It seems to me,Judy, that the enemy is winning now by getting us all to
bicker instead of reason together.
I know that this is not personal, but I also know that we are so far
apart that we can take no prisoners. It takes
time to change one's thinking.
Take prisoners? Must be a figure of
speech. I hear you Terry but I don't think their minds will change
anyway
At least not from what they feed upon.
Renewing the mind happens just one way which the ppl you are
speaking
of (I think) are not open to, not yet
anyway.
If I yell at Lance and tell him I am right and he is wrong, he will not
say "Gee, I'd better change"! More likely he will just decide that I am
a jerk and ignore me. It is also within the realm of possibility that I
am wrong and he is right and if we talk to each other as if we are talking to
the Lord, we are more inclined to try to reach an agreement, I would
think.
I'm not for yelling or striving - although it may not
appear that way at times. How does on contradict someone
else like talking to the Lord? The Lord is the
one who is always right. He is the Truth.
It is not pride to say what God says, Judy. The pride comes
from having a superior attitude. John considered you arrogant a short
time back and more or less called you a liar when you said you did not
understand what he was saying.
John was wrong; I was speaking the truth to him. In
fact I went over that whole post again and I still don't know
what he was trying to communicate; possibly because I
am not into theology and all of those big sounding terms
mean nothing to me. OTOH I am into the Word of God
and we could fellowship around that if everyone was as
interested as me. Opinions are neither here nor there, even though
people seem to have a lot of them.
That is an excellent example of a superior attitude, but John is not the
only one to write this way. I have been guilty of it. You will
have to decide for yourself I guess if you are too.
Thanks for the reminder - an attitude check is a good
thing. I hate the tit for tat but could not say I have not ever
been guilty of getting
caught up in it.
If we cannot all learn that, it would be better to just leave this
list and not communicate at all. Someone has to show not only love,
but humility and concern for our Lord and each other.
Then the adversary would have won by shutting
everyone up. You need to understand Terry that the war is not
personal. It is not about you or me; the
war is against God's Word.
If the conservatives do not do it, we cannot expect the liberals to
do it. Too much pride on both sides, and that includes you and
me Terry
I don't consider it pride to say what God says
Terry. Nor do I consider God or His Word to be political in any way.
Please pray about these judgments you are making. Blessings,
judyt
