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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 05:42 PM
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17. The word you are probably looking for is Pharisee
Most double speaking "Christians" the ones you refer to seem to have descended to the negative connotation of the word Pharisee.

1. Pharisee A member of an ancient Jewish sect that emphasized strict interpretation and observance of the Mosaic law in both its oral and written form.
2. A hypocritically self-righteous person.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Pharisee

Are these people Christians? Judge them according to their works, what they say and do and you will know.

And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a man what goes into the mouth which by going into him defiles a man, but the things which come out of a man this defiles a man." Let anyone with ears to hear listen! And when he had entered the house,and left the people, the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us." And he said, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth cannot defile him, since it enters, not his heart passes into the stomach, and so passes on? " (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, But what comes out of the mouth a man proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man.

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