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lordjedi
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The difference between fanatic Muslims and Christians...
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26-Mar-2008, 5:35 PM
C3PX said:

*the Bible never even mentions abortion, let alone calls Christians to kill abortionist, it never says to hate homosexuals, only that homosexuality is a sin, the Bible teaches us to love everyone. It condemns liars, theives and prostitutes as heavily as it does gays, yet those are the kind of people Jesus chose to hang around. If you read through the new testament you'll find that it is all about tolerance. When "Christians" behave intolerantly they are not even obeying their own religious text.


Not quite. Jesus wasn't being tolerant, he was converting people by the thousands. That is why he and his message weren't put down so easily. Before him, there were other guys claiming to be the Messiah, but people weren't converting nearly as quickly. It wasn't so much about tolerance as it was speaking to them nicely and showing them the error of their ways and then demonstrating that he was the Son of God. Jesus, while not directly telling people they were sinners like the Pharisees did, was telling people that they had sinned, but then was telling them they were forgiven as long as they repented and accepted him as the saviour. Many thousands of people accepted him. So many accepted him on a daily basis that the Pharisees had no power to stop it.

There was only one place where Christ did not perform as many miracles as he could have. That was in his home town. This is in the Bible (I don't have the verse handy). He left his home town because no matter how many miracles he performed, they would not believe he was the Messiah.

All of the people you mention were converted by Jesus' mere presence. He didn't simply "hang out" with them and accept them the way they were as society would have us do today. He spoke to them and used parables to convince them that their way of life was wrong. They then converted, accepted him as the Messiah, and stopped living the way they had been.