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Originally posted by Wolfman
Brother, that is a stupefying assertion, akin to Jesus saying that the sick, the poor and the demon possessed wasn't his business. His job was to get to the cross as quick as possible. But once we realize that His mission was to destroy the work of the enemy, which held sway over all the nation (and the world) and not just a certain sphere, then we see the wholistic mission of the Kingdon of God. When we look at the church as some sort of sociocultural or political institution then we denude it, and transform it into what human beings want it to be for our own purposes. This is similar to what the slave owners said when they and their supporting pastors asserted that the church was to save the slave's souls so that we could use them as chattel, obeying God.Our ancestors knew this was a lie, revealed to them from God, and stood in the truth of God.
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I see your point and I appreciate it greatly. My comments were based strictly on the comments from the article. To use your analogy from a previous post, Jesus often used a two pronged approach to dealing with issues of day. One for the aggrieved and one for the actor/observer. When you mentioned the story of the adulterous woman, Jesus first dealt with the actions of her accusers, then with the action of the woman which precipitated the need for his intervention. People often lose focus of his secondary action which was just as important. After Jesus' rebuke of her accusers, he told her to "go forth and sin no more".
It is the same with AIDs. The Church already provides for the end of AIDS transmission. Obeying God's commandments (not that I do or am perfect, but we know what the "wages of sin" are when we take that chance).
The Church is always called on to make a stand against social injustice because it is immoral. I'm not saying that the church should not be involved in the fight against AIDS. My statements are based upon how those in the article blame the Church.
Explain to me how the Church is responsible for Alijah's condition as mention in the article?
Is Jesus magnified by a Minister teaching his congregation how to put on condoms? Is that the advice that he gave the adulterous woman?. No, he told her to change her behavior if she wanted to avoid death.
Our people suffer not only for lack of knowledge, but because we are a stubborn and stiff-necked generation.
P.S. Don't get it twisted. Doggystyle is not a moralist, a holy roller, nor a perfect person. I'm a sinner too. More than some, less than others. I just like to argue the facts
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