Poly:
One does not have to know beanieboy's heart in some "special" way to know what's in it. All one has to be able to do is read.
Proverbs 23:7 "For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
Matthew 15:11 "It's not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
Beanieboy doesn't hesitate to make it known that he has no need of Christ. One does not have to know beanieboy's heart in some "special" way to know what's in it.
Two points:
1. In case you haven't noticed, people often play devil's advocate on this board. People don't always type what they really think. Who knows to what extent he's done that. People like to argue from all perspectives to get a rise out of people.
2. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that you are right---to an extent, it's possible to know beanieboys heart from his posts. So tell me this, has his heart reacted to your name-calling and insults by moving closer to God? Has anyone ever become a Christian and repented due to your verbal barrages?
That's a good question.
Beanieboy claims that he does not need Christ's sacrifice to cover his sins. He feels that God is perfectly fine with him just the way he is and that he doesn't have to accept Christ as his savior in order to be saved. I have always made it clear that my righteousness has nothing to do with me and everything to do with Christ.
You do the math.
beanieboy is not a Christian, why should you expect confessions of faith that only a Christian would make? Many other non-Christians would make similar claims---do you call them "lying theives", "pathetic drunkards", "tubs of lard", and "lustful pervs" for their various "non-gay" sins as well? No, that's right, you save that for your "favorite sins".
I find it rich that you exlude yourself from the possibility of self-righteousness by default. This should be a red flag to anyone who is reading this thread who is even halfway objective.
Dictionary.com defines "self-righteous" in this way:
self-right·eous (slfrchs)
adj.
Piously sure of one's own righteousness; moralistic.
Exhibiting pious self-assurance: self-righteous remarks.
That's exactly the problem here. If you were less assured of your own righteousness and placed a Biblical emphasis on humilty you would find it possible to keep a hard line against sin without relishing the judgement to others. You would realize that it's only God's grace that has saved you, and nothing intrinsically good about yourself. That would change your attitude and your approach entirely.
I don't have the special hatred towards homosexuals that you do. I understand though, that that is only because of God's grace. If I had been born to a different family, or in a different place, then I could just as easily feel the same way about them. Who knows, I could have been a homosexual under other life circumstances. And the same goes for you.
It was deleted. I had originally decided that responding to you was getting tiresome since you seem to be told the same thing yet do not seem to listen. But I couldn't resist responding to this above question you asked. I think some on here need to realize just what self-righteousness is. It's believing that righteousness comes from someting good in one's "self". My good is Christ alone.
I have listened to everything you've said and challenged you on the substance of your posts. You respond, but skip over much of the harder questions I ask you. I have yet to see you challenge any of the Biblical references I gave that depict a Christ very unlike the Christ that you seem to believe in.
I have yet to see you give any valid reason of why you treat gluttons one way and homosexuals another. You have stated that arbitrary degrees of pride involved in the two sins differ--but that is just your personal opinion. That position has no Scriptural backing so you'll have to forgive me if I find that unimpressive. It sounds to me an awful lot like "I don't like gays more than I don't like gluttons therefore I treat them differently."
I asked you who was in a position to be most like the Pharisees---you, the Christian or beanieboy, the Buddhist. Unbelievers cannot be more like Pharisees than believers, because it's the Pharisees that appear godly on the outside but are rotten on the inside. Any Christian with more than a passing knowledge of the Gospels should understand that much. So either you don't have a very comprehensive knowledge of the Bibles' contents or you answered my question dishonestly. That should also be very obvious to any half-way objective readers of this thread.
