Posted on 06/28/2018 4:39:26 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Well either I am wrong, or I am right, but wrong about who I try to address it to.
If Jesus came around personally and told you to even forget about your laws, but love the girls and boys, would you hoot? For they have to have the love before it’s shown to the children, even the unborn children.
Why the grandiose talk here? There isn't but a single digit percentage of even the avowed Christians on FR here.
Maybe more serious Christians are like, this is terrible, absolutely terrible, but I’m not going to dwell on this like spiritual chewing gum. So the ones who are, or the ones who object to it, are the only ones left.
I was trying to point out in what way it is terrible. It speaks to a larger folly in a widespread (but not universal) group. Why of course you say it’s wrong. But why is it wrong? What larger principles is it violating? Why would the Lord not want murder? Might it be because of His love, and not leaving us to a dog-eat-dog existence where we can judge one another out of the picture on a whim?
If you say you’ve never seen anyone agree with me EVER, then you’re blind. Just when I thought I was alone, I meet one who has resigned from bowing his or her knee to Baal.
But anyhow, I’m hoping that to more and more Christians in this land, a heart becomes something not just to academize about but to see through. So many right wing Christians are afraid to do that. It looks oh so “liberal” — that accursed thing — but they forget that what we’re seeing on our political scene isn’t godly liberality at all. In fact the term “liberal” has been stolen, like “gay” was stolen to describe the superficially gleeful, deeply sad life of homosexuals.
“I pray that the eyes of your heart be enlightened so that you may see how deep and wide and high is the love of Christ.”
And if I’ve stumbled, bumbled, and lurched on the way to coming to my conclusion here... well I’m so sorry for how it’s offended you.
Jesus also had problems with people who academized just great but didn’t see the heart showing through the law and prophets.
Can I please urge people to stop the blanket condemnations — which I am not issuing — and look. This is terrible, absolutely terrible, and for the sane to hate it is a good thing. Now, how do we play the game the Lord’s way? Is government our alpha and omega? Why should the demand for killing the next generation have grown so sharply? Was it from a mere failure to ban it any more, or was it because something else baleful called, causing people in turn to look for ways to get out of banning it, and ultimately succeeding? If it’s the latter, please fear the Lord, because that’s the power of Satan and his hate that has such a pervasive power that the love from God is the only thing that can rebuke it. Our politics can’t rebuke it. The loftiest vision of Donald Trump can’t rebuke it. He wasn’t even able to make law stick at the border before the hounding got too great.
But it seems all I am reaping here is a chorus of “wrong, wrong, wrong.” Like I committed some sin that precludes any sane consideration of anything else I might say.
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