CHRISTIANITY IS TOO RESTRICTIVE (3 OF 7)
by J.D. Greear
Scripture: John 8:31-38
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Christianity is too restrictive (3 of 7)
Series: Why I'm not a Christian
J.D Greear
John 8:31-38
Nicole Keegan: He stops wearing clothes made of any mixed fibers ?He plays a ten string harp ?He refuses to shake hands with women who might be ?ceremonially unclean; (awkward: you got on a short skirt, I bet ?you're unclean) ?
And (this was one of my favorites), he tries to fling tiny ?pebbles at people without them noticing in order to stone ?adulterers. ?
This whole process almost drove his poor wife crazy for a year. ?I hope it is obvious that that is not what it means to really take the Bible seriously and follow it. But the appeal of that book is that it plays on something that many people assume... and that is to live under the direction of the Bible would be an impossible, and basically ridiculous, way to live. Even if you tried, you couldn't really do it, and if you did, you'd be living a miserable life... (for many of us that are Christians, this is basically how people outside of Christianity view us... you get invited to some party and you're like, ''I can't go.'' And they're like, ''Why not?'' ''I'm not allowed. My religion won't let me.'' And so, they see Christianity as an oppressive, life-inhibiting restriction. ?This plays into a larger assumption by people in our culture about what real freedom is: our culture thinks that to be free you have to have no restrictions. The path to freedom is to shed all authorities, all constraints and to discover yourself and then live out of that. ?
You see this conception of freedom everywhere, even in the?= Pretty famous ruling in a case which states, ?
Or, on a more popular level, the movie, IRobot... the basic gist of the movie is there's this robot, Sonny, whose purpose is to stave off a plot to destroy the human race by the other robots. After Sonny succeeds he tells Will Smith that he's depressed because now he doesn't know what to do with himself now that his purpose in being created has bee ...
Series: Why I'm not a Christian
J.D Greear
John 8:31-38
Nicole Keegan: He stops wearing clothes made of any mixed fibers ?He plays a ten string harp ?He refuses to shake hands with women who might be ?ceremonially unclean; (awkward: you got on a short skirt, I bet ?you're unclean) ?
And (this was one of my favorites), he tries to fling tiny ?pebbles at people without them noticing in order to stone ?adulterers. ?
This whole process almost drove his poor wife crazy for a year. ?I hope it is obvious that that is not what it means to really take the Bible seriously and follow it. But the appeal of that book is that it plays on something that many people assume... and that is to live under the direction of the Bible would be an impossible, and basically ridiculous, way to live. Even if you tried, you couldn't really do it, and if you did, you'd be living a miserable life... (for many of us that are Christians, this is basically how people outside of Christianity view us... you get invited to some party and you're like, ''I can't go.'' And they're like, ''Why not?'' ''I'm not allowed. My religion won't let me.'' And so, they see Christianity as an oppressive, life-inhibiting restriction. ?This plays into a larger assumption by people in our culture about what real freedom is: our culture thinks that to be free you have to have no restrictions. The path to freedom is to shed all authorities, all constraints and to discover yourself and then live out of that. ?
You see this conception of freedom everywhere, even in the?= Pretty famous ruling in a case which states, ?
Or, on a more popular level, the movie, IRobot... the basic gist of the movie is there's this robot, Sonny, whose purpose is to stave off a plot to destroy the human race by the other robots. After Sonny succeeds he tells Will Smith that he's depressed because now he doesn't know what to do with himself now that his purpose in being created has bee ...
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