We have to pray and put it in the hands of God. He is not having a nervous breakdown in Heaven. He has all this under control.
_________________SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
Corey_H wrote:...What happened at VT is horrible - but let's keep it in perspective.This ethnocentricity is nauseating.
1 Cor. 13:3-8 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. [4] Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. [8] Charity never faileth: This is what we are called to do and we will if we are filled with the love of Christ.It makes no difference what country they are from, if they hate us or love us; There is no excuse for not following our Lord's example, we are commanded to love and it is about time we stop making excuses for not obeying. Love thinketh no evil; Love 'Never Fails'In His Lovepastorfrin
Jeanette said:
Corey, you are right that we need to keep it in perspective, but "nauseating" is a very judgemental word to use.I get the feeling that this "ethnocentricity" is entirely innocent, not deliberate or motivated by selfishness. If someone in your family was shot in the John Hopkins tragedy, you wouldn't have any grief to spare for the dead in Iraq or Sudan.Maybe that's how it is for most Americans - its like it happened to someone in their own family!Is that so?
pastorfrin said:
It makes no difference what country they are from, if they hate us or love us; There is no excuse for not following our Lord's example, we are commanded to love and it is about time we stop making excuses for not obeying.
Greg said, (emphasis added)
"Do the arabs care that American's are dying? that the massacare happened? of course not they are worried about themselves. Thus we must remember we are talking about "worldlings" who are consumed on themselves and their own lusts which is corrupting them."
This is a fallacy. Of those over 600,000 deaths most were innocent civilians. And for you to denigrate them based on their sinful state and to act like they are somehow on a lower echelon and their death doesn't matter is ridiculous and not very Christ-like.
deltadom said:
even this does not beat the amount of people who are going to hell.Luke 13:4-54 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners F35 above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
_________________Matthew Miskiewicz
I see. So American soldiers are killed while Arab babies are just deceased?
So you're saying half a million people died by suicide bombers?
No, we train our kids to kill and rape in video games, then train them to strap bombs to the underside of state-of-the-art stealth warplanes so we can "kill us some A-rabs". Then we strip, humiliate, and photograph the survivors in Abu Ghraib. When the pictures are "leaked", we relocate the prisoners to Guantanemo Bay. Strip, humiliate, photograph. Repeat.
_________________Robert Wurtz II
Where's the media on the estimated twelve million people, mostly African and Asian women and children, sold into slavery...? Where's our prayers for them? Where's our posts about them? When's the last time someone in our churches prayed for them?