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One thing that bothers me about fruit is why certain ideas annoy or anger others.
Take the idea Jesus was executed. He obviously was executed on the common means of execution of the day crucifixtion.
Now this is a valid conclusion. There are others, Jesus gave up His life as a sacrifice for all, which is also true.
Now the fruit of an inflexible mind, getting angry at people if they do not conform to ones own views, is the fruit of a lack of acceptance and grace. I spoke to my cousin who follows an indian guru, and he wanted to convince me this guru was an incarnation of Jesus. I found his insistence interesting, not because it was true, but because he wanted it so badly to be real. I just wanted to understand him, because without an empathetic connection, just stating my faith carried no weight.
He did though acknowledge being christian was a Godly walk. I never got much further with him, but there was no point getting upset, he was convinced what he was saying made sense.
Take the idea Jesus was executed. He obviously was executed on the common means of execution of the day crucifixtion.
Now this is a valid conclusion. There are others, Jesus gave up His life as a sacrifice for all, which is also true.
Now the fruit of an inflexible mind, getting angry at people if they do not conform to ones own views, is the fruit of a lack of acceptance and grace. I spoke to my cousin who follows an indian guru, and he wanted to convince me this guru was an incarnation of Jesus. I found his insistence interesting, not because it was true, but because he wanted it so badly to be real. I just wanted to understand him, because without an empathetic connection, just stating my faith carried no weight.
He did though acknowledge being christian was a Godly walk. I never got much further with him, but there was no point getting upset, he was convinced what he was saying made sense.
I can relate to much of what you said here, and have a similar experience with a few different people. your first sentence I can understand perfectly. I think at least part of the reason it angers some is because they are made aware what the truth is, and then in themselves they do not recognize what the truth says. Kind of like how the word hates Gods word, because it testifies that what they do is evil. some love the darkness, and the light shines and exposes what is truly in them, though they believe themselves to be light, the true light exposes them as shadow. at this point, I see differing reactions, flip off the light and remain in the darkness to be comfortable in the darkness we love. or stand in the Light and acknowledge the truth before god, that the darkness we find is darkness, and remain without condemnation pleading for His work to make what was darkness, light in us..........idk if that is gonna make any sense yo anyone lol sorry my mind is often coming from many angles in my wording so I ramle and sometimes appear as a crazy man in my words... yet I hope that it makes some sense to you my friend