(May 12, 2016 at 4:01 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(May 12, 2016 at 3:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: A minute ago you were here to bring us an accurate picture of god..but now it's only important that you can hear your own voice? Again..is it any wonder that people remain unconvinced, by you or your stories..and does that really have anything to do with their laziness or excuses?
Drich doesn't give two shits whether he convinces anyone of anything. He simply relishes the prospect of fulfilling the role -- truth teller/"teacher" -- he imagines his god has assigned him. As for everyone else, if they come to the same conclusions he has reached . . . great. If not, they get what's coming to them. No skin off his dick. I long ago realized that Drich is a sort of latter day Tertullian when it comes to the 'unsaved'.
Tertullian always wrote under stress of a felt necessity. He was never so happy as when he had opponents like Marcion and Praxeas, and, however abstract the ideas may be which he treated, he was always moved by practical considerations to make his case clear and irresistible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian
All for the irresistible part, you make a fair assessment. I do feel it necessary to write and explain God's truth so that you all can make a clear decision based off of contextual biblical fact and not some twisted version of Christianity.
And, it's not that I do not care. For some of you I truly am pulling/praying for you, (and your family members as some of you have asked.) However, I feel personal investment on my end of your eternal state is completely pointless and often times counter productive, as most of you know full well how to manipulate those who are vested in your salvation. I decided long ago the best way to help any of you is to detach from my personal wants or wishes for you, and provide God's truth whatever that may look like to you. Then trust that those of you who are seeking it will indeed find it.
This idea comes from the parable of the weeds. in that a land owner plants a wheat field and that night an enemy seeds his field with tares/weeds that look like wheat but can not be eaten. As they grow together it is appearent that wheat and weeds are growing along side one another. a Servant asks the land owner should we go through and pull up the weeds? He said no, because you will up root the wheat with the weeds. Wait to the harvest and the wheat will be separated from the weeds then.
The wheat in this field are those who truly don't know who God is, but grew up with some idea of Him that they tested and rightly found to be fake/empty, so they disbelieve in their understanding or version of Him. The weeds simply hate God, and will do no matter what.
It is not my job to know which one of you is wheat and which one of you is weed. My job is to nourish the whole field till Jesus comes and judges for himself wheat and weed.
That means I answer questions and provide clarity, and I will go/follow up so long as you ask a question or seem to be confused about God till He takes me Home or somehow takes this responsibility from me. That does not mean I have to chase you all where ever you want me to go.
