I'm guessing we've all heard Jesus' words bunches of times before:
"If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he apologizes, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven time and turns round seven times and says 'sorry' to you, you must forgive him." Luke 17:3-4
I love how Tom (N.T.) Wright, Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, and author of the ...for Everyone series of commentaries on the New Testament puts it:
"When you forgive someone, you are making yourself their servant, not their master. Forgiving someone again and again ought not to get harder and harder; it shouldn't be a matter of restraining anger for a longer and longer time... If that's what it's like, you've missed the meaning altogether. The point is that you're not scoring moral points at all. You are to be humble, to take no advantage of the situation, to give to the other person the generous and welcome forgiveness that (as Jesus indicates on numerous other occasions) God has shown you in the first place. That, after all, is the real source of humility. If in doubt, meditate on God's grace."
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So THAT'S what folks mean by "Christian Nutjob"!
Wow, I must've missed SOME post by someone named "Z".
out of context my post does seem a bit whacky. I was referring to a conversation on a post from 10/30 that has since been deleted. zero=infinity was the person I was responding to. In the eariler post I questioned if David had ever considered the possibility that George Bush could be the antichrist...I'm not sure if he is considering the possibility or giving me the hush treatment. In response to SkipChurch, I say that a christian nutjob is one that burns down an abortion clinic and calls that christian behavior, or someone that makes their child hold up a sign saying "God Hates Fags", or even anybody who still believes that God told Bush that he would find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I for one strongly believe in God, and I also know that God does not lie.
David, I'm a big fan of NT Wright and have read every book so far in his COQG series. Can you tell me where this quote is from? Thanks.
In a comment above, J-Walking said: "Ted Haggard may or may not be an exception, no matter what the news brings in the coming hours. But since he has spent so much time lately focusing on "politics", his private sins may further involve Jesus in matters that Jesus might well have wanted to avoid...." then he said. "But so long as the conversation remains a "political conversation", Jesus loses". (Emphasis mine.) I say "politics" = "political conversation"
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