It blesses God when we express sincere fury over seeing Him treated with dishonor. But when we sit around asking Him to forgive souls who are spitting in His face, we are only siding with those souls against Him, and this is never acceptable.
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"It blesses God when we express sincere fury over seeing Him treated with dishonor. But when we sit around asking Him to forgive souls who are spitting in His face, we are only siding with those souls against Him, and this is never acceptable."
Oh how I wish she would come in and reply to commenters here, like caamib does!
MATTHEW 5:43-48 (KJV)
43. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
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;
45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47. And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
....uh, you were saying?
'You proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan: I have no ego to bruise. '
-Spock (Leonard Nimoy), "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
So thank you Annie, for admitting that a Starfleet officer transcends your worse-than human 'God'.
The Klingons destroyed their gods. They considered them to be more trouble than they were worth.
I guess that proves it. Jesus and Bible God are two separate people.
"Forgive them, for they know not what they do" and all that.
“It blesses God when we express sincere fury over seeing Him treated with dishonor.”
God? The guy who suggested one might turn the other cheek when harmed, huh?
But while HE turns HIS cheek, he wants you in a raging fury…?
“But when we sit around asking Him to forgive souls who are spitting in His face,”
Showing our compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, adulthood?
“we are only siding with those souls against Him”
Um…
Were I one of the faithful, if i see someone who does something I think is righteous, I won’t ask God to forgive them. It’s surplus to needs.
if I’m asking God to forgive them, that’s because I do NOT take that person’s side.
I am clearly judging their action to be something worthy of ire, and expect god to be vengeful. Or at least on Judgment Day, someone’s going to ask this person ‘What about the time you painted the toenails of the statue of Jesus?
“and this is never acceptable.”
I think you’re completely off base on this.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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