My super really long speech.

Okay, let me begin by saying.

DR. OLSEN. PUHLEASE CALL ON ME MORE.

Seriously. When he said he wasn’t going to call on me, I told Joy she had to raise her hand as well. Somehow or another, the point was going to be said!

Thank you. (Please is spelled incorrectly for emphasis.)

Today was the most interesting class we’ve had, in my opinion, so far. I’d like to just get out everything I said or TRIED to say in class. (This is based on Wesley, not on Romanticism. Even though I did a 9 page paper on the Romanticism movement, I find it revolting, along with everything else romantic. I’m too cynical by nature to even care.

We discussed today if natural disasters are caused by sin, if God punishes the worst sins by said disasters, if we are judged worse by this or that sin, etc., etc.

The Bible says that all sins are equal, ergo, all sins are judged equal. In God’s eyes, if you commit adultery, you deserve the same fate as that of a murderer. The good thing in that is that we all have the option for redemption, but that’s a different note.

James 2:10-11 says “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking ALL of it. For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

What he’s saying here in my perspective is that it doesn’t matter what you do, sin is sin. You can’t make it any uglier, and you can’t pretty it up. The people who say that the natural disasters that happened to Haiti, Turkey, and New Orleans immediately become (bluntly) idiots in my eyes. They're saying that those places were the most sinful, and that God was punishing them. Well if they read in the Bible, all sins are equal, and everyone sins because no man is sinless and pure but Christ and Christ alone, therefore shouldn’t everyone be punished as well?

John 8:7 “When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

I also want to point out Galatians 5:22, the fruits of the spirit.

Joy pointed this out during class today, it is the church’s duty as a whole, as a body of Christ to spread the gospel. God gave us free will to make our own choices. Our job as Christians is to spread the word, what people do with it is their own decision. It is not Christians fault if we tell someone the truth, the gospel, and they decide to go kill somebody or bomb a church building or something. We are to love one another. It’s like, we are supposed to love everyone, just not love their sin, and we are too point out their sin to them with love, not criticism. If we go to someone, (yes, I am going here.) and say, “Hey! You’re gay, that’s wrong, and you’re going to hell.” Then not only are they in the wrong, but we are as well because we didn’t go to that person in love, we went to that person stabbing them with words, therefor making ourselves out to be the “holy” person.

Kinda like that “holy group”, which was like way humble. (You can see me rolling my eyes at this point.)

What I’m trying to say is, that we as Christians, should spread the gospel with love and heartfelt conviction, not with a ‘holier than thou’ attitude. If we go to someone with an accusing manor and say that they are going to hell for such and such sin, then are we helping them? No! We’re just hurting them more, because now they feel bad and are more likely to run off somewhere to nurture their hurt feelings, instead of sitting down to have a cup of coffee with you to discuss their sin in a brotherly fashion.

There. I said it. And I feel much better.
p.s. I commented on Joy's.