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SEARCH FOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART AN U WILL FIND HIM
My impression from your other posts is that you were looking for women to "party" with.
Typical christer.
But there is a GOD...His name is "JunkYard"
Bow before my magnificence, or I will smite thee with, plagues, locusts, famine, and all of hells fury!
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The worst are these "confirmed Catholics"! Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. :smokin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
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Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Is it right to assume; that just because an individual acknowledges that there is a God, that he walk in sinless perfection?..... very shortsighted.
Then ~ to criticize the individual due to his short comings, is to place yourself,
in the same status as the religious critics, judging others for their faults.
Both sides are desperately wrong.
Have I done this myself?... unfortunately.
Brad
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Originally Posted by xsw2
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Originally Posted by braddog100
Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.]
1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Franklin.
3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good."
~Psalms 14:1~
This is the type of thinking that is causing a significant percentage of the world's population to be mentally ill.
The allies when they took possesion of Berlin, found Nietzsches' material everywhere, I doubt if the world conciders the mindset of Germany at that time ~ well.
The fact that all have sinned is true. the point established to bring about the fact that we genuinely need his provision, from Christ.... thats all.
The fact also has been very well developed in M. scott Pecks book "People of the Lie" that when our need to be Ok is more important than the fact that we aren't, then we are truely mentally ill. His book, by the way is subtitled,
"a phsycological look at evil".
Just a note,.... just a note.
Nietzsche ~ on his deathbed, uttered " Thou has conquered thou pale inpotent Christ"
He was a noted athiest, known for his own instability. Who is really sick here?
Unfortunately, many people misdirect their anger of religious hypocrites, toward God himself... truely unfortunate.
M. Scott Peck also addresses the hypocracy of some religious people in the book as well. A good read. you can also get it in audio book form.
best selling auther. NYtimes... etc. a shrink as well.
also, addresses the evil of the military, during his assighnment - as a shrink during vietman. I find him uniquely balanced.
Do some people misdirect their anger toward God?... ask your self this question.
Brad
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Originally Posted by braddog100
Atheists do not "misdirect their anger toward God" - simply because they do not believe that a god, or gods ,existsQuote:
Originally Posted by braddog100
Freiderich Nietzsche was very ill for most of his adult life, some people believe that he had Syphills - which led to a breakdown when he got older. His writings have nothing to do with hatred, the Nazis, or anything else that he is blamed for - usually by people that have either never read him, or have an agenda linked to religion.
M. Scott Peck, on the other hand, was not even 1/1000 as intelligent of Nietzsche. Not that I care, but he was also an admitted total hypocrite, alcoholic, and philanderer.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituari...585171,00.html
Obituary
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M Scott Peck
Pop psychiatrist who ignored his bestselling advice on adultery
Christopher Reed
Wednesday October 5, 2005
The Guardian
Psychiatrist M Scott Peck, who has died aged 69, made millions with his first book by advocating self-discipline, restraint, and responsibility - all qualities he openly acknowledged were notably lacking in himself. The Road Less Travelled was first published in 1978. It eventually spent 13 years on the New York Times bestseller list to create a paperback record, sold 10 million copies worldwide and was translated into more than 20 languages.
The opening words were: "Life is difficult." This was a pronouncement to which Peck could personally attest. He spent much of his life immersed in cheap gin, chain-smoking cigarettes and inhaling cannabis, and being persistently unfaithful to his wife, who eventually divorced him. He also went through estrangement with two of his three children.
Peck wrote openly of his adulterous affairs in another of his total of 15 books: In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason and Discovery (1995), based on a visit to Britain to see ancient stone monuments. Never lacking in personal honesty, at least in print, he once said he had "the rare privilege of being able to give advice without having any responsibility".
Peck, whose personalised car number plate was THLOST, also spent much of his life seeking religious fulfilment (he was baptised a Christian at 43 after embracing Zen and then Sufism), and used this to explain his infidelities. "There was an element of quest in my extramarital romances," he wrote. "I was questing, through sexual romance, at least a brief visit to God's castle." Such visits, however brief, ceased when he became impotent, he disclosed.
The Road Less Travelled was written while Peck was running a successful private practice in Connecticut, but he received only $7,500 for publication after one publisher had dismissed it as "too Christ-y". Although a slow starter, its eventual massive success established Peck on the lecture circuit as well as confirming a valuable new genre for American publishers.
Peck was born in New York, the son of a lawyer who later became a judge. His education at the Phillips Exeter academy was unhappy and he later attacked its "Spartan, almost vicious adolescent culture". After psychological counselling, he moved to the Friends seminary, a Quaker school near Greenwich Village. There he read about Zen and became a Buddhist, but retained an ambition to write "the great American novel". After briefly attending Middlebury College, from where he was expelled for refusing the required officers' training classes, he entered Harvard thanks to his father's influence. He graduated in social relations and, despite his literary desires, began studying medicine at Columbia University before graduating from Case-Western Reserve University school of medicine in Ohio in 1963.
While at Columbia Peck met and married Lily Ho, a Chinese student from Singapore. This caused his father, who was half Jewish but always concealed it, to disown him (her parents disapproved, too). But he later relented and paid his son's tuition fees.
Then Peck joined the army because, he later said, he needed the regular pay to support his wife and a family; yet he also opposed the Vietnam war, then escalating. He rose to become assistant chief of psychiatry at the US surgeon general's office in Washington DC from 1970 to 1972, when he left the service with the rank of lieutentant colonel.
Years of private practice began and he incorporated case histories into the Road book and others. After its success he followed with another bestseller, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (1983). It was well received by critics, but with reservations about "moral preachment". His books included two novels and one for children. Other non-fiction included The Different Drum (1987) and sequels to his first book, Further Along the Road Less Travelled (1993) and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond (1997). His last work was Glimpses of the Devil (2005), recounting his fascination with exorcism.
The success of his books was partly based on their mystical-spiritual content and although Peck always eschewed the idea of being a guru, there were cultish aspects to his popularity. Of this he said: "Half the time when people want to touch my robe, it feels incredibly icky - yuck! The rest of the time, it feels very good, honest, right."
He and Lily divorced in 2003 and he remarried last year. He is survived by his second wife, and his two daughters and one son by Lily.
ยท Morgan Scott Peck, author and psychiatrist, born May 22 1936; died September 25 2005
We all have truths, that we have learned primarilly thru failure.
Do any of us walk in consistancy with what we know to be right for us.
To think otherwise is to be very naive.
By "we all", do you include the authors of religous manuscripts, such as the bible, that are claimed by some to be direct communication from a supreme being via "special" people"?Quote:
Originally Posted by braddog100
P.S. Theists, especially in the 19th century, were notorious for printing fake deathbed conversions from freethinkers, atheits, and agnostics.
What an outstanding question, Yes ~ All of the weeknesses of those God used, where clearly displayed; The adulterous affair of the 1st king of Israel.
You quoted one of his psalms earlier.( none are righteous... etc.)
David was reported by God to be "a man after Gods own heart".
The bipolar actions of Elijah. the compulsions of Peter.
The rediculous things that James and John asked of the Lord.
These last three used by God to write 1 gospel and 3 epistles, of the new testament.
The fact that God put the prositute from Jerico as Davids great grand mother.
yet God chose to make these flawed individuals ~ Jesus's ancestors.
God hides nothing, yet loves and accepts remarkably different and better than I do. I am trying to learn to do the same... very honestly.
I believe that we are all flawed, You have heard - I'm Ok - your Ok - right.
I think it would be better said ~ I'm not Ok - Your not Ok... but thats Ok.
Unfortunately, some religious people are not there. I from my own experience
found myself condeming my self thru my own religious predisposition.
"I'll beat this God" I would actually say to myself...
To look at this honestly ~ I would be cleaning myself up and presenting myself clean to God.
This Is self rightousness by definition. Self rightousness will never stand before God It's like later. I could just hear him say... No you won't!!
He loved me too much to allow me to remain in that state. of religious pride. It's like.... HAY GOD! Um aah I don't need you... I can handle my own righteousness - Thankyou.
This state of religious delusional self rightiousness is the very thing that shrinks would say ~ keep their offices filled.
Hey, buddy I'm sorry I attacked Nietsche, whom you respect.
Please tell me why you are an Atheist, not for any other reason - than genuinely interested.
Thanks Brad
Brad,
Atheism is a way of life - a method of thinking that relies on reason and logic rather than superstition.
Everybody, including yourself, was born an Atheist. Religion must be learned. This does not mean that the Atheist knows all the answers. In fact, the opposite is quite true. Most Atheists have had the accusation, "You think you know everything!" thrown at them by religionists, while it's religion itself that claims to have a monopoly on the truth.
I don't mind anybody "attacking" Nietzsche for some of his ideas, as long as they know what he wrote. One of his assertions was that there is no one "truth", and he certainly would have encouraged his students to question everything he wrote as well. I am sure that he would have hoped that people applied the same logic to his words as they would have to any other.
Of course, when it comes to their business, religions expects the flock to to reject this and accept their dogma on faith. It (religion) is a gigantic fraud that is the greatest folly man ever invented.
That's one explanation of my lack of belief in religion.
Have a good week! :thumbsup:
SamHarrisAtheistManifesto
Much of what you have pointed out is true unfortunately, what I observe to be missing is the fact that you are not concidering those that have a vibrrant relationship with God.
He reviels himself in an ongoing way to those that keep their eyes open to Him.
The problem is that society has observed those that are religious, which by the way is not a complement concerning those of faith.
Reigion manifest in typically 1 of two ways, many display both:
1) the dishonest observe what (they may perceive that) they do well.
And judge others by their own stregnths.
Also, not even concidering their own weeknesses.
These find themselves alone and miserable... sad.
2) Then there are those with a more honest self assesment that see where
the are weak and stumbling, ~ self critical - judging themselves
against others stregnths. caught in a spiral of shame.
Both are caught up in a paradigm of self rightousness.(religion)
This sickness (religion).... God hates with a perfect hatered.
He grieves over those suffering under this.
and also over those repulsed by this festering spiritual view of His Kingdom.
Why does God allow suffering?
Is His Kingdon reigning in many places, homes, minds, churches?
Jesus asked for us to pray His Kingdom come His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. It obviously isn't if he asked to pray that it would be so.
I have seen a tremendous number of times when god touched my life.
Prophets walking up - telling me exactly what I had been praying to God.
Or another prophet, as I observed told a friend that she had her fine silver out the previous night ~ wondering why she even had it.
The Lord says, "Take it out and invite those you live around, that have labored and accomplished, and are basically naked and poor, and they know it."
These friends live in a lovely neighborhood being a captain with American Air.
I could go on and on. Prophesys to me, my wife, My son when he was 5 yrs old laid out on the floor before the man of God, as we walked forward for prayer with him.
What you are addressing is an intellectual view only. Limited to what the mind may think about - this or that.
What I am saying re: true faith ~ is relationship with the living God.
It is not limited to our opinions.
Our opinions change nothing.
The one guy that made the reference about seeking God with our heart (which is relational) is right. Even though some of his affections are off, as well as mine (though different) God couldn't care less where we are starting from. just as long as we are facing the right way... Toward Him.
Those who seek me will find me... Whos looking for me... WHOS LOOKING FOR ME!... I WILL BE FOUND BY YOU!!
I do not care where you are! I will be found by you!!
There is more than one way to find God/Goddess. However you see or perceive him, her, or it. Isn't there?
Nietzsche was german, not shakespearean.Quote:
Originally Posted by braddog100
When the randomist, shittiest things happened to me... I used to blame God. And now I understand that it's God's will. And God is everywhere observing at all times, even from within... every action is judged and God will try and show you what you've done wrong and right. This is called karma, or in the case of the bad things you've done (which we all do) karmic debt. God deals with it all... the actions and the words and the thoughts and your judgements on others and yourself. He can giveth and he can taketh away...
But God is inside you as well... remember... Christ is within. You have the will to do what you will and you have the reasoning to make the right decisions in your life. And the decisions you make will not only impact your future but others' future's as well. Maybe even in the subtlist ways... but to the other people you are affecting, those changes may seem subtle at first but may have huge implications for their future... possibly changing their lifes forever. So be kind... and aim to be a better person. It'll work better for everybody.
We all slip up sometimes... always. Because it's built into our ego... you just need the awareness of when you're doing wrong to be able to make it right.
God is everything and nothing.
If The Bible was preached correctly it would be logical, and scientific truth!
For the garden called Eden was where God and Humankind could meet.
As long as we tend and keep the garden, we can have this union.
I believe Marijuana has a very big part to play in the well being of the garden!
So by our hand we can restore Eden to its prestine state!
I believe God is waitting on such a Gift!
To make Amends for our past tresspasses!
The Garden principle is Logical!
As long as we keep the garden we have food, water, air, and a place in time.
This might be what Christ made for us.....and has given us time to figure things out logically!
"To tend and keep the garden"
"Destroying those who destroy the Earth"
So, we see that this Earthly body we are on is important to God, because at the moment it is the only reality that can hold us as humankind!
If we pollute it, we pollute our selves!
If we destroy it we destory our selves!
If we abuse it, we abuse our selves!
That is the magic God put into this planet!
And when we get out of hand with sacrifice in wars, and lies, corruption...the wrath of God comes to bare.
Draw your lines so that they stay in the sand, and we remember what has happened over the years of 2001-2012 in the news!
And that is enough proof for me!
LoL. Check this shit out..
Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God
Mon Jun 5, 8:31 AM ET
KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.
"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the official said.
"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery."
The incident, Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors, was the first of its kind at the attraction. Lions and tigers are kept in an "animal island" protected by thick concrete blocks.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060605/...BhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
You want to see god? Look in a mirror.
Haven't you guys noticed this is the exact same guy, making the exact same type of post, under multiple user names every couple months? He's just an idiot trying to drop a bomb and walk away while everybody gets into a big argument.
Yeah, I know: He's a troll.Quote:
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It turned into a pretty good thread, in spite of this.
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Perceptions are often ~ not real.
The military, in the 1st gulf war used this very principle against the Irakies.
Giving news reports that the invasion would be the largest naval invasion since Normandy, created (opps, maybe I should have used a dif word)... well, a perception on the Irakies part that they were going to aproach by sea,
This man perception... on his part, proved fatal.
An obstical that I believe we all face is the perception that God seems iindifferent in the affairs of man. Tragedies happen where we may ask... Why did God let this happen! Is he an indifferent Piece of s**t?
An example comes to mind where a young girl was sent out by her dad to the corner store to buy him some smokes ( store clerk knew the girl and father).
She attempted to cross the busy street on her bike... struck by a truck going too fast and was killed instantly.
It's natural to wonder where God was in the middle of this whole tragic, grievous, situation.
Why did he not interfere from the begining, concerning her old man?
I believe that (call them perceptions on my part, Is fine):
The lord spoke to the old mans heart to get him to realize that sending her out, would not be wise,
I can also see The Lord speak to the young girls heart also to please- please be careful, this road is very busy, maybe you should go back home and tell dad your afraid. Don't try to cross this street.... NO NO DON'T GO!
I can also see the lord causing the truck driver uneasiness with the speed he is driving, causing the girl to misjudge the time before he got to the intersection.
I know this to be a sensitive subject, I have come to respect and care for many who interact in these theads.
I just um... also grieve over the loss of relationship that both people and God could enjoy, but false perceptions of God... stand in the way.
Worship the Father in Spirit and truth. John:4
Not trying to preach. My point is ~ He is spirit.
I would love to hear his voice as well as some prophets I have observed.
My problem is i often do not heed.
Thank you for your time, Brad
Lets all pool our money and buy god a phone:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by braddog100
Yeah, that's the answer. Use our puny brains to fix the problem. Even if you got Him a phone to call us, you've already made it clear you wouldn't answer His call. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mrdevious
Remember the movie a few years ago, Bruce Almighty. God kept calling and Bruce kept ignoring.
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Originally Posted by mrdevious
Only if we can do away with call waiting... :p
I'd answer god or call back... provided god was on the fair and flexible plan, or some similar plan, promotional in nature, in no way davine, or that I penalized for excess calling minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by pastor420
Hey man, don't generalize us non-god-believers (as many do) as people who are plugging our ears and saying "LALALA I don't believe in god LALALALALALALA". I've spent countless hours researching the web trying to find proof of god, and should I ever find that proof I'll be one extremely happy fellow as there's nothing I'd like to find out more. But thus far I've read every argument out there, and oh lord all mighty have I read a lot, and logically they have thus far all fallen short.Quote:
Originally Posted by pastor420
God does not exist. He is fictional. We as human beings made him up in order to cope with our existence.
How can God exist when millions die each year from war and famine and poverty? He doesn't.
How can God exist when everyday people are murdered and raped and robbed? He doesn't.
How can God exist when 99% of all church-goers are ex-convicts or ex-drug addicts? He Doesn't.
God does exist but in differnet way then most people can even imagine... well, they can but they'd still deny the way it is anyways, because everyone has been brainwashed and taken over by religion and language and culture.
I don't understand why though... as it's so easy to see how it is... but everyone's opaque view on life leaves them blind, vain, without sensibility and reason and unable to see the infinite possiblities. It's like everytime they run into this block they steer clear and choose a different path or hurdle over it, insted of going around and exploring.(Sheeps and Dogs)
This is absolutely perfect, the timing could not be better, You have just made your self an example of what we have been discussing here.Quote:
Originally Posted by pastor420
What you have done is ~ for one assumed that mrdevious was being rude.
Two judged him criticaly,... How can you say: "You've allready made it clear etc.."
I question if you have a heart for people on this forum.
You would never see me in your church!!!
I can explain the folly of projected motivations, maybe tonight.
I've screwed up my user name, by entering in my email wrong in my profile somehow.
I would love braddog100 back I have a new email add:[email protected]
Can any body help?
Oh,.... mrdevious, I was happy to see your response, Thanks, buddy - I was blocked, last night. Sorry to see you get s**t on.
Acell phone would be awsome, I would need an affordable plan.
For I would want to talk often.
I would like very much to catch up with eather you or Bruekelen.
Not to talk shop, But just for fun, too bad the distance is such.
DFW is a ways off.
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Is that so......
No Buddy, Its not.
Though they are there, and certainly wellcome where I go.
Also, we are all, not only addicts of some kind.
But, I believe also jailed ~ though the bars of our cells are not allways physical.
Good to see you my friend.
God exists, and is proving his point, that humans are continually evil and sinful!
God has given us everything we need to have a good life here on earth...and has shown us that he wants us to achieve a state of perfection in human form...(Like Christ) sinless, and as helpers in the garden.
That is the product God is looking for!
Since God judges the living and the dead....all things are subjected to his judgment, and placed into the proper places, as he has designed and planned out a future, we cannot comprehend.
We see the universe, but we don't see what the universe is in, or what that is in, or based on...or how the universe works...we are learning, but we are not listening, nor do we use our history to account the truth!
Those who say there is no God, are only proving what God has already said would transpire!
They will denie the truth...even when the truth is before them!
This is what Christ faced!
A innocent Human male preacher, nailed to a tree or cross....for being truthful, and sinless!
He threatened the way of life being born (the Romain empire) and (The Jewish Greed for wealth)
Christ attacked the Idol Engraven Image called Money!
Which is today the root of our existance!
Everything is now being subjected to this Idol...or idea.
It is a strong delusion, that we need money to have life!
When All is already given that is needed...By God for free!!
$atan has set himself up between what God has given freely, and sells it back to the people for a high price!
He is also selling detramental agents that detract from the prestine Garden!
Pollution being spewed into the air by fossil fuel burning is now detramental to the elemental elements!
Rev 11:18 "destroying those who destroy the Earth"
$atan has taken out of the eco systems "Marijuana/hemp", and spread lies about it into the populious...and has restricted its use, and cultivation (renewable resource) causing ill health in the chain of life, by delibrately holding this plants seeds out of the food chain, and profiting off the illness created there after in the eco system!
God made everything for a reason!
Everything plays a part in the creation and function of the garden in some way shape or form!
We as humans have to realize what the kingdom of God is, and come to a better understanding as to what we are on, and how it works, before we end up destroying the vital eco systems that keep all life here on Earth alive!
Remember God gave us everything!
So he wants us to use everything, to make a place for ourselves!
Can we make amends to the garden?
Yes, but we have to act now!
Marijuana/hemp, and her seeds, need to be reinstated in our lives, and added back into the food chain!...for the betterment of all life that eats of this seed!
This is what God wants!
Helpers in the garden...So we are now faced with a duty to perform as humans, for God and Christ!...Acts 3:21...the universal restoration.
In the name of peace!
In the name of happiness!
In the name of health...
In the name of God!!
God has shown he has the power to fulfill these things, and bring us out of death, back into the living, if we would only listen to the genesis, and revelations...of what is Good, clean, and undefiled/sinless, and was given in a good light.
To put back what is necessary in the garden principle, to complete, and correct the error being made by bad human judgment!
Once this is done (and more and more are doing it) Growing Marijuana, and putting it back under the sun, in good soil, we make that connection to God!
Standing sinless before God, brings us to his kingdom as a child, relearning our placement in the chain of life!
Helpers!
The more that do this simple service, the better/healthier the eco system will become!...it is logical deduction...a healthy garden begets healthy people!
New eco friendly fuels in ethanol and methanol , to replace the fossil fuels!
New directions in trade that are really "free trade!"
And opening the door to the people who live with Marijuana as part of their daily lives...Unions, and common Ground!
So all are welcome into the house of the lord Christ!
I believe everything On this page goes to show that God doesn't want to intervine in our affairs...but in order to correct this error, I believe he has to come forth to shake the stupid people, and stop putting God's children into prison, for doing his will!
i am my own god.
end of discussion.
Cut out "my own" and somone may actually have gotten it.Quote:
Originally Posted by StOneD.aS.FuK
To come on and make bizarre statements as the two of you do. Is freakish, as in very. It is impossible to have any heathy interaction with esoterics, that launch mortors, from some remote cliff.Quote:
Originally Posted by PureEvil760
you are welcome to get involved, but,be engaged,.... snipers?
I've been in some thought about how we can keep some facination, on the part of those ACTUALLY INVOLVED. Breukelen A protested abot those that critcize things they have not researched. I wholeheartedly agree.
Suggestions on your part ~ Bruek, Devious, Paster, others ~
Back tonight.
Paster, I have felt very bad, about jumping into your business,as I did,
I have mentioned elsewhere, that I am learning from others to maintain dignity on both parts.
It requires more substance. Assholiness, requires.....none.
Sir Les,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Les
Human perfection? how is that achieved?
Gods' judgement isn't here yet.
To the clean all things are clean, to the unclean all things are unclean.
Is any thing clean to you?
We don't need money?? Ecclesiastes disagrees'
Money, (when an Idol) is called Mammon such as when it is personafied in Luke 16. Very burdenus spirit to labor under, never content.
Delusional? Be careful, typically ~ judgements made, are self analysis.
The Kingdom of God is not eating or drinking (reference to dietary laws).
But, Righteousness, peace and joy, in the spirit of God.
Nothing else is required to enjoy this richness of life.
Your references to scripture are to assume that you are a Christian, reexamine your views, Your application comes accross as its'a convienient tool to use however you want.
Ask your self this question,.... your references to God, where they in the context of spirtual things?..... Or again, were you just using God to make some point.
Idolotry, Look,.... we ALL deal with affections, that are elevated beyond balance.
Idolotry, I wonder what yours is?
God revealing stuff in our lives is primarilly to establish the fact ~ that we need His cover,..... Christ Jesus (my opinion).
Braddog, you have once again pointed out the important. Our need for Him. I know that I surely am a wretched man in need of His grace, available to us all.Quote:
Originally Posted by braddog10