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WHY DOES GOD APPEAR SO MEAN?
TruthInConviction ^ | Dec 31 | J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Posted on 12/31/2009 4:16:58 PM PST by freedomyes

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To: UriÂ’el-2012

you carp


61 posted on 12/31/2009 5:25:29 PM PST by freedomyes
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To: Guyin4Os

enough


62 posted on 12/31/2009 5:26:01 PM PST by freedomyes
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To: freedomyes
it is that GOD IS LOVE and FULL OF GRACE AND MERCY.

If you watched your mother die as I did, you would not believe such drivel.

63 posted on 12/31/2009 5:27:11 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper
So there for I do not exist.

Well, in some sense you are right. We don't actually exist as seperate beings, although the illusion is there that we do.

However, I would speculate that you are probably in the spiritual condition called Neutrality.

64 posted on 12/31/2009 5:27:23 PM PST by Lazamataz (America has been dead for a while; It's interesting to watch the cadaver cool.)
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To: freedomyes

Wow. What a high-and-mighty religious pomposity answer. You have an on-going problem yourself.

You and Swank appear to me, to be driving more away (scattering abroad) then you are helping to gather in.

He cloaks himself in the title "pastor", but I've yet to see evidence of the Lord's Spirit guiding his words.

Tell us who YOU really are, then we can talk. Openly, and honestly, before both God and man. Are you up to the task?

Start being real, and I'll start trying to take both yourself, and Swank more seriously.

65 posted on 12/31/2009 5:27:49 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: MrPiper

sorry but that is your choice.


66 posted on 12/31/2009 5:28:49 PM PST by freedomyes
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To: freedomyes
Let's smooch.


67 posted on 12/31/2009 5:30:02 PM PST by Lazamataz (America has been dead for a while; It's interesting to watch the cadaver cool.)
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To: freedomyes
sorry but that is your choice

Typical.......No answers, no solutions, no direction, Nothing.

68 posted on 12/31/2009 5:31:45 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper
If you watched your mother die as I did, you would not believe such drivel.

I don't know if you are ready or capable of understanding something I would say to this, so I will let it be. How long ago did your mother die?

69 posted on 12/31/2009 5:32:25 PM PST by Lazamataz (America has been dead for a while; It's interesting to watch the cadaver cool.)
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To: freedomyes

The author? I thought I was talking to you. That is who I'm addrsssing the questions to.

The author? Who? You, or Swank? Or are you one in the same? Answer please...

It could be so-ooo easy. It is not a difficult, nor complicated question.

70 posted on 12/31/2009 5:33:16 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: MrPiper
No answers, no solutions, no direction, Nothing.

I have found something. I don't know if you would deal well with it, though.

71 posted on 12/31/2009 5:33:46 PM PST by Lazamataz (America has been dead for a while; It's interesting to watch the cadaver cool.)
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To: tacticalogic

God is not mean
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Flooding the Earth and wiping out most of humanity?

I’d say he has his moments.


72 posted on 12/31/2009 5:35:11 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Obama will sink as fast as he rose. Idolatry will not succeed. Be patient, folks...)
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To: Soothesayer

I hope me saying that I will pray for your peace does not offend you in any way. I don’t think I would be alive today if it were not for the faith I have in the Word of God and the Spirit He called the comforter. Please keep an open mind and heart in this coming New Year.


73 posted on 12/31/2009 5:35:53 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: Soothesayer

Hummm...you’re questioning is quite normal I think. Even Peter walked at a distance from Christ for a time. And Job many times asks “why”..”why”...

We all go thru some times where He seems way out there somewhere. I would truly question someone who has not met up with some dry spells in their walk with God.

The Psalmist spoke to his own soul....”Oh my soul why are you so disquited in me.”

I think your question and unsettleness of where He is in your life is perfect evidence He’s working in your life, though of course that can sometimes be an uncomfortable experience. We tend to want answers now, like picking up fries at McDonalds,Ha!

I think I’d pick up a Bible..read John for it reveals much of the Lords love for us...and watch where Christ meets one on one with individuals right where they’re at. And if you want a faster pace..read Mark where Christ goes from one situation to another in rapid time.

The other thing which my be helpful is just tell God how you see Him..after all He already knows where you’re at even better than you do. He reads minds ya know.

I know it can be frustrating but frankly you’re in a better place than you realize...


74 posted on 12/31/2009 5:37:11 PM PST by caww
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To: Lazamataz
How long ago did your mother die?

about 4 years ago, she basically strangled/gasped/spamismed/groaned/screamed/pained to death. She was on Morphine to kill the pain. I sat there with her.............doctors departed.

75 posted on 12/31/2009 5:37:36 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: freedomyes

I shall agree to disagree. Thank you.


76 posted on 12/31/2009 5:38:31 PM PST by caww
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To: freedomyes

I can’t wait until YHWH throws Allah into the lake of fire.


77 posted on 12/31/2009 5:39:18 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: freedomyes; UriÂ’el-2012

I think "It" needs to get another complaint/insulting reply thingy...that one is getting old, and as welcome as both three-day fish, and house guests staying over the same.

In other words. 'freedomyes', it's rotting from the head up.

But hey, it's your fish. If you really want to keep stinking up the place with it, that's up to you.


78 posted on 12/31/2009 5:42:19 PM PST by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
Sunday worship is a Pagan myth promulgated by the Roman church in the fourth century.

What a load of hogwash.

Sunday worship is only fitting to commemorate the wonderful Sunday morning when the women found the stone turned away and knew that Our Lord Jesus Christ, Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, had risen from the dead.

There is nothing pagan about the Catholic Church, founded by Christ circa AD 33, nor is there anything pagan about the celebration of His Glorious Easter Sunday Resurrection.

79 posted on 12/31/2009 5:45:43 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Finalapproach29er
Flooding the Earth and wiping out most of humanity?

I’d say he has his moments.


If, as the accounts say, the earth was filled with violence, so "...that every inclination of the thoughts of [man's] heart was only evil all the time," then pulling the plug could be seen as a merciful action toward unborn generations. It still leads to the question, "Which is better, to be and to be lost forever or never to have been at all?"
80 posted on 12/31/2009 5:47:46 PM PST by aruanan
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