You are correct in that we should be as concerned about what takes place in other places, but the inferrence that can be taken from this, or at least I get from it, is wrong--in that we shouldn't pay attention to the injustice being done to a young woman in Fl. because world leaders don't pay attention to atrocities taking place in other countries.
_________________Farai Bamu
am very sorry if I offended anyone.
_________________Matt M.
as Christians we are spread FAR TOO THIN
Hi Ironman,Good response, you made me think.In Christ,Jeremy Hulsey
_________________Jeremy Hulsey
I do care about Sudan, and China, and North Korea, and Africa. Problem is, those countries are not democracies. Those countries are dictatorships. America is a country of laws and those of us who believe that Terri should be kept alive believe that way because murder is against the Law.
Judges are not elected, they are appointed. Bill Clinton appointed Judge Greer.
I don't care if you are a democrat or a republican. I just want to know where you stand morally. There are moral conservatives in both parties and there are moral liberals in both parties. There are people in both parties who are ungodly and there are people in both parties who are godly. We can disagree all day long on the fiscal issues of government and I wouldn't care at all or get that worked up about things. But where we can not and must not disagree is the difference between right and wrong. Any way you look at it, Terri is being murdered.
Hi Ironman,
Ok so are you implying that if the country in question is not a democracy, then the lives of the people there are of no consequence?
MattI mean in the sense that we are taking on more (on an individual level) than God requires of us. Christ said we should take up our own cross which means we should take up our own responsibilities in Christ, not everyone else's. We should focus on what God wants us to do not what we think He wants us to do. In following christ we should follow where He leads and He will not lead us to fight every fight, some fights He'll place on our path so we learn to listen to Him when He says "walk away" I used to pray for any and every thing and I'd feel bad when I forgot and one day God showed me that I need not pray for everything coz there are other brethren out there praying too. It felt like the world was taken from my shoulders bro. Now I'm learning more and more how to move when the spirit tells me to move and when you've been used to jumping at everything, that's kinda hard to do. to walk away from some things, ignore other and focus on what God places before you and says "son, focus on this"see what I'm saying?
I think what he was trying to say was not that their lives are of no consequence, but that in this country we are priveledged to live under the rule of law and that he believes Terri is being denied that.
IRONMAN wrote:Ok so are you implying that if the country in question is not a democracy, then the lives of the people there are of no consequence?
_________________Zeke Oosthuis
Christ said we should take up our own cross which means we should take up our own responsibilities in Christ, not everyone else's.