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We are all required to “bless those that curse us,” that we may be “merciful, as God is merciful.” Luke 6:28, 36.
How false is the dogma which represents God as cursing forever those who are so unwise as to pollute their lips with profanity; which says, because men do wrong, God will do infinitely worse – will pour out volleys of curses upon their defenseless souls eternally!
This dogma degrades the Lord Almighty below the most profane wretch on earth.
We are required to bless them that curse us, that we may be Godlike.
It is said, we must do good to them that hate us, that we may be merciful, as God is merciful. Matt. 5:44, 48. Luke 6:27, 36.
The unavoidable inference from this injunction of our divine Master is that God is so merciful and so kind that he even does good to them that hate him; and as he is unchangeable, he always will do good to them.
This goodness will finally subdue the hardest heart, and cause those who now hate him to love him with all their soul and strength. This passage fully refutes the idea that God hates and will forever hate a portion of our race.
We are all commanded to pray for those who despitefully use us and persecute us. Matt. 5:44. Luke 6:28.
Will He who requires his children to cherish such benevolent feelings toward the erring, forever be unreconciled to them, never forgive them, but delight to despitefully use them and persecute them?
If so, he requires us to be infinitely better than He Himself.
What in the descriptions and unambiguous demonstration of God's Holy Spirit of agape love gives you the impression that God would ever eternally punish ANYONE FOR ANYTHING! Our ignorant, primitive, and savage ancestors would not have been able to rationalize the absurdity of such a concept, which is what made it effective in motivating them, but you should be able to, Charlie.
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Originally Posted by pneuma
I don't think charlie will ever get it brother as he thinks a dirty filter can give clear water.
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Originally Posted by justbyfaith
It is Jesus' own word, in Matthew 25:46.
Neither will this fellow (Justbyfaith), he is as lost as Charlie.
"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
Neither will this fellow (Justbyfaith), he is as lost as Charlie.
"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them."
Jer: in the words of the Master....
"Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
We see here at the end of Revelations when it's all said and done, the lost will still be lost, the saved will still be saved.
There is nothing that will change this, it is over, there is no second chance!
Man will accept Christ is this life and live forever in His mercy, or he will die lost forever separated from God in Hell.
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
We see here at the end of Revelations when it's all said and done, the lost will still be lost, the saved will still be saved.
There is nothing that will change this, it is over, there is no second chance!
Man will accept Christ is this life and live forever in His mercy, or he will die lost forever separated from God in Hell.
A believe this, or else mentality, talk about being brainwashed.
Salvation, as you know JJ, is a many faceted operation of the Spirit of God of past present and future. Each of these dimensions of His love and grace lead to expansion of where we are into His expansive Being.
Some appear to be content in their present restricted view of the One whose Being is without Beginning or Ending. We believe in the One who opens blind eyes, deaf ears and raises the dead. into newness of Life.
Ephphatha !
Thank-you for reminding me of that. I've been caught up in another thread on the "righteousness of God" imputed "through the faith of Christ".
As wonderful as that truth is, knowing the love and mercy of God and the restitution of all things back to Himself is even more glorious to speak of. Few are willing to hear it, and even fewer are called, as you've been, to proclaim it openly. It's like a mystery that's not full understood in this age, but all will one day know it (1Tim 2:4).
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
We see here at the end of Revelations when it's all said and done, the lost will still be lost, the saved will still be saved.
There is nothing that will change this, it is over, there is no second chance!
Man will accept Christ is this life and live forever in His mercy, or he will die lost forever separated from God in Hell.
True, and more the reason to share the gospel with anyone who will listen.
Deu 7:9, Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deu 7:10, And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deu 7:11, Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
did you know that if you make your enemy your friend you have destroyed your enemy?
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