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To: Quix; presently no screen name; smvoice; metmom

Would you also agree that God as each of us at different levels of growth and understanding and that excoriating of belittling others who see differently may be counter to what God has prepared that person for?


561 posted on 02/27/2012 7:38:09 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear
. . . may be . . .

Far from a given certainty.

563 posted on 02/27/2012 7:45:45 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: CynicalBear; Quix; presently no screen name; smvoice
Would you also agree that God as each of us at different levels of growth and understanding and that excoriating of belittling others who see differently may be counter to what God has prepared that person for?

Since Quix weaseled out of answering that one, how about this?

Would you also agree that God has each of us at different levels of growth and understanding and that excoriating of belittling others who see differently makes you a respecter of person's who is making value judgements about others based on outward appearances instead of the heart as God sees?

And that individual believers answer to God and God alone for their walk with HIM, as in Romans 14? Or that the person being excoriated may not be READY to hear what they are being shredded for or have the maturity to handle that kind of unChristlike criticism properly?

Somehow I don't see that asking people to exercise some discernment and apply Biblical principles and use caution in spiritual matters is demonic, unbiblical, or rock throwing.

I think the church would be far better off being a little more conservative and skeptical before blindly accepting everything that comes down the pike just because someone else claims it's from God. Only the gullible and naive would believe everything they hear without exercising enough discernment to check it out.

579 posted on 02/28/2012 7:23:50 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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