--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 5/20/07 7:05:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[email protected]) , > MDixon6569@, MDi > <snip> > > You think Jesus said the same about John the Baptist? John was > > quite a thorn in the side to the average sinner telling them > > they needed to repent, even to the point of losing his life for > > reading the riot act to Herod for his sexual immorality. Every > > Every word that I have heard criticized out of Falwell's mouth > > was pretty much Biblically sound, just not politically correct. > > Just goes to show you can be "biblically sound" > and still be a thoroughly despicable human being. > > Yes, Herod thought Joachim the Micva man was a despicable person > as well. People don't like being told of their immorality and > that they should repent of it, yet that was the purpose of every > prophet in the Bible, to remind men of what God had said in > Deuteronomy if they didn't obey His word.
And Jesus told the moralists they had no business throwing stones if they weren't themselves sinless. I don't recall anything in the Bible about J the B funding his ministry by peddling scrolls filled with lies about Herod, do you? Think Jesus would have approved if he did?
