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Religions > Bible |
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"Frank" |
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12 Apr 2007 12:37:42 AM |
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True Righteousness |
The Rebellion thinks highly
of its own righteousness,
as though its making a commitment,
or surrendering in submission,
or calling its "faith" obedience,
or belonging to some church
claiming to control salvation,
is sufficient to save it
and give it eternal life.
But at the same time,
the Rebellion thinks so little
of the righteousness of Christ
and does not acknowledge
that it is what justifies unto eternal life,
and it is what sanctifies unto holiness,
and it is what makes spotless at his coming.
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| User: "Mark T moi@home132434565545756475344469083oops" |
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| Title: Vive la révolte! |
12 Apr 2007 09:34:54 PM |
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"Frank" <roines@mindspring.com> wrote:
The Rebellion
Vive la révolte!
Rebel against fundamentalist ratbgaggery!
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DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF A FUNDAMENTALIST
.... quoting from James Barr's book "Fundamentalism" on the three
distinguishing features of the Fundamentalist:
'Firstly, a fundamentalist has a very strong emphasis on the inerrancy of
the Bible, and believes in the absence from it of any sort of error.
Two, a strong hostility to modern theology and to the method, results and
implications of modern critical study of the Bible.
And three, an assurance that those who do not share their religious
viewpoint are not really true Christians at all.'
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Fundamentalists Anonymous: Twelve Steps to Sanity
by Lee Adams Young
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All who have chosen to walk away from biblical fundamentalism are welcome to
join Fundamentalists Anonymous, and to consider embracing the following
Twelve Steps:
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1. I realize that I had turned control of my mind over to another person or
group, who had assumed power over my thinking.
2. That person or group persuaded me of the inerrancy of the Bible, in spite
of its many internal contradictions.
3. I became addicted to the Bible as the supreme focus of my faith, in spite
of the commandment that God should come first.
4. I admit to God, to myself and to another person the shortcomings of my
belief in the unbelievable.
5. I have made an inventory of my false claims about the Bible.
6. I have made a list of those whom I led into confusion about the Bible.
7. I am willing to make amends to all those whom I may have led astray.
8. I realize that I have the inner power to restore sanity to my life and to
search Scripture for the truth.
9. I will reach out to friends who can help me clarify my thinking about the
Bible, God and Jesus.
10. I confess that only with God's help can my mind grasp the truth.
11. I will seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious
contact with God, praying for knowledge of God's will for me and the power
to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these twelve steps, I
will offer these steps to other former biblical fundamentalists.
These 12 steps are adapted from those of Alchoholics Anonymous.
from http://www.geocities.com/church_of_hank/fundamentalists_anonymous.html
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| User: "Read The Bible" |
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| Title: Re: True Righteousness |
12 Apr 2007 03:06:31 AM |
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"This then is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in
him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have
fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie,
and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.
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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say
that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
word is not in us. My little children, these things
write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for
our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world.
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep
his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in
him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know
we that we are in him" (1 John 1:5-2:5).
"Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood"
(Revelation 1:5).
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent
not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved. He that
believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath
not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come
into the world, and men loved darkness rather than
light, because their deeds were evil. For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he
that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds
may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God"
(John 3:16-21).
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