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    Do American religious ever give no thought for the morrow, by the way?

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    I will be speaking at a lectureship next week based on II Peter 5-8...Growing the Christian’s faith

    2 Peter 1:5-8
    Fruitful Growth in the Faith
    But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    I got the topic of love and will focus most of my 40 minutes on loving our neighbor. Believe me, that takes work.

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    Bigotry? Hatefullness? Xenophobia? Constant fear, aggression, and greed? Ignorance? Cruelty? These are all traits that typify Christians in the US.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    I will be speaking at a lectureship next week based on II Peter 5-8...Growing the Christian’s faith

    2 Peter 1:5-8
    Fruitful Growth in the Faith
    But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    I got the topic of love and will focus most of my 40 minutes on loving our neighbor. Believe me, that takes work.
    Hypocrite
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julius Malema View Post
    Hypocrite
    Are you saying that I don’t love my neighbor, Mr. Malema?

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    you can make a mythical character say anything

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    Are you saying that I don’t love my neighbor, Mr. Malema?
    Is loving the same thing as liking? The way I see it, the love we should show sinners is the kind of love that doesn't want anyone to suffer in hell. Doesn't mean we have to like them. Does it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    you can make a mythical character say anything
    That would explain the crap you post. You're imaginary. A figment of my imagination. That explains everything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Ugly Truth View Post
    Is loving the same thing as liking? The way I see it, the love we should show sinners is the kind of love that doesn't want anyone to suffer in hell. Doesn't mean we have to like them. Does it?
    No, I don’t think it does. I have to love my enemies. It’s defnitely not the same thing as having to like them. Same goes for my neighbor (fellowman).

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    No, I don’t think it does. I have to love my enemies. It’s defnitely not the same thing as having to like them. Same goes for my neighbor (fellowman).
    So as long as you don't hate them, everything is kosher?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Ugly Truth View Post
    So as long as you don't hate them, everything is kosher?
    Not sure where you are going here but hate is definitely not an option for feelings toward people. There are obviously other things/attitudes besides full blown hate that would make things un-kosher in our dealings with others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    Are you saying that I don’t love my neighbor, Mr. Malema?
    Watermark loves no one who doesn't fit in a pillow case......

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    Outsiders are bound to ask whether the majority of the sort of religious people who support Trump and his like can possibly be using the term in the usual sense, looking, for instance, at his latest antics. They seem interested only in taking thought for the morrow and piling up the cash. I seem to recollect that is the worship of Mammon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iolo View Post
    Since Jesus believed in Hell, there had to be people to go there, namely the rich. Read the parable of Dives and Lazarus, what Jesus said to the rich young man, what they did about property in the early Church, etc, etc, etc. I'd say Jesus thought you'd be better to find the evil of the day sufficient, without building up hugely more, like Trump and the rest of you Mammon-worshippers. When you can spare time from robbing one another, read the New Testament.

    Jesus was a Jew.. They don't believe in hell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boris The Animal View Post
    The Nicene Creed. Lines up with Scripture.
    it should as the same people invented it and wrote it
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

    — Golda Meir

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