Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!TAMVENUS!EWS2304 From: EWS2304@TAMVENUS Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: Renewing your minds to His word! Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 90 17:29:00 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 28 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: JNET%"christia@finhutc" > Well, surprise, surprise, so was I. Jesus detested hypocrisy, > and blind commitment to rules. He ate and socialized with > sinners of the worse kind, he did not say 'You must not be > a Christian!'. I don't remember anything in the Bible that > Jesus says that bashing is OK. Paul did alot of it, though. > Jesus did not. > > Deb I have to bring up a very important point that helped me once. Paul told us to renew our minds. We have carnal minds and thus when we read some of God's words written by Paul we say that Paul is a basher. He is not. Paul allways spoke in love. At least in the NT writings. We just don't understand because the world has shaped our minds for many years. But now you can change all that. Read the entire bible daily. Renew your mind to His word. See hoe God deals with sin and the sinner. How He veiws the world. That is how we need to think and not by worldly standards. I am trying to say this not as an attack but in love. I too had problems with things in the bible untill a brother told me I had to renew my mind. Noone on this list is running around screaming so and so is not a christian. All we are trying to do is point out that some beleifs are not christian. We can do that because God told us what was chritian and what is not. It is not self-righteous or condemning. It is just speaking the truth in love. In His Love, Eric. P.S. Better an open rebuke then hidden love.