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Thank you for the helpful reply. What do you make of Jesus drinking and consorting with the rowdies in the taverns. His disciples asked him why and he replied that is where the sinners are. In other words, one who desires to spread the word should go where the word is not known or embraced. Your thoughts concerning this in relation to your statement that Satan had control of certain avenues of communication? That was the purpose of my saying judge not ....

Jesus did lots of things that I'll never do... healing cripples, giving sight to the blind, dying on the cross. The Bible tells us not to be unevenly yoked. It also tells us to be ready in any season to answer the question of why we have the hope that we do (how to respond knowledgably to a true seeker), but not to cast pearls before swine (not to lay His Word out to be spit upon and ridiculed by heathen).

Again, knowing when and where to apply which of those verses requires us to do quite a bit of judging... but such is the life of a follower of Jesus.

I am not perfect in my faith. I fall more times than I stand and walk straight. Which is why I need to be covered by The Blood. That said, those who are to be saved, and stand in glory before God on that great and terrible day, their names have been written in The Book Of Life since before time began. Neither you nor I can save anyone whose name already appears there, nor can we save any whose name does not.

I am ready, in any season, to answer why I have the hope that I do. And there are likely no Freepers, lurkers or Trolls here on FreeRepublic who have not already heard the life story of Jesus Christ.

Keep the faith. I will too.

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