Are you a follower of Christ or not? If you are, it is you who those words are for. Don't confuse my lack of faith with a lack of knowledge. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you realize there was no Christian religion in Jesus' lifetime, let alone a Church. (Jesus lived and died a Jew. If there was a Christian Church Jesus probably would not have been a member.)
I have to admire how you hide behind the "church" and don't take responsibility for your own actions but feel free to criticize the actions of others.
Well, you are absolutely wrong this time. You are simply trying to confuse terms. Christ was addressing a man who was petitioning him to let him become one of the disciples. That is the truth as anyone who understands what the conversation taking place was about. I am a Christian. I am not and was never one of Christ's apostles.
Here's another one for you. Where in the whole of the Bible does it instruct me as a member of the Church to go out and preach or try to save anyone at all? Please post the scripture if you think I am supposed to either preach to you or try to save your soul.
I guess you are right. He told his disciples to go spread the word. He didn't tell them to tell you to do it too technically. But I would guess Chistians want to do what Jesus asked so they spread the word.
Exactly. Christians are to set an example by living a life pleasing to God. They were never commanded to either preach or try to save anyone's soul. The Bible plainly states that it is God himself who does the calling - not man. God has a way of getting one's attention as He illustrated with Paul.
How's he doing over in the middle east?
Whatever He desires. I suspect the Middle East is going according to His plan. He said the Muslim hordes would move against Jerusalem in the latter days. Perhaps He is setting the stage. I don't know. God doesn't consult me with His plans.
It doesn't even bother you just how re god damn diculous your stories are.
He said? Really? The Lord said it? When is the last time the lord said anything?
Why is it now that we have developed rational inquiry we hear only a deafening silence from a god who once supposedly engaged regularly in human affairs? Why does god not simply speak to us or appear before us as he supposedly used to? Why are we the losers in the dice roll of time? If a god places such a high value on us worshipping and believing then why not simply make its existence obvious to us?
If one accepts the prevailing scientific understanding of the development of the universe, yet also believes in one of the major religions, then presumably a god sat idle for 13.7 billion years – waiting as the stars, galaxies and planets formed. Then it watched with complete and utter indifference as modern Homo Sapians evolved, struggled and died for a further 150,000 years. Finally, a few thousand years ago, this god suddenly decided to reveal itself to several people in the most primitive, illiterate and remote portions of humanity in a completely unverifiable way – and then simply disappeared.
And you say his plan is for us to continue murdering each other? Your god is one sick fuck. First he wasn't happy with us when Adam ate the apple, then he was mad at us at Soddom & Gamora, then he was unhappy with us and flooded the earth, all to just repopulate the earth with a bunch of new assholes and soon he's going to come back and take all the christians to heaven but the rest of us will go to hell?
Wake up fools.