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LOL So, your theory is those who reject God are bastions of honesty and forthrightness, like those pervayors of gloom and doom about the 'rona?

Yes, also to inspire others that with God's help, they do can react to problems with the fruit of the Spirit. One example is from several years ago. An old friend asked me to help him as he convelesced from knee surgery. His wife chose this time to visit an out of state relative which enraged...

One pastor put it this way. By embracing Christ, our troubles do not diminish. But we are stronger and more able to handle the troubles we have. When we rebound off our troubles toward God, we know we are living as God intends.

You do not see the contradiction of what you just wrote? I serve the living God, not parchment. Some he tells go West. Some he tells to go East. There is not one way to serve and this is not a contradiction. The written record is good, as far as written records go but they do not displace an...

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Even you must see how your tactics undermine conversation. Perhaps you do not actually want a back and forth conversation on a forum. Perhaps you just want an echo chamber. God must have got it wrong when he said iron sharpens iron; it must be Episkopos sharpens iron. :contemplate:

Doesn't make it right.

Ironic. My congregation's word of the year this year is PRESSURE. To embrace the fact that we are better under pressure.

Getting back to imputing; we don't credit the container for the flavor of the wine. A old Jewish prayer at grace is, "Praise God, King of the Universe, who brings forth the fruit of the vine." We might do other things, like till the soil and reap the harvest, but only God brings forth the fruit...

Another book, Victory Over Darkness, admonishes us to take 'every thought captive to Christ.' At the doorway, the outer perimeter of your essence, should you meet the adversary and take his seductive lures to Christ at the first instance. The longer we ponder how shiny and beautiful, this thing...

Who the heck is this Mike guy, anyway? :rolleyes: And as you know, I speak English. I am Groot.

Perhaps but who are you to separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the tares? @marks and I have had our disagreements but I take him as devout, who loves God, submits to Jesus and immerses himself in the Bible as much as any of us. I've never seen a post from him where he puts his ego...

You do realize Mike’s critique has NOTHING to do with you reverting to foreign language, right?

<sigh> 1st, I don’t know if he misused a word as you say. It could be that he used the word properly and you are in need of humility and correcting. 2nd, I reject your claim that the validity of his point hinges on the use of a particular word. 3rd, he has a valid point, conveyed over...

Wrong. The Founding Father's were nationalistic but not fascist. The opposition to nationalism stems from the evil globalist agenda.

Yes, including the majority of people of all stripes. I do agree that Christian evangelists are to be praised while Christian proselytizers need to be forgiven for the zealotry over love.

I just finished reading Wild At Heart by John Eldridge (given a 4-star rating out of 5 by me). In it, he pits God and our true self with our fleshy, ego based self (that is liable to succomb to Satan's evil whisper of tempation). In the dark, we hear 2 voices. I submit that it is not enough for...

It's not phobia. Homosexuality or transgenderism hurts many. Both are identity disorders. We do a disservice to the victims of the disorder to pretend their disorder is normal. And embracing the normalizing of it is societal suicide, humans experienced many times. See The Fate of Empires. Now...

So irrelevant. Implied is your embrace of multculturalism that not only is wrong, didn't exist at the time in question. Holding people to a non-existent standard is a sign extreme stupidity is at play.

Such self-centeredness! You’re proving to have the inability to respond to another’s original idea. You only acknowledge people responding to points you make AND ONLY IF they respond in the way you prefer. When you are called out on your BS, you have the audacity to accuse the other person...