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To: RnMomof7
Jesus said they would know us by how much we LOVE ONE ANOTHER" not heathens or heretics ... We are to have no fellowship with darkness..

Critical point here. Having "no fellowship" does not obviate the command to love my neighbor, even my heretical and heathen neighbor. It is no great thing to love folks who are just like me. It's easy.

Loving that nasty _________ (inset most despised person / group) - there is the hard stuff. The impossible that is demanded.

240 posted on 07/06/2010 11:52:12 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)
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To: don-o; RnMomof7

According to Calvinist theology, many heathens and heretics are future denizens of the Kingdom of God, having been chosen from the beginning of time (but just not having been called yet). So the heathen or heretic you shun today may in fact be one of the elect. Nice going.


247 posted on 07/06/2010 11:56:02 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ~Ayn Rand)
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To: don-o
***Loving that nasty _________ (inset most despised person / group) - there is the hard stuff. The impossible that is demanded.***

There is ONLY one cure for that and that is to pray for that person/group evertime their name enters your mind...sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes days, and sometimes satan knows you mean it and leaves after a couple of tries..

613 posted on 07/06/2010 7:34:43 PM PDT by goat granny
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