re: #20 laZardo

Oh, that. I meant there a lot of modern Christians who would say their beliefs promote harmony and acceptance. That it’s the New Testament they’re living by, “love thy neighbor” and all.

Ok… I couldn’t quite understand your connection… now I do. There are many passages in the greek scriptures that promote and promise harsh measures to be taken by believers and christian leaders. The greek scriptures are not a “can’t we all get along” document.

And that’s where liberal christians and fundamentalist christians confuse each other. Typically, liberal christians ignore or try to pass off the more demanding scriptures as pertinent only to the times they were written, and that the basic message is love and harmony.

Where as fundamentalist christians, who tend to read the scriptures in a more literal way, understand that there is times of disharmony and in the least spiritual warfare in a believers life.

You have to understand those two distinctions to understand how certain variations of christianity can seem to contradict itself.