VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Wednesday, May 14, 12:22:57amLogin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 12345[6]78910 ]
Subject: Subject: Enforcing laws of religion


Author:
QUITTNER
[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
Date Posted: 08/ 6/04 2:23pm
In reply to: Jason Gastrich 's message, "Skeptic's Annotated Bible - Corrected and Explained" on 08/ 2/04 4:05am

Jason, according to the FIRST version of Christianity, the one by Jesus, a Christian can be either still "in the World", or a member of "The Kingdom of God" (on Earth), but not both. Membership of that theocratic kingdom was very restricted, and only its members were saved, no others. They lived a communal lifestyle as partly described in Acts 2 and Acts 4, and they OBEYED.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]


Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]

Forum timezone: GMT-6
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.