Posted on 04/18/2007 11:20:25 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
You said — “Gee, now I wonder where he learned to hate and despise people like myself? Was he born that way? Or did learn who to hate over time and from whom?”
Oh, that one is very easy... I can tell you very clearly how people get that way. The Bible has expressed it in no uncertain terms. It’s simply the rejection of God as their Creator God. Paul in the book of Romans states it very clearly for us.
Romans 1:16-32
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;
32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
There’s your answer. This is the *cause* that you’re looking for.
Don’t look at the *results* which are evident in our society. Those are simply the “end results” of the rejection of the Creator God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the rejection of His Son, Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.
You’re looking at the symptoms. I’ve just given you the *cause* — up above...
Regards,
Star Traveler
I joined up on FreeRepublic not five minutes ago just to say thanks for the laugh on that one. Bumpage.
Check it out-—I’m a poet:
There once was a guy from Nantucket
Who was beat
en down by the white man
AND s-l-a-v-e
to the warming oceans
The beluga whale screams its opposition
To the BUSH regime (OUT the BUSHES!)
Orpheus weeps . . .
Ivory tears of baby elephants.
WE DIDN’T LISTEN.
Outside, it’s Amerika.
I taught on the university level for 25 years, and this was absolutely NOT true at the university where I was employed. Professors generally had no control over who was or was not allowed to register for their classes, and getting a threatening one removed was very difficult.
During the years I taught, I can remember about half a dozen crazy students who were very hard to deal with during their times in my classes; perhaps only three of them were really scarey. I actually asked my husband who was, and still is, employed by the same university to come and sit with me during the final of one class with a threatening student. Another time I asked a very kind, older faculty member. Both helped me by sitting with me during the finals and no incidents occurred.
Once a student came to my office door and threatened me over a disagreement I had had in class earlier that day with his girlfriend. I was all alone in the hallway since I was prepping for a night class. I explained the situation in as calm a manner as I could; then the student grabbed me and HUGGED me, and then left. Weird.
I had a similar incident with a former student who also caught me alone in my office at night. He was angry about another course he was taking at the time that he thought was unfairly difficult. He was incoherent, and his whole diatribe included a whole lot of grievances in one long, long, long sentence that I thought would never end. Eventually he ran out of gas verbally and left, as well.
I had a crazy student accuse me of harrassing her by actions such as tapping her phone and following her around campus. She was getting a D in my course after having received fairly high grades in community college. She recounted a long list of fictional incidents involving me and named students who were witnesses. None backed her up. She got a real hearing from the Dean of Students; however, before her case fell completely apart. She had told all this to her mother who showed up at the Dean of Students office weeping over her daughter's supposed ill treatment at my hands. That set off the whole investigation and hearing, initially. Eventually the Dean of Students told her and her mother that he "didn't believe a word" of her story. He walked them both back to their car to leave campus since the "hearing" took place on a Friday afternoon. The student was by then angry at her mother for showing up to the Dean's office. The next semester I got a message from the Dean letting me know that the student was not coming back to campus and expressing his relief that "she chose not to return".
Just a sample of the kinds of incidents with students that can happen to a university instructor over the course of 25 years.
Heh heh heh! You’re very welcome!
I was a professor, and it never came up. This whole scene is so bizarre, I don’t relate to it in any way.
bump...thanks for this thread
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