It's people like you that are the problem. If your heart is so wicked, you may need to seek help. A thief will get killed if he steals from me. You will be one of the idiots saying "It's just stuff, you shouldn't kill over it!" He will be just as dead. You give him your stuff, I'll protect my family and my stuff. I'm one of those weirdo's that finds a wallet and returns it with the money in it because I would hope someone would do it for me. I was just raised to respect others. Kinda old fashioned huh?
LOL, you're going to whine about me taking you to task, after you basically implied that I was mad because I got caught trying to score a "dime bag"? I think you need to grow up and get a thicker skin. As for your .45 ACP, you need to put that thing away before you hurt yourself. Maybe you can have it back when you start acting like an adult - which you're not doing right now.
I wonder if your claim "I have never even been tempted to steal from anybody" would really ring true, if we could look deep, down inside you. What I *do* know, however, is that the heart is deceitful above all things, and that if any man says he has no sin (i.e., that he does not have a sin nature inherent within him), then he is a liar. I highly doubt you've never been *tempted* to steal, since satan tempts us to all kinds of things all the time. I've been tempted to steal - but I've not done so, because I resisted the temptation. I wonder if this is perhaps what you meant to say.
It's people like you that are the problem. If your heart is so wicked, you may need to seek help. A thief will get killed if he steals from me. You will be one of the idiots saying "It's just stuff, you shouldn't kill over it!" He will be just as dead. You give him your stuff, I'll protect my family and my stuff. I'm one of those weirdo's that finds a wallet and returns it with the money in it because I would hope someone would do it for me. I was just raised to respect others. Kinda old fashioned huh?
See? It's drivel like this that caused me to say that you are an idiot. I point out that this is a case of police entrapment, and suddenly your whining about how I'm "one of the idiots saying "It's just stuff, you shouldn't kill over it!" On what are you basing that assumption? Oh yeah, I forgot, it's because you're all worked up and hyperventilating like a little baby because someone pointed out that you have a sin nature like everyone else. Well boo hoo. Guess what? GOD says that you have a wicked heart, just like everyone else, and that you'd be just as prone to wickedness as anyone else is, if you were in the wrong set of circumstances. You can put on self-righteous airs all you want, but the fact remains that the only difference between you and the guy in prison for auto theft, or between you and the drug dealer, or between you and the drunk lying in his own puke in the gutter, is that you resisted temptations that they did not. To say that you would never have those temptations, or that you'd never, possibly, ever be as bad as them is foolishness. GOD says so, not me.
FWIW, I've actually turned in several wallets/checks/cash - with all the contents intact - that people have dropped or lost. Guess that makes me just as good as you, hunh?
Twenty-five years ago, in the summer of 1983, I was working as the midnight hostler in the Croton-Harmon shops of Metro-North (the commuter railroad that runs north and east from Grand Central Terminal in New York). A hostler moves the cars around as needed, and back then working midnights was all I could get, so I took it.
One night, walking through the cars, I noticed a wallet on one of the seats. I picked it up and turned it in at the office. Didn't even bother to open it and look inside.
Turns out it belonged to one of the producers of CBS' "60 Minutes". Got a nice letter out of that one. Still have that letter someplace, I think.
- John