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To: 1000 silverlings
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

I think you should read this verse again. If you think a shallow image of God who is mean and selfish and hates His own creation then you may have it. I happen to think that God is wondrous and He gave us all of His creation to love. If we can't love the angels or the saints then properly we can't love our spouses and our children and our relatives and we can't love the glorious creation that God gave us.

"This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you." Jesus showed that love in His willingness to die for you and you want to disrespect Him by ignoring His children and pretending if you speak to them that you disrespect God?! As I say you seem to want to limit God. I don't and I won't.

I have a Bible, I read it, I have read it for 40 some years, I discern it and in my own personal discernment it doesn't mean what you say it means. Why do you think I should listen to you? Who made you a prophet and wise interpreter of Scripture? Just because you interpret it from your own inspiration does not make it right. You read and interpret scripture from your own already held beliefs, I had my beliefs in the Methodist church and though I learned much truth there it was what wasn't there that sent me searching for the closest walk with God. I didn't get to the Catholic church on my own, I followed His will for me and God will not mislead me.

Don't worry about me, I will glory in God and all that He created and I will love his creations and I will talk to the saints and I will talk to the angels and I will talk to my family here on earth and I will love God first, and because He created them, I will love them all fiercely because God has given them to me and God has commanded it.

455 posted on 06/02/2007 12:22:50 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki
I think you should read this verse again. If you think a shallow image of God who is mean and selfish and hates His own creation then you may have it. I happen to think that God is wondrous and He gave us all of His creation to love. If we can't love the angels or the saints then properly we can't love our spouses and our children and our relatives and we can't love the glorious creation that God gave us.

I don't think that nor do I see why you think I do. I am merely informing you of God's own words. Maybe you think God is all gooey and warm and will overlook the fact that people just ignore Him

Here's how He describes Himself:

Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Ex 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Deut4 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

De 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

De 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Jos 24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Na 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious ; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

466 posted on 06/02/2007 12:48:29 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings ("The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson, President of U.S.)
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