Posted on 06/18/2004 9:55:45 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Is answering questions sinful? Is that why you won't answer? Do you think these passages you cite call for an absolute prohibition on the use of force and the absolute lack of any enforcement of any law?
SD
(In point of fact, most exterminators today would tell you that the most effective long-term solution for many pest problems is exclusion: sealing up a house to keep the problems out. They also advise proper sanitation and reducing harborage outside; trimming the bushes against a house and hosing down spider webs as they appear outside will help reduce the number of spiders one sees inside. I don't know when extermination came to imply killing off, but my guess would be that the pest management industry had something to do with it.)
Answering a question isn't sinful, Dave. But when you ask someone to reason against what God's word states, that is sin.
And that is so because you have set a design on thwarting the will of God. Pretty simple to understand. If Mom says stay out of the cookie jar, and you set about to thwart that, she sets about to warm your backside. And again, I think everyone can see that I have answered you - over and over again. You're representations are pathetic.
This is part of the love your neighbor as yourself doctrine Reggie - as applied by Rome or more particularly by the Doctrine of Dave's church of one "Screw the neighbor so long as I'm happy." Fit's in pretty well with the position of Rome on respecting God's will where another person's physical life and soul are concerned. To heck with God's word, to hell with the person.. slaughter them as long as it makes Rome happy.
This is the problem with compromising scripture, Dave.. you do it one place, then you do it every place else and rationalize it endlessly based on what seems ok to you. This is precisely what we see with Rome. As a Christian, we're supposed to follow what God says - not debate ways to get around it. Love your neighbor as yourself cannot be misconstrued to Screw your neighbor, much less plague them.
If I have roaches and deal with them by gathering them all up and setting them loose in my neighbor's house, that is not loving my neighbor. But that is the difference between being Christian and being a pretender. The Christians stick to the word - the pretenders just use the name for it's potential marketing value.
Hitler seemed to have a pretty good bead on what extermination meant.
Ping
Good grief: “Havoc.”
What a poisonous little man.
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