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To: fwdude
Look what happened to Nineveh: and the fellow God chose didn't want to help them, either. I doubt BO or his cohort will wear sackcloth and ashes, but let's just pray to God, and let Him decide what to do. He will, in His Time and in His Way.

In the meantime, we are obliged as God's children to "pray one for another." To love our enemies; to love our neighbors; to love one another as Jesus loves us. In forum we may disagree on points, but now is the time to unite in begging God for help. Is it so much to ask? Is not love kind? Isn't it kind when one prays for another, simply out of love for the other people whom God created: simply out of love for God Himself?

130 posted on 06/27/2015 11:58:01 AM PDT by Grateful2God (Those who smile like nothing's wrong are fighting a battle you know nothing about. -Thomas More)
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To: Grateful2God

Indeed, there is a scriptural mandate to love our enemies and pray for them. But there is a special love, of a type completely different in characteristic, that we are to direct toward our brothers in Christ. It is the difference of that between night and day. It is what prompted Christ to spurn the Syrophonecian woman beseeching his help on behalf of her sick daughter. She had to agree in her heart with his indictment that she was outside of the family of God, and was, in His own words, a “dog” before he showed mercy to her. At that moment, she entered the family, and into the new love that bretheren share.


144 posted on 06/27/2015 7:47:08 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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