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Christianity - The Heresy of the Nice Doctrine

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Anonymous 01/08/16 (Fri) 08:41:27 lD 4c7187 No 240805 D240 2240782 ahvvสy thought Jesus taught unconditional love He does, but love- is not exactly what you think it is. The concept taught is close but it has been subtly twisted to keep Christians from being effective by those in power αγαπη or agape is translated as love but it's not that simple Agape is the love God had for his creation and the love we have or the rest o creation because we love God t is a sense of thankfulness and a desire to see God's plans come to fruition So, if you desire God's plan to manifest, would you let an evil doer stomp all over you? No, that's failing to be loving Besides, most evl people want things that will hurt- them in the long run. It is loving to deny them what is bad for them. Unconditiona ove is true but being ioving isn't being a doormat. Most o what Paul says about e is properly rendered except ove is knd" which s often m sconstrued. Better translation o χρηστε ετα s k nd), and what believe Paul was conveying would be "love helps others" because it isnt necessarily gentle or kind-ayan is often tough love While fm noting false renderings of the Greek to keep people down-Im going to tackle "blessed are the meek The word translated as meek is πραϋς. Strong's Concordance 4239 notes Biblical meekness is not weakness but rather refers to exercising God's strength under His control" Thus, everyone's reading that one wrong as well In English, because it's about controlled power, would be "blessed are those who use their gifts for the will of God, for they will inherit the Earth Ofcourse, it takes a lot of words to render TTpaus in English but I think it's better than the common misconception File nse There is no shortage ot heresies these days If you want to adopt some blasphemous, perverted, fun house mirror reflection of Chnstianity, you will find a veritable buffet of options You can sit throughi all the varñants and build your own little petversion of the Faith, Its ice Cream Social Christianity make your own sundael (Or Sunday, as it were) And ofall the heretical choices probably the mostcommon- and possibly the most damaging is wnat I've come to call the Nice Doctrine. The propagators ofthe Nice Dct ne can be seen and heard豹m anytime any Christian takes any boid stance on any cultural issue or uses harsh language of any kind or condemns any sinful act orights against evil with any force or conviction atall As soon as he or she stands and sas This is wrong, and I will notcompromise, the heretics swoop in with their trusty mantras They insist that Jesus was a nice man wouldn't have used wards that might lead to hurt feelings They canfidenty sermonize about a meek and mild Messiah who was born into his Earthty reaim on a missian to spark a constuctive dialogue d that He never would nave done anything to upset people: They say that He came down from Heaven to preach tolerance and acceptance; and He The believers in Nice Jesus are usually ignorant of Scripture, but they do know that He was friends with prostitutes, and once said something about how, like, we shouldn'tget too ticked off about stuff, or whatever. In thelr min essentially a supermatural Cheech Marin Read the comments under my previous post about gay fignts militants and you'll see this heresy ilustrated That post prampted an especially notenorthy email from someone concerned that I'm not being 'Christltke because I call peopl You aren't spreading Christianity when you talk like that The whole message of Jesus was that we should be nice to peopie because we want them to be nice to us That's how we can all be happy. Penod t's that simple Ee nice to me, I'i be nice to you, and we'll ail be happy. This is the wnole message of Chnstanity? Really? Jesus Christ preached a Truth no deeperor more comple than a slogan on a poster in a Kindergarten classroom? Really A provocative claim, to say the least I decided to investgate the matter, and sure enough.I found this excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount ames He sald, in part We're best friends like flriends shouid be. With a great big hug. and a kiss from me to you, wontyou say you ove me too? Actually. wait sorry, that's from the original Barney theme song God heip us. We've turned the Son of God into a purple dinosaur Ruppet There's no way to be certain but most theologians believe that despite popular percepton, Christ looked nothing lke this. Idon trecognize this Jesus This moderate. This paciist This nice guy He's not tne Jesus Iread about in the Bibie, Iread ofa strong, manly, stem, and bola Savior. Compassionate, yes Forgiving, ofcourse Loving aways loving, But not particulany nice He condeined He denounced He caused trouble. He disrupted the established order On one occasion-or at least one retorded occasion-He used Waience This Jesus saw the money changers in the temple and now did He resnond? He wasn t polte about it I'd even say He was downnght intolerant He fashioned a whip this is what the lawyers would call 'premeditation Fand physically drove the merchants akay. He tumed over tables and shouted. He caused a scene. (John 2:1 Assault with a deadly weapon Vandalism Disturbing the peate. Worse stil, intolerance in two words not nice Not.rn Anonymotis 02/02/18 (Tue) 00134 01 D: 02b54 No 24 File n 1454333641136 192273922 250 32 Amsi 924702 Can you imagine how some moderate, pious, nice Conistans of today would react to that spectacie in the Temple? Can you envision the proponents ofthe Nice Doctrine, with their wagging ngers and their passive aggressive sighs? Tm sure they'd send Jesus a patronizing email, perhaps leave a disapproving comment under the news article about the incident, reminding Jesus that Jesus would never do what Jesus just did Personally. Tve studied the New Testament and found not a single instance of Chnst calling for a dialogue th evitor seeking the middle ground on an issue. I see an absolutist unafraid confrontation. Iseea man who did not waver or give credence to the other side Isee someone wo never once avolded a disoute by saying that Heil just agree to disagree see a Christ who calls the Stribes and Pharisees snakes and vipers He labels them murderers and blind guides, and ridicutes them publicly [Mathew 23 331 He undermines their authority. He insufts them He castigates them He's notvery nice to them Jesus rebukes and condemns In Mattiew 18. He utilizes morbid and violenit imagery saying hat it would be better to drown in the sea mth a stone around your neck than to harm a child Had our modern politicians been around Mo thousand years ago, I'm sure they'd go on the cable news shovs and shake their heads and Insist tiat there's no place for that kind of language No place for the language of God Jesus deliberately did and said things that He knew would upset people. He stirred up division and controversy He provoked He didn't have to break from estabiished customs, but He did He didn'thave to heal that man's hand on the Sabbath, knowing how it would disturb others and cause them immense imitation,but He did, and He did so with anger Mark 3:5 He could ave gone with the flow a litle bit He could have chiilied out and let bygones be bygones, but He didnt He could have been diplomatic, but He wasn't He could have told evetyone to relax, but instead He made them uncomfortable He could have put them at ease, but He chose to put them on edge He convinced the mob not to stone the adulterer [John 8 and you'l notice that He then turned to her and told her to stop sinning Indeed, never once did He encounter sin and corruption and say Hey do your thang homies. Just have fun YoLOl The followers of Nce Jesus lave to quole the throw the first stone verse occurs just a few sentences later in thatvery same chaptar In dohn 8:44. Jesus rebukes unbelieving Jews and calls them sons ofthe Devil for god reason .rs a beautiful and compelling story but you rarely hear mention ofthe exchange that Wow That was't mice, Jesus h even mote fies with a mound of garbage so maybe tatching fies' isn't the point While we're aten reminded that Jesus Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can catch more fies with honey, Jesus? ofcourse, you'd said, lve by the sword a sword [Matthew 10 y the sword, we seem to ignore his otter sword references Like when he told his disciples to sel their cloaks and buy a sword [Luke 22, or Wien He said that He didntcome to bring peace, but Now. Its tue that He is God and we are not Jesus can say whatevet He wants to say. But we are called to be like Christ Which begs the question: what is Chtist like? Well, He is among other things, uncompromising He s intolerant of evil He is distuptve He is sometimes harsh. He is sometmes impolite, He is sometimes angry He is atways loving Chirist was not and is not a cosmic guidance counselor. and He is not mankind's best triend. nor did He call us to be. He made dogs for that role-our desany is more substanbal.and our path to itis far more challenging and dangerous, And nice Where does nice factor into this7 Nice: afable. peachy,swell Anony mous 02/02/16 (Tue) 00 3501 D 02b54e No 24790447474 8 2.47993 Nice tias notning to do with Christanity. 've got nothing against nice nice is nice-buteven serial killers can be nice to people. They generally are exceptionally affable, exceptwnen hey'te murdering. That means theyre nice to, like 97or 98 petcent of eyeryone they meet iftam Iguess they're following Christ almost all of the time; right? And tolerance Tolerance 15 easy Aภy coward can learn to tolerate something. Toerance is inaction; intolerance is action we are called to refuse to tolerate evil we are called to get angry at it and actively work to destroy Who'd fiave guess it-angeris far more godly than tolerance ever could be Obviously Im not suggesting that anger is automatically, or even usually justified. Christexhibited rigtiteous anger,righteous anger is the sort of anger that naturally filis our soul when we confront the depths of depravity and sin. it is wrong to seethe with rage because someone cut us off in tratmic or gossips about us behind our back,butit is also wong to feel no anger when babies are murdered and the institubon üf the family is undermined and attacked Anger is good when it is directed at things that offend not us, but cod Justas Christ's intolerance, like the intolerance we're commanded to have, stems from a desite to save souls and defend Trut Even when we nave rghteous anger we do not have carte blanche to act on it in anyway we please But, according to the Bible, there are times to use strong language there are times to cause a scene, there are times to hurt people's feelings and there are times when we might need to use physical force Jesus tola us to turm the other cheek when we are personally attached He never told us to tun our backs entirely and let lies spread and evif grow So, enough with the niceties Christans in this country sound too similar to the the Golden Giris song, and not enough like the Battle Hymn of the Republic. There's too much thank you for being a friend, and not enough ightening from His termible swin sword We're all hugging and singing Kumbaya. when we should be marching and shouting Hallelujah. We're nice Christans with our nice Jesus. and we are trampled on without protest think it's time that Chastanity regain ts fighting spirit, the spirit of Christ think it's time we ask that question, What would Jesus do" And ithinkits time we ansser it truthfully Jesus wouid fip tabies and yell Maybe we ought to follow suit

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