Bible Discussion Thread

I am amazed at how many responses come on this web site with criticism and judgement, I thought my bible said speak the truth in love. also whats the first and great commandment love God first then love thy neighbor as thyself, also in the church epistles it says be especially good to the household of faith. I've seen a lot more people delivered explaining how to get to heaven, they already believed they were going the opposite direction. A man walked into a church that was an alcoholic and the pastor was going to teach on something else but instead preached on the effects and sin of alcohol abuse After His sermon that he thought was great the guy walked up to him in line and was almost crying, the pastor ask him what was wrong he said I came here hoping you would teach me how to solve my problem, i know everything there is to know about the effects, and how it damages my life. The pastor committed to never teach negatives again, its a good lesson. God Bless

Hi Dianne , I get really annoyed by negative sermons also , there are a group of Christians who regularly preach in my local town centre and all they talk about is the devil and sin and he'll ,they are in fact slightly abusive to people , it's as if they are deliberately pushing people away rather than trying to draw them in with bands of love , I would have much more respect for them if they kept their mouths shut and just gave away free Bibles to anyone who wants one , even occasionally in my congregation we get a preacher who will pick one of the slightly less reputable characters in the Bible and spend 45 minutes just ripping that person apart , firstly they are just pandering to our vanity by implying that none of us would have behaved in that way if we were in that situation , I'm sorry but I am definitely a sinner and might have done even worse ! Secondly it's just dull . I want to here preachers fishing and using love and truth and peace and joy and amazing awesome promises about a fantastic future as bait , not hate and condemnation and fear and a holier than thou attitude .