Advice for Preachers :: Matt Chandler

yay for matt chandler :)

Someone is saying they deny that people (Christian or non- Christian) sin every day. This is because of a skewed meaning of sin. Remember sin is not just lying, murder, sex before marriage, etc. Christ was trying to make this point in the gospel of Mt. where their were people who seemed to live perfect lives. Christ says the greatest command is to LOVE the Lord God with all your heart, and I believe that this is the sin that more people struggle with than any other sin! All fall short here!

This is a misunderstanding of sin. Every sin is violation of God's law, and thus every sin is a failure to love the Lord God with all our heart. All sin can ultimately be connected to unbelief.

Words are defined by a need to communicate. We use words, but if our concepts hang on mere words, then they are pathetic, unreliable just as words are unreliable. (Even more so using a language as recent and transient as English...)
And you do have nowhere to arrive. If you and all else are apart of this cosmic intelligence, you are completely alone, and any alterations to yours or others states is completely meaningless. You have no basis for morality, objection to injustice, hate, murder, etc.

You want everything to fit inside the mind. The mind is so very finite. I did not create the label 'God'. I usually use the word 'dad' when I'm talking to him. And He talks to me. I don't know a set of facts (mind things) about God, I have fellowship with God (Spirit things). You know friends and family, and you can define them using basic facts, but that is what you know ABOUT them, that is not knowing them (present continuous tense). God supersedes my 'cons. level'. And I'm never alone.

You condemn a book (and everyone who believes in it) that people have used and interpreted to justify their actions in a few cases throughout history, but yet you support a worldview that keeps billions in poverty and oppression. I have seen personally what the belief in Karma does, the apathy it creates (look at India's caste system). You are very hypocritical in this. The crusades were childsplay in comparison (and they contradicted Jesus' teachings).

You believe in Karma, in a circular worldview (you may prefer mental construct) that strips the value of the lives of 2 Billion+ people in the world, and then you dress up an elegant attack on a book that centres on the teachings of one who decided to die for all, and thus gives them value, and you expect me to take you seriously? You need to look a little deeper into the implications of your belief system and be less ready to stick your foot in you rmouth accusing Christians of Holocausts.

I never claimed to be a calvinist, so don't assume that I am. But if one is going to criticise it they should fairly represent it and use sound logic to do it. What you have written is replete with logical fallacies and straw men.

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before you stand up for calvinism you should study it and understand why its so deceptive! two issues
1; the calvinism westminster catechism
states all christians sin daily in word thought or deed,, always sin ...
2; calvin had michael servetus executed because they disagreed on doctrine

that should be enough for a honest person to run!

Before you strike Calvinism down.


1.Romans 3:12 "All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one"
2.God turned Lots wife into a pillar of salt for turning around.

Are you running from God?