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"Now I have been made aware (with a bit of hostility) that some "Christians" here believe that the Bible is not an accurate representation of the facts."
Yes....no. Many of us don't take it "literally" as if such a thing were possible. If a person uses a literal interpretation as a strawman to attack Christianity as a whole...there may be some hurt feelings. There isn't liscense to attack in return, but there is an obligation to be clear...Christianity is not a monolith. but i take scripture very seriously...
"In this "anything goes" Christianity"
Nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus cussed, i think i can too. I try very hard not to aim those words at people in anger, tho.
"pornographic/sex posts" Read Song of Solomon. The first thing God does is create. Sex, eros, and the creative and connective nature of humanity is not in conflict with the spiritual.
"about being drunk/doing drugs, etc, etc."
Jesus drinks, people call him a drunk on many occasions. I try to make my use of chemicals (alcohol in my case) responsible. But there is no blanket prohibition of intoxicants by the bible. Wine flows through that book...
All of this doesn't mean i am a libertine. my beleif in God entails a committment to live a different life than i did. I am called to love tenderly, do justly, and walk humbly with my God. It isn't about a code of details. it's about what i live for.
" how do you justify regular participation in topics that, at the very least, are extremely un-Christ-like?"
What posts? I don't mean to be smartass at all. What posts? My participation on this board...and i think of other liberal Christians...doesn't conflict with my religious idenity. I enjoy this place because i can have a Christian idenity....and not be the only one, but also enjoy hearing other persepctives as well.
I'm not sure what you expect "Christians" to look like. I'm sorry if some of us dissapoint...but i think it's safe to say... we're sinners saved by grace. we're not perfect, and we may post in anger or somethign like that. but that's the only sin i can know i've committed on the TFP.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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