Posted on 05/12/2009 12:07:37 PM PDT by jveritas
You do realise that Jesus said "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15) and that Scripture further says "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." (I John 5:2-3)?
If a professing Christian isn't seeking to live by biblical standards, then that person is not being loving. The reason I am "nettling" you is because I see the "standards = legalism" line far too often to let it slip by unchallenged anymore.
I was going to say your post is extremely suspicious ... AS A JOKE!
But I see you have already been zotted. (snort)
I like thrashing a lib on occasion. ;^)
Nam Vet
I have never used the abuse button and don’t intend to now. I have an ignore button in my brain, works quite well. :)
Then again, so-called trolls can be very entertaining at times. I vote we leave things as they are, I’ve no complaints.
You need to get your view of Christ corrected, troll. Christ was not a feely good wuss who was more worried about not hurting everyone’s feelings than for standing up for the truth. He took a strong stand for truth and *gasp* morals to the point of equating thought life with actions.
Read the Sermon on the Mount for starters and then this....
Matt 23: 13-36 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
I totally agree with what you’ve said metmom. Thank you for addressing that part in your post, as I was meaning to, but got on a tangent! LOL
If anyone thinks by just being a Republican means they are Conservatives just look at those in the GOP who supported the bailouts (Buyouts) of GM and Chrysler, or those who supported the Bill of Attainder for the AIG folks, or Olympia Snowe’s proposed law to give control of the internet completely over to Obama, etc... etc... etc...
Swear to Our Lord, though I shouldn’t. On the other hand, this thread is turning into quite a productive bug-swatter.
Looks like I did read far enough back and wasn’t so far off in my assessment after all.
Did you see above? They can’t just respond on their own, they have to ping an entire crew.
How predictable! Night!
Free speech. Let ‘em make fools of themselves; we need the entertainment sometimes.
The difference is that this is a place considered “Personal Property”. We are all here as GUESTS of Jim Robinson — not jveritas, and he knows that...
As for “free Speech” and the Constitutuion. This site is not part of the government, and it is in no way sponsored by the government.
The “mission” of this site is to promote CONSERVATIVE ideals. It doesn’t have any requirement to provide an “equal Platform” — unlike the demands of the liberals in their “Fairness Doctrine” for example. A major difference between liberals and Conservatives can be readily seen when it comes to the subject of private property...
JVeritas made no statements as to what he would demand as criteria — it is the Mods job to do that. He is merely stating that he has noticed more and more people who wouldn’t have been allowed to stay very long before, and wondered why that is...
Good evening my FRiend! We shall have to agree to disagree.
Jveritas, the neatest thing about Jim Robinson is that as a true Conservative sucking up doesn’t help. He is also the fairest person who ever tried to herd cannibalistic cats.
Running this site and having to occasionally ban “friends” is tough. I know as I have been banned and have banned him a few times........
Run a tiny site of friends for a few weeks and you will get a small idea what it is like to run this place. Those on that site know the individual to whom I am referring.
Note, I pinged Jim is case this suck up softens the fact that humblegunner is my friend and TheMom in case I go missing!
;<)
Love doesn't mean wimpy, squishy, never offend anyone behavior.
Jesus was love personified and He took a tough stand on a lot of issues, moral issues, at that.
It is NOT love to let people go on a self-destructive path to hell, giving them everything they want and not telling them what they don't want to hear, just to not hurt their feelings.
You need to read the Gospels more and find out what real love is all about.
Just like those who accuse Christians of not being Christlike in an effort to manipulate their behavior, accusing someone of not being loving when they tell the truth and stand up for the truth, is another manipulation technique and we're not buying it.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
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