How can anyone be a moderate Christian? [View all]
I'm sorry, but it really makes no sense to me. If you truly believe what the Bible says about God, Jesus, heaven, and hell then how can you be a moderate? Either God demands you worship him or go to hell or he does not. There is no middle-ground. Either Jesus says you accept him as king or he doesn't. In Revelation Jesus attacks lukewarm faith as worse than no faith. Jesus does not accept compromise so how can any of his followers? Jesus did not preach a message of tolerance, he taught a message of cult-like devotion and intolerance of any faith, but the one he preached. To me Christianity in all of its forms makes no sense, but moderate Christianity makes even less sense than fundamentalism. At least the fundies understand that Jesus's message was one of intolerance and they put that into action. So, please explain to me how someone can believe the parts of the Bible where Jesus talks about love, but ignores the passages where the condemns those who don't believe to hell or where Paul says Christians should have no association with non-Christians.
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