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refugees in sweden are magically """"comatose"""" when informed of deportation
Drydess:
--- Quote from: Planr on June 16, 2017, 10:07:07 PM ---No atheist computer nerd has ever risen from the dead. Christianity is the only real solution to life's problems, because those who live for Christ are secure for eternal life. Jesus was and always will be the greatest Altruist. What he did for every human being that will ever live is far better for them and greater than any other form of assistance anyone can provide.
That's really all there is to it.
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listen, there's a limit to respecting people's religion for christianity just as there is islam. if you think you can pray away your problems and they'll just magically disappear, you're either lazy or deluded. you've got to do something, if praying lets those above you give you strength or ideas then by all means, but praying never worked for the boubonic plague, why would it work now
you can be a genuinely good person and not be a religious person. obviously following christian values doesn't make you christian, but are you still smiled upon? yea
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on June 16, 2017, 10:11:33 PM ---Please don't go on a tangent on how "christianity is the best and people who believe otherwise is wrong and sinners!" It's extremely ridiculous and will just de-rail the current discussion
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Sounds like something a sodomite would say.
You're going to hell INH
Insert Name Here²:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on June 16, 2017, 10:15:09 PM ---Sounds like something a sodomite would say.
You're going to hell INH
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aw stuff
Planr:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 16, 2017, 10:09:12 PM ---It's really, provably not. Which do you think helps an African with malaria more? Doctors and medicine paid-for by the B&MGF? Or a team of inexperienced teenagers, with absolutely no relevant skills whatsoever, taking pictures with his villagers' kids and maybe building a school, then leaving a month later to hang all the pictures up on a mission board?
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Healing a child with malaria is good, but having eternity in perspective helps show what really matters. An african kid with malaria has one major thing in common with a healthy kid without malaria: they will both die. Christians are firstly concerned with helping share with lost people how to experience life after death; making this temporary life more comfortable is secondary.
Sharing the gospel with lost people is always the first priority of a Christian. Oftentimes that conversation starts through helping out the lost person with their problems, be it hunger or drug addiction. The help and compassion a Christian is meant to show to others is done so in order to point them to Jesus, who shows all of us mercy even though we all deserve none.
More than healing illness and sickness, Christians want people to live forever.
My church has an active and ongoing mission field in Haiti. We help provide clean drinking water, schooling, and medical assistance to many people living there. But the most important thing we teach the people is that Jesus Christ is the only one who can grant them eternal life, which is something everyone needs far more than temporary comforts in this world of continual sin and death.
--- Quote from: Drydess on June 16, 2017, 10:15:03 PM --- listen, there's a limit to respecting people's religion for christianity just as there is islam. if you think you can pray away your problems and they'll just magically disappear, you're either lazy or deluded. you've got to do something, if praying lets those above you give you strength or ideas then by all means, but praying never worked for the boubonic plague, why would it work now
you can be a genuinely good person and not be a religious person. obviously following christian values doesn't make you christian, but are you still smiled upon? yea
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Believe me, nobody thinks faith healing is more silly than I do. God gave us with medicine for a reason. I do believe in prayer and miracles, but people who refuse to first use medicine are handicapped.
beachbum111111:
--- Quote from: Planr on June 16, 2017, 10:25:53 PM ---Believe me, nobody thinks faith healing is more silly than I do. God gave us with medicine for a reason. I do believe in miracles, but people who refuse to first use medicine are handicapped.
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Medicine is a jewish invention meant to keep down the white kool kids klubhristian man