Please make sure and feed the light blue fish not more than 4 times daily. The reddish one can have as much food as he wants because he will probably pout and make everybody else miserable if you give him less than anybody else.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Religious Freedom
If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36 - Weymouth Translation
Laws can't provide the type of freedom that followers of Jesus are really seeking.
Slavery was wrong, yet the verse expresses the simple truth that emancipation is not true freedom. Social justice is a nice goal, but no amount of it can provide the freedom that is termed "free indeed."
Society has never, and can never truly embody the ideals of Jesus because Jesus came to save individuals. I understand when people think Christian values are slipping away, but what has so-called Christian society done with these values but devalued them so much that they mean very little.
The truth has not changed, but societies take turns picking and choosing the parts of it they think are more important than others.
The people who protest gay marriage watch porn and get divorced.
Homosexuality was completely different in Jesus' day but it was very common, and we have no record of any comments Jesus made about the subject. Rather, Jesus helped individuals to cleanse themselves, not judge others.
The above verse was written in a time of slavery.
ReplyDeleteSlavery was wrong, yet the verse expresses the simple truth that emancipation is not true freedom. Social justice is a nice goal, but no amount of it can provide the freedom that is termed "free indeed."
Society has never, and can never truly embody the ideals of Jesus because Jesus came to save individuals. I understand when people think Christian values are slipping away, but what has so-called Christian society done with these values but devalued them so much that they mean very little.
The truth has not changed, but societies take turns picking and choosing the parts of it they think are more important than others.
The people who protest gay marriage watch porn and get divorced.
Homosexuality was completely different in Jesus' day but it was very common, and we have no record of any comments Jesus made about the subject. Rather, Jesus helped individuals to cleanse themselves, not judge others.