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1 year ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)2 children
[An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy](https://archive.is/sPdcJ)
> That’s because they follow a different Jesus than the one depicted in the Gospels, says [Kristin Kobes] Du Mez, who is also a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University — a Christian school — in Michigan. They follow the Jesus depicted in the Book of Revelation, the warrior with eyes like “flames of fire” and “a robe dipped in blood” who led the armies of heaven on white horses in a final, triumphant battle against the forces of the antichrist.
They make it sound like Avenging Revelation Jesus is a different person and/or doesn't/won't exist.
She even wrote a book about it - *Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation*.
1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
Good find. What a frightful article. Mind you, nothing new about people defaming and misrepresenting God. And as if I'd trust the opinion of some professor of "gender studies" instead of the Word of God.
But yeah, a lot of people struggle to reconcile God's justice and His love. Although, if one meditates on on God's holiness, man's sinfulness, and Christ's mercy, there is no contradiction. Thank God for Jesus Christ, who reconciles to God, though we are totally unworthy in ourselves:
> Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, **who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ**, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that **God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself**, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (II Corinthians 5:17-19)
When Christ returns to judge the world, those who tried to separate the holy God from the loving God will find how great their error was. Those who reject God's mercy will reap his wrath.
> a lot of people struggle to reconcile God's justice and His love
This shouldn't be so difficult when God describes Himself in ways we can easily understand.
If someone harms an earthly man's family, that loving, gentle, kindly family man may suddenly show wrathful violence towards his enemies the likes of which you've never seen from him - this is not some sudden lack of love on his part, but rather a display of it.
God chooses to describe Himself as our Father and also says He is like a husband to Israel - God is comparing Himself to what a man does for his family and says that He is like that for us.
These Antinomian freaks literally believe that the God of the NT and the God of the OT are two separate beings and *hate* the God of the OT for punishing evil, because they know they are evil and deserve to be punished.
That hag clearly hasnt even read the Gospels if it think the Jesus who told the Jews He would destroy them in His parables for their wickedness and the Jesus who actually did destroy them are two separate Jesuses. I utterly despise how these freaks twist scripture to deceive the innocent and then claim it is us who are the heretics.
> That’s because they follow a different Jesus than the one depicted in the Gospels, says [Kristin Kobes] Du Mez, who is also a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University — a Christian school — in Michigan. They follow the Jesus depicted in the Book of Revelation, the warrior with eyes like “flames of fire” and “a robe dipped in blood” who led the armies of heaven on white horses in a final, triumphant battle against the forces of the antichrist.
They make it sound like Avenging Revelation Jesus is a different person and/or doesn't/won't exist.
She even wrote a book about it - *Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation*.
But yeah, a lot of people struggle to reconcile God's justice and His love. Although, if one meditates on on God's holiness, man's sinfulness, and Christ's mercy, there is no contradiction. Thank God for Jesus Christ, who reconciles to God, though we are totally unworthy in ourselves:
> Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, **who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ**, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that **God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself**, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (II Corinthians 5:17-19)
When Christ returns to judge the world, those who tried to separate the holy God from the loving God will find how great their error was. Those who reject God's mercy will reap his wrath.
This shouldn't be so difficult when God describes Himself in ways we can easily understand.
If someone harms an earthly man's family, that loving, gentle, kindly family man may suddenly show wrathful violence towards his enemies the likes of which you've never seen from him - this is not some sudden lack of love on his part, but rather a display of it.
God chooses to describe Himself as our Father and also says He is like a husband to Israel - God is comparing Himself to what a man does for his family and says that He is like that for us.
That hag clearly hasnt even read the Gospels if it think the Jesus who told the Jews He would destroy them in His parables for their wickedness and the Jesus who actually did destroy them are two separate Jesuses. I utterly despise how these freaks twist scripture to deceive the innocent and then claim it is us who are the heretics.