You resort only to quoting Scripture and articulate no answer for yourself.
I quote scripture because it is as pure as truth gets. It's not my words, it's Gods Word. If you'd like to argue, take it up with Him. If you are offended, you are offended with Him. If you are angry, you can get angry at Him. If you want answers, you can ask Him. I simply try to provide God's word that addresses your most current beef.
Also, as a believer, I am responsible for the gifts given me. If I do not share what I've been given, I am held accountable for that.
I believe the Words are life. If I do a poor job presenting Gods Word, not my word, Gods Word, what kind of friend can I be to anybody? If I truly believe that there is a God, and that He provided the answers to so many of your questions, but I didn't give you those words, but instead argued, what have I done to help you?
You are free to choose, I was, and I chose to walk away from God for 33 years. In the time of my complete and total rebellion, he gave me many small promptings, little glitches in my heart, tinges of regret, thoughts of "Oh, I knew better", until I responded. He never gave up on me, even while I was His enemy He sought me. Believe me, I did a real good job being Gods enemy.
To answer your question add, I'm 49 now, so 16 years. Do I sense a passing judgement coming? No matter, I wish no harm.
To the rest, I'll continue to piss you off by posting scripture, because I believe it and only it will cut to the core of your questions and provide your answers. Anything I could offer is only argumentative. Remember one last thing if you find yourself agitated at me posting scripture.
1 Corinthians 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
You quote Scripture because you, yourself, are not comfortable answering a question.
If I want to seek guidance from His Word, I have several Bibles rather near by and can look for those passages myself. I did not ask for, nor do I need, you to think for me on what is an answer to a question I'm not asking of God. You don't piss me off by quoting Scripture. You avoid answering questions by quoting Scripture and then feign offense and victimhood when called on it.
I also didn't ask you when or why you found God. That's none of my business or my concern.
As I said earlier, I had previously thought much better of you than this. Because of your own insecurity in your beliefs, you've called me a liar (disingenuous, technically). You've insinuated that I'm at war with God, that I'm nearly in league with Satan, and that I'm doomed to miss out on the Kingdom of God. You won't admit these things, directly, but it's fairly clear. All this, because you're too uncomfortable with someone who actually asks questions about contradictory passages and states that belief is not fact. You can profess that you find His Word to the be Word of Life and infallible, but your actions tell a far different story. Tell me again which one of us is truly comfortable in his relationship with God? Res ipsa loquitur.
Originally Posted by Mannlicher
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
No matter, I wish no harm. 