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avant-garde -- thank you
We've all seen the religious hypocrites that don't seem to understand or wish to adhere to their own underlying message as found in their belief systems. Love all men as our brothers unless they are gay, divorced, agnostic, aithiest or believe in a God other than Jesus. It reduces the "all men" to just those aligned with their thinking, or a very select group when viewed in absolute terms.
posted by
gomedome
on June 11, 2005 at 9:12 AM
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cantey_1975, you must have missed the part about holding your Jesus Juice
when you wrote that comment. Those are nice and worthy sentiments but reciting them is easy, it's the practical application that is tough sledding.
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gomedome
on June 11, 2005 at 9:06 AM
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gomer
i like cantey's statement. by the way, good post, gomer. it is apparent by one's actions what they truly believe. and those actions teach what they represent. for most, the actions teach disparity, disapproval, condemnation, and self-hatred.
posted by
avant-garde
on June 11, 2005 at 3:44 AM
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I can honestly that this is what I personally strive for:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
Of course this is taken from thee ole Good Book 1 COR 13
posted by
calmcantey75
on June 10, 2005 at 10:22 PM
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