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Had a thought earlier, yesterday, about the argument on whether or not the man in the parable was a believer in God or not. Some said no he wasn't and others said he was because otherwise he was incapable of showing mercy to anyone ever.
When I got past the thought of how the posters were having a useless conversation by their desire to write more about the fictional parable character, and missing the point of that parable by the fact that they needed it to fit their doctrines, I realized that IF I were to jump in, I would imagine him to be a believer in God because we know the Samaritan woman at the well worshiped God, so it is not right to have the thought that Samaritans didn't worship God.
Jesus said to her, you know very little about the One you worship. He didn't say she didn't worship God, just that she knew very little about Him.
Anyway, neither here nor there, just interesting.
When I got past the thought of how the posters were having a useless conversation by their desire to write more about the fictional parable character, and missing the point of that parable by the fact that they needed it to fit their doctrines, I realized that IF I were to jump in, I would imagine him to be a believer in God because we know the Samaritan woman at the well worshiped God, so it is not right to have the thought that Samaritans didn't worship God.
Jesus said to her, you know very little about the One you worship. He didn't say she didn't worship God, just that she knew very little about Him.
Anyway, neither here nor there, just interesting.
Many,many unbelievers do good and its beneficial to mankind, but it is dirty rags to God in His sight. our righteousness is NOTHING compared to the perfect righteousness of Christ.
And It hurts religion and self righteous people to hear this.Look at Bill Gates. Does tremendous good deeds for mankind. but that is peanuts compared to what Christ did for mankind. And it is as dirty rags to God if he is an unbeliever or if he is out of the plan of God as a believer.