Honest Sinners And Phony Christians

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I am not proclaiming anything, merely sharing that which has shown merit.

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HONEST SINNERS AND PHONY CHRISTIANS



By Paul Proctor
December 20, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

I don't know about you but I'd rather be around an honest sinner than a phony Christian any day. I don't like faux anything. I have almost no tolerance for liars in general and even less for lying Christians. And much to the chagrin of my critics, I unashamedly accept the fact that my writings echo that, week in and week out. Lies are not compassionate - they are cowardly, crooked and void of any confidence in God and have been at the heart of every wicked act since Eve took of the forbidden fruit.

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a lady in Australia who, after thanking me for my latest article on Rick Warren - a piece in which I pointed out his "penchant for duplicity and doubletalk" - chided me for my "condemning words:"

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That goes for any who would "sell" Spirituality...

We two leggeds were permitted the Journey here not as humans learning to be Religious... rather as Spirits attempting to be good Human Beings.

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I don't know about you but I'd rather be around an honest sinner than a phony Christian any day. :"

Since a murderer, thief, compulsive liar, fraudster would be a sinner, how can you be a honest sinner ?

As to phony Christians, well admittedly there are a few (million) of them.

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"I never trust a man without any vices." Mark Twain

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"I don't know about you but I'd rather be around an honest sinner than a phony Christian any day."
The author has not chosen his words well. I'd rather be "around" a Pharisee than a murder, robber, rapist, terrorist etc as at least Pharisees are quite harmless unless provoked, and you don't have to listen to them, whereas the former need no provocation to sin.

What the author intends to convey, I presume, is that oft-times the ordinary sinner is more honest than the Pharisee, and in terms of "closeness to God" implicitly able to repent and see the error of his ways more easily.

Matt 21:31 "Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they answered. Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.