@Gary K: <NO ANSWER>
My recommendation is that you should seek mental help, as soon as possible.
No, you should definitely only call everyone honest, all the time, every time they say something, and simply because they say something.
No, never deny anything anyone says, because it is mean and nasty to do so.
OK. Can you get any more insulting?
Not than you, no.
When someone says something that is 100% false, YES, you can call them a liar.
I disagree to a certain extent. I am not God therefore all I can see is how things appear on the outside. Jesus called the devil a liar and the father of lies but even he did not dispute with the devil He simply quoted scripture to him.
Mat 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Mat 4:2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Mat 4:3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” Mat 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Mat 4:5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple Mat 4:6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” Mat 4:7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Mat 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. Mat 4:9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Mat 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” |
Ruth 4:18-22 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. |
Of course you do.
That is completely irrelevant to what I said.
Is it not more important to stay on their good side so you can reach them rather than alienate them? If you don't care whether or not they are influenced in a positive way by your message then it doesn't matter.
You don't understand that if you consistently abuse people verbally they will tune you out and you will lose any ability to influence them? My life is a prime example of that. My entire family so abused me that they lost any ability to influence me and a great deal of that was verbal abuse.
You try to pander to unbeliever and yet wonder why you get criticized by believers.
You're a very confused guy.
I don't wonder why I get criticized by people that think like you in the slightest. We think about life from different world views. We're as far apart in our thinking processes as an evolutionist and a creationist.
You're the evolutionist in this story. Stop with your self-righteous nonsense.
Whatever you say. You ready to quit?
I think that is an unsupportable belief from the Bible. It is full of warnings about sin and the loss of salvation. There is zero evidence in the Bible that we lose our status as free moral agents when we become Christians. Thus we can choose to walk away from God at any time.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. |
Gal 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? |
Christians, those who have repented of sin and been washed clean by the blood of Christ, use their moral free agency to the glory of God.
Thank God for the exhortations and admonissions that can keep us on the narrow path.
If they are still serving sin, Jesus said they hate Him...."No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." (Matt 6:24)
I believe Jesus' words over man's accommodations for sin.
Can sin illustrate our love for God and neighbor ?
No it doesn't demonstrate that. You're now taking the Calvinist position. They believe God makes all spiritual decisions for everyone and if someone chooses to go back to the world it means God never chose them to begin with.