I have been pondering for years.
Also, there are people who become christians and then leave christianity behind and join a different religion or become atheist or agnostic etc.
I guess you could simply excuse them as never being truly "born again" or "saved" but how do you know for sure?
Well Sister, guess what in all you just said is the people that cause and have caused division, being prejudice, again i tis not God doing this, it is free will choice
And many are born again and do not know it. They seen many of the so called Christians that are not, and left because of the dogmatic behaviors, in place of God's real unconditional love
Here is God's type of love that God I think has put in you and you are just maybe not seeing this?
You decide:
[h=3]1 Corinthians 13:4-13[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Charity suffereth long,
and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, [SUP]5 [/SUP]doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; [SUP]6 [/SUP]rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; [SUP]7 [/SUP]beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Charity never faileth: but whether
there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether
there be tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. [SUP]10 [/SUP]But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. [SUP]12 [/SUP]For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these
is charity.
When you read this are you convicted of not being good enough or convicted and love as God has just shown you, regardless of what others do or say?
Mostly that scripture is unfortunately used to convict and repent and be quilty
When God wants to put this type in you, me and all who beleive
You know, I see it in your posts not to cause conflicting arguments, you are truly seeking truth as What I am hearing God tell me. It truthfully is a tough love, trying to break through on the other side where safety is at with the creator of all.
We are taught things like never give up, do not wave the white flag, fight, fight and fight some more
When if one does raise their white flag and does concede the war to God, the fight is over and we are safe even in the midst of any troubles
John 16:33,.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
over come the world.
We all, believers or not have troubles, but the ones that do believe can rest in the fact that Christ did overcome the world for us, to be content in all things good or bad, knowing we have a home in Heaven with God forever
I can't put what I just know in words, as you will one day by free choice never by force which you have experienced from others. Learn from this and be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove, which I see you are already, which tells me a lot