(Potentially) Profound Thoughts
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Something recently occurred to me. I'm not sure if it's true and I have no idea what it means if it is true, but I can't remember anything that contradicts it.
I have seen a lot of places in the Bible where men are warned to avoid women who will bring them trouble. I can't remember anywhere in the Bible where women are warned to avoid men who bring trouble.
Any help here?
I have seen a lot of places in the Bible where men are warned to avoid women who will bring them trouble. I can't remember anywhere in the Bible where women are warned to avoid men who bring trouble.
Any help here?
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That's true... speaks to Job's story... Too often, many of us can relate to Job... as an inspiration to...
Well darn... now that I think about it... he had to be pretty tough after all to persevere thru sooo much... Talk about toughest battles and the best example for perseverance to inspire us to keep our faith regardless...
Well darn... now that I think about it... he had to be pretty tough after all to persevere thru sooo much... Talk about toughest battles and the best example for perseverance to inspire us to keep our faith regardless...
That has an important conditional that needs to be mentioned. All things don't work together for my specific good.
This is important to mention because some people only focus on themselves and get disappointed when things don't work for their specific good. That verse gets a lot easier to understand if you maintain a global instead of a personal mindset, looking for what is good for the group of people you are in instead of what is good for you personally.
It's also pretty hard to explain that verse in my town where multiple tornadoes ripped through late last week. A few people were killed and more lost everything they had. Sermons built around that verse are not exactly popular in this region at the moment. But you are welcome to come down here and try.
This is important to mention because some people only focus on themselves and get disappointed when things don't work for their specific good. That verse gets a lot easier to understand if you maintain a global instead of a personal mindset, looking for what is good for the group of people you are in instead of what is good for you personally.
It's also pretty hard to explain that verse in my town where multiple tornadoes ripped through late last week. A few people were killed and more lost everything they had. Sermons built around that verse are not exactly popular in this region at the moment. But you are welcome to come down here and try.
If you want to live as though scripture isn't true go right ahead. But these things happened to people and God will use them for their good.
To give such a sermon at this time would be insensitive. There is a time to mourn and cry. And we should grieve and weep with those who do so. That doesn't change truth.
To give such a sermon at this time would be insensitive. There is a time to mourn and cry. And we should grieve and weep with those who do so. That doesn't change truth.
If life doesn't just sometimes stink, we wouldn't have any reason to want to go to Heaven.
If life doesn't just sometimes stink, why would we have wanted to keep sin out in the first place? When we get to Heaven, what motivation would we have for keeping sin out of there too? If we let it in and broke Heaven the way we broke this world, oh well... Everything works together for good anyway.
Sometimes life just stinks. It's because sin broke the world. That's life.
If life doesn't just sometimes stink, why would we have wanted to keep sin out in the first place? When we get to Heaven, what motivation would we have for keeping sin out of there too? If we let it in and broke Heaven the way we broke this world, oh well... Everything works together for good anyway.
Sometimes life just stinks. It's because sin broke the world. That's life.
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Somehow I feel like this is a weird role reversal.
I do not consider myself to have endured anything really bad, but I have observed really bad things happening to people I know so I am aware that sometimes life just stinks.
The odds are pretty good that you have endured some things you consider really bad, but you argue that there is no time when bad just happens for no reason and life just stinks.
It's like looking at what I thought would be a painting and finding a mirror of what I would be if I were not me...
I do not consider myself to have endured anything really bad, but I have observed really bad things happening to people I know so I am aware that sometimes life just stinks.
The odds are pretty good that you have endured some things you consider really bad, but you argue that there is no time when bad just happens for no reason and life just stinks.
It's like looking at what I thought would be a painting and finding a mirror of what I would be if I were not me...