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To: HiTech RedNeck
We have to love our way back and it begins by accepting a love that we never initiated ourselves.

Easier said than done, obviously. :) Not sure what's irritating you, but sincerly hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

108 posted on 06/16/2013 12:12:32 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

What “irritates” me is that Christians often carry in the back of their mind a picture of the fundamentally impossible when critiquing humanity... the couldas, shouldas, wouldas. This is at root an appeal to self pride. Self pride can only do one thing and it’s to fail miserably.


111 posted on 06/16/2013 1:00:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Errant

And in a way it’s difficult and in a way it’s easy!

It involves the pride busting process of giving up, both on the prideful efforts and upon the mistaken value systems that encouraged the pride. The second thing is less intuitive because we’ve grown up from birth in pride.

There’s a reason why the whores got into heaven quicker than the Pharisees.


112 posted on 06/16/2013 1:02:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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