What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on GOD’S MERCY. For the scripture says to Pharoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?” But who are YOU, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?”
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath–prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory-- even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe every tear from thier eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things have passed away. †
Does God teach you to preach cowardly, coming in and showing disrespect for the people around you, and hiding behind a cloak of anonymity? Coward – who will not even reveal an email address.
Melin~ I forgive you and I love you. I will be lifting you in prayer. God Bless you, and may you be surrounded by the holy spirit. Amen.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe every tear from thier eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things have passed away. †
Melin, what do you need an email address for? If you disagree, debate here. That’s what the board is for, right?
Of course, we both know that to debate a person in full evangelical mode (as this one seems to be) is pretty fruitless. But an email address won’t help, will it?
Sure. Spamming a message board is against most ISP’s rules.
Besides, what respect can I have for somebody who – virulently proclaiming that s/he knows and is preaching God’s only truth – doesn’t even have the courage to stand up and be named?
Melin, not that I disagree with your assessment of this missionary barrage, but plenty of the regulars here refuse to reveal their e-mail addresses for whatever reason. It’s unfair for you to criticize them based on that point.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
I dunno, cmkeller, I understand what you are saying, but these are people who are coming in telling us that they have “the Truth” and that we should all listen to what they have to say. Like I would accept subway directions from someone who won’t even tell me who they are? That’s a far cry from somebody coming on this board and participating in most of the discussions and threads that go on here.
In support of Melin, as a group they refuse to release information about themselves. Their supposed leader directed them to come over here and create havok. While I have my disagreements with Christianity per se, I have never seen this type of organized mayhem and loutishness from such a group before. They don’t consider us people who might see their point of view on this topic, they consider us to be sinful, inhumane enemies with no rights whatsoever. Must be a passage in the bible I must have missed- The ends justify the means.