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Originally Posted by reverendo
Technically you could call him a bad christian because he betrays christian ethics with his statements.
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And, in doing so, you'd be betraying christian ethics yourself such as not judging others.
There are many, many passages in the Bible that jive perfectly with the verbal diarrhoea Pat Robertson spews.
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The old testament is in the bible, but its better left for the jews to interpret it and the christians the new one.
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In your opinion.
Jesus was a jew. His teachings were based on the Old Testement. His followers were jewish. They referred to the Old Testement as their holy book. Jesus endorses it in the New Testement. He is supposed to be (the son of) the jewish god. Logically, the two cannot be separated. Jews and christians refer to identicle texts. Where their beliefs diverge is the New Testement. The Old Testement, however, is no less a christian text.
No one gets to decide what makes a good christian as that is defined by their god, who hasn't provided a clear description. It has supposedly provided two texts, both self contradictory, from which followers are supposed to define morals. It's absurd to say, from such garbled texts, anyone can determine exactly what the message the author was trying to portray is.