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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI think it might be good to define "friendships", as there are vast degrees of... I have had "friends" at work that are nowhere near as close as the "friends" at Church.
We are to be IN this world, but not OF this world... I'm not "yoked" to my friends at my former work to the degree that I am "yoked" with my friends at Church.
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Regardless of the context of 2 Corinthians 6, which is rather unclear, there are other verses that prohibit marriages to unbelievers, and there are verses that discourage friendships with fools, the world, etc.
Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
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Dark friendships...you make it sound as if unbelievers consort with demons of the stygian abyss or something.
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Originally posted by robrecht View PostI consider all my friends and everyone I meet as potential Christians or quite possibly better human beings than me. I've never worried about friends endangering my faith, but maybe that's because I'm an old guy who's studied and learned a whole lot of stuff from a lot of people in my life, none of which ever seemed dangerous to me. I think we are called to be friends with sinners in the same way as Jesus was and is a friend of sinners. St Thomas Aquinas considered friendship to be the highest form of love, even love of God.
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Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostJudas had a role to play, plus he did feign belief. Still I did not say any thing about not allowing unbelieving friends. How else can you share Christ? The point is cultivating unbelievers just as close friends with an assumption of some sort of equality.
My post specifically addressed Scrawly's attempt to create a division. He quite normally does that, asking phoney questions to create argument.
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View PostHow about a Christian man asking a woman he does not know for a date? He does not ask, "Are you Christian?"
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Originally posted by Scrawly View PostThis is a great way to function and seems to be a mature view of things, however, how do you read 2Cor. 6:14-15?
Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?
But the Greek doesn't necessarily say that:
ἢ τίς μερὶς πιστῷ μετὰ ἀπίστου;
I would translate this as something more like 'or what part (does) a trustworthy or true one (share) with an untrustworthy or false one?' It is one of a few rhetorical question meant to illustrate not being yoked with one of another kind. Perhaps this relates as an abstract rhetorical question to do with some of the Corinthians being yoked to other 'apostles', but I don't see any indication that is a specific teaching about who one can choose as friends. Paul does use the adjectie πιστός several times to speak of the faithfulness of God and the trustworthyness of his ministry.אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃
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Originally posted by Obsidian View PostThe idea of being yoked implies doing work, like an ox. Hence, it probably is referring to ministry.אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View PostHow about a Christian man asking a woman he does not know for a date? He does not ask, "Are you Christian?"The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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My following comment might be a bit offside of the current dialogue...
My near neighbours are pretty well all Muslims, and they are undergoing Ramadan. I was chatting with my neighbour yesterday and acknowledged their fast and explained that in the RCC we have something similiar which we call Lent. He was very impressed that for 40days we give up something that is personally important and he was amazed that whatever that could be, it was a personal choice not a direct imposition of our religion... So in friendly dialogue, in my experience, you don't have to ram your religion down someone's throat, just be gentle and honest - who knows they might find Christ through your gentleness...
Imo, Dark Friendships are just a fact of human existence...not everyone will share your viewpoint.
A few years ago my neighbour and I shook hands to agree to disagree, but at all times we are obligated to think on each others opinion...and treat each other warmly....(he and his family are Muslim, and the most excellent neighbours. Even voluntarily mowing my lawns while I was in hospital, when all I asked of them was to collect my mail).Last edited by apostoli; 07-08-2014, 11:20 PM.
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Originally posted by robrecht View PostI don't think this passage is about friendship. If I am friends with someone, I love them freely, that is what is seen to be superior in friendship as a form of love, but loving someone 'freely' is not being 'yoked' to someone, rather the opposite. Who says this is about friendship?
Many translation imply this, eg, the NRSV:
Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?
But the Greek doesn't necessarily say that:
ἢ τίς μερὶς πιστῷ μετὰ ἀπίστου;
I would translate this as something more like 'or what part (does) a trustworthy or true one (share) with an untrustworthy or false one?' It is one of a few rhetorical question meant to illustrate not being yoked with one of another kind. Perhaps this relates as an abstract rhetorical question to do with some of the Corinthians being yoked to other 'apostles', but I don't see any indication that is a specific teaching about who one can choose as friends. Paul does use the adjectie πιστός several times to speak of the faithfulness of God and the trustworthyness of his ministry.
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Originally posted by apostoli View PostMy following comment might be a bit offside of the current dialogue...
My near neighbours are pretty well all Muslims, and they are undergoing Ramadan. I was chatting with my neighbour yesterday and acknowledged their fast and explained that in the RCC we have something similiar which we call Lent. He was very impressed that for 40days we give up something that is personally important and he was amazed that whatever that could be, it was a personal choice not a direct imposition of our religion... So in friendly dialogue, in my experience, you don't have to ram your religion down someone's throat, just be gentle and honest - who knows they might find Christ through your gentleness...
Imo, Dark Friendships are just a fact of human existence...not everyone will share your viewpoint.
A few years ago my neighbour and I shook hands to agree to disagree, but at all times we are obligated to think on each others opinion...and treat each other warmly....(he and his family are Muslim, and the most excellent neighbours. Even voluntarily mowing my lawns while I was in hospital, when all I asked of them was to collect my mail).
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