Posted on 10/03/2011 9:24:36 AM PDT by jesus4life
Amen
Grace and peace to all of you. I am very new to this site. The holy spirit brought me hear tonight to look over many answers here. To learn and to share.
I have questions here if anyone would be kind to take the time out to answer:
1. If we want evil to stop, why do speak of where it is, how to see it, where to see it, and when it may happen?
2. Do we really believe GOD sees all things and will handle all things?
3. If we revere Mary as the mother of GOD, why do we not copy her obedience??
4. If we believe in CHRIST as the son of GOD, who killed no one, loved everyone, and died for all. Why do we worry about dying?? Why do we want to kill others?? Why do we hate others? Why do we want to own land, take over other countries? Why do we want to judge others faith, walk, and lives before they die, knowing that GOD has power to save and can save anyone?
5. Do we believe heaven exists?? If so, where is it for all of you??
The holy spirit brought me to some passages for all of us to think about:
The love of Christ that we should live and show the world LUKE 6:27-36
27 'But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. 29 To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it. 31 Treat others as you would like people to treat you. 32 If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. 35 Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. 36 'Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
Mary's love, obedience, and acceptance that we should all follow in situations that GOD can handle that we cant
Luke 1:29-39
29 She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, 30 but the angel said to her, 'Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God's favour. 31 Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; 33 he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.' 34 Mary said to the angel, 'But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?' 35 The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. 36 And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, 37 for nothing is impossible to God.' 38 Mary said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said.' And the angel left her. 39 Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah.
OUR LIVES HERE MARK 8:29-38
27 Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this question to his disciples, 'Who do people say I am?' 28 And they told him, 'John the Baptist, others Elijah, others again, one of the prophets.' 29 'But you,' he asked them, 'who do you say I am?' Peter spoke up and said to him, 'You are the Christ.' 30 And he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone about him. 31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of man was destined to suffer grievously, and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be put to death, and after three days to rise again; 32 and he said all this quite openly. Then, taking him aside, Peter tried to rebuke him. 33 But, turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said to him, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are thinking not as God thinks, but as human beings do.' 34 He called the people and his disciples to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 What gain, then, is it for anyone to win the whole world and forfeit his life? 37 And indeed what can anyone offer in exchange for his life? 38 For if anyone in this sinful and adulterous generation is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.'
OUR REAL HOME Revelations 21:1-8 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. 3 Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. 4 He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.' 5 Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true." 6 Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; 7 anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
Warning people of evil can help them avoid it.
If they are given an address or something, then they can recognize it by that alone and stay away from it instead of investigating it and inadvertently being exposed to something they cannot unsee (for lack of a better term).
Warning people of danger is an act of love if you want them to avoid evil. If by providing the information to warn people, some people indulge instead of avoid, well, that can’t be helped. If they want to seek out evil, they’ll find it anyway. Ignoring it or pretending it doesn’t make it go away. Out of sight, out of mind is not a wise spiritual principle to hold to in regard to evil.
The way to overcome evil is with good through God.
Harley,
Love where you are at in your faith. Very strong, resistant, and to that point of what you feel you believe. Great. Its a great quality to have as we grow more in faith every day. As faith never stays stagnant ( I pray).
Your passages in Amos only agree with what I said. Remember I said that only GOD can kill. I didnt doubt that or go against that in the OT. And through God’s wisdom, grace, and mercy that is bestowed upon me; examples were given.
GOD can re-create, doesnt take away that HE kills. But, to understand what HE can do helps a person realize why HE does things. GOD can resurrect, heal, add to body parts, add to faith, take away things, put them back, and more....all things that we can not do. This is why we can not play GOD. Though so many of us want to.
Again I say to you to look into your heart and ask why you have this focus. Especially if you believe in JESUS and the cry of prophets to have mercy on us. Jesus life in the flesh is the final answer of what we should do on this earth.
The OT is the example of what will happen to any of us eventually if we dont listen to Jesus; he comes again ( judgement day). But this is God’s judgement and God’s hands that will be doing the seperation, killiing, and all; not ours.
What’s interesting is how do we know God is not just using someone or something to test our patience and faith. God does this, like with Moses and Pharaoh, Job, Jonah, and so on......not everything is as evil as it seems. Remember that God’s way is not our way. His lowest thinking is higher than our greatest intelligence.
God has given us so many chances in our lives to get our lives right before He comes again. Its very interesting to me how people dont want to give people that same chance.
Only God knows those that are truly His and truly not His. We dont know, and can only assume. And assumption is a deadly tool because it takes a human to guess about another human’s heart. This guess is based upon their comprehension of their life experiences. Then this “ guess “ is to say what’s going on in another person or persons’ life experience that they have NOT seen the person or persons go through. A life experience that only God has fully seen. Thats a lot of guessing we are doing. Very dangerous
We are all in different levels of faith, comprehension, intelligence, wisdom, and more.....but all of it is what God knows and has given us.
If Jesus allowed Judas to stay along with Him, and even told the disciples that its none of their business if He wants the betrayer to be with them. What does this say? Jesus could have easily killed him; easily. Jesus life is a guide for us to love, forgive, clean our lives before GOD as examples of praise and worship to Him. He will do all the rest ( as he always does).
Passages:
Let the good be good and the evil be evil:
Proverbs 23:17
17 Do not let your heart be envious of sinners but remain steady every day in the fear of Yahweh;
Jeremiah 15:19
19 To which Yahweh replied, ‘If you repent, I shall restore you to plead before me. If you distinguish between the precious and the base, you shall be as my own mouth. They will come back to you, but you must not go back to them.
John 16:1-4
1 I have told you all this so that you may not fall away.
2 They will expel you from the synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing a holy service to God.
3 They will do these things because they have never known either the Father or me.
4 But I have told you all this, so that when the time for it comes you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you;
Example that God handles all evil
Judges 9: if you want you can read the whole story, meaning the whole chapter. but the example is here.
45 All that day Abimelech attacked the town. He stormed it and slaughtered the people inside, razed the town and sowed it with salt.
46 On hearing this, all the leading men inside Migdal-Shechem took refuge in the crypt of the temple of El-Berith.
47 As soon as Abimelech heard that the leading men inside Migdal-Shechem had all gathered there,
48 he went up Mount Zalmon with all his men. Then taking an axe in his hands, he cut off the branch of a tree, picked it up and put it on his shoulder, and said to the men with him, ‘Hurry and do what you have seen me do.’
49 Each of his men similarly cut off a branch; then, following Abimelech, they piled the branches over the crypt and set it on fire over those who were inside; so that all the people in Migdal-Shechem died too, about a thousand men and women.
50 Abimelech then marched on Thebez, besieged it and captured it.
51 In the middle of the town there was a fortified tower in which all the men and women and all the leading men of the town took refuge. They locked the door behind them and climbed up to the roof of the tower.
52 Abimelech reached the tower and attacked it. As he was approaching the door of the tower to set it on fire,
53 a woman threw down a millstone on his head and cracked his skull.
54 He instantly called his young armour-bearer and said, ‘Draw your sword and kill me, so that it will not be said of me that “A woman killed him”.’ His armour-bearer ran him through, and he died.
55 When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they dispersed to their homes.
56 Thus God made to recoil on Abimelech the evil he had done his father by murdering his seventy brothers,
57 and all the evil that the men of Shechem had done God made recoil on their heads too. And so the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came true for them.
Examples of God testing or using someone ( and they dont know it)
Deuteronomy 2:30
30 ‘But Sihon king of Heshbon would not give us leave to pass through his territory; Yahweh our God had made his spirit obstinate and his heart stubborn, to put him at your mercy, as he still is.
Isaiah 29:9-14
9 Be stupefied and stunned, go blind, unseeing, drunk but not on wine, staggering but not through liquor.
10 For Yahweh has infused you with a spirit of lethargy, he has closed your eyes (the prophets), he has veiled your heads (the seers).
11 For to you every vision has become like the words of a sealed book. You give it to someone able to read and say, ‘Read that.’ He replies, ‘I cannot, because it is sealed.
12 You then give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, ‘Read that.’ He replies, ‘I cannot read.’
13 The Lord then said: Because this people approaches me only in words, honours me only with lip-service while their hearts are far from me, and reverence for me, as far as they are concerned, is nothing but human commandment, a lesson memorised,
14 very well, I shall have to go on astounding this people with prodigies and wonders: for the wisdom of its wise men is doomed, the understanding of any who understand will vanish.
15 Woe to those who burrow down to conceal their plans from Yahweh, who scheme in the dark and say, ‘Who can see us? Who knows who we are?’
16 How perverse you are! Is the potter no better than the clay? Something that was made, can it say of its maker, ‘He did not make me’? Or a pot say of the potter, ‘He does not know his job’?
17 Is it not true that in a very short time the Lebanon will become productive ground, so productive you might take it for a forest?
18 That day the deaf will hear the words of the book and, delivered from shadow and darkness, the eyes of the blind will see.
19 The lowly will find ever more joy in Yahweh and the poorest of people will delight in the Holy One of Israel;
Ezekial 11:17-21
17 So say, “The Lord Yahweh says this: I shall gather you back from the peoples, I shall collect you in from the countries where you have been scattered and give you the land of Israel.
18 When they come back, they will purge it of all its horrors and loathsome practices.
19 I shall give them a single heart and I shall put a new spirit in them; I shall remove the heart of stone from their bodies and give them a heart of flesh,
20 so that they can keep my laws and respect my judgements and put them into practice. Then they will be my people and I shall be their God.
21 But those whose hearts are set on their horrors and loathsome practices I shall repay for their conduct — declares the Lord Yahweh.” ‘
Numbers 11:16-17
16 Yahweh said to Moses, ‘Collect me seventy of the elders of Israel, men you know to be the people’s elders and scribes. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting, and let them stand beside you there.
17 I shall come down and talk to you there and shall take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them. Then they will bear the burden of the people with you, and you will no longer have to bear it on your own.
God knows all, fixed all, and let him handle all
Romans 2:15-16
15 They can demonstrate the effect of the Law engraved on their hearts, to which their own conscience bears witness; since they are aware of various considerations, some of which accuse them, while others provide them with a defence . . . on the day when,
16 according to the gospel that I preach, God, through Jesus Christ, judges all human secrets.
Revelation 22:7-12
7 I am coming soon!’ Blessed are those who keep the prophetic message of this book.
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I had heard and seen them all, I knelt at the feet of the angel who had shown them to me, to worship him;
9 but he said, ‘Do no such thing: I am your fellow-servant and the fellow-servant of your brothers the prophets and those who keep the message of this book. God alone you must worship.’
10 This, too, he said to me, ‘Do not keep the prophecies in this book a secret, because the Time is close.
11 Meanwhile let the sinner continue sinning, and the unclean continue to be unclean; let the upright continue in his uprightness, and those who are holy continue to be holy.
12 Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay everyone as their deeds deserve.
John 21:15-21
15 When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’
16 A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’
17 Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was hurt that he asked him a third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.
18 In all truth I tell you, when you were young you put on your own belt and walked where you liked; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and somebody else will put a belt round you and take you where you would rather not go.’
19 In these words he indicated the kind of death by which Peter would give glory to God. After this he said, ‘Follow me.’
20 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them — the one who had leant back close to his chest at the supper and had said to him, ‘Lord, who is it that will betray you?’
21 Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, ‘What about him, Lord?’
22 Jesus answered, ‘If I want him to stay behind till I come, what does it matter to you? You are to follow me.’
23 The rumour then went out among the brothers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus had not said to Peter, ‘He will not die,’ but, ‘If I want him to stay behind till I come.’
GOD’s intelligence, countenance, and us:
Luke 7:27-28
27 he is the one of whom scripture says: Look, I am going to send my messenger in front of you to prepare your way before you.
28 ‘I tell you, of all the children born to women, there is no one greater than John; yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.’
Isaiah 55:7-9
7 Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our God, for he is rich in forgiveness;
8 for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways, declares Yahweh.
9 For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.
1 Corinthians 1:25-29
25 God’s folly is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
26 Consider, brothers, how you were called; not many of you are wise by human standards, not many influential, not many from noble families.
27 No, God chose those who by human standards are fools to shame the wise; he chose those who by human standards are weak to shame the strong,
28 those who by human standards are common and contemptible — indeed those who count for nothing — to reduce to nothing all those that do count for something,
29 so that no human being might feel boastful before God.
Why?
What's coming across is that you want to find out where we're all coming from for no particular reason. That smacks of sitting in judgment on us all. It's not your business where we are in our spiritual journey at the moment. It's not your responsibility and we don't answer to you.
You are not God.
So when is it going to set up it’s headquarters in Jerusalem? God did say he would bring His people back to the land they were given after all.
imho,
Only Holy Spirit can discern when to warn and when not to.
Sources are required.
And, The Bible never flinched about calling evil—evil—and saying where it was, it’s roots etc.
I think there’s a time to protect children from too much information.
There’s also a time to prepare teens for the world they must contend with.
And, ignorant, clueless, wimpy, untrained, untoughened Chrisitans are easy marks for the enemy.
Wise words for man. Definitely. But even Jesus doesnt show us where the address of hell is. He just tells us what not to do or we will be there. Jesus didnt tell us the address of all the people Mary Magadalene was with, he just said, “ your sins are forgiven, go in peace!”. Jesus didnt tell us why Peter denied him, Paul ( Saul) was a murderer, and other specific weaknesses, places of evil, etc... that he could have shown in humans.
He didnt do this because it’s not important to know.
Though I totally understand where you are coming from. The society we are in today constantly feeds us info that we “ think “ we need to know. This is the life of the Pharisees ( remember they were scholars, educators, soothsayers, and more...); all people in authority. Which is all that people watch today. That’s why Jesus tells us, “ Beware of the UNLEAVENED bread of the Pharisees”. They make you think through forms of man’s education that you need to know about people’s where abouts, mind states, situation of the heart, and all things that only GOD knows.
The Pharisees are all about confusion, judgement, worshipping man before God, and all things that mirror and try to contradict Jesus, not follow Him. Growing in faith to see when it’s not about God ( even when His name is used)is about reading the scriptures daily, believing, praying and fasting.
Passages:
Jesus talking to the Pharisees ( imagine that this is still today as Pharisees have a lineage; people that follow them and are educated by them. and that is many people).
33 ‘No one lights a lamp and puts it in some hidden place or under a tub; they put it on the lamp-stand so that people may see the light when they come in.
34 The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is clear, your whole body, too, is filled with light; but when it is diseased your body, too, will be darkened.
35 See to it then that the light inside you is not darkness.
36 If, therefore, your whole body is filled with light, and not darkened at all, it will be light entirely, as when the lamp shines on you with its rays.’
37 He had just finished speaking when a Pharisee invited him to dine at his house. He went in and sat down at table.
38 The Pharisee saw this and was surprised that he had not first washed before the meal.
39 But the Lord said to him, ‘You Pharisees! You clean the outside of cup and plate, while inside yourselves you are filled with extortion and wickedness.
40 Fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside too?
41 Instead, give alms from what you have and, look, everything will be clean for you.
42 But alas for you Pharisees, because you pay your tithe of mint and rue and all sorts of garden herbs and neglect justice and the love of God! These you should have practised, without neglecting the others.
43 Alas for you Pharisees, because you like to take the seats of honour in the synagogues and to be greeted respectfully in the market squares!
44 Alas for you, because you are like the unmarked tombs that people walk on without knowing it!’
45 A lawyer then spoke up. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘when you speak like this you insult us too.’
46 But he said, ‘Alas for you lawyers as well, because you load on people burdens that are unendurable, burdens that you yourselves do not touch with your fingertips.
47 ‘Alas for you because you build tombs for the prophets, the people your ancestors killed!
48 In this way you both witness to what your ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing, you do the building.
49 ‘And that is why the Wisdom of God said, “I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will slaughter and persecute,
50 so that this generation will have to answer for every prophet’s blood that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the Temple.” Yes, I tell you, this generation will have to answer for it all.
52 ‘Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone in yourselves and have prevented others from going in who wanted to.’
53 When he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began a furious attack on him and tried to force answers from him on innumerable questions,
54 lying in wait to catch him out in something he might say.
Their unleavened bread is noted by worshipping man before GOD that’s all we need to know;
John 12:42-43
42 And yet there were many who did believe in him, even among the leading men, but they did not admit it, because of the Pharisees and for fear of being banned from the synagogue:
43 they put human glory before God’s glory.
INDEED.
From her perspective . . . might be akin to accusing some RC’s of doing exceedingly questionable things with some of their icons/idols.
Most likely . . . it was deliberate . . . hostility toward our precious Sister.
To not jump so fast my brother in Christ. As I mentioned many times I came to learn, give, and share.
Please read carefully.
We can all learn from each other. That’s why God put us here on this earth.
I judge nothing. I just love the Lord and everyone in His creation.
The Word of God coming through me may seem like judgement. Its not, it’s just His Word. This why God has me usually give passages to back things up.
My questions may seem like judgement. But you would have to know me to know if I was; and you dont know me. Only trust in God, and try to understand that I come from a place of just being a child of God and love to communicate with all believers and even non-believers ( chance to plant a seed).
take no offense. Even though, I admit, that God’s Word in the beginning can seem offensive. Only because it’s breaking the yoke of ego in us.
After we cry, look at our old dead bodies, and contemplate all we did. Later, We jump for joy in the new creation, new spirit, and new mind of Christ
All in love my brother in Christ.
Scripture doesn’t support socialism. It condemns it. Read the parable of the talents.
Nonsense. You judge, and it shows in your poorly drafted questions.
A “loaded question” contains a judgment.
When you ask, “Why do we want to take over other countries,” you’ve made a judgment (a wrong one) that we want to take over other countries.
So stop posing.
Ahem....
sister...
Note the *mom* part.
Look at my paragraph again. Like I said, “ I was looking on this site and looking at replies and posts”. As you did not see what posts I saw or replies, you would not understand where I am coming from in the questions.
There are many people ( not all people)here that believe in taking over countries, killing, and more....from the posts I read. So my new post was to attract them to see where they are coming from to learn from them, learn from God how to minister to them, and share.
Questions are a way of making people think and see what is in them. Questions on the net are a way of making people share things that they may not normally say, fear to say in someone’s face due to being shy, nervous, etc...Questions placed on the net also gives a person time to answer that they would not normally have in a normal conversation.
Anything a human says is LOADED. As Jesus says, “ what comes from the mouth is from the heart!”. but, only God knows what it’s LOADED with.
If you feel I am judging? I leave you to that. We have our own minds. Many think people judge and dont really know of they do or dont. Again is all about what a person understands and has assessed in their lives. it’s all about how people understand things they went through.
some people will see all things as evil. Some as all good. some as not sure. Some just are carefree. Or all can just seem to be. In the heart of the individual is where only GOD knows what is happening.
Your opinion on me is good to see. Lets me know what you see. Though only I know what God sees in me. I can say many times that I am not judging, but if you feel it because of what you understand, then only God can change that ( if you want Him to).
All believers, prophets, disciples, messengers, etc...who believe in God go through these opinions. In the Word there are countless examples of people that swore that by their questions, quotes, and position in life that they are egotisitcal, judging, and condemning. And so!! Many of them were killed for just spreading the truth and loving people. So is life and then we move on; or not.
As Jesus says, “ They denied me so they will deny you!”.
there is only love and joy towards all humans and God’s creation. All love and joy in faith in Him, His Word, His Son, and the holy spirit.
Look at my paragraph again. Like I said, “ I was looking on this site and looking at replies and posts”. As you did not see what posts I saw or replies, you would not understand where I am coming from in the questions.
There are many people ( not all people)here that believe in taking over countries, killing, and more....from the posts I read. So my new post was to attract them to see where they are coming from to learn from them, learn from God how to minister to them, and share.
Questions are a way of making people think and see what is in them. Questions on the net are a way of making people share things that they may not normally say, fear to say in someone’s face due to being shy, nervous, etc...Questions placed on the net also gives a person time to answer that they would not normally have in a normal conversation.
Anything a human says is LOADED. As Jesus says, “ what comes from the mouth is from the heart!”. but, only God knows what it’s LOADED with.
If you feel I am judging? I leave you to that. We have our own minds. Many think people judge and dont really know of they do or dont. Again is all about what a person understands and has assessed in their lives. it’s all about how people understand things they went through.
some people will see all things as evil. Some as all good. some as not sure. Some just are carefree. Or all can just seem to be. In the heart of the individual is where only GOD knows what is happening.
Your opinion on me is good to see. Lets me know what you see. Though only I know what God sees in me. I can say many times that I am not judging, but if you feel it because of what you understand, then only God can change that ( if you want Him to).
All believers, prophets, disciples, messengers, etc...who believe in God go through these opinions. In the Word there are countless examples of people that swore that by their questions, quotes, and position in life that they are egotisitcal, judging, and condemning. And so!! Many of them were killed for just spreading the truth and loving people. So is life and then we move on; or not.
As Jesus says, “ They denied me so they will deny you!”.
there is only love and joy towards all humans and God’s creation. All love and joy in faith in Him, His Word, His Son, and the holy spirit.
?? Not great with computers. not understanding what you meant by *sister* not the mom part.
Please expand.
Any screen name which ends in *mom* can be safely assumed to belong to a FEMALE FReeper, those who are biologically capable of being a MOM.
Hello. I’m not a guy.
great answer. but, who said I said the scriptures support socialism?? Read carefully with a spiritual eye. Be clear that I am not saying you are not reading with a spiritual eye or do not have one ( only God knows). I am just reminding you of the spiritual eye, because then after prayer and then reading, you will see what is really there. As I know my heart in writing what I wrote in the spirit.
Praying before reading or answering anything helps to calm our opinions and leaves us open to what God wants us to see, say, and receive.
If you are already praying before you read and send out passages, then excuse me; my sincere apologies if you might be offended by my extra mention of it.
If you are not, then definitely research the scriptures and see how Jesus requires us to pray on all things.
If you do not want to, then of course, its your choice. I mention these three examples because i dont know you or your heart.
I dont judge, just giving advice from the word on prayer. Talking about God is a very serious matter. Emotions, opinions,and worldly thoughts if not calmed and shut down by prayer before we do smoething can lead us to saying, doing, and assuming things we can regret.
Prayer:
Romans 8:26-27
26 And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words;
27 and he who can see into all hearts knows what the Spirit means because the prayers that the Spirit makes for God’s holy people are always in accordance with the mind of God.
You are also judging LL here as well, with the presumption that he is NOT seeing with a spiritual eye and that he did not pray before reading or answering.
THAT”s funny. Well, my apologies, and take nothing personal, as I am more into content than the person. I mean no where on this site is someone really using their real name ( some are, but very few). And with all these aliases no one knows who is male or female. Also, there are no pictures of anyone to confirm what they actually are. In life today, that screen name can mean anything. I hope you see that.
But, definitely God has made a mental note of this for me. In the future I know He will help me to refer to you as she, her, or female.
Again my apologies. I pray this helps you for what it stands for to you.
There are not too many men who are going to add *mom* to their screen name. It’s a pretty safe bet that anyone who does that it female.
Otherwise, I agree, you cannot tell.
THAT”s funny. Well, my apologies, and take nothing personal, as I am more into content than the person. I mean no where on this site is someone really using their real name ( some are, but very few). And with all these aliases no one knows who is male or female. Remember, you know who you are, so, * mom* can be safely assumed by you. Assumptions are deadly. For me, that screen name can mean many things. I will shoot that to your private email so you can understand that I mean.
Also, there are no pictures of anyone to confirm what they actually are. In life today, that screen name can mean anything. I hope you see that.
But, definitely God has made a mental note of this for me. In the future I know He will help me to refer to you as she, her, or female.
Again my apologies. I pray this helps you for what it stands for to you.
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