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Date Posted: 09:30:47 12/07/06 Thu
Author: Surfer51
Subject: Re: Just received this in my email from a Jewish friend.
In reply to: Joan 's message, "Re: Just received this in my email from a Jewish friend." on 06:55:05 12/07/06 Thu

Finally someone gets it! Thank you Joan.

Everytime I try to shake some sense into my Christian brethren, all I have gotten out of them is mindless christianese and pie~in~the~sky verbose. This is not scriptural nor is it what is expected of the light of the world.

Jesus said of all of us:

Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Jesus said about Himself:

John 9:5
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

When you become a Christian it was not required of us to leave our brains at the door. We are called the light of the world, not 'The light of Heaven.'

We are not to remain out of issues that relate to our world. We as the light of the world are expected to be deeply involved. So much so that Christian morals and character will be revealed. Christians historicaly have not been doing a good job! We are and have been loosing America.

Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt that remains in the salt shaker does nothing to flavor food. It has to be sprinkled on the food to change it's flavor. Christians in their Ivory towers with deep moats around them are unscriptural.

We are expected by God to get involved in our world that we live in. To be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good is ridiculous, it can not even be supported by scripture.

Luke 10:
30...A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

[notice his non~involvement practice]

32And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

[another selfrighteous non~involvement type]

33But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

[Samaritans were held in very low esteem by the Jews]

34And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

[The Smaraitan got involved in his world, he was not selfrighteously passive]

35And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

[The Smaraitan was a light unto the 'host' his saltyness had to have impacted the 'host' and all who heard of his good deed]

36Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

37And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

Go and DO likewise? Hmm...

American Christians are apathetic.

Here is some dictionary light upon this word 'apathetic.' Please take a moment to read this.

Apathy is the lack of emotion, motivation, or enthusiasm. Apathy is a psychological term for a state of indifference — where an individual is unresponsive or "indifferent" to aspects of emotional, social, or physical life. Clinical apathy is considered to be at an elevated level, while a moderate level might be considered depression, and an extreme level could be diagnosed as a dissociative disorder. The physical aspect of apathy associated with physical deterioration, muscle loss, and lack of energy is called lethargy — which has many pathological causes as well.

Apathy can be object-specific — toward a person, activity or environment. It is a common reaction to stress where it manifests as "learned helplessness" and is commonly associated with depression. It can also reflect a non-pathological lack of interest in things one does not consider important.

Certain drugs are known to cause symptoms associated with or leading to apathy. Apathy is also very similar to laziness, and may be an extreme form of it.

In early Christianity, the Christians adopted the term apathy, to express a contempt of all earthly concerns, a state of mortification, as the gospel prescribes. Thus, the word has been used since then among more devout writers. Clemens Alexandrinus, in particular, brought the term exceedingly in vogue, thinking hereby to draw the philosophers to Christianity, who aspired after such a sublime pitch of virtue.
The concept of apathy became more sympathetically accepted in popular culture during the First World War, in which the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy and shellshock amongst millions of soldiers.

As a clinical diagnosis, "apathy" does not indicate laziness — but in common use the correlation is rather direct. In religious doctrine, slothfulness is considered to be a sin which leads to further disassociation with life and prescience — in this context, to be substantially disassociated is to be "in hell" which is to say 'in a state where the spirit or soul is destroyed or otherwise in a state of destruction.'
The concept of disassociation is controversial — in the practice of Eastern religions, like Hinduism and Buddhism, for example, an advanced meditative state has aspects of extreme detachment — though the religion and ritual of meditation is believed to provide proper grounding such as to properly recover from the detachment and to benefit from its experience. Hence some critics view ascetics or saints as striving for a level of "apathy", which theologians prefer to call disassociation or detachment.

The parable of the good Samaritan is Jesus Christ telling us to get involved in our world. Don't be like the priest and pass by on the otherside, out of the affairs of the world. Don't be like the Levite who looked upon the situation and passed by anyway.

Be like the good Samaritan who gets involved even though it cost him personally. Not only that, he remains involved until the situation is fully resolved!

"Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee."
Luke 10:35

What was Jesus point?

Luke 10:36
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

37And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

AMERICA HAS FALLEN AMONG THIEVES and all Christians do is pass by on the other side!

America that was given to Christians has fallen among theives who have been and are taking your religious freedom through skillful gradualism. The principle or policy of achieving some goal by gradual steps rather than by drastic change. And Christians are walking by on the other side while they steal America from them!

Go and read this article:

ARE YOU READY FOR THE COMING MERGER OF MEXICO,
By Paul McGuire

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.kbrt740.com/Article.asp?id=195611">http://www.kbrt740.com/Article.asp?id=195611</a>

Wakeup, smell the coffee, America has fallen among thieves!

What will you do Christian?

If you understand this and want to do something, you can start by emailing this to everyone you know. Get the word out. Time to come down from our Ivory towers, America needs us. She is wounded and hurt on the roadside.

Surfer51

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