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03-06-2007, 10:13 AM
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Apparently I have missed something in this thread...I am pulling out. This seems to be a more 'personal level' subject that I am clueless about. I would never kick a hurting saint while they were down- I've walked that road myself- not fun.
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03-06-2007, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster
Do you people know how many times the devil has used "Christians" to hurt other Christians? How many times we play along with his diabolical schemes to destroy the church?
When someone maliciously attacks another person (especially a fellow-Christian) who is hurting, your very first response should be to fight against them. That is compassion in action.
We act like the devil when we kick a brother or sister who is bleeding, hurting, dazed and befuddled. It makes me soooooooooooooooo mad that the devil can play on the worst part of our humanity like that!
Wake up Church!
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PP, if you want to give the devil bunches of credit, be my guest. He's evil, but he's nowhere on God's level when it comes to power! He was just an angel, for goodness' sake--not the evil equivalent to God as he would like us to believe.
Look at the words you use--you are proving my point:
"act like the devil"
"we play along with his...schemes"
No one is denying Satan's existence, or his influence, but I DO deny that he has any measure of power that is in any way equivalent to God's power.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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03-06-2007, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster
Do you people know how many times the devil has used "Christians" to hurt other Christians? How many times we play along with his diabolical schemes to destroy the church?
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Notice that you said "we play along." This is not indicative of what seems to be your "the devil made me do it" theology.
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When someone maliciously attacks another person (especially a fellow-Christian) who is hurting, your very first response should be to fight against them. That is compassion in action.
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Should that really be the first response? Do you have scripture to support that one. On these forums it's clear that "malicious attack" is a relative term and, more often than not, what one considers a malicious attack on a person is really nothing more than strong opposition to what a person says or believes. Posting strongly against what someone says or believes has nothing whatsoever to do with the person whose words/beliefs are being opposed. People need to learn how to separate the person from what the person says or believes: the person is not his or her words/beliefs.
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We act like the devil when we kick a brother or sister who is bleeding, hurting, dazed and befuddled. It makes me soooooooooooooooo mad that the devil can play on the worst part of our humanity like that!
Wake up Church!
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No, we act according to our sinful nature that we inherited from Adam.
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03-06-2007, 11:38 AM
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J ... it's Rhoni.
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03-06-2007, 11:40 AM
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Of all the melodramatic, hyperbolic, post-menopausal sounding tripe I have read, this ranks near the top.
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03-06-2007, 11:41 AM
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Hey J ... should we take out the Koolaid man award ... ????
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03-06-2007, 11:43 AM
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His word burns in my heart like a fire...Fire Fall Down
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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
Hey J ... should we take out the Koolaid man award ... ????
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Go ahead...D, will you do the honor? 
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03-06-2007, 11:46 AM
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Go ahead...D, will you do the honor? |
Giving Tweedledee the nod, are we? 
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03-06-2007, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Coonskinner
Giving Tweedledee the nod, are we? |
J ... all very predictable behaviors ... way too eazy ....
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03-06-2007, 11:51 AM
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J ... all very predictable behaviors ... way too eazy ....
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Pontificate on, O wise one. 
We aren't fooled.
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