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Duane:
Oh!  The amount of typing, the Bible verses, the "logic", and FINALLY frustration --and the dreaded "h" word!  (heretic)
WHY can't they see my viewpoint and believe LIKE ME??

Some time ago Kat wrote a beautiful explanation and I would like to share it with everyone who gets tempted to be "suckered into" a theological debate!  NO MINDS ARE EVER CHANGED! WHY??


Hi Duane,

It is kind of a paradox, to know the truth, but for the most part unable to share it with family and friends. I see it now when you have a belief system, like you develop in the church, it is built brick by brick into a huge wall of how you understand things to be. Now if someone comes along and tells you that this or that belief/brick is wrong and must be removed, well that just wouldn't work. Each brick is held up by the other and they know that if one or a few were removed, well the whole wall is built one upon another, so the whole wall (of deception) would fall. They have spent a lot of time and effort building this wall and they like the comfort of it, many/most of their friends and family have a similar wall and they feel safe that so many others have one like theirs.

So when someone comes along and threatens the security of that wall, they are ready to fight to defend it, especially when it is something so unfamiliar, like the truth we know. Our bricks don't match or fit with their brick, they looks strange to them, so they resist them. They think we are the strange ones building a very strange wall and they want nothing to do with it. No, it's going to take God to knock down that wall of deception, just like He did with us, we can not do that for them. So as much as we would like to share the truth with this world, it's not going to happen. God has preordained a time when the world will learn righteousness and that is not until the next age.

For now we just need to be about sharpening our sword of truth, learning as much as we can, so when the time does come we will be able to stand with Christ to rescue this creation from darkness. Hope you liked my little analogy  :D

Kat 

Extol:
Beautiful.  8)

onelovedread:
"So as much as we would like to share the truth with this world, it's not going to happen."

 And even here on the forum, "as much as we would like to share the truth with each other, it's not always going to happen."  ??? We will sometimes agree to disagree.  Perhaps more in our interpretation, than in our general beliefs. That's the result of us all being different. Ray so beautifully expressed it in Why Does God Love You:

God's family, God's plan, God's universe would not be complete without YOU! No one can take your place. There is one of you and there will always only be one of you. You need to think about this and meditate on it. Too many people feel that their life is of little if any value. That's not true, you are so incredibly important to God that Jesus Christ voluntarily laid down His life on the cross, not because your sins had some power over God's life; not to pay some divine debt that you owed God, not to appease the wrath of God, not because He had to die for you, but because GOD LOVES YOU, and He would do anything to prove His eternal love and devotion for HIS FAMILY AND CHILDREN, of whom you are totally unique.

doug:
Very good observation Kat... on "No minds are ever changed! Why??"

I can imagine most have done that... trying to argue someone into the Kingdom.  I know I have tried many times and have   fallen flat on my face.  It just can't be done!  It's just an exercise in futility!  And sometimes causing resentment and anger on both sides.

Thanks for posting that Duane.

santgem:
That doctrine. The doctrine you are grown up with. Unless God will touch you and work for you, no matter how intelligent and no matter how you know the scriptures from face to face it will not change the belief you've grown up with. That is the case of many that they stick to the old doctrine they believe with,  that no matter you explained to them the truth it will not work out.

Only God can change us from dark to light.

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