07-11-2017, 03:50 AM
(07-11-2017, 03:08 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: That is what most of the religious doctrines and theologies espouse. And some individuals get that. It is rarely how the religious organizations behave. The group dynamic changes things.
The transition of changing a religion from a set of guidelines for an individual to read, elect and absorb to a set of guidelines for running a group, community or even a country befouls the original intent of the message. For example: sin is something and individual does, not a group.
There is a whole lot of Collective Salvation going around that is for sure but I know of no Baptist churches that I've belonged to or have visited that teach that a man or woman as evil because of the sin in their lives. I do see Baptist and Evangelical churches turning Calvinist though and that is truly alarming.
