From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 10 23: 3:33 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 7C7E937B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2538943E6A for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:03:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H29006F7FHSZ0@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:03:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:03:31 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-reply-to: <20020911021911.GC21879@drew.rain3s.net> To: Drew Raines Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <32F3C933-C54C-11D6-A642-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 10:19 PM, Drew Raines wrote: > 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 is the form of tolerance I mean, you do not have to agree with the other belief or condone it, but it does not make it right to do those things you said. >>> 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. > weee :). That is the point I was trying to make when I said man sees God through his own lens. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message