BTW,
I'd have thought that you'd also read in The Book that
WE WIN!
And that we are to fear nothing but displeasing our beloved Lord God Almighty.
And that we are to fear nothing but displeasing our beloved Lord God Almighty.
(HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
If our Lord Jesus Christ has now "all power on heaven and on earth," and we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, then -- those who recommend giving the other team an uncontested turn at bat obviously deny/repudiate/denigrate the power of God, at work in us.
Winners and lovers shape the future.
Whiners and losers try to predict it.