You must be tired. Maybe you could you know, let them live their lives as they see fit? Assuming they aren't directly infringing on the rights of others, like kicking puppies and smacking old people.
Gender: Male Location: Southern Oregon,
Looking at you.
You are the only thing you can change. However, changing yourself changes the environment around you, and that changes the people who are in that environment.
God hasn't damned Shakyamunison or anyone on this forum.
God is love.
1 John 4:8
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:16
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
God loves people, and desires for people to be saved not damned.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Did you see that?
The Bible states that God so loved the world.
It didn't just say that God loved--it says so loved.
The world is made up of atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, lesbians, sodomites, pedophiles, murderers, rapists, thieves, haters of God, rich people, poor people, blacks, whites, Asians, Native Americans, Hispanics, liberals, conservatives, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, believers, unbelievers, Christians, non-Christians, and yet the Bible reveals that God so loved them.
Furthermore, the Scripture above says the Lord is longsuffering (i.e. extremely patient) toward us (i.e. toward you, me, Shakyamunison, and anyone reading this post), not willing that any should perish (God is not willing, means that it is not His will that any person should perish i.e. perish in Hell) but that all (all not some, but all) should come to repentance.
So God is not willing that any should perish.
The Bible reveals that God is no respecter of persons.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
In other words, God does not play favorites or discriminate.
Remember: God so loved the world (i.e. everyone), and He's not willing (i.e. it is not His will) for any to perish (i.e. to perish in Hell for eternity)
So since He's not willing for any to perish in Hell for eternity--neither am I.
Gender: Male Location: Southern Oregon,
Looking at you.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but there are two problems with your plan:
1. KMC is a ghost town. There is really no one here, and the people who are here, have already heard you and rejected you.
2. You really don't talk to the people. Jesus would have set down and had dinner with me. Jesus would have talked to me, and shown me love, even if I didn't deserve it. You are not doing that.
Perhaps you should rethink what you are doing here.
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Last edited by Shakyamunison on Nov 6th, 2013 at 06:35 PM
Pretty sure Jesus did not win love and converts to his thought by spamming links, videos and opinions of others, but by applying his own personal charisma, his arguments, and demonstrating his love in practice.
In short, you literally apply his word when it suits your agenda, but fail to implement the end-result of his works, which is to both love and respect your fellow humanbeing.
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