DISQUS

The World According to Chris Brewer: Tough Christian Concepts To Explain, Ep. 1

  • Matthew · 7 months ago
    That's a lot of questions, all of which have answers. You'd do well to ask a priest or other Christian scholar to go through them one at a time at length.

    Conversely, if you'd like to get together sometime over coffee, I'd be happy to do my best answering each question in turn. It'd be a rather lengthy write-up and I won't have time to do them justice in text for quite a while, so talking would be the fastest/soonest way for me to answer and reply :-P
  • Jason E. Brewer · 7 months ago
    Okay, here is the deal. The ten commandments said, thou shalt not MURDER. I don't care what people think, that is what it is properly translated as. Otherwise there would be a contradiction with people being allowed to kill someone before they arrived at the safe cities. In the old testament, if you murdered someone, you had to flee to one of the safe cities. If you were caught before you arrived, God deemed it okay for the family of the murdered person to in turn kill you.

    People misquote that so often. As far as the rest, maybe another time.
  • Anonymous · 7 months ago
    David pursued God's heart with his love. Of course he made serious mistakes, but we serve a God of second chances. According to the Bible, we can try to do all the right things, but if we do them without love, it's in vain. It's all about love and pursuing a relationship with the One who took on our sins.

    As for the questions about spiritual warfare, for some reason, God chose not to take us out of the world when we became believers. He decided to allow us to battle with sin until we die. The good news: He has promised us that He'll never leave or forsake us. And the lessons we learn through the struggle help prepare us for our new home.