From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 10 19:18:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785337B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu (williams.mc.Vanderbilt.Edu [160.129.208.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE47E43E4A for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew-list-freebsd-chat@rain3s.net) Received: (qmail 22598 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 02:19:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu) (127.0.0.1) by williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 02:19:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:19:11 -0500 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020911021911.GC21879@drew.rain3s.net> References: <20020910231814.GA21879@drew.rain3s.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: Drew Raines Mail-Followup-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62+ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lawrence Sica wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 07:18 PM, Drew Raines wrote: > > > > I thought you were saying that Jesus didn't persecute > > anyone, a comment justified by John 8:7. Also, if you were ^---[not] > > agreeing with Neal, why did you sarcastically refer to a > > piece of scripture which supported his point? > > The point i was trying to make is that tolerance is a core of > christianity. He stated that all the tolerance we see today > is not a good thing. I agree with him. Christianity does not tolerate sin under any circumstance. However, God commands us to tolerate the /sinner/; to love one another. That's why it's wrong for a church to kick out homosexuals. They're just as guilty as the businessman sleeping with his secretary and the pastor who gorges himself at the potluck dinner and the housewife gossiping to her girlfriends. > > That doesn't justify slavery as an institution that pleased > > God, however, which is what you were implying in previous > > messages. Where does the Bible claim that? > > I said it was used to do that, not that the Bible said that. > My point being the bible has been interpreted in various ways > to suit the needs of those thumping it to justify what they > do. I certainly agree with that. Drew -- "In need psychology the natural way to praise God is for what He has done for me. However, in God's self-revelation, even though God deserves humble thankfulness because of what He has done for me, God deserves praise /simply because He is God./" --Ed Welch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message