Belfast Telegraph

Presbyteri­an traditiona­lists appear long on preaching and short on love

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David Seifert: To follow Jesus is to walk on a narrow path. We do not have the right to widen that path. To speak God’s truth is showing the love of Christ.

Kurtis Alexander Johnston: David Seifert, but that “path” has been widened many, many times over the years to suit the Church.

David Seifert: Kurtis Alexander Johnston, like I said, Kurtis: the Church

does not have the right to change a thing. Those that do will give an account to God for it.

Colm Kilbane: God. Grow

up.

Andrew Richmond: God’s

truth.

Kurtis Alexander

Johnston: But things like slavery, rape, incest, forced marriages, child marriages etc all existed and were okay in the Bible, David Seifert, and

were quite the norm. Should this not have been changed?

Jordan Little: To follow Jesus is to make up a path based on selective, narrow perspectiv­es that we have chosen at random from the Bible to suit whatever random thing we feel like being against that day. We don’t have the right to narrow that path.

Mary Gribben: Narrow paths? Narrow minds.

Narrow hearts. Narrow brains.

Martin Traydor: Love is a strong emotion. Why show it to somebody no one even knows? Reserve it for the people in your life — not a complete stranger.

Simon Carmichael:

Saying the Church doesn’t have the right to change Christian doctrine is like saying JK Rowling doesn’t have the right to change Harry Potter. They made

it up. It’s a tool for their political agenda.

Kenny Rutledge: Sorry but, no, it’s not made up. It’s in scripture from the beginning of time.

Ruth Montgomery: Iam appalled at the ignorance many have of scripture. Once one goes down the path of saying, “Surely, God loves us?”, or “Surely, God doesn’t mean that?”, we are making God into man’s image. That is not God.

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