Andru B

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@RodeoProfessor @MySportsUpdate So if there are shows or ads on TV about murder, selling drugs, prostitution, rape, etc. that justifies a grown man participating in those activities with no consequence?!?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@sashi0_ @MySportsUpdate Those are the bets we know about. We know he used family/friends accounts as well. He was caught, he didn’t turn himself in. Are any of these indications that he is telling “nothing but the truth”?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@jaromjordan Big 12 should step in and issue penalties. If we can police our own conferences then that will help fill the void left by the NCAA’s inability.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

Could the NCAA still strip away any TT victories in games he plays this year for playing someone with clear violations?

In other words, put the risk on the shoulders of TT if they choose to play him. If the court finds against his eligibility, even after the fact, TT would have to give up their wins and any conference titles or playoff revenue gained while he played.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@jessalanfields @BasedMikeLee Good points!

Mormons are the modern-day Samaritans, while their outspoken opponents are more like Pharisees than disciples.

By their fruits you will know them—on both sides.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@bamamaga3 @TaylorRMarshall I appreciate your sincere concern.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

The Pharisees presented numerous yes/no questions to Jesus, but rather than answering so simply, he instead used the question as an opportunity to teach pure doctrine through his response.

I’m nowhere near Jesus’s level of wisdom or understanding, but I try to follow his example—including how I answer trap questions.

Not everyone liked how he responded either.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

I’ve spent enough time in religious circles (LDS, Evangelical, Catholic, you name it). None of them use offensive language or treat others with disrespect.

I can only assume your intentions aren’t sincere. I’d rather not wallow in the mud with you.

If you look closely, I have answered the question.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@ChristheAV8R @natemaklocklin The last thing we need is the government involved in defining who is and isn’t a Christian.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

You mean the part where it says “my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways”?

Or is that scripture only for the LDS?

Don’t let a scarcity mentality govern your faith. Nothing in your faith is diminished by accepting the fact that LDS worship the same Jesus that you do.

We’re not asking you to believe all of our doctrines any more than you have to accept your widowed Evangelical neighbor’s belief that she will be with her dead husband again.

You would just give her a hug, tell her you love her, and let God sort it out. You wouldn’t demand her to recant her statement before she was worthy of your fellowship. So why treat a stranger any differently?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

Wow, I’m sorry my response offended you so much.

I once ready a story about a religious question that was asked and instead of responding directly to the “trap question” the response was another question: “By what authority I do these things. Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”

I’m not sure where your scars come from, but you aren’t going to find healing by attacking someone else’s religion—no matter how wrong you feel it may be.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

If God asked him to ask me, and I knew that God had asked him, then I guess I have a decision to make.

Same as Abraham being asked to sacrifice his own son.

Abraham knew God had ultimate control over Isaac’s life. If Abraham chose to spare Isaac, God could still take him. If Abraham chose to obey and slay Isaac, God could revive him.

All Abraham really needed to know was whether the command came from God.

If I knew that, then anything God asked me to do would be easier—not automatic, but easier.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@bamamaga3 @TaylorRMarshall Why is it so incomprehensible to you? What scriptures justify such absolutism in your mind about Gods character?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@Dude_ukn @TaylorRMarshall I did answer. You are straining at gnats, but swallowing camels.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@LoxleyKieran @TaylorRMarshall Your premise is biblical, but you are actually paraphrasing the Pharisees and not Jesus.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@ReformUSA_ So much vitriol, why? In this case, what would Jesus say, and what has he said that would suggest he would say it?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

How would Jesus respond to this question? I don’t recall him asking the thief on the cross a series of qualifying questions before promising him that he would be with him in paradise.

On the other hand, the Pharisees had a whole slew of man-made qualifications if you wished to be accepted as main-stream in their day.

Those “christians” who wish to gate-keep for the Body of Christ will only come to find out that he is the keeper of the gate and employs no servant there.

Is it worth the risk to your own soul to simply dismiss the Latter-Day Saints’ Christianity because some of their beliefs seem weird or aren’t found in the Bible? Especially when the very creeds you espouse as your own measuring stick aren’t found in the Bible either.

The irony is that you say Mormons have created a list of complicated criteria in order to be saved (by their works, etc.), but they are much more likely to say you will be saved, than you are to say that they will be saved—even when they openly proved Jesus as their personal Savior.

They are much more salvationarily inclusive than you are—and you supposedly have the lower bar to cross.

Why not join us on those things we agree on—in love and unity—and leave the rest for Jesus himself to sort out?

[Andru B @ABinSC]

When did Jesus say you had to accept your particular string of words? I don’t recall him asking the thief on the cross a series of qualifying questions before promising him that he would be with him in paradise.

On the other hand, the Pharisees had a whole slew of man-made qualifications if you wished to be accepted as main-stream in their day.

Those “christians” who wish to gate-keep for the Body of Christ will only come to find out that he is the keeper of the gate and employs no servant there.

Sure, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may be the modern-day equivalent of the Samaritans (unwelcome, unclean, doctrinally different, and marginalized by the mainstreamers of the day), but they also happened to be the group that Jesus pointed to as the example and who he revealed himself and his mission to first.

You might not want to be so fast at dismissing us altogether. Because if we are Christians and you can’t recognize that, then chances are high that it might be to you he says: “I never knew you”.

[Andru B @ABinSC]

@timldecker Wait a second! Why the Athanasian Creed and not the Nicene Creed? And while we’re at it, what creed was the thief of the cross expected to affirm? I’ll pick that one!