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Thread ID: 15946 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-12-12
2004-12-12 04:38 | User Profile
I was curious and did a google search on [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=righteous+indignation&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8]"Righteous Indignation"[/url], just to see how the term was being used these days. I was expecting a bunch of Christian sites to pop up... very few did. I'm not really surprised, but moreover disappointed.
Of the few sites that did appear, I found this short essay that I feel, sums up the one of the most crucial things that is not taught, justified, or encouraged among the new-age Judeo-Christians. It's a good read!
[indent][size=4][color=blue]Righteous Indignation[/color][/size]
[size=3][color=blue]We are supposed to feel righteous indignation when we see something wrong. God meant us to. It is a sign of spiritual health and a good conscience. If we are so tolerant and broad- minded that we can watch wrong and feel nothing there is something seriously wrong with us. God himself feels angry when he sees wrong and evil. It was in righteous indignation that he burned Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground. And it was in righteous indignation that Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple. If we were to see some bully brutally and sadistically clubbing some child to death it would be natural and right for us to be angry. In the same way if we can sit and watch immorality romanticized and glamorized on television without feelings of anger and righteous indignation it is a sign of spiritual sickness. If we can sit and listen to philosophies, viewpoints and attitudes expounded on the Merv Griffin show that are in deep conflict with the teachings of the Bible and Christianity and not feel anger there is something wrong. God expects us to get angry over wrong. Not only for our own sake but for that of others. If a father catches his child stealing and doesn't get angry about it he does the child wrong. The child needs to see his father react in righteous indignation. Only then can he respect and believe in his father. The child intuitively knows he did wrong and anger on the part of the father is the only proper reaction. Not to get angry is to condone. Not to get angry shows a perverted mind and heart. The same would be true if the father were to catch his boy lying, or using profane or indecent language, or looking at indecent pictures. [/size][/color]
[url]http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/a115.html[/url][/indent]
Oh, for that to be taught again! - It's coming!
2004-12-12 05:46 | User Profile
Jesus was but one and the money lenders many yet Jesus won, why do you think the reason is that the worlds money lenders don't like him and refuses him as their savior?
If Jesus was something like the Chairman of a Nationa Bank then he would be a God to them but Jesus was nothing but a humble carpenter and not worthy of their attention.
I believe in the Bible as a History Book but not as a Holy Book.
I believe that Jesus may have been a good man but not the son of God.
Man creates their own personal Gods and Saints and then place them on a pedestal in order to pray before them.
In reality all that man is doing is worshiping himself and not the one that they call God for God does not requires worshiping or a so call church.
The house of God is in your heart and your prayers should be in silence and in your mind and not before others.
I know, once again I am talking stupid but I say what I feel.