

 

[ January 28, 2003, 11:30 PM: Message edited by: Sherrie ]

 

I didn't say the bible has errors in it I said that it is a religious book not a science book. The intent of the bible was to communicate religious information first and foremost, you seem to want to make it something it is not. I believe that the bible is the inspired, infallible word of God. I don't remember how I answered the poll, I only answered to see the results.

 

The Bible states some scientific and historic information. If this is false, then why should we believe the religious part isn't false also?

In my own studies, I have learned that it is all true -- that God knows how to communicate with man and that the science and history are put in to help us confirm the rest is true. I agree that the Bible is neither a science nor a world history text, but when it does state something along those lines, it is not anything other than the truth.

 

I don't know too much about Mother T as far as her beleif system, but it seems her works were for God and she helped so many and gave up her life to help others. I admire her for that, as others said, I did not know her heart so I pray for her that she did indeed do all of this to glorify God's Kingdom.
Love in Christ, Angie

 

It is saddening to encounter professing believers who judge mother Theresa to have been a "born-again" Christian. They obviously cannot be basing such a judgment on the inspired word of God, but compare with other human beings, which is wrong/false judgment. Thus it may be right to say that comparing to humans in general she was a good woman. Period. But as compared to the Bible she is shown to have been neither a good woman nor a Christian. General works of social benevolence like those of the Red Cross, mother Theresa, the Salvation Army, Lion's Club etc. etc. are no works requiring the special enablement of God the Holy Spirit, and are hardly to be classed as Christian works. If such "good works" justify men before men then all social benevolence do-gooders are to be judged "born-again" Christians. And that is exactly what many churchianists and religionists do.

Harald