Posted on 11/11/2016 2:59:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
I suspect they spend too much times worrying about what others do and think...and they consider it a virtue.
“Perfidity”?
Norm Crosby lives!
“Coded.” “Dog-whistle.”
Useful words for when you want to accuse someone of racism, misogyny, and homophobia, but don’t have any evidence.
Change your rainbow Pampers, you little fascist twerp. No one is stopping you from your perverted crusade to destroy the USA.
“Homophobia” has been defined down to mean being opposed to bankrupting Christians for not wanting to bake a cake.
In other words I do not respect them.
O.M.G. And there is TWO of him?
TELL me about it. It hasn’t happened PERSONALLY to me, but I look at these folks that they’re going after and I empathize with the grief.
Still, I posit that spiritually perceptive and knowledgeable Christians can turn such situations into advantages for a gospel counter-assault against the devil. The most desirable thing would be to show these people that Christ can shoulder the load of their worst sins and renew them to a state of holiness, if they will be willing to pursue that in love.
As ironic as it might sound, if I were a baker approached this way (though, to be sure, with the protection of religious freedom laws if possible) I’d say to a pair like this, well I can’t bless your “marriage” but I can still bless “you” and in accordance with my faith I can make you a cake that says “God bless both of you.”
Now isn’t that wrong? Well not according to the bible, actually. Didn’t God say to bless our enemies? I wouldn’t worry about what people who insist on thinking the wrong thing, might think. I’d be concerned with what spirit God would place upon the words.
what was John’s meaning, if you don’t mind?
There’s something about this article that just rubs me the wrong way. It’s not just the condescension, which you can practically cut with a knife. It’s the way this little creep treats his parents in print. I’m sure he thinks he’s presenting a tale of contemporary angst, but to me he just seems to be inviting the reader to judge his parents for having the nerve to vote for someone other than the Hildabeast. It’s disrespectful. Why do his parents deserve to have their vote splashed all over the pages of a magazine? What will little Carl do if they start to receive hate mail or threats? In this climate anything is possible. But I guess that possibility never occurred to the little snowflake. His personal “journey” is more important, after all. What a twerp.
One less Christmas gift to buy!
We have some similar usages in English: we "wrestle with an idea until we pin it down," or "master a concept."
Many modern translations now translate the passage as "the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." or "has not extinguished it" or "will never put it out."
See, for example: http://biblehub.com/john/1-5.htm
OK. Thank you :)
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