Very good points Bill, I didn't mean it to come off that way. I just had heard the Pat Robertson news clip and finally decided to post the question, it just seems to me he and his ilk tend to repel people against Christianity. I don't think they are so dumb not to know this...... so if they know this and they know that isn't how Christ taught, why do they continue down that road? Is it to keep repeling people from Christ, is it a hidden agenda to eventually make way for my theory that they actually tell their followers to take the number?
It's something that interests me.
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Originally Posted by byesman
I am a Baptist, and I do not believe or follow any of the people you mentioned. My church is an Independent Baptist Church, believing that the minister serves the deacons, and the deacons serve the congregation, which is the church. I do understand what you are saying, and I do agree with you about the hypocrisy. The men you mentioned are not church leaders to me.
In fact, I think that some of them, if not most of them, use the guise of Christianity to advance their own agenda of power and glory.
As for me, I have historically only listened to a couple of people, my parents, my siblings and now my wife. I do not believe in these men. I believe in God, but not in some of his self-proclaimed "profits".
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I appreciate your honesty and it sounds like you come from a very good church system, wish there were more like that and like you, perhaps we wouldn't be in such weird times.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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