If there was an outside chance that you were for real, I would encourage you in scripture, pray with or for you, reason together, etc.
But you're an obvious fraud, so you get sarcasm and raspberries.
And p_rehbein, brother, man, relax, have a peanut, and stop conversing with this one as if you're having a serious dialogue with an intelligent seeker.
Check his other thread(s), he came here to make a mockery of christians/christianity, how can you not see that?
I asked before, I'll ask again, 'Who joins brand new to a website, and before any greetings, introductions, or time spent on other threads contributing to the on-going conversation,
they just start their own threads,
disparaging the websites people, right out of the box?'
Come on, we've seen this a thousand times before.
Don't you know how many teenagers, basement-dwellers,
and other ninnies get their kicks on the computer mocking
people of faith, particularly christians, precisely BECAUSE we're
held up to be more forgiving and patient than other religions?
The more you engage them sincerely, the more of a mockery
they'll make of you, and one of the first tricks is to try to throw
our Savior and His word at us and use that to tell us all what we're
doing wrong.
How many like them have come here, stirred up strife,
caused us to start in on each other with accusations of 'You're not being nice...You're not being Christ-like...You're not being loving',
while they sit back laughing behind their computer, because they have nothing constructive to do.
AND good ppl have wound up being banned as a result of the conflict, only to have the 'johnlovers' eventually disappear back into the woodwork they crawled out of, only to re-surface weeks later and start it all up again.
We're to love the Lord with all our MINDS,
and that includes being wise to deception, whether
it comes from a computer kid or the devil.
I know you're a good brother, p_rehbein, and you like to
give the benefit of the doubt, but please don't let your head
get softer than your already soft and blessed heart.
And I only say this 'cause I love ya, and there's been too much
of this running down of the Lord and His people lately by these
'johnny pop-ups'. We have enough trouble with some of the self-righteous legalists already on the site, telling ppl they're not saved unless they get water-baptised or follow their dictates of law and obedience.
(and this on a christian website no less!)
We don't need to entertain more, do we? Wee?
God bless you, elephant.