RE: hate the sin, love the sinner
September 3, 2016 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2016 at 2:29 pm by Drich.)
(September 3, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(September 3, 2016 at 11:31 am)Drich Wrote: I'm not in a position to make any final judgement on what you are or not capable of. Ultimately that is between you and God.
I can tell you what I think. If you grew up in the west, God has called out to you.. Call it a conscience, call it your moral compass call it Jimminnie Cricket it does not matter. but we all have been given an opportunity to want to know or experience more concerning God. Especially each and every member of this forum. (Just on your specific terms and not His) You all are searching for a truth that fits the little box in which you believe the whole universe must yield and work with in. (the box labeled acceptable peer reviewed proof.)
Which was the SAME BOX The Pharisees in Mark 3:20 used to cast out the works of the Spirit that day. They too wanted peer reviewed and accepted proof, before they would acknowledge God. The problem with this version of 'proof'? it gives you control over God. Rather than forces you to acknowledge God on His terms... God must contort Himself to fit your definitions, rather than you be made to seek out His own.
Look at how the last poster I responded to has framed out who God is in her straw man argument. She expects God to be all loving, not just all loving but to her own specific definition of love that includes those she would include. In essence she would dispel any proof of a God who did not conform Himself to her standard... Do you see the problem here? If God must bend to your standard then He ceases to fit the very definition of God (Alpha and Omega) He provided to us!
IF God is Alpha and Omega It means we go to Him on His terms, He will not meet us on ours.
I feel like you're saying that the Holy Spirit has already called to the non-believing members of this forum, in which case we've already committed this Holy Spirit blasphemy.
Well, Hell, what's the point, then?
Why bother explaining anything to folks that are most certainly doomed, in your opinion?
No point in wasting your energy on what you believe to be lost causes.
Because as I pointed out in my first post to you, that this is not a one time offer from the Holy Spirit. This offer is extended to you over the course of your life. It is the denial multiplied over a life time that constitutes blaspheme of the Spirit as again the offer is renewed daily till we die.
It took me several years before i myself took God up on this offer. I remained in a state of disbelief for a long long time. But once I considered that maybe the universe/God did not have to work the way I thought God should work and sought Him on His terms rather than mine... Things started to change for me.