[metmom]

If you are an adult (and I am 70) and you are no different now than when you were twenty or thirty, or you have never met anyone that was once something and now is different, I'd advise you to check your pulse ....... you might be dead.

By that statement, you negate the word of God and set yourself up as an arbiter of the truth, and essentially tell us the God lied in this Scripture.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

[knarf]

metmom, My statement actually DID say that, I just did not attribute the difference to Christ, which is not always the case.

MANY people have changed themselves and way of thinking just because they read something or met someone that is NOT spiritual.

MY statement is a personal observation of myself compared and contrasted to the others I have met in my years of living.

And in my experience, those few people I know or have met that are no different now than when they were younger are intellectually and conversationally (To ME, anyway) ... dead.

Don't compartmentalize too severely