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Ok where to start, my gut reaction is to fight fire with fire, Start with honor thy mother, then the verses teaching tolerance and acceptance of practices in which you dont agree, then move into the verses that support enjoying life. I see no indication from your posts that CP or the mom is stupid, and to be quite frank there are smart zealots, they are the ones that can be talked down. This is clearly a counterproductive attitude twords her mother and I know the mother is powerless cause even if she did retalliate then she would be distancing her own daughter. What can i say other than the mother has a long hard road ahead of her, one it sounds like she dosent deserve. Now before i take off on a tagent, what denomination is CP cause it tells alot about how we have to look at this, cause i have been assumign non-denominational, but for all i know she is catholic.
As for the references to non-denominational churches being cult like, well what can I say my experiance points in this direction 110%, I have heard tales of theese churches that wernt fanatics who didnt follow thier own religion very well but I have never met one. I should mention that I am a very liberal lutheran, so i tend to have an automatic negative reaction to theese churches. In my experiance the title of non-denominational means that the church is fundamentally unable to follow the practices of a perticular denomination but unable to justify its beliefs with the togetherness they claim to promote enough to become a formal denomination. The only thing stopping some of the larger groups (I am thinking of my friends vinyard church here he is CP with CP parents but I am currupting him with christianity) from being a formal denomination is that in doing so they acctually would be admitting to some sort of fellowship under a common cause.
Now if I have offended anyone they are plenty welcome to PM me with thier arguments or if they really feel the need threadjack (like i have), but I dont play softball i know christianity and am not going to accept you jsut because you claim to follow a religious icon you know little of.
And sorry again for the flaming and treadjacking, I know they are bad practices but I have tried to keep away from them as well as i could but I cannot stand being associated with the ND churches and thier CP's.
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