Posted on 04/07/2017 8:08:59 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
...The day I met the devil in a dime store...
I didn’t know Schumer, Hillary, and the gang hung out there.
A seven year old wants to give me wisdom? Really?
“...whenever God is pushed aside, only emptiness awaits.”
Too true. Took me a good many years to figure that out.
I have no idea what your relationship with God is, but this is a well written account of what it means to sin, and it shines with more wisdom than many people possess. This 7 year old boy, knew he’d committed a sin, knew he had to make it right with God and the storekeeper, and he knew that sin leads to separation from God and emptiness. Wisdom from a 7 year old? Yes indeed.
Brilliantly written.
FWIW.
Can God exist without Satan?
I think the answer is yes.
Which begs the question.
Can Satan exist without God?
I believe that answer is NO.
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This is something that I had been wrestling with for a number of years. That, and Free-will.
Resolving the Free-Will question, since there are innumerable ways I can and likely have messed up God’s plan for me, I’m left to sort out my own desires. Left to myself to either spin along with no foundations for belief in anything at all or acknowledge the existence of Satan.
“The Devil’s greatest accomplishment was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
I can’t square the math here.
The fact that “Objective morality” is a solid truth claim. The or our ability to even know this and use logic as we understand it to make sense of the world allowed me to come to Christ as my Lord and Savior in a process of elimination.
FWIW.
The confession that counted most was to the brother against whom she had sinned, and that confession was not made. Check your Bibles.
How true how true. We see that emptiness engulfing the globe like an out of control disease.
I can’t remember the last time I heard the term ‘dime store.’
She was 7 in 1965, and wanted to share a strong lesson she learned that day. One that stuck with her, and she thinks important enough to tell others.
I did the same thing. Once. I took a 10 cent plastic “Tommy gun” (not full size) from the local Ben Franklin 5&10. After three days I was so ashamed and scared that the police would come for me that I confessed to my mother and begged her to take me back to the store to return it before they could arrest me. It was my one and only venture into crime....
So Killary has quit hanging around in the woods and is hanging out in the Five and Dime store now?
Looks like she could teach you humility, and through that, wisdom.
thank you for posting..
Well written and it probes a deep truth with simple language - the best way to express important conclusions. Did anyone notice the author’s last name? I wonder if she is a distant relative.
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