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To: Alamo-Girl; reaganaut; Elsie; xzins
P.S.:

And thank you so very much, dearest sister, for posting the two Great Commandments:

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Actually, as you have pointed out in your wonderful book, there is really only One Great Commandment, the First above ("Love God with all thy heart...."); the second, "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is a corollary of the First.

This is what God commands us to do. I think we should do it. This is what defines a Christian.

518 posted on 05/05/2012 8:10:50 AM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Elsie; xzins

What defines a Christian is WHAT you believe about Christ and placing your faith in Him to save you.

How can you be a Christian if you follow a false Christ?


522 posted on 05/05/2012 8:25:27 AM PDT by reaganaut (VAB! Voting against both Romney and Obama. Constitution party, here I come!)
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; xzins
Actually, as you have pointed out in your wonderful book, there is really only One Great Commandment, the First above ("Love God with all thy heart...."); the second, "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is a corollary of the First. This is what God commands us to do. I think we should do it. This is what defines a Christian

Betty, IF you love the Lord with all your heart then how can you justify voting for the lesser of two evils when there is clearly a choice for good in an election? It truly appears to me that you are not exercising the true love of God when you support a person who has proven himself to be an abortion supporting, homosexual supporting socialist who actually preaches doctrines of demons over an abortion supporting homosexual supporting socialist who is ambivalent about doctrine altogether.

Since the fist commandment is to love God with all our heart and soul and mind and the second is to love our neighbor as ourselves, then the choice in this election is clear. It is not to vote for the lesser of two evils but to vote for the candidate who, like us, loves God (the real one, not the one invented by Joseph Smith) with all his heart and soul and mind.

If we love our neighbor as ourselves, then we would try to convince our neighbor to vote his conscience rather than give into the temptation to expediency.

If we were to take your apparent interpretation to its logical conclusion (i.e., we should vote for Romney because we are commanded to love him) then we should have no qualms about voting for Obama. Indeed it would be a greater sign of obedience to vote for Obama rather than Romney since Obama represents the greater evil and therefore it we would be more generous with our love of our neighbor to support someone who is further from what we view as our principles.

Love your neighbor as yourself -- Love Obama as yourself. Vote for him for President.

Do you not see the fallacy of your argument?

530 posted on 05/05/2012 9:08:45 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Virgil Goode! Because everyone else is Bad!)
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To: betty boop
Praise God!!!

Thank you so very much for your encouragements, dearest sister in Christ!

544 posted on 05/05/2012 9:59:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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