Friday, April 26, 2013

Leftwing And Christian?

If you think that 'Jesus was nice - ergo Christianity is summed up by being nice ourselves' - you may well be a so-called leftwing or liberal christian who hasn't read enough to understand the real Jesus.
('Liberal Christian' is the greatest, illogical oxymoron.)
If this is your category, you will probably major on 'God's forgiveness being guaranted for all' and you will conveniently forget that this is 100% conditional.
You will see God as a smiling, indulgent parent who did not give commandments but helpful suggestions.
You will fail to grasp Christian moral issues and will always take a man-based view of life and will be incapable of seeing the world through God's eyes.
You will have no sense of the fact that righteousness and mercy do not cancel each other out.

Er ... Yes! Possibly,