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lauriellen:
okay, i know i am going to really catch it on this post, but i just felt compelled to write it anyway......here goes....
not wanting to step on any toes, and not writing to anyone in particular, and i am also reminding myself as well.....there seems to be an underlying attitude creeping into some of the posts that really bothers me....a sort of distain or disgust, dislike, whatever you want to call it, for anyone who does not believe like we do....it is not out-and-out blatent (yet), just an underlying current, that i surely hope does not pick up momentum with time.....
i will forever have burned into my memory a family member (pentacostal) who took pride in saying every chance she got that "those ole baptists are all going to burn in hell"...and how it made me feel to hear her say it....
we need to remember that the same LOVING GOD who was merciful to us in opening our eyes, is the same LOVING GOD who has chosen to blind theirs...
it should humble us to realize this, and we should show compassion to those who are blind....we should love them just as Jesus did, when on the cross He asked God to forgive them because "they don't know what they are doing"...
yes, i know they don't like us, they DESPISE us as Ray always says, BUT, two wrongs don't make a right....when you catch a child hitting another child, and you ask them why, and they say, "well, he hit me first", does that make it okay?.......we are suppose to return good for bad......if we have the same attitude toward the world that they have toward us, we are no better than them.
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all KNOWLEDGE; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
lets all try to remember that it ISN'T us against them......if they are despising us, and persicuting us, it is because God has chosen for them to do so.....all we are called to do is be odedient to God, not to fight them back...
okay, you can let me have it now! ;)
in love,
lauriellen
lilitalienboi16:
Theirs a difference between not liking the people who are under strong delusion and not liking the doctrines and teachings that keep said people in that position.
I think you can figure out where i lye in all of this.
God bless,
Alex
mharrell08:
FYI: http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,10292.0.html
Marques
Marky Mark:
When we fall short in our lives, L-O-V-E will not, for Love never fails. G-O-D is L-O-V-E. ;) 8) :)
Luk 6:27 But to you, who are hearing, am I saying: Love your enemies. Be doing ideally to those who are hating you."
Mat 5:44 Yet I am saying to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who are persecuting you,
Joh 15:9 According as the Father loves Me, I, also, love you. Remain in My love."
1Co 13:4 Love is patient, is kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not bragging, is not puffed up,
Gal 5:22 Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Php 1:9 And this I am praying, that your love may be superabounding still more and more in realization and all sensibility,
Col 2:2 that their hearts may be consoled, being united in love, and to all the riches of the assurance of understanding, unto a realization of the secret of the God and Father, of Christ,
1Th 5:13 and to deem them exceedingly distinguished in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves."
2Ti 2:22 Now youthful desires flee: yet pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with all who are invoking the Lord out of a clean heart."
Heb 6:10 For God is not unjust, to be forgetting your work and the love which you display for His name when you serve the saints, and are serving."
1Pe 2:17 Honor all; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Peace...Mark
meee:
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on September 01, 2009, 02:00:07 PM ---Theirs a difference between not liking the people who are under strong delusion and not liking the doctrines and teachings that keep said people in that position.
I think you can figure out where i lye in all of this.
God bless,
Alex
--- End quote ---
Ditto!
Peace,God Bless,
meee
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