Not exactly - I thought I was clever enough to get killed for it back when I was in high school
Sure, that would be a more elegant improvement of his original statement in my view
Do I?
Well I’ll just go right on ahead with taking that as like the biggest compliment ever - thank you!!
No. It is for sure a source of credibility, which can be distinguished from authority.
I suggest you find a way to see that your statement went too far
It’s just a suggestion that I must share or risk changing for the worse - it’s not like I’m saying you must do so right now or burn forever in hell or anything
I will accept the entire blame for that. As with every verse in the Bible, to completely understand it you need context. It would be best to read the entire letter to the Church at Corinth before feeling confident in understanding any one verse within it. Plus, it still needs to complement the context of the entire Bible.
1 Corinthians 1:1, “Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 2 Unto the churchof God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Paul is writing the letter to the Church that is in Corinth. He says the members of the Church are called to be saints.
Now read 1 Corinthians 6:2, " Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"
When Paul says “you” he is referring to the Church that is in Corinth. We Christians believe there is one Church of God. In other words, what is written to the Church in Corinth is also written to the entire Church of God. Now you can better see the context of 1 Corinthians 6:2.
There seems to be some confusion with regard to grammar on this thread. A complete sentence has a verb and a subject that performs the action the verb describes. An imperative sentence, or command, may not have a stated subject, but it will be implied as it is directed at someone or more than one person, or an animal, or even a non living object such as a car.
A sentence fragment will lack a verb and/or subject. It is not always improper grammar to use one. One word answers such as yes or no or maybe are fragments but are acceptable as the subject and verb are implied. If you’re asked if you want chicken or fish, you can answer chicken (which is, grammatically speaking, the object). This would imply or abbreviate, “I want chicken.” It is still a fragment and not a complete sentence but it is acceptable. Sentences that drop the subject pronouns, such as the one word answers yes or no, are also called pro-sentences. It is not typical for English to drop the subject unlike Spanish, for example, which is a null subject language.
Not exactly, but thank you for the useful information
We can be confident scientifically that the proper use of the phrase inshaAllah by a Muslim is nothing like the insincere usage of a phrase involving luck, since there is a thing called a placebo effect
Thank you for trying (a little too hard)
No
Thank you for (almost?) asking!
Thank you for asking. I had forgotten to say it in your case but hopefully better late than never, and preferably neither
Maniacal laughter
Yup! I’ve noticed! It’s like a miracle or something!
I can kind of remember deciding to transform with maybe only the vaguest sense of what I’d like to transform into, but I might just be reading my current self into an overwritten past
@zecarlo Would you walk around my town and talk to my neighbors like that? I just stood in line to pay for gas behind a dude who was about 6’9", and likely of a similar belief set as @squating_bear.
If not, why not?
I don’t talk to my neighbors who I disagree with like that, because I don’t have any meaningful depth of understanding about the faith of my neighbors or why they hold the beliefs that they do.
I do talk to my neighbors who hold political office about why I disagree with their terrible ideas about public policy, and it is my hope that more people who share @squating_bear 's faith will eventually begin to agree with me. That may be a fool’s errand from a political point of view, but even if it is, that’s no reason to go around accusing my neighbors of wanting to molest some kids or being okay with it.
I have some insight for most Christians, which has now given me the wisdom to reflect on the occasions where I diminished myself by mocking someone’s sincerely held religious beliefs for selfish reasons. I did this while making silly arguments about a series of technicalities, the likes of which belong in an argument about competition squat depth in a multi-ply powerlifting meet.
No reason other than I haven’t really given this speech since a year ago when I gave it to you. It is, after all, very easy to get carried away with what we are willing to say on the internet versus what we will say when we’re standing in line behind a guy who is 6’9".
Thank you
It wouldn’t make much sense for me to give you any of the blame for myself choosing to not read the Bible decades before our paths crossed
I still haven’t understood what you are really trying to tell me or what you are really asking
The way I remember it, fitafter40 was trying to pressure me to condemn Muhammad (saw), and I shared some information as to why that appeared distinctly Anti-Christian to me
1 Corinthians 6:2 still doesn’t seem all that relevant to what I was saying because in 1:2 it seems every Christian is being called to go all in on becoming a saint. Then
6:2 seems to be challenging the best of the best that took that seriously to take it even more seriously to the point of approaching perfection
I see it as rhetorical questions, and I don’t see that judgementalness is being recommended, but rather ever increasing worthiness for anything and everything good
If I were to practice being the best judge I could become, I would want to go through a long phase of as little judgementalness as I could muster until I either needed to change, or had gotten enough benefits from it that moving on made more sense in the long term.
Marginal costs, marginal benefits, negative benefits, from a long term adaptation perspective
And Mr. Miyagi “wax on, wax off” comes to mind
And you had quoted me talking krino and condemning specifically, not judgement specifically,
Well I would have hoped that they’d not give you much trouble at all since you do appear to be consistently reasonable, quick to accept (even subtle) feedback, etc.
I would like to think it’s not a fool’s errand in general but with specific people - yeah, sometimes it’s gonna be. I would guess Muslims that were born outside the USA would tend to fall for the automatic “Democrats care about foreigners” trap. But I would think Muslims that were born here would break out of that usually and start thinking a bit more for themselves unless they have particular surroundings that prevent it.*
Seems like even the Afghan born voters in my family are voting Trump this year fwiw - I think they can just tell from the tone of voice and unanimous consensus of how the younger generation discusses it all.
*California comes to mind, but even my Cali cousins seem to have broken from it by now…shrug
My family came to the US in the early 80’s - I would expect the automatic foreigner Democrat magic to take some time to wear off for people who are new. Like, a few decades maybe, unfortunately