Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
"You seem very upset about the bears killing the slandering young men. Are you vehemently Pro-Life ?" - Sonship.
Your above statement Sonship is appalling, even after I have reflected on it. Indeed, that one sentence has done more to push me away from your God than all your other sentences have done to draw me nearer to Him.
Yes, you can try ...[text shortened]... mently Pro-Life.' Who would have guessed it was the one 'without' an all loving God in his life?
Your above statement Sonship is appalling, even after I have reflected on it. Indeed, that one sentence has done more to push me away from your God than all your other sentences have done to draw me nearer to Him.
Do not try to put a guilt trip on me for speaking God's word., though my expositions and interpretations are not perfect. The result for some to hear it is to be saved. The result for others to hear it is to be hardened more.
Second Kings 2:23 is no showstopper to me.
The ministry to some is a fragrance of life unto life.
To others it is a fragrance of death unto death.
But it will not return to Him void.
Yes, you can try and mitigate it by saying I am selective in my outrage (although don't believe i have ever made public comment about abortion and the like). Bottom line though, what decent person wouldn't be 'upset' by bears being sent by God to kill young men for a bit of name calling?
You err in that I never said that I liked the fact.
I just say I can understand it in its context.
I can believe that God is righteous in all of His judgments and still recognize the sadness of what that means to those under judgment. You assumed that do not see there that mothers, fathers, friends were bereaved at the manifestation of God sending the bears.
I do not have to like everything I read of God's judgment in order to comprehend it and believe it and to take warning from it.
And yes, you can labour to mitigate it further by exaggerating the incident and make the young men out to be the mafia.
You lost me here unless you are somehow tying in my comment about the Godfather movie.
Appears only one of us is 'vehemently Pro-Life.' Who would have guessed it was the one 'without' an all loving God in his life?
You say you are vehemently Pro-Life by conscience.
The irony is that you are vehemently a Source of Life which is realistic.
You are also vehemently anti resurrection as a demonstration to the world that life's source cannot be destroyed.
And the loss is yours that you are also vehemently against eternal life.
Being against God you are simultaneously against the Source of life, the Origin as the Uncreated Author of life.
Being against God you are simultaneously against God dispensing His eternal life into vessels created by Him to receive and live in oneness with Him.
And you don't believe the manifestation of God victory over death.
I sure don't want to vehemently pursue any of these routes.
I want to know
the Prince of Life, Christ.
I am not stumbled by
2 Kings 2:23.