- 23 Mar 2004 05:12
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How do "Conservative Christians" (Southern Baptist, Assembly of God, TV evangelists, etc.) and the "liberal Christians" (Quakers) share such conflictual views from the same source? They merely pick different parts of the bible to emphasize.
From what I see, I believe conservative Christians take the whole text, Old Testament and New Testament, as a historical account, and seem to believe in the literal existance of God. The emphasis of these Christians is to avoid punishment by God, therefore they directly follow things God says on homosexuality and different reasons for which they can go to Hell. These Christians have less of an stress on forgiveness and more on justice. Morals such as loyalty, hard work, and a duty to spread the word and convert new Christians are much more important in these versions of Christianity.
Liberal Christians seem to ignore all of the Old Testament and the later parts of the New Testament and focus only on the gospels. Their emphasis is on trying to live like Jesus did, peaceful and forgiving, but many that I have met do not sound like they actually believe that Jesus existed. These Christians seem to see the life of Jesus as a guide, but not an event. They tend not to spread the Word, hence their numbers grow much slower than the evangelists.
Which do you agree with? Personally, I don't understand why the liberal Christians even call themselves Christian if they don't believe in the events of the bible.
From what I see, I believe conservative Christians take the whole text, Old Testament and New Testament, as a historical account, and seem to believe in the literal existance of God. The emphasis of these Christians is to avoid punishment by God, therefore they directly follow things God says on homosexuality and different reasons for which they can go to Hell. These Christians have less of an stress on forgiveness and more on justice. Morals such as loyalty, hard work, and a duty to spread the word and convert new Christians are much more important in these versions of Christianity.
Liberal Christians seem to ignore all of the Old Testament and the later parts of the New Testament and focus only on the gospels. Their emphasis is on trying to live like Jesus did, peaceful and forgiving, but many that I have met do not sound like they actually believe that Jesus existed. These Christians seem to see the life of Jesus as a guide, but not an event. They tend not to spread the Word, hence their numbers grow much slower than the evangelists.
Which do you agree with? Personally, I don't understand why the liberal Christians even call themselves Christian if they don't believe in the events of the bible.
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