This might be a discussion topic at Occam's at some point in the
future.
On Jan 13, 11:06 pm, "Jason (Memphis)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> this is a post from Clog on the Occam's site:
>
> Hi y'all - yes, you heard correctly. We have been thinking of this
> subject as a topic for future discussion but I suppose we could
> equally well address it here.
> When engaged in a friendship with a Christian, I must admit to feeling
> something less than a second class citizen, and on occasions rather
> lucky to be alive at all. There is nothing interposed between my
> friendship with a Christian - I have nothing to hide, and I say what I
> believe quite openly - the Christian has nothing to fear from me. I do
> not feel that it can possibly be the same for a Christian, given his
> biblical instructions. God comes between a Christian and his friend -
> even his family! Here are a few examples for starters:
>
> Matthew10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death,
> and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their
> parents, and cause them to be put to death.
>
> Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not
> worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not
> worthy of me.
>
> Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
> sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
> name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit
> everlasting life.
>
> Mark 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There
> is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
> mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
>
> Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother,
> and wife, and children,and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own
> life also, he cannot be my disciple.
>
> Luke 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and
> kinfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to
> death.
>
> Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or
> thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
> thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
> other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
> 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
> him to put him to death,
>
> Joshua 7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed
> thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he
> hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath
> wrought folly in Israel.
>
> 2 Chronicles 15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of
> Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or
> woman.
>
> Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as
> soon as they be born, speaking lies.
> 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
> shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
>
> Isaiah 9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land
> darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man
> shall spare his brother.
> 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
> shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they
> shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
>
> On Jan 13, 2:51 pm, "Jason (Memphis)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
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> > ....or, at least that was the gist of what you said to Steve W. if I
> > heard you correctly.
> > On Jan 13, 2:44 pm, "Jason (Memphis)" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Steve A.,
> > > You said something about the Christian God commanding Christians not
> > > to be friends with wicked atheists? Do you have scripture or even an
> > > argument to back that up?
> > > Jason- Hide quoted text -
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