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To: Jonty30
“My Spirit will not always strive with man”.

What God said 120 years prior to the great flood.

The Early church was told by the apostles to “Release(non repenting sinning Christians) them unto Satan, until such time they should repent”.

Sometime love demands we abandon erring ones, especially if such erring may threaten other innocent ones either as direct physical threats or indirectly thru influencing the innocents to commit sin themselves.

There is a time one must let go for the sake of one’s own spiritual integrity. One can mistake spiritual integrity for “wounded pride”, but “wounded pride” may also cause a parent or loved one to cling to an erring one to such an extent, that the erring one has no motivation to examine him or herself and to change those behaviors that are in error. “Tough love” maybe the only radical spiritual scalpel that may yet save the patient from him or her self!

31 posted on 08/07/2012 11:41:18 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Not left wing! Not right wing! But....CHRIST WING!)
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To: mdmathis6

I can appreciate the point about tough love. If my children were aware of the consequences of their actions, I would never prevent those consequences.

I do differentiate between deliberate rebellion and mental illness. If my child were gay, I assume that it’s more likely due to mental illness or messed up hormones, as opposed to open rebellion.

Having said that, my child would always be welcome into my home on condition that they abide behaviourally by my rules when they are here. If they cannot abide by my rules, they cannot come into my home.


35 posted on 08/07/2012 11:56:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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