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To: Bishop_Malachi
Not really....I’ll take a man who refrains from murder, theft, lying, rape, adultery, etc., etc., etc. because he FEARS God’s wrath rather than LOVES God’s Law.

I don't know whether you are being facetious or satirical or are that deficient in the knowledge of the Bible.
Psalm 19:7 "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." The defect is not in the law but in the way/reason man keeps the law.

32 posted on 03/18/2017 9:36:58 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I just got done celebrating Black History Month. Obama and Kaepernick are both history. Hurray!)
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To: BipolarBob

“I don’t know whether you are being facetious or satirical or are that deficient in the knowledge of the Bible.”

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Oh I think I know at least as much as you do...probably a lot more.

“For look, the Day is coming, glowing like a furnace. All the proud and all the evil-doers will be the stubble, and the Day,when it comes, will set them ablaze, says Yahweh Sabaoth, leaving them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the Sun of justice will rise with healing rays, and you will come out leaping like calves from the stall, and trample on the wicked, who will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act, says the Yahweh Sabaoth.”

Malachi 3:19-21

Love and fear both play a part in the conversion process. When a man loves God, then he’ll do what God commands when he [the man] feels like it. When man truly fears God, then he does what God commands when God feels like it. If you think that God’s too nice to judge people harshly, well, I don’t know what to say. But taking God’s commandments lightly means that God might take you lightly at Judgement...just something for all people (not you in particular) to consider.


41 posted on 03/18/2017 9:56:03 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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