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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2019, 02:42 PM Jan 2019

Red Letter Christians gear up for UK launch

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The evangelical movement known as Red Letter Christians, still a relatively little-known, left-leaning counter to the Christian right in the United States, is breaking new ground at the invitation of Christian activists in Britain. Next summer, the group’s founders will help launch a new branch of the movement in the U.K.

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Red Letter Christians gear up for UK launch (Original Post) guillaumeb Jan 2019 OP

Red letter Bibles have been around for a long time. safeinOhio Jan 2019 #1

I believe that T. Jefferson composed the first such Bible. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #2

No need to just believe it. You can download scanned images of the original, MineralMan Jan 2019 #3

I had always though his Bible was a Unitarian view. safeinOhio Jan 2019 #4

Jefferson cut out all the bits he didn't like. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #6

Totally incorrect. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #9

Totally incorrect Major Nikon Jan 2019 #12

I had thought He cut out all safeinOhio Jan 2019 #11

Or, we are all a part of the Creator. eom guillaumeb Jan 2019 #10

Sound like pagan religious principles to me. MineralMan Jan 2019 #15

Perhaps you misunderstand the many ways that the weord belief is used. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #8

You mean semantics. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #14

Do you think this is good news? Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #5

How do they *know* what Jesus *actually* said? trotsky Jan 2019 #7

They don't Major Nikon Jan 2019 #13

They don't. All of that was written down long after that Yeshua MineralMan Jan 2019 #16

safeinOhio

(34,341 posts)

1. Red letter Bibles have been around for a long time.

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 02:49 PM

Jan 2019

By just focusing on the words of Jesus, old time religions are having a fit. All of their loop holes are in the OT and Paul.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

2. I believe that T. Jefferson composed the first such Bible.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 02:51 PM

Jan 2019

My view is that many are more Paulists than followers of Jesus.

MineralMan

(148,024 posts)

3. No need to just believe it. You can download scanned images of the original,

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:01 PM

Jan 2019

Or a transcription. It exits, so no faith is required.

safeinOhio

(34,341 posts)

4. I had always though his Bible was a Unitarian view.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:12 PM

Jan 2019

Jesus was human and not God.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

6. Jefferson cut out all the bits he didn't like.

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:46 PM

Jan 2019

Which is what all Christians do anyway.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

9. Totally incorrect.

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:46 PM

Jan 2019

Jefferson eliminated all but the words of Jesus, which is not at all what you claimed as his motivation.

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)

12. Totally incorrect

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #9)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 08:25 PM

Jan 2019

Jefferson eliminated all the hocus pocus from the NT, including many “words of Jesus”. One doesn’t have to guess at his motivation because he stated quite clearly he removed the “nonsense”. Since he created it exclusively for his own use, it’s pretty silly to suggest he did it for any reason other than parsing out what he liked and trashing what he didn’t.

safeinOhio

(34,341 posts)

11. I had thought He cut out all

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 05:19 PM

Jan 2019

of the miracles he preformed.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

10. Or, we are all a part of the Creator. eom

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:49 PM

Jan 2019

MineralMan

(148,024 posts)

15. Sound like pagan religious principles to me.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #10)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 10:34 AM

Jan 2019

"God is in everything. Everything is part of god." Are you sure you're a theist? Perhaps you're really a naturist. Perhaps your deity is just everything around us and us, as well.

You do seem to have difficulty in explaining what it is that you actually believe or have faith in. Why don't you think about it for a while and then get back to us with some sort of statement of belief, so we'll be better able to understand where you're coming from.

Maybe the Universe just created itself, see. Maybe there is no "Creator." Maybe it's all just a natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with any sort of sentient deity. Think about it, Guy. Really. Let us know what you actually believe, OK?

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

8. Perhaps you misunderstand the many ways that the weord belief is used.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:45 PM

Jan 2019

There are many grammar textbooks you might want to consult.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

14. You mean semantics.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #8)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 08:52 AM

Jan 2019

But, at this point, who fucking cares. Go get 'em, Billy!

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

5. Do you think this is good news?

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:46 PM

Jan 2019

I suspect you do.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

7. How do they *know* what Jesus *actually* said?

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:16 PM

Jan 2019

Were they there?

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)

13. They don't

Reply to trotsky (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 8, 2019, 08:31 PM

Jan 2019

However there’s significant scholarly study on what Jesus didn’t say and was instead inserted into various gospels for various reasons by other people. It’s a far easier puzzle to solve.

MineralMan

(148,024 posts)

16. They don't. All of that was written down long after that Yeshua

Reply to trotsky (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 10:36 AM

Jan 2019

was dead and gone. It was written by people at least two generations from the time that Yeshua supposedly lived and spoke.

It's all a Biblical game of Telephone. Who knows what that man said? Nobody knows.

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