Artemis wrote:
I am not speaking to you condescendingly, I'm merely giving you my perspective, I am not the one stating this is how it is. It is only my thoughts on the topic.
Are we not walking equals to God? We all start out being born and we begin making our own choices, and he watches.
If a father were to warn his son to choose wisely, and the son does not and ends up getting and his hand gets cut off, and he looks up at his father and his father says you did not choose wisely.
Do you think the father loves the son any less?
Sick and evil people are lost souls, they are people so lost in their mind, heart, and all the way to their soul. You think God loves them any less, or maybe he pity's them for bringing on their own form of hell and suffering and may hope they seek forgiveness if they are ever have the mindfulness to do so.
I am not speaking to you condescendingly, I'm mere... (
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All women speak to me condescendingly, don't let it rent space in your head. :lol: :lol: :lol:
I know what you're saying and I respect that
your views are just that and, my views are
my own.IMHO, well NO and not just no but, HELL NO! We are not walking equals with God. How many new worlds did you create this month? Any new life forms? C'mon Artemis my belief is that God is now, was always and will always be there.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God~John 1:1
That's why women have a hard time accepting this,
being you can hardly get a word in edgewise when speaking with them and,
they always have to have the first and the last word! Face it, you can't stand the competition...
Pardon me while I duck as things are being hurled at me.
Please allow me to digress to a discussion of fathers. My belief is that there are only two types of people that exist in this old world. They are good `uns and bad `uns PERIOD. The fields of psychology and psychiatry seek to give all dysfunctional and evil things a person does a label so that they can treat it. This makes them pill pushers for Big Pharma too many times. I do want to make the distinction between
counseling and labeling for Big Pharma. Counseling is being a really good friend, pure and simple.
Diagnosing & accompanying medicinal treatments is labeling, pure and simple.
Now even a child is known by what they do, having two hands or not, okay? In Proverbs 20:11 it tells the reader,
It is by his deeds that a lad distinguishes himself If his conduct is pure and right.I want you to connect the dots to adulthood if you will...
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the t***h because there is no t***h in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.~John 8:44
Two fathers, two different types of children! God loves the world and all that He created more than you or I could ever realize.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. "For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.~John 3:16-17
That's love isn't it? Many mothers won't even let their sons play football or join the military, because they don't want them to get hurt. Could you
knowingly send yours into the world to be treated like mankind treated His son?
That's a rhetorical question.
So yes I KNOW God loves all of us miserable, wretched creatures because even while still in our sin, He provides a way out through belief on His son.
It up to us to choose, He's not forcing Himself on anybody. I just don't want anyone who makes an unwise choice come crying to me, because you won't be able to after the living years.
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