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Re: This Is Why We Get a Bad Rap!!
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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
I agree with you to a degree, but not totally. Let me focus on this quote you made:
I was this person, after moving miles away from home, and landing in Houston, Texas. We were raised with a good moral compass, but no way as strict as a conservative apostolic/pentecostal church, yet.....the country mouse had come to town!  |
So you had a good moral compass and chose to be bad anyway. 
*shrug* Been there myself.
The point I'm trying to get to is that since little things are given the same "sin value" (for lack of a better term), then when you do a little thing, you think that you might as well do it all--since you're already going to have to repent on Sunday AM. That's the mindset I'm talking about. There's no independent interpretation of what is right and wrong, based on a personal set of morals. Everything is interpreted through the lens of "will I get caught?" rather than "does this please God?"
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abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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