I am keeping this post, as I am spending Christmas with my minister,(today is his birthday) and I believe there is a sermon in here somewhere By the way, he is a REAL conservative, and therefore a purist. I am fairly certain that God has forgiven him, but after he reads this, I will endeavor to confirm this : )
There might be one indeed ;)
It just befuddles me the lengths to which people go to lie to themselves and justify what they ‘want’ to be true. It’s easy to make your ‘faith’ be whatever you ‘feel’ is right when principles are meaningless. You can justify anything.
I remember reading how Jesus was less than a pacifist when he flipped tables in a temple. But some people just ignore that part because they simply are too afraid of a fight they may lose.
I think a lot of these types never had a fight in school or since so they simply don’t know how. Or they remain too scared of their shadows to engage the issues at hand. Far easier to sit back, pin it all on what they can twist the Bible into saying as an excuse. Just stand tall and march straight into the lions den. Don’t fight it. Don’t do anything to stop it or escape it. Just walk right in there with a garnish for a hat and covered in steak sauce.
Smiling.
Not sure how they got it all so twisted up but they have.