Lets focus on one of my points. Applying Lots wife to the end times. How is that not sticking to the Bible?
I see it as a good insight often overlooked.
Back to what I said before, instead of me proving this, think of it as a helpfull paradigm for some difficult scriptures concerning the end times and how they work out.
I am not elevating what I heard about a shift in the earths polarities on Dec 22 2012 to scriptural level. In fact, I wish you would tell me it wasn't true and I would believe you in 2 seconds!
If you look at this it doesn't make sense like, you know, like if you hear a snipet of a conversation of two people walking past you on a city street.
I shared my "thoughts" about the millenium. One was that Jesus might wear blue jeans.
We don't know if He will or won't either way.
Someone else was critiziing my testimony as too much about me, my posts as too much about me, and my many blog posts as unbiblical.
I was saying lets focus on the texts and not make broad generalized critisims that produce shame and feelings of being damaged but are not specific enough for changeing what is wrong.
The Holy Spirit works with our spirit, so your testimony does have alot of you in it.
Woodenly regurgitateing the contents of a Bible commentary is not as upsetting as a person who actually might have a relationship with God where the Holy Spirit is working with their spirit.
In the Millennium, Chad is going to be tarred and feathered and will have to clean all the toilets of the unsaved gentiles with his tooth brush.
Now, it doesn't say that in the Bible. But it doesn't doesn't say it in the Bible, either. So, it does leave the door open to its possibility. Unless, it doesn't. Which is a possibility, but I don't think so, so it will. And you know, perhaps God wants me to say that because I thought it, and I might be a prophet or genius. It might be upsetting and unprovable, but you know, you've got to go with the feeling because feelings can add scriptural truth that the Bible forgets to mention. I mean, you can't quite trust the Bible to tell you what you need to know, right? That's why you need the C.H.A.D-- Christian Hubris And Derangement.
A certain person who I won't name who rambles excessively about . . . okay, I have no clue what he's saying half the time . . . but he rambles like a raving, carnivorous hyrax from Proverbs that's about to swallow a camel . . . did you know that Arabs in Spain rode camels because the Chinese used bicycles to get around? . . . you can't swallow a camel, usually. But one man in the Himalayas once tried. I saw it on a Monty Python show where I seem to have gotten my writing style.
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Sound familiar? If you can do it and get away with it, why can't I? It may not be nice. But then, I am not a nice person, especially when you keep talking about me. Why won't you get the point?
I think it is better to speak to the issue raised by the person than the person.
Do you see the subltle difference here?
I make jokes about things but not in an inflamatory insulting way about an individual.
I mean, I hope you take the Jesus in blue Jeans Idea lightlty. This shouldn't be an invective.
A scripture that could come into play here would be the one in Ephesians about coarse Jesting. Jesus used hyperbole, but really didn't tell joke jokes. I imagine it is because he wants us to have insight rather than a belly laugh (Proverbs 12:8).
Maybe you could count to ten before you start typeing.
I think it is better to speak to the issue raised by the person than the person.
I did speak to the issue. The issue is that the great majority of your posts sound bizarre. So, because you can't seem to grasp the point, I mimicked your posts. Satire and sarcasm are time-honored literary devices, even among Christian writers. Yes, there was a little ad hominem attack in there, but just enough so that you grasp the point.
You are wrong about not speaking to the person. Posts don't write themselves. I don't mind if you confront me directly. In fact, you should. This is not what you do, though. You do it away from the action so that it breeds more upset. Here, you did it right, though. Thank you for that.
Do you see the subltle difference here?
I understand what you are saying. But it isn't working for you. It is gossip and provocation when you do it.
I make jokes about things but not in an inflamatory insulting way about an individual.
You have your own sins to worry about without comparing your "righteousness" to mine. It may very well be that I made a big mistake in posting my last post. I will consider it. But even if I was wrong, that doesn't excuse you. You shouldn't provoke if you don't like the results.
I mean, I hope you take the Jesus in blue Jeans Idea lightlty. This shouldn't be an invective.
I don't see why anyone would take it as an invective. The problem is not that you said Yeshua would wear jeans in the Millennium. The problem is that this is just one of the hundreds of things that do nothing but make Christians sound nuts. I worry that non-believers will read your posts and decide Christians really are nuts. The fact that this does not seem to concern you says to me that your ego is bigger than your sense of responsibility.
A scripture that could come into play here would be the one in Ephesians about coarse Jesting. Jesus used hyperbole, but really didn't tell joke jokes. I imagine it is because he wants us to have insight rather than a belly laugh (Proverbs 12:8).
If the Ephesians 5:4 were talking about all joking, I think the coarse could have been left off. Quite clearly, Paul is talking about sexual humor and the such. And even then, I'm not sure that Paul was against all earthy humor.
Also, I think you might have noticed the word that comes before the "coarse talking." It is morologia in the Greek. It means foolish talk. Most of your posts are morologia. They do nothing but fill the Internet with clutter.
Maybe you could count to ten before you start typeing.
I'll try that. But with most of your posts, I may have to count to a much higher number.
In Proverbs it says do not associate with an angry person or you will pick up their ways.
I read a book that says this is the main way the devil works, anger, he wants you to do something stupid.
So, I may be wrong about everything and you are somewhat admitting you were a tad bit incorigible in all this.
Proverbs says a wise man has a calm spirit. In fact, this post started when I was picking up on your frustration and thats why it didn't make sense. I mean I admit it, I was feeling angry too.
Anger can be addictive. But it will make you unstable because there is a down side to it afterwards.
Think about how mentally ill people sometimes are right. They have loose association, but are smarter in a way because instead of having 7 separate boxes in their head for the way they see the world it is all mixed together.
When I was in college the honors program mixed subjects. For example they might study the geometry of Solomon's temple.
I think that is why I didn't do well in secular highschool because everything was separate.
For example, I think bees might be being killed by gama rays, so I told the bee studying agency in DC and they liked it and refered my question to NASA experts.