Says the windbag that was decrying exercising our God given rights in order to school our public servants as rude.
God gave the rights in order to honor Him... not rocket science? You exercise them always in conjunction with Him.
I mean, Pal, if you can see it clear, with your hand in the Lord’s hand, to go and do what the subject of the head article did... well then do not let me stop you. That’s going to be for the Lord to straighten out with you later for your future edification.
I wouldn’t, at least. But God gives different temperaments to different people. I’d do something more like alert them a couple of times, do it those couple of times, then go do it again a third time, unalerted. The alarm ought to be much less. If it isn’t, then yes there is a problem Houston but even then I would want to solve it with grace. I would holler at them not to tell them how awful they are but to tell them how good they ought to be.
Hey man, like I said, it’s too polite... to the devil that is. Because it’s giving tacit approval to your apparent plan of life here, focused on putting PEOPLE down.
I do believe in come-to-Jesus face offs! But I do it the way Jesus would, or the closest I can come. I tell people to make their act better. If I must criticize I follow it with encouragement to do the right thing, the only exception being currently hopeless cases who even then might think better in the future. And I try to be generous about whether someone is hopeless or not if doubt exists... love believes all things.
I’d like to challenge you, and other folks here, to look at your world view of rights and the way God likes to see them exercised, and see if they include some kind of implicit assumed enmity between men. That’s unbiblical, if it does. God gave us a better hope!! We are all one human race, and the first attempt on the agenda should be to unite IN love, AGAINST Satan. It’s not God who put enmity between men. God put enmity between the human race and the serpent! The serpent introduced the enmity between men, to get men distracted from kicking his scaly rear end to the hell where it belonged. Until Jesus came, on mission. And yes you were right that He has taken care of it... but you missed the fact that He invites us to be participants in His action! We are not spectators in this game.
And so if I am a wind bag so be it. I try to be a Holy Spirit wind bag, if I am a wind bag.
And I got my 4th wind here... :-)
Hey, Jesus never said do NOT carry a defensive weapon. He told His disciples to take a sword because He was going to leave while they were going to face great dangers and the miracles on tap that had protected them would not be quite as easy to access. But the idea is that, in the last resort, you may deny a Satan bent on killing other people the resource of the human through which he operates, if that human will not himself deal effectively with Satan. For such purposes, i.e. defending your neighbor’s life, killing or gravely wounding is permissible.