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To: Alas
So, in answer to your question, we are simply doing what our Lord tells us to do, much as you do what your lord instructs you to do.

I find it peculiar that many who identify themselves as Christian, excuse much of their obnoxious and boorish behavior by stating that they're "doing what their Lord tells them to do", but they seem to conveniently forget that their Lord commands humility, forgiveness, compassion, peace, and love for their fellow man.

109 posted on 01/09/2002 9:02:39 AM PST by OWK
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To: OWK
they seem to conveniently forget that their Lord commands humility, forgiveness, compassion, peace, and love for their fellow man.

I will grant that Christians can be quite as obnixious and boorish as libertarians. People can be that way.

However, evangelism is not "forgetting" these things, OWK, it's implementing them.

116 posted on 01/09/2002 9:06:13 AM PST by r9etb
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To: OWK
and love for their fellow man.

No, not their fellow man, but their Christian brothers and sisters. Unless of course you are talking about the only two instances in the entire Bible where God says:

Mt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Lu 6:27 ¶ But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

And on those two instances, you must go back and read the context of what the Lord was saying and how He was using those sentences.

For in that context, I do love you and I do pray for you, but I also recognize that you are not my brother and that you would turn on me in a minute, but, as Paul tells us, it is bettter to be with the Lord.

149 posted on 01/09/2002 9:28:07 AM PST by Alas
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To: OWK
I find it peculiar that many who identify themselves as Christian, excuse much of their obnoxious and boorish behavior by stating that they're "doing what their Lord tells them to do", but they seem to conveniently forget that their Lord commands humility, forgiveness, compassion, peace, and love for their fellow man.

OWK - I've read many similar posts from you on other threads. What always amazes me are the responses. They either ignore you, change the subject, or challenge your knowledge of the Bible. I guess it's true, the truth hurts!

339 posted on 01/09/2002 1:03:12 PM PST by consultant
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