Posted on 04/06/2019 11:26:10 AM PDT by rktman
I think perhaps because a lot of folks and kids see it as goody-goody and boring. It’s a buzzkill to follow the rules set down by God, nevermind that it’s done not to punish us, but to avoid us falling into traps. Of course, to the bad guys, traps are good. The more folks fall into traps, the more they can step up and present themselves as the heroes to “save” you, even though it’s really about keeping you trapped and dependent upon them. A nice vicious cycle.
Alas, if we’re lucky, we’ll only have that until January 2025. The left is scrambling to prevent that from happening, of course. But finding a worthy successor to Trump will be exceptionally difficult. I don’t think Pence is that person. We probably need another outsider with that “tough hide” you cited.
Are you saying verdict first, and then the trial? And the trial justified the verdict?
Don’t be grieving the Holy Spirit by saying “lucky.”
Say “blessed” and be thanking the Lord for it all the time.
Gratitude is the song that delights the Lord’s heart and brings Him to share even more delight with you.
And what can change that perception, but a wonderful, wonderful witness?
There’s an interval between leaving the bad and entering the good that requires patience to weather. It’s like waking up from a stupor. Instant-gratification habits, even like FR itself if kept up for hours and hours (I know, I know!), can vitiate that kind of patience.
I’m saying the evidence confirmed the guilt. Countless individuals were guilty. Almost no one accused was an innocent. That’s why the leftist claims of “witch hunt” are so laughable. There were countless witches. Unfortunately, we were too civilized to burn them at the stake to discourage more of their sorcery.
Where is this claim of yours documented with data? Let’s see that before going on to the victory lap.
Where do we get these ideas of civilization? Is it not also from the Lord? Even in the Old Testament, the most heinous crimes were not punished if the prosecution lacked two or more witnesses. God asserted Himself as being powerful enough to take care of such situations.
Well, we don’t know what He has in store for us at the present time. I use “lucky” because He could just as easily intend for us to suffer mightily for our sins, for which we have many. You aren’t incorrect in your statement, however.
God rebukes fatalism in Romans. “But who resists His will?” The answer to that is “God is patient with those waltzing on to hell” [HTRN paraphrase].
His constant call is repent, repent, repent. Which will avert the worst.
No “mighty suffering” can hold a candle to Jesus on the Cross. How much stock do we wish to put in that? It grieves the Holy Spirit to try to add to the Cross. We already have a Cross, upheld by the Holy Spirit.
The Venona Papers confirms many of those accused (conveniently years after the fact).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers
M. Stanton Evans’s book, “Blacklisted by History”, cited many times in this thread, also goes into detail.
I wouldn’t use language like (going on a) “victory lap” in confirming their guilt. The damage was done by these individuals and others, and was incalculable. The only victory would’ve been stopping it before it happened.
Sometimes you don’t have conventional witnesses to crimes. DNA evidence, as an example, is sometimes all the prosecution has. That at least, is irrefutable evidence.
This could well be an example of taking God’s ways of doing things into our own hands in what we think is a harmless modified form.
When DNA came on the scene, it produced a number of notable acquittals and vindications, helping the defense more than the prosecution if anything.
The Law was specific that there had to be two or three live witnesses and that they had to carry out the execution, and that if their witness was proved wrong, they were liable to the same punishment.
I see, and do believe God sees, an America that has taken too much into its own hands and has gotten itself into an unmanageable situation thereby. Prohibition for one. Various sumptuary laws for another. Nodding and winking at inhumanity as long as it was for “punishment” for yet another.
And we’re complaining about Communists? Communists at least offer a theory that would work if people could be perfect. While in the meantime, we are thumbing our nose at Christ’s “be perfect” which is achieved however haltingly by immersion in the Holy Spirit. Greater is He that is in us (provided we let Him in us) than “he who is in the world.”
Getting rid of Communists, if it were possible to do it by waving a magic wand, and yet doing nothing else, would simply mean Satan coming in through door B rather than door A. Churches missed a golden opportunity to show how giving all to the Lord rather than to some “people’s party” would result in peace and prosperity.
Well, the good thing about DNA is that it has exonerated people that might’ve been presumed guilty.
Sadly, so many often fall for anti-Christian ideologies when their bellies are empty or down on their luck, but those that sell said ideologies tend to wrap it in a pseudo-Christian way. You are correct that if it wasn’t Communism, Satan would be pushing it as something else. But that doesn’t negate the fact that such things should be stomped out wherever seen lest it take hold.
Related to this topic, a must read and perhaps the very most important memoirs of the 20th century: “Witness,” by Whitaker Chambers, c1952.
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