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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry.
Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.
So by being a Pagan and admitting to having other gods before Him, I'm actually coming out ahead because at least I was honest about it? Score!
Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.
Wow, what a perfect recipe for creepy obsessive-compulsive guilt-ridden craziness. I'm now incredibly grateful that my own CCD teachers were just inept, not actively malign.
Perhaps I am a bit of a micro-manager. But, I'm told a lot of people like that in a god.
It could work, but you'd need more than two tablets for all the commandments.
I think the Church of DX (reformed) commandment list would start off with thou shalt learn to count. The only reason I mention it is that Incompetent Sales Manager sent Prospective Customer Guy an email saying that I would forward PCG the product specs for "approximately 300 products." The list of products ISM sent to me to prepare specs for had 129 products, which is only "approximately 300" if your other choice is a thousand or so.
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Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.
Oh, were you confirmed Catholic, Fred, or in another tradition? I don't know why, but it helps to know this might not just be a Protestant problem.
So by being a Pagan and admitting to having other gods before Him, I'm actually coming out ahead because at least I was honest about it? Score!Nope, sorry (I am trying to figure out how to make a nasty buzzer sound come across in letters, but Eeeeeeeeeehndt is the best I can come up with).
The point, and this is the part where I was saying I agree, is there is just the law. The commandments make up the one law. If I've broken a part of the law, I've broken the law. Period. That's the part I take to. There is no good enough. It's not about me being good enough. Alone, I can't be. That doesn't mean I am not supposed to be, but that doesn't tear down the wall I've put between myself and G-d, through complete fault of my own.
But in practice, it sometimes then all devolves into foolishness, because people try to make other people sweat whichever commandment is their pet one. Or we get the usual Roman Catholic vs. Protestant foolishness, about faith v. works, where (imo) hard-liners on both extremes miss the point, which is, real faith will cause a regeneration--a death to my life in which I was enslaved to sin, and a life in which by nature (because I'm dead to sin and alive to Christ) my works will be good. The hardliners on one side, hear salvation by faith alone, but many seem to forget about working out that salvation in fear and trembling over the course of a lifetime, and that faith without works is dead. The hardliners on the other side know that faith without works is dead, but many seem to think it is all about works, as if grace if ever something one can earn. If it is earned, it's not grace.
Sorry. t /issues
Off to pick up the rugrats, take 'em out to lunch, and conquer the Federal Government. When come back, will bring pie.
Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.
Do you mean, like, actively thinking about God? Even when asleep? You dream of a llama on a pogo stick instead of God and you go to hell?
Because, I'm sayin', I don't even think about porn 24/7.
And fantastic, I'm exporting a huge file and somebody came up behind me when I couldn't get my browser to minimize. Time to go to lunch, I think, and pick back up when the damn file finishes exporting.
and conquer the Federal Government. When come back, will bring pie.
Dude, they give you pie if you conquer the Federal Government? If I knew that, I'm being trying to conquer the government all the time.
Boy there's just no winning with this God. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Brian Of Nazareth: "There's no pleasing some people."
Ex-leper: "That's just what Jesus said, sir."
Oh, were you confirmed Catholic, Fred, or in another tradition?
Missouri Synod Lutheran, Cindy. It was a long, long time before I learned that there was a liberal tradition in Lutheranism.
Do you mean, like, actively thinking about God? Even when asleep? You dream of a llama on a pogo stick instead of God and you go to hell?
I don't remember the class going into that. It was more of a "everybody breaks the 1st" lesson.