Yeah, but he's a Founding Father who's always glorified as an amazing person.
Jefferson is hard to deal with, because he did have some moral issues, but also was beautifully eloquent in basically summing up America He was a mixed bag
He bought the Louisiana Territory, which was a great decision, so that's good. He's not especially bad, but he was a hypocrite.
We still sin, but we are not evil because we are made righteous through Christ. Holy does not mean sinless, it means set apart, we are holy because we are set apart by God to fulfill His plans.
But Holy is without Sin, we have sin, were evil and we continue to sin, were evil. I am, you are no one isn't.
Yes, everyone does evil stuff. But everyone also does good stuff, and in some cases it's bigger than the evil stuff.
That's incredibly debatable, since they continually attacked Allied resistance forces and deliberately hindered Allied movements for their own interest. It's a "the enemy of my enemy..." situation, except that he's still going to be your enemy after the war ends.
That is true, but Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and a few others were way worse.
I'd still consider that a point of debate, but "how evil this country is" tends to be a point of subjectivity. I actually have an easier solution: they were all horrible and we shouldn't in any way degrade just how awful they were by saying one was less awful than another.
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Not when its a Official Law for Countries, its not in the Bible, and what its based off.
It's not the law that you must take a day off on Christmas. Again: just because the Bible doesn't mandate it doesn't mean it's evil. The Bible doesn't require you to brush your teeth, either!
there are practical things which we do, but when worship I follow what the Bible says, Christmas is not in the Bible, its founded of Pagan symbols and rituals and whitewashed with Christianty.
The Office of Priest is in the Old Testament, that's been fulfilled, Christ is are New Priest. But the term is wrong, no one can "bear God" we can't understand everything but that turns down a bad path. Okay, are you still attacking it? But Sin is Evil, so we are Evil, we don't want to be but so is the world.
While the Bible does not say that specifically, I can understand your reasoning.
To bear: "to bring forth (young); give birth to." Mary gave birth to Jesus, so yes, she bore God. Due to the nature of the Trinity, that doesn't mean she created God -- it just means that she bore his incarnation.
I'm not attacking anything, but I'm bringing to light fallacy in your argument.
We have sin, and we have evil, but we also have the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the ultimate good, so we are either good or evil depending on which one we allow to control us.
But in Hebrews it says pretty clearly that Its gone, Christ is are King, Priest, and Prophet. We don't use Temples or have priests. I'm still gonna say its wrong, but whatever, I also reject the Saint Business. Okay. But we are always evil, and so is countries, one Sin by a unbeliever can blacken an entire Country so that it is Evil.
That is true, but Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and a few others were way worse.
I'd still consider that a point of debate, but "how evil this country is" tends to be a point of subjectivity. I actually have an easier solution: they were all horrible and we shouldn't in any way degrade just how awful they were by saying one was less awful than another.
I still consider ussr much higher than mao's china or the Khmer rouge, sure we smashed some folks, But we also lifted millions of people out of poverty. Brought literacy to the masses. Created a massive industrilaized superpower. Was the ussr flawed? yes, but so are all countries (Except Finland ). the government may have committed horrific autrocities but the people were by far some of the best during the ussr. Its hard for westernsers to understand this but the Asian (or eastern) mindset is just far more accustomed to authoritarian leadership and to many people in Russia and China and other eastern countries a strong government is a necessity not a hinderance. Now some might say wha about Japan? Japan changed a lot since 1945. South Korea changed a lot also but we must forget SK had a dictator for its first 2 decades or so.
