Reply #9: Thanks for the reply

[cidliz2004]

Actually, when you are talking about Christians in numbers, well, if you believe that the Christian Rights are actually Christians at all.. That is the point, their ideology IS NOT, in fact they are against many Christian teachings. They are, however, organized and they carry a big stick.

I say that the real Christians walk a lonely path. We shouldn't be pointing fingers at everybody else and asking why are they doing this and why are they doing that, but we should look inward to improve our relationship with God. That is such a difficult journey to undertake, there are so many challenges.

The Democrats are afraid of saying who they are, because they are afraid of offending someone else. I say, I am a Christian and maybe you are not, but I do not know God's great plan, so while I work on myself, I hope that I could bring some good to you and to others through God.

Jesus wasn't a corporation, or a huge church, Jesus worked very independently and he went seeking to teach and spread the word. He did so modestly and with the faith of his father to lean on.

The Christian Right frightens me in that they are using the Bible as a weapon to beat down all who do not agree with them. Where in the Bible in the NT, do you ever find a time that Jesus did anything remotely resembling that? NOWHERE, yet thousands, if not millions follow that and there numbers are proof of the lack of Jesus and the Holy Spirit in their lives.

The Christian Left or the Christian Liberals maybe just identify themselves as such and have blue bumper stickers with that type of saying and somehow someway get a discussion going on how WE feel about our values and how the Democrats really speak to Christian Values. We all have to wrestle with many issues at hand. I feel that so many of the answers that we are seeking will be satisfied after we leave earth. I don't look for too many answers now because my challenge isn't to figure out what God is trying to do, but rather what I am to do to best serve God and to grow more faithful and more close to the way that Jesus lived his life.

Was Jesus monetarily rich? NO
Was Jesus a Jew? YES
Did Jesus condemn others and punish them NO he died on the cross and forgave them with the sacrifice of his own life
Did Jesus turn his back on the poor? NO
Did Jesus help those less fortunate then himself and expect us to do the same? YES

Maybe we could come up with these type of simple questions and answers to best illustrate how we believe. Maybe these could be our "talking points" and our "sayings"

I don't know, what do you think?