You're 100% correct. I'm not a theologian at all, never even took a modern religion class. Most of my Christian beliefs have probably been formed in the last 10-15 years. So many scriptures are taken out of context and bastardized. The prosperity gospel is one. The I Corinthians 13:4- passage about love gets co-opted as a passage about marital love when it's really a passage about how to love your fellow man (you know, the Love Thy Neighbor commandment that Jesus said is 2nd only to Love God). And the evangelicals think that Christianity is about keeping a scorecard and checking off boxes to get into heaven when reality is, all you have to do is be a good person (controversial, I know). This is why they keep bringing up isolated scriptures in their blasting of LGBTQ folks.
Anyway, my time at ORU was a good thing for parts but I also learned thing and became a little jaded towards evangelicalism at the same time. The number of times I heard "I thought this was supposed to be a Christian school" when someone didn't get their way was enough to make me want to destroy my ear drums with an ice pick.
We are to love everyone ! Even our enemies ( which is easier said then done , Lord knows I struggle with that ) don’t know why people blast others , we all fall short , none of us are better then anyone , we are saved by Grace by faith in Christ
That’s why I get so irritated by some of these Christian schools that act like they are better then everyone else , it even goes into the high schools.
I remember in highschool, out of all of the schools we played , I was never cussed out more then I was when I played Casia Hall. Some of the things I was called would make things on this board G rated 😂
Well there’s my speech , I wanted to get that off my chest for a long time about ORU 😂 I owe you a steak dinner for that lol
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