I'm not inclined to believe we can discuss anything further, because you don't respect me and what I have to say. But I will address your last 3 posts in order out of respect and in a substantive way as I have. I have not falsely accused you or any of the points you've made. You are obviously able to quote chapter and verse, whereas I can tell you what the Bible says. It's not what I think. Tell me where I've been wrong...if you can. Good for you and your quest to end abortion. I stand with you. But rather than accept that I stand with you, you insinuate that I don't and continue to attempt to prove it. I only vote for pro-life candidates too. I understand the sad reality that my quest for an end to abortion will probably never happen so long as there is evil in the world. Therefore, I can only do whatever I can to stop as many babies from being murdered. It wouldn't be correct for me to state what God should or shouldn't do in this regard. God has a plan and will act in his own time. Do I wish he would stop abortion this very minute? You betcha. I'd have to see the context, but if that was his view then, no, I don't agree with Lincoln. The losses include those that disagreed with slavery and were doing everything to end it. (Point of fact, the Civil War was not waged over slavery. It was to keep the country whole.) And I can see the day when the only alternative left for God is to execute justice on a stubborn, rebellious, murderous country which refuses to acknowledge the Christ who died for her and repent of her sins. Your words do not acknowlege the legions of believers, or the greatness of this nation. Since you hate this country so much, I have an offer for you. I will pay for a one way ticket for you to leave with the full knowlege that you NEVER return. You can go anywhere that you think is better...if you can find it. I doubt you will take it, because you know how great you have it here. Funny thing is that I haven't been able to get any hater to take it. On to your next post. :-)
I was in a hurry last night and didn’t read your post #55 in which you accused me of hating our country and offering me a one-way ticket to leave if I promised to never return. I am afraid I will have to decline your “love” offering.
From Lincoln’s Second Inaugural address:
If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”
It is amazing how you interpret my disagreement with you over whether or not it was particularly heinous for Tiller’s killer to take his life at a church as opposed to anywhere else into assertions that 1) I don’t believe you are pro-life, 2) I am arrogant, insincere, and dishonest, 3) that you respect me and have not falsely accused me, even as you call me a hater of our country and offer me a one-way ticket to leave, etcetera, etcetera...
If you interpret the Bible in the same way as you have our conversation(s), then I understand why you and I cannot agree on what it says.
Please keep up your good work on behalf of the unborn. God bless your efforts that bring honor to Him!