As unhinged as this place has become...

[JerryBoyle]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

Pretty sure nobody said NYC was burning.

What was said is that people are fleeing and not coming back.

There were absolutely people saying that NYC and other major cities were burning and were turned into warzones.

My point is, it's magnified beyond belief. In my day-to-day, the most egregious left vs right fight I've witnessed is maybe a disagreement about mask usage. And even that was mostly "can you please put it on" "ugh, ok"

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

I've chosen to adjust to the NEW NORMAL and move on.

I did my part. All this is now above my pay grade.

I'll reconsider this position if/when shots are fired. Until then, it just raises blood pressure. (And I like my 117 over 76.)

Ahh...a go with the flow kinda guy, which is actually a pretty dangerous spiritual position to take, I would think.

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by boxcar

Ahh...a go with the flow kinda guy, which is actually a pretty dangerous spiritual position to take, I would think.

Not at all.

In fact, it is precisely what God would want: for me to trust HIM.

He's in charge. It is not my place to tell people what they're doing wrong or what they should do. That's God's job.

Heck, I don't even know what I should do. Well, I do, actually. It is to await instructions from God. Meanwhile, I will continue to move in the direction that I feel I've been pointed, always searching for verification that I'm pointed rightly.

My job is to be a usable vessel. If he has a purpose for me in a given moment, then I will make every attempt to hear Him tell me what needs to be done and take the appropriate action.



On another topic...
YOU, Boxcar, are always trying to preach at people, as if God has personally appointed you as HIS spokesperson. Now, maybe HE really has appointed you as that. How the heck would I know?

But I'd bet against it; against you. In fact, I'd say that it is more likely that you are a tool for the other team.

Approaches like yours --- running around spewing condemnation everywhere --- puts more distance between God and unbelievers than anything else.

It is why I always ask you the same question: "WHERE'S THE LOVE?"

[TJDave]

Dave Schwartz is a Mensch.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

Not at all.

In fact, it is precisely what God would want: for me to trust HIM.

He's in charge. It is not my place to tell people what they're doing wrong or what they should do. That's God's job.

Heck, I don't even know what I should do. Well, I do, actually. It is to await instructions from God. Meanwhile, I will continue to move in the direction that I feel I've been pointed, always searching for verification that I'm pointed rightly.

My job is to be a usable vessel. If he has a purpose for me in a given moment, then I will make every attempt to hear Him tell me what needs to be done and take the appropriate action.

Are you sure, Dave? Going "with the flow" would be traveling the same broad path as the world, for most unbelievers will do exactly that -- behave as obedient sheeple.



On another topic...

YOU, Boxcar, are always trying to preach at people, as if God has personally appointed you as HIS spokesperson. Now, maybe HE really has appointed you as that. How the heck would I know?

But I'd bet against it; against you. In fact, I'd say that it is more likely that you are a tool for the other team.

Approaches like yours --- running around spewing condemnation everywhere --- puts more distance between God and unbelievers than anything else.

It is why I always ask you the same question: "WHERE'S THE LOVE?"

This is because you believe there is another [unrevealed] spiritual path for unbelievers that will or could eventually land them to the City of God. Heck...you even balked at the biblical teaching that all men are inherently liars! If you you have a tough time accepting this fundamental truth about this particular aspect of man's total depravity, what other important truths have you not appropriated?

Have you forgotten this part of God's universal indictment against the human race?

Rom 3:13-14
13 "Their throats are open graves;
their tongues PRACTICE deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
14 "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
NIV

The operative term here is "practice". Thus saith the Lord.

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by TJDave

Dave Schwartz is a Mensch.

And I here I thought that worldly people like yourself are supposed to hate Christians. I guess Jesus was wrong.

[davew]

Originally Posted by JerryBoyle

There were absolutely people saying that NYC and other major cities were burning and were turned into warzones.

My point is, it's magnified beyond belief. In my day-to-day, the most egregious left vs right fight I've witnessed is maybe a disagreement about mask usage. And even that was mostly "can you please put it on" "ugh, ok"

more largely peaceful protests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhr22ZKWo6w

[Dave Schwartz]

Boxcar

Not going to battle the bible with you but this verse comes to mind:

1 Corinthians 13:1
New International Version
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Same old mantra.

Remember that reading the bible is not even a requirement of Christianity.

[porchy44]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

On another topic...
YOU, Boxcar, are always trying to preach at people, as if God has personally appointed you as HIS spokesperson. Now, maybe HE really has appointed you as that. How the heck would I know?

But I'd bet against it; against you. In fact, I'd say that it is more likely that you are a tool for the other team.

Approaches like yours --- running around spewing condemnation everywhere --- puts more distance between God and unbelievers than anything else.

It is why I always ask you the same question: "WHERE'S THE LOVE?"

"All the world will recognize you as my disciples when they see the love you have one for another".