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To: HiTech RedNeck

We are to pray for him.

But, I think a lot of the sentiment is that hoping he would be told by the ‘new health care’, youre too old, go home and take these pills.

But that wont happen, he is of the elite, so will receive what is best. The system has been broken, as planned.


43 posted on 02/13/2014 2:08:23 AM PST by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: RoadGumby

“Karma” (to use the term figuratively) isn’t always that direct.

We need to try to grasp the general ways in which God works (and the bible outlines them quite well in its stories) and not just let the “anger of man” drive us to the first thing we can think of in a spiritual stupor.

When we do try to grasp it, we see a more complex picture. We see God striving to actually BLESS a world that is in the midst of clamoring for the right to go to hell.

And sometimes that will bring God’s “longsuffering” attribute into play. Sometimes someone will be evil all his life and retribution won’t happen until the end. Or, someone may be destined to have a change of heart, but it’s going to be in the future, and so we see God being much more merciful to someone than he deserves and we wonder why. We don’t have the crystal ball, though.

If there’s one thing about many Freepers, it’s that longsuffering is not their strong suit. They long for that instant karma, they see anything less as unworthy of Ultimate Justice. They don’t yet (or don’t yet fully) realize, in many cases, that if that instant karma had come to them, they’d be goners. They don’t know what a friend that mercy is.


46 posted on 02/13/2014 9:24:51 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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