> Except here, it appears.
OK, fine -- quite happy to never mention again any details of what I see on the streets if doing so causes you offense.
> And in your own manish reasoning rather than in Truth.
Not quite sure what you mean with this, .30Carbine. Is it an insult? To be "manish"? OK fine, smite me with the accusation of being a MAN: I care not, because *that* is what I am. Made in my Maker's Own Image, a Son of Adam and a Follower of My Lord Jesus Christ, a Volunteer and not a Conscript. A Crusader on a mission to Skin the Devil.
> Far better for the noble man who dies with blessings to Jesus, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, on his lips than to be one who betrays the Son of Man for a very temporary gain.
Are you speaking here of St Peter or Judas Iscariot? (or me?)
In the case of St Peter and Judas, both committed the same crime of betrayal. St Peter's crime was aggrivated by having been warned aforetime by Jesus that he would do so. In the case of Judas, it was mere opportunistic treachery. And for that he is and will be dam'ned.
St Peter lived to fight another day (Praise be to God!) by telling lies. The difference between St Peter and Judas was intent.
Peter did not determine ahead of time that he would betray his Lord. Far from it, he could not imagine doing such a thing. And in the end he died rather than deny His Forgiving Lord and Redeemer. Judas, on the other hand, premeditated his betrayal, thinking to gain by it; rather than gaining even 30 pieces of silver, by the path of his own premeditated betrayal he took his own life, finding no forgiveness.
"What," says the Master, "does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but forfeit his own soul?"
I find these things very worthy of consideration.