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The scandal of Christianity : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 22/6/2005Peter Sellick argues that the critics of Christianity get it wrong.
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As well I have a few things to say of your critics and their banalities.
Firstly, let me say you are exhibiting in your work two of the great Christian virtues, patience and endurance.
Secondly, your love of the Lord flows through the burden you carry in service to Him and your contributions to the "generations yet to be born", of whom He exclaimed in hope from the cross. ( Note: Mark 15:34 : Psalm 22 - the poor bloke was human and must have thought " am I a nutter? - what will come of this?", but placed his faith in His Father to whom he was bonded in faith and existence. )
For those of you seeking an argument can I say that you just don't get it!
Peter's article in its 3rd- 5th paragraphs foretells the very act of your responses. Do go back and read them slowly and think. You really have to be more original. Peter acknowledges much of your criticism of religion and peoples' religiosity. They nailed the carpenter from Nazareth to a cross because he challenged religious practices that obstructed the revelation of God's love in the Hebrew story. He talked of that love in some marvellous stories.
Of your love of reason, proof and facts. The ancient Greeks in Socrates and Aristotle et al allowed their reason to extend to the unknown, the immaterial in the realms of the gods who they put into place to provide understanding in life and to assist in coping with it. Such extension allowed them to flourish in thought and civic practice. Yet it wasn't enough, as their eventual demise revealed. Contemporaneously, there were a people wandering through the deserts and establishing a land who had a single God. Their legacy is today spread across the world in the Judeo-Christian story; the foundation for our modern freedoms, prosperity and stable institutions that underpin them.
Second component to come..