Originally posted by Chileice
Keep your accounts clear:
Don't borrow money you can't pay back,
Don't make promises you can't keep,
Don't make threats you aren't going to follow through with.:nono:
I'll start working on the responses. :cattyfan:Originally posted by adajos
I would like to see Poly, Sibbie, or Lucky respond to post 50 and 52 on this thread. They got lost in the flood of posts.
Adajos, I think your post (#50) is at least worthy of a response from who it was addressed to. I'm really not sure if I disagree that much to attack it dead on. Balance is good.Originally posted by adajos
By the way, Poly, do you tell overweight people who aren't repentant that you are disgusted by their vile and disgusting sinful acts of gluttony and that you can't wait until they are condemned to hell? Perhaps calling them "fatties" and "tubs of lard" will make them repent of their sins and come to Christ. Or do you reserve this sort of behavior only for the sins you pick and choose?
Did Zacheus continue to take more taxes than he should? No, he went around paying people what he owed and then some.Originally posted by adajos
Poly,
That's right---Christ called them foul names from a distance while emphasizing how they made him want to puke and repeatedly told them they were damned until they repented, and once they repented then He dined with them. (Heavy Sarcasm)
C'mon now, that's bunk. You have any evidence to substantiate your claim that He only ever associated with sinners after they repented?
If one is a glutton, and has the kind of haughty and proud spirit toward God as most homos do, hating Him and responding in such a manner as "I don't care what God says about taking care of my body. I know better than He does. There's nothing wrong with being a glutton no matter what God says." then yes, this person needs to be shown that he is wrong and should repent of his attitude.Originally posted by adajos
By the way, Poly, do you tell overweight people who aren't repentant that you are disgusted by their vile and disgusting sinful acts of gluttony and that you can't wait until they are condemned to hell? Perhaps calling them "fatties" and "tubs of lard" will make them repent of their sins and come to Christ. Or do you reserve this sort of behavior only for the sins you pick and choose?
Did Zacheus continue to take more taxes than he should? No, he went around paying people what he owed and then some.
Jesus told Mary Magdelene to "Go and sin no more". Apparently it was important to Him that she repent. Was she repentant? Do you really think that one who isn't repentant, blatently continuing in her perversions, is going to have the audacity to sit at the feet of Jesus, washing them with her tears? Tears come with repentance.
Matthew 9:9-12
9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'[1] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
If one is a glutton, and has the kind of haughty and proud spirit toward God as most homos do, hating Him and responding in such a manner as "I don't care what God says about taking care of my body. I know better than He does. There's nothing wrong with being a glutton no matter what God says." then yes, this person needs to be shown that he is wrong and should repent of his attitude.
Are overweight people proud of this? Do they flaunt it in the face of God? No
The same, usually, cannot be said of a homosexual.
I told him. Guess what? He ignored me.Originally posted by Lucky
Does it really matter to you? It's not like you would actually change your ways if someone told you "God is love" and "God loves sinners." (Who would?) Excuses, excuses, excuses...
Maybe you shoud try running into me, sometime. If you're going to hit me, I don't care where you hit me, just as long as you understand you're going to get hit, too.Originally posted by Gerald
Izzat so? Where do they hang out?
I haven't run into a Christian yet who didn't scream "NOT IN THE FACE!!! NOT IN THE FACE!!!" when confronted with a real fight...
Originally posted by lighthouse
beanieboy-
You are not a repentant sinner. You have no room to talk. So, shut up!
Originally posted by Cyrus of Persia
Neither are you repentant sinner. Thanks for your confessions in those boards we read that you still struggle with your sins. So either shut up! or let the other sinners to speak too!
Nuff said!
Originally posted by Poly
Jesus told Mary Magdelene to "Go and sin no more".
oops! My bad! :thumb:Originally posted by philosophizer
Whoa, careful Poly! It doesn't say anywhere that the woman in that chapter was Mary Magdelene.
Originally posted by Poly
There are some really mean people on this board. They don't care enough about unbelievers to warn them of the destruction that awaits them. They lie to them and lead them down the wrong path saying such things as "God loves everybody".
Psalm 5:5 "...Thou hatest all workers of iniquity"
Psalm 11:5 "The Lord trieth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hates."
Another lie they tell is that "God hates the sin but loves the sinner".
Matthew 12:35 "A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."
Matthew 15:11 "What comes out of the mouth defiles a man"
I often see people say that all sins are the same. But there are some sins that God really puts extra emphasis on in showing just how much he hates it such as when He refers to homosexuality as an abomination. (Leviticus 18:21-23)
It is clear that some sins are greater than others.
John 19:11 "Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin"
Luke 12: 46-48 "the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more."
Many members appear to be loving but according to Romans 12:9, they are hypocrites.
Why would some people want to be so mean? I realize that a lot of the time it is done out of ignorance but some know that they should be more bold in speaking against wickedness but being liked by others and not offending is more important to them than truth. They want to be liked by believers as well as non-believers regardless of the fact that, according to Jesus, if you follow Him you will be hated.
Matthew 10:22 "And you will be hated by all men for my name's sake."
If Poly is judging wrongly, she will answer to the same God beanieboy will. The difference is, she has the covering of Christ and can stand before the Mighty and Righteous God. Beanieboy has only his works to cover himself with. An unrepentant homosexual covered in his abominations vs a repentant follower of Christ, so tell me folks, which shoes would you rather be in on that day?
: tries on Poly's shoes:
What does beanieboy want? To be left alone in his sin at best, to shut up the Gospel at worst. What does Poly want? To see beanieboy look to Christ for his righteousness.
Righteousness:
1. acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin
Poly fits that definition, she has chosen Christ, who is the Only One who can impart righteousness to sinners and cleans them by His blood.
Definition 2. a : morally right or justifiable
This is where those who are still steeped in sin fall into the definition. They are often found twisting the Righteous Ways of God to fit their world view and "justify" their own sin by their own "moral standard".
So in reality, those who defy the Word of God in favor of their own justification for sin are the self righteous among us, while those who seek Jesus Christ are justified by Him alone.
There are only two options:
1. The Law convicts and shows a need for repentance.
2. The Law is twisted to avoid being convicted and negating the need to repent.
If you decide on option 2, you have chosen to live under the law you are breaking and will be judged by, you have chosen your own self righteousness. Nice? No, I can't see anything nice about it, but that is the reality.