Commandments?

[Eric the Green]

(08-29-2018, 11:47 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-29-2018, 10:17 AM)David Horn Wrote: Your list comports with traditional religious belief and practice as we've understood it for a long time.  Does it comport with more modern forms -- evangelicalism for instance?  For evangelicals, there is only Jesus, and failure to believe is tantamount to breaking all 10 commandments.  On the other hand, believing and calling on him to be your personal savior is almost a get-out-of-jail-free card.  This also makes Jesus the center of a personality cult, with non-believers being the sad and misinformed (good interpretation) or the evil enemy (the less generous alternative), and overflows into our political and social life in subtle and not so subtle ways.

Something to consider.

Hmm, yes,  That would be the equivalent of believing in the One Commandment, to love Jesus completely.  The forgiving of all else renders the other commandments and their derivatives as irrelevant.  But if one lives that way, does one truly love Jesus as one rejects though action his core beliefs?

I see the above and the ideal that all evangelicals hold that world view as vile stereotype.  Most evangelicals are more complex than that.

But I am a devout agnostic, and should not say a lot about religious world views.  A lot of the devoutly religious make good neighbors, but the religious can be the victim of stereotyping too.

The evangelicals are often poor souls who have lost their way. They do say just as David says they do; it's not a stereotype, vile or otherwise. Although I'm sure evangelicals can be fine people, and Jesus said don't judge our fellows. All we can do is wait for them to wake up, and meanwhile take the moats out of our own eyes if we can. Meanwhile, what did Jesus say? "Keep the commandments." But he also seemed to narrow them down to two; not to "accept me as your savior", but "love God and love your neighbor as yourself." But then, for many evangelicals, the Bible is often not for actual reading; it's just for using as a political and/or religious weapon. Or why don't they quote that, instead of interpreting his other sayings to mean "accept Jesus as the only savior?"