The Lord knows what’s in my heart as well as what is in your heart. He knows the true nature of my comments and those you have posted. Is it with love or anger? Fear or with peace in your heart to help a Christian brother. Or using the words of the Lord as a club to try and exact some sort of pleasure out of condemning others trying to find their way to Christ.
. I’m not into putting down others bathed in the spirit and love of the Lord. I stumbled upon this thread and then went and looked at your and some of your buddies’ posts.
I find it amusing that you all spend so much energy denouncing and repudiating Catholics when it can be spent sowing seeds written in a manner that isn’t condescending and full of PRIDE in your supposed infallibility in who is going and your intimate knowledge of the only true path forsaken any suggestion that just maybe others are trying to find their way to the Lord from different directions. Like those of a drunk, adulterer, cheater, liar, thief, murderer, and other sinners who just maybe are using any lifeline to pull themselves from sin and try to get to the safe shores of a Christian life.
I see all the warts and hypocrisy in the Roman Catholic Church. The indulgences, the greed, the graft, the pederasts/homosexuals, the infiltration of the communists, all of it. But the Church itself and the Lord are the beacon. They are all that really matters. The Lord will look down at my miserable, bent and twisted wreck of a soul and know what was in my heart and in my life and will judge me. You have no idea how I’ll be judged. Just like I have no idea how you’ll be judged.
But I do know that I won’t make a hobby of putting down another man’s attempt to find the Lord and find the way home. Like I said before to someone that mailed me.
“they sound lonely and like sad little men yelling at the waves crashing into the beach to stop and pay attention to them.
When I realized what the thread was all about I said an “Our Father” and tried to quell the small amount of anger that I had. It passed quickly and now I only feel sorry for them. I’m not “better” than them, but I don’t get joy out of putting others down in a condescending manner bathed in the cloak of our Lord’s love.
Just shaking my head and smiling. Life is good. Bless you.” (end of message)
I’m looking outside, ready to spend time with my wife, daughters full of love and life. I only feel love. Sorry that I won’t bite at the troll bait but life is very short and Life is just wonderful. God Bless you and I hope you find comfort in what you and your friends do for recreation.
So let me ask you. How do you feel about Jesus words to the Pharisees about their legalistic approach to righteousness. Was He being too harsh because, after all, they were just trying to work their way to God?