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"jesus is a perfect master. he is patient."
Patient is not perfect. A perfect master teaches and controls his disciples perfectly. jesus does not teach and control his disciples. His disciples hurt and kill people, they hoard wealth.
jesus is a bad master.
"No, it isnt"
Adherents of a philosophy, in practice(in practical application, or the "real world"), define how that philosophy interacts with the world.
Think of all the different christian sects defining and defending different perspectives of the same words, harming and killing others over their own confusion and fear.
"christians" define christianity and how christianity exists in the world.
"Not, we don't"
The christian bible glorifies slavery as righteous. You worship that book.
"No, it isnt"
Slavery according to the christian bible:
"All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect"
"Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them,"
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything"
The Bible glorifies slavery as righteous and christian.
According to the christian bible, It is christian to own slaves and for those slaves to be willing slaves to their masters.
But it's one silly book among millions, you don't have to worship selfishness, misogyny and slavery if you choose not to.
He does exactly that- teach and control them.
On hoarding wealth:
Matthew 19:16-22
Luke 12:16-21
On violence:
Luke 22:50-51
Matthew 5:38-42
No, those self proclaimed followers who hoard wealth, hurt, and kill, are bad disciples.
Christian denominations don't hurt or kill each other. The vast majority of denominations coexist, and many participate in ecumenism. There is a general agreement between Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Protestants that we all are Christians and follow the same faith. We just practice it differently.
That was about humility and submission to authority, with the hope that by your humility and submission you'd be a Christian witness to your master. Jesus didn't preach violence- He preached turning the other cheek, and this is consistent with that. As was said, you may suffer for a while, but in the end you'll be free eternally. All of the slaves from when that was written have been freed.
None of what you cited encourages taking slaves.
No, it's not.
The Bible doesn't preach these things, and we don't worship these things. We worship the God who became man, lived a humble life, preached humility and died so we can spend eternity free. The Bible is more about humility, it's your own selfishness which is clouding it.
And if a religion is defined by how it's people behave, we sing the hymn "Amazing Grace" which was written by an ex slave trader. In the hymn he refers to his past life before coming to the Faith as a "wretch" and "I once was lost"
John Newton, 1778
I doubt you've actually read the Bible - Jesus' constant teaching of humility, false prophets, etc are quite clear. You are just recycling old washed out anti-theist talking points. This Advent, I challenge you to read Matthew's Gospel. You might be surprised. You can even listen to it in the background, it's just two and a half hours long.
2:09 if you want to skip the genealogy
"he does exactly that- teach and control them."
So your belief is that jesus teaches christians to rape children and murder people. Weird take, but it does sound christian.
If you pretend jesus preaches pedophilia, violence and greed – I guess he does promote incest when lot fucks his daughters - then he is a pretty bad master, since some christians have sex with their own children and murder people but some don’t.
jesus has no control over Christians.
On hoarding wealth:
Many self-professed Christians hoard wealth, defying their book rule that "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Jesus, terrible teacher since all his greedy disciples are hoarding wealth in direct defiance of him. He has no control over his disciples.
“the bible doesn’t teach these things”
Quotes provided above praise the selfishness of men, misogyny and dominion over women, and the christian righteousness of slavery.
When you worship that book or its writers, you are worshiping incest, selfishness, misogyny and slavery, among other "sins".
“we sing amazing grace”
does not help all the kids christians raped, hospitals bombed or the people dying every hour from hoarded christian wealth.
This is the difference between the real world, where christians regularly harm people, and a novel like the bible, which you are pretending does not include its own direct quotes about slavery. Which is crazy, because the bible praises and promotes slavery and slave owners a LOT.
“I doubt you’ve read the bible.”
doubt away thomas. you seem very unfamiliar with the christian bible.
or you're pretending the christian bible doesn’t promote incest, slavery, misogyny and selfishness despite direct biblical quotes.
I’m quoting relevant, accurate passages and dealing with the text honestly, you either haven't read the christian bible or are pretending you haven’t read it because you are aware how embarrassing and immoral it is to worship slavery and incest.
To be fair, It is very christian of you to hide from the reality and consequences of your professed faith and ignore the actual text.
Lot was raped by his daughters. Are we victim blaming now?
You kind of remind me when 'the right' undermines the trans rights movement because a handful of mass shooters or sex offenders were transgender people.
Ohhhh, ohhh, you think?
Matthew 7:21-23
Would be a bit of a shame if you thought you would be separated from them, just to be thrown in the same pit with them.
All the rest of that nonsense you are claiming about slavery have already debunked. You're not rebutting my argument, just repeating the same claims I addressed mindlessly. If you really want me to demonstrate more that the Bible doesn't promote these things, I will.
"Are we victim blaming now?"
If you are, you should stop. Christians victim-blame too regularly.
good for you to acknowledge lot's christian misogyny! Lot begs a mob to rape his daughters to save his guests. Very christian(misogynist) and disgusting.
Lot drank some wine. You believe he was so drunk he didn't realize his own daughters were having sex with him to completion for 48 hours? Ludicrous.
"Ohhhh, ohhh, you think?...did we not prophesy..."
Fiction and speculation is useless here. You have the relevant christian biblical quotes above detailing christian slavery, christian misogyny, and christian greed, and we know that in real life christians are pedophiles, rapists and murderers.
Either jesus is teaching pedophilia and murder to christians, or christians are raping chlidren and murdering people because jesus cannot control his flock.
either way, jesus is a terrible "master".
"...I addressed mindlessly"
try addressing the quotes mindfully.
Jesus endorses misogyny, slavery and incest in "his" book, and so does anyone who worships his words.
"If you really want me to demonstrate more that the bible doesn't promote these things..."
This thread is simply a guide on how to debunk christian self-delusions.
I heartily encourage you to try again.