You ROCK! Now this is what this thread needs ... more people backing up one another to counteract heresy. If the Apostles could convert thousands and thousands of pagans who would have killed them in a blink of an eye, or for the Apostles to go forth into Jerusalem and its neighboring countries to preach the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (driven, consoled, and EMPOWERED by the Holy Ghost), what could they fear ... NOTHING. Not jail, torture, ridicule, desecration of the body, removal of thier meager belongings, torture of their followers, etc. ... they lived by one adage and one adage only ... Jesus was the manifestation of what they and the Jewish People had so longed to see. And the flip side of that coin is that they rejected Him outright as a deceiver / possible mental case. I just wish that I had the ability and verboseness in which to convince others (without high pressure tactics) to open up those scarred and very hardened / obstinate portions of their hearts and minds to God’s Will for them and all human beings. I speak from experience and have a gift (or what I like to think of a gift) of being able to empathize or analytically bore into one’s psyche in order to feel their pains. It comes from A LOT of reading, introspection, and reduction of pride into humbleness (which I fail at time and time again). :)
Catch you later,
Front 242
That sabbatical is looking better day by day.
Thats exactly what i had been hoping for. People who have a clear perception of right and wrong. Check out post #701. Amazing the hate that comes through.