I liked watching Jimmy King play professional basketball. He was a gifted, but mediocre talent. He made the news recently when he was arrested while conducting a basketball clinic at St. Mark Baptist Church in Detroit. He apparently has a business working the church circuit teaching kids to play basketball. His offense is base and amoral. He allegedly did not pay his child support. King owes $17,209. Would a Christian do that? Would a Christian leave his child without support? How does that fit with the message of Christ?
I always ask the question because it needs to be asked. If you claim to be a Christian, it follows that you should act the part. It’s behaviors that are important, and not what you believe. If you owe child support, you must pay it. Doing so makes you a responsible member of society. Failing to do so can make you a criminal (and a hypocrite). A Christian should know this. If they don’t, what is the point of the Christianity? What is the social utility of being a Christian when it does not produce people who walk the walk?
Is Jimmy King a Christian? He claims to be a Christian, so must be one, but he’s not a good person. Can you be a bad person and a Christian at the same time? I don’t think so. Good people pay child support.
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Bart · 714 weeks ago
Is Haggert a Christian, how about all those honmophobe religionists who end up being closet homosexuals. Does a pope who condemns millions to death by brow beating them into believing condoms CAUSE the spread of AID not keep the title Christian? How about the perpetrators of the Crusades, Inquisition, Salem Witch Trials, Jewish pogroms...all in the name of Jesus...not Christains?
Abortion clinic bombers, KKK members, Mafioso, hispanic gag members... they are all Christians. Was Mother tHeresa's witholding pain meds from the dying in her care a bad person or good person...she sure as shit was a Christian.
A christian is one who is "saved"/gets salvation by simply accepting jesus as God . There is nothing in scrpture that qualifies that with arbitrary interpretations of what is a good and bad act/ good or bad person. Hitler would be in heaven if he apologised as he blew his brains out and mentally told Jebus he accepts him as his savior. ... so they say.
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Mojoey 107p · 714 weeks ago