Curious
05-10-2020, 11:17 PM
Man is made in the image of God. Male and female He created them:
The sanctity of human life.
In Christianity, the concept of human life, that we each bear the image of God, whether saved or not, has had huge implications in human history. It is a grave matter to discard the existence of any that bears the image of God. Something to take very seriously. it is profoundly linked to the fear of God and the honoring of Him as God. Don't mess lightly with any of His image-bearers, its not our place.
As one example, slavery was abolished, in part, due to this recognition (in spite of the time it took for this to happen!)
Wishing death on someone reveals a murderous heart and intent towards them. It speaks of disregarding a human life in a way that disregards the fact that they bear the image of God. Thereby it is pagan.
Not caring that a person who has spent years of their own lives helping to pay your own salary, was driven to take their own life, in part through direction you have given to members of your group to harass them, dishonours profoundly, the image of God and the sanctity of their human life. It is thoroughly pagan.
A friend of mine who went to India watched a dying man on a public street. He was dying on the sidewalk in front on a shop. The owner of this store was busy using a hose to flush this inconvenience away, so that his presence would not deter customers.
While we are in India, think of the hindu practise of ‘sati’ and 'thuggee'…. fundamental disregard for human life abounds in any pagan system.
In the South Pacific, a US soldier found himself at the mercy of a native during the second world war. The native told him the following…..’In the past, we would have eaten you’ (cannibalism) ‘just because we could. The reason we won’t is because the gospel and the bible has become our standard, and it has taught us that this would be a sin against God. You are lucky !!’ He was looked after and lived to tell the tale. (I read this once in a book titled “What if Jesus had never been born?”)
The raising of a concept that human life has a sacred value, just because God created it and with no further qualification, is missed completely in the LC leadership. What a grass skirt-clad native in a far-away pacific island 75 odd years ago got, is non-existent in those who claim to be ‘in the centre of God’s will and move on this earth’ and who spend hour upon hour of their lives practising activities that are claimed to transform them into the very nature and likeness of God. What a joke!
Treating people as expendable, and callously dishonouring the life that is within them, because they have become inconvenient to your cause, is a mark of a fundamentally pagan system. The God if Christianity has left the house well and truly when that happens.
I just wanted to get that said. Its been in me for a while.
The sanctity of human life.
In Christianity, the concept of human life, that we each bear the image of God, whether saved or not, has had huge implications in human history. It is a grave matter to discard the existence of any that bears the image of God. Something to take very seriously. it is profoundly linked to the fear of God and the honoring of Him as God. Don't mess lightly with any of His image-bearers, its not our place.
As one example, slavery was abolished, in part, due to this recognition (in spite of the time it took for this to happen!)
Wishing death on someone reveals a murderous heart and intent towards them. It speaks of disregarding a human life in a way that disregards the fact that they bear the image of God. Thereby it is pagan.
Not caring that a person who has spent years of their own lives helping to pay your own salary, was driven to take their own life, in part through direction you have given to members of your group to harass them, dishonours profoundly, the image of God and the sanctity of their human life. It is thoroughly pagan.
A friend of mine who went to India watched a dying man on a public street. He was dying on the sidewalk in front on a shop. The owner of this store was busy using a hose to flush this inconvenience away, so that his presence would not deter customers.
While we are in India, think of the hindu practise of ‘sati’ and 'thuggee'…. fundamental disregard for human life abounds in any pagan system.
In the South Pacific, a US soldier found himself at the mercy of a native during the second world war. The native told him the following…..’In the past, we would have eaten you’ (cannibalism) ‘just because we could. The reason we won’t is because the gospel and the bible has become our standard, and it has taught us that this would be a sin against God. You are lucky !!’ He was looked after and lived to tell the tale. (I read this once in a book titled “What if Jesus had never been born?”)
The raising of a concept that human life has a sacred value, just because God created it and with no further qualification, is missed completely in the LC leadership. What a grass skirt-clad native in a far-away pacific island 75 odd years ago got, is non-existent in those who claim to be ‘in the centre of God’s will and move on this earth’ and who spend hour upon hour of their lives practising activities that are claimed to transform them into the very nature and likeness of God. What a joke!
Treating people as expendable, and callously dishonouring the life that is within them, because they have become inconvenient to your cause, is a mark of a fundamentally pagan system. The God if Christianity has left the house well and truly when that happens.
I just wanted to get that said. Its been in me for a while.