Do you perceive that
this goes on here Gregory? That is, beating people over
the head with truth accompanied with bile and anger?
Look at the beatitudes. Truth is important,
but it comes to people who have ears to hear. Our job is less
to demand that they see the truth, than to LIVE the truth. The great
saints down through history saw this as job one - becoming like Christ
inside, so that their lives radiated his love and wisdom.
How does one LIVE the
truth on an internet list Gregory? How is one to
radiate this love and wisdom by email other than
through words. Actually what is in a person's heart ultimately
becomes evident because it proceeds out of the mouth/through the
keyboard. Judging the motives of others is also an ungodly trait and
a lot of that goes on here.
James was very clear that wisdom
is linked to love and holiness: "Who is wise and understanding among
you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility
that comes from wisdom.. . . "
Yes and James also defines the two
kinds of wisdom it is possible to walk in "that which comes from above and
is pure and peaceable and full of good fruit or that which is earthly
sensual and demonic" I'm sure you will find some of both on TT if you stay
long enough.
The entire book of Jamesis a
rebuke to those who think KNOWING the truth is more important than DOING
the truth. And the second course of the meal is Phillipians, where
radiating the love which only comes from devotion to Christ is preeminent,
not how well we have become little truth Nazis.
IYO Gregory does loving God's Word
make one a little "truth Nazi?"
Then, the third course is I John, where the topic is
brought to a supreme and sublime offering unequaled in any book ever
written, in my opinion. When we stand
in front of the dread judgment seat, the test is not how well we shoved
every abstruse point of theology down the throats of the ignorant, but how
we lived the great truths we already know, and taught the others with
mercy and peace, so as to edify the listener, not stir up emnity.
True, but if you will note the
experience of God's messengers of truth through scripture Gregory you
will see how their message always stirred up emnity and strive.
God's people killed his prophets and everywhere Paul and Silas went there
were riots. Jesus Himself had to hide out and pass through at least
one crowd who wanted to throw him off a cliff (a crowd of God's covenant
people no less). I'm as against "abstruse theology" as anyone and am
aware that the servant of the Lord must not strive. However, this is an
open list full of professing believers .... who love God and it
follows that they should also love His Word. Do you have a problem
with that? jht
Slade, my heart is not to demean anyone and I
don't know what you mean by "piss and vinegar" as this term
is not in my vocabulary. Please explain
to me how scripture and history demeans people. Are you
thinking
that Messiah maybe softened things up a little to keep from hurting
people's feelings? judyt
Perhaps you should allow Christ in your OWN life so that JUDY
can be conformed to His Image. I am tired of your consistently
demeaning posts. This is not Christlike behavior. Leave your piss and
vinegar elsewhere please. Messiah never behaved like you are with
people ho were genuinely looking to improve their walk. He showed
mercy. You show none.
-- slade
If this is so then why didn't Calvin allow
Him to reveal Christ in His own life so that
Calvin
could be conformed to His image?
It certainly wasn't the Holy Spirit
leading Calvin first off to
merge Church and State in Geneva and it
wasn't the Holy Spirit who led him to
have another
believer burned at the stake; nor was
it the Holy Spirit who kept him from
ever repenting for
his part in such a horrendous event.. to
anyone's knowledge. jt