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To: HiTech RedNeck

No, it was stolen from you.

The thief has broken a commandment, which is between them and God.

I had a few hundred stolen from me by a very vile man one time years ago.

It’s done, from my perspective, no way I’ll ever see the guy again.

It happened before I was saved, so it bothered me a lot for a while. Then I just forgot about it. Who dwells on such things ?

If he was converted to Christ and theoretically found me, I could understand such a person wanting to pay back what they stole. But it’s of course the soul that really matters, not the money stolen from me. I’m not waiting for this payment ! Then, after my conversion I recalled the event and saw it in a new light, where I was preserved through a situation by the Lord even before I converted.

Take the case of someone owing you money, a friend. If they’re “down and out”, you don’t bother them about it.

But in all such cases, these people ultimately have to reckon with God.

These are easy cases. What about if a person perpetrated some violence on someone you love - and they go unpunished by the law ? That’s difficult to just “forget”, to not seek vengeance. That takes some serious amount of faith, IMHO.


70 posted on 07/11/2014 11:51:38 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: PieterCasparzen

What are you asserting “no” against?

Of course it was stolen.

But I can still give it to God.

I can’t give somebody else’s life to God, so your counterexample fails.

I think it is very telling about the pinched state of YOUR soul that you want to be prickly and conditional about it.


71 posted on 07/12/2014 1:47:39 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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