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The Church and management techniques : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 5/11/2007The liberal Protestant God has been thoroughly domesticated, and faith has been turned into therapy for the sick and inept.
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[[[[The "religion" he proposes is just another self-consoling consumer product.]]]]
Given that the gospel teaches that Christians have no rights, and that they are to bear reproach and persecution without retaliation, your idea here is unlikely to be true.
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[[[[He asks us to take the Bible seriously. Which and whose version and/or translation? ......]]]]
Here you manifest 2 problems:
1. You have not realised that the various versions say the same thing in different words. Here is an example from Romans 10:9:
KJV: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
AMPLIFIED VERSION: "Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved"
LIVING BIBLE: "For if you tell others with your own mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your own heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved"
GREEK (LITERAL) INTERLINEAR: "Because if you confess with the mouth of you the Lord Jesus, and believe in the heart of you that God Him raised from (the) dead, you will be saved".
2. You did not notice that the author of the article stated that the bible bears witness to the Word of God, and therefore his implication that the bible itself is not the Word of God per say. That is, you make the usual ignorant statement that Christians follow the bible, when in fact they follow the Spirit, with the bible simply witnessing what the Spirit says to them.
So overall you don't know what you are talking about.