Now your just adding lies to your working for I must keep myself saved false gospel.
How does lying and misrepresenting the facts of all that has been said to you help keep you saved?
Here is the problem I have with your approach and others from the beginning.
It is slander, dishonest, miss-representation, to say to a believer that they are lying when they are
honestly representing their view of scripture and theology. It is a perspective on life based on
various assumptions. If the model is consistent, it is a whole.
If ones approach is to attack the integrity of someone, then unfortunately it is the attacker who
is at fault. The spreading of the gospel has always been on the basis of love and peace, of talking
about absolutes in the Kingdom that are not compromised, that overcome darkness.
If you found your faith in scripture, then you have to be careful that the basis and assumptions you
use are sound.
The first principle is God is Holy. His ways are pure and overcoming. He is a healer and truth teller.
He knows how fragile we are are prone to exuberance, so He sets principles in place to bring this
balance home. Until we can work through our own emotional balances and needs, we have to be
very careful to dictate the solution to others.
It is why I came to cc to share, and learn in the things of the Lord with people desiring to know
more of His word. And praise the Lord, it has changed me. You can learn more about your own
weaknesses from your enemy, because they will find the weakest point you have, because there
you need to strengthen and establish your position.
dc - it is saddening to us that you are so hard hearted and defensive, avoiding simple truths.
I have met many like you, determined to stay in one place and fight so very hard. Then some
personal tragedy strikes and they flip, to another position which they will defend just as strongly.
It is because that is their personality, and the way they identify themselves. They are always on
a mission to fight the "evil" people. But in this is also their greatest weakness. Dedication for
their own personality gain. Why do you think being a marine, carrying guns all the time, matters
so much?
We are people of peace, not war, yet the message wanting to be spread is how tough
and courageous in mortal combat some people are, and how dare you question someone who has
put their lives on the line and blown others away?
So many get caught in ptsd, because in war there are no winners, just damaged souls.
I wonder if there is a coincidence two of the biggest talkers here have a military active service
background? Serving teaches goals, objectives and putting things on the line. But not why and
how they are achieved and the dangers that flow into civilian life.
And what one does as a teenager and in ones twenties is often driven by youthful ambition, not
the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.