The Motive?

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  1. plain_n_simple Active Member

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    If you claim you have a personal relationship with Christ, then you should know how He thinks about every situation in life. He told us. Otherwise, OldReg sounds like a person who never opened a bible, compared to the world it is no different. Unless you think His thoughts are only for certain subjects.
     
    plain_n_simple, Sep 22, 2012
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  2. Don Well-Known Member
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    Can't. We have to live in it. We don't have to be of it; but we are in it.
     
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    Whatever happened to calling evil what it is? Doesn't preclude us from praying for our leaders; but aren't we also supposed to be telling them God doesn't like what they're doing?
     
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  4. OldRegular Well-Known Member

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    The passage I presented from Proverbs gives a pretty good definition of evil. I don't believe that God has changed His mind about evil regardless of what anyone may say!.
     
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  5. plain_n_simple Active Member

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    No, we pray to God for them. We bless and not condemn or accuse.
     
    plain_n_simple, Sep 22, 2012
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  6. plain_n_simple Active Member

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    Yes the passage is correct, yet it does not tell you to go hate them or tell them they or wrong. In fact there are no instructions except what Jesus says. You have taken it further and assumed you must react like a worldly person.
     
    plain_n_simple, Sep 22, 2012
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  7. OldRegular Well-Known Member

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    Proverbs 6:16-19
    16. These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
    17. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
    18. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
    19. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

    Unlike the Pharisees I do not hold myself more righteous than God. God hates evil. in fact he punishes evil!
     
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  8. David Michael Harris Active Member

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    Sure, I just try not to contribute to it. Hard I know.
     
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  9. plain_n_simple Active Member

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    Who told you to punish? It's love, grace, and mercy.
     
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    Worth notice though, the LORD really does hate those sins. Geez, men need to repent.
     
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  11. OldRegular Well-Known Member

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    Read what I write.

    Did I say I have the right to punish? God punishes evil. Perhaps God is punishing America for electing this rabid abortionist, Obama, as leader. I will say this. The people of the country can punish Obama. Hopefully they will in November. God will deal with Obama in His own time.
     
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    Is it appropriate to apply the prayer of King David, a man after God's own heart, to Obama?

    Psalms 109:8. Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
     
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  13. David Michael Harris Active Member

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    Thought that was directed at Judas?
     
    David Michael Harris, Sep 22, 2012
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    David preceded Judas by several hundred Judas. However, reference is made to this passage when a successor to Judas was chosen.

    Acts 1:20. For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
     
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    Your making this up as you go along now :)
     
    David Michael Harris, Sep 22, 2012
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  16. OldRegular Well-Known Member

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    Not really. I anticipated all possibilities and prepared a careful response!
     
    OldRegular, Sep 23, 2012
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