Can church be bad for your health?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by crakjak

Some preachers, during my childhood, used the fear of hell and then presenting do's and don't's in ways that made it obvious that most folks didn't or couldn't comply with them all.

That is very traumatizing, read some of the history of preachers such as Jonathan Edwards, folks passed out at the fear. Of course, it can be the cause of sever emotional issues. Add to that the Calvinistic teaching that only some or elected to be saved and you have a formula for emotional disaster.

Should preachers preach against sin, absolutely, but they should preach more of the abounding GRACE of GOD!!!!

"Grace does MUCH MORE......!"

Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We have to share all the scriptures. It doesn't say that shepherds are to add rules to the list to get to heaven.

: "For by Grace are ye Saved through Faith; and that not of Yourselves: It is the Gift of God. Eph. 2:8"

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by coadie

Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

We have to share all the scriptures. It doesn't say that shepherds are to add rules to the list to get to heaven.:

"For by Grace are ye Saved through Faith; and that not of Yourselves: It is the Gift of God. Eph. 2:8"

Yet many have added extra rules, even whole orgs have done so, as well as holding truth in unrighteousness, when preaching against true sin.

So, why are you so dogmatic against a discussion of such abuse??? I recognize that some folks are "highly sensitive", however to treat these folks as unimportant just because they process information differently is to "hold the truth in unrighteousness".

Jesus himself warns those that mistreat His "little ones"!!!