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To: Resettozero
Here on Free Republic, the temptations to vent are great for some of us. Therefore, since I am one of the people you mentioned, I must approach each FR RF post more prayerfully and less spontaneously, making certain that I indeed am listening to the leading of the Holy Spirit each time I'm prompted to respond.

I consider this line of action better for everyone; I say this as someone who has been capable of getting in trouble, even garbling the message, through words and posts.

One thing that struck me when I first read about it--one thing which sometimes bubbles into my memory when I post--is what C.S. Lewis wrote in "The Weight of Glory."

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

So it is that we may do well to remember something in 2 Corinthians 7:

[8] For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
[9] Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
[10] For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

I do not advocate a Religion Forum in which no one gets upset, and I don't know how it would be humanly possible to produce one. How much evidence is there, though, of "repentance to salvation"?

633 posted on 03/11/2015 9:55:29 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Lonely Bull
You have never talked to a mere mortal.

...angels unaware...

638 posted on 03/12/2015 4:36:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lonely Bull
I do not advocate a Religion Forum in which no one gets upset, and I don't know how it would be humanly possible to produce one.

I do.

Make it on the order of a personal diary or journal, that only you could write in.



Heck; that wouldn't work either; as I get mad at myself over things I've said, written or done...

639 posted on 03/12/2015 4:40:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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