This is the difference between the love of man and the Love of God. These people truly have the heart of God, an inexhaustible supply. In my experience, which has happened many times, when the Lord sends me to do His work, I get His strength, It does not tap my own at all. This is something in scripture “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” - Paul.
Working in the power of God is awesome as will not lead to the above. This is the very reason God is sending these people to these autistic children, they will not be effected by burnout as those who are operating in human strength.
The limit will be what God states, medical science doesn’t even know what spirit is, and that it what life is, so they are not even looking in the right place.
These people do what they do because they love children. Yes, it’s true they are encouraged to maintain some level of detachment. This is because hugs don’t cure autism, and it’s important to consider the needs of the children.
I suppose I’d prefer you to stick to reality in your claims or to support them with facts.
This is the second time you’ve made this absolutely ridiculous statement.
Okay, make that three times. Like I said: I don’t pretend my illusions are unbelievable insights or that they are medical cures that will work on other people, as you apparently do.
I’m not against loving children. But your claim that autistic children just need “Love” is ridiculous.
God wasn’t much of a parent either, you know. His kid was always hanging out with hookers and tax collectors, and ended up in trouble with the law. Mote, eye, log.
Well, and then there was that whole “Hey Abraham, go kill your son…No Wait! Just kidding” bit. That might leave a touch of a scar, psychologically speaking, on a child.
If God’s telling us not to listen to demons while we’re fetuses, he’s just flapping his lips. We haven’t developed ears yet. We can’t drive cars either, shiny or not.
Not powerful enough apparently, if he can’t keep demons from existentially raping us before we even exist.
I know a lot of Christians believe that once they’re saved, they are permanently protected from hell’s influence. But they still sin. If demons can’t touch them, then they sin on their own and are solely accountable for their actions. Could it be they sinned on their own before they got saved?
You’re basing some guy’s LSD trip as verification for your own beliefs? That’s kind of stretching it, don’t you think? I’ve had mushroom trips where I thought tree bark was a living colony of mutant octopuses. Did I see into the spirit world? Demons were tempting that tree!
Gates is a heroin addict? No wonder he sells so many computers. That’s an expensive habit to support!
That goes to your reincarnation theory. Maybe when we kick off before our 120 years are up, we come back in another life and make up the rest.
Eat hunks of fish flesh off the walls maybe?
If you’re saying living in a fish is like being dead, then that means the Bible CAN be metaphorical. A literal interpretation of a passage may not be correct!
My take on the whole Isaac thing- Warning may contain witnessing.
Abe knows his son won’t be killed. When G-d asks it, Abe is basically responding to Penn Gillette pulling out a lighter and asking for a 20 dollar bill. He doesn’t really think Ike will be killed. He thinks he’ll see a good trick.
My reasoning is based on the fact that Abe does not negotiate with G-d. Contrast this to Abe’s reaction when G-d says “I’m gonna smite me some Sodom and Gammorah.” Then, Abe knows G-d is serious and says 'Wait! Don’t do it! If I can find 10 righteous men, will you spare the cities?"
So, either Abe cares more about a bunch of strangers than his own son, or he never negotiates over Ike because he knows Ike is never in any real danger.
You used your quote as an example of professionals being trained not to get attached to children.
And yet, please consider what the bolded section says.
So if the selection you chose is what you want to use to affirm your argument, then the part that is bolded is just as valid as what you chose to take from the selection.
One more thing for you to consider. It’s pretty demeaning and abusive of you, not to mention blindly arrogant, to assume that a professional’s love for an autistic child will necessarily be of higher quality or more importance than the love of the parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, family friends, and neighbors. How dare you?
IMHO We are fully formed souls fully conscious and capable of understanding. When we integrate into our bodies and minds we have to figure out how they work.
Again we are fully formed already. Why Satan gets to tempt us I’m not sure, but it might have something to do with God forming man a little lower then angels, and perhaps the deal God made with angels.
Once your saved you are saved, it’s something we can’t earn, it’s a free gift, and as such can’t be taken away. There are saved people who IMHO have been to Hell. The reason seems to be 2 fold, 1 to have testimony that hell is real, and 2, to scare someone who has shipwrecked their faith, if this level of pressure is needed, to get them back in line with God’s will.
It’s not that demon’s can’t touch them however, it is that demons can’t control their lives. Demons want to inflict torment on us, if God allows them to touch us for a time they will, but God will just use them to mold us further into His likeness.
Not as verification of my beliefs, but I just suggested what I got from that information, a possible spiritual explanation. As for your school of octopi I’d say you saw the ocean floor if anything.
And I didn’t even mention the hemorrhoids, are you still sure you want this deal?
That goes to your reincarnation theory. Maybe when we kick off before our 120 years are up, we come back in another life and make up the rest.
I’m not exactly ready to make that leap, but can’t rule it out either. John the Baptist seems to have been ‘born again in the Kingdom of God’, as the Holy Spirit was on him from birth, actually before birth. And the ‘Kingdom of God is among’ us. Is it possible, that interwoven with our fallen world, is the Kingdom of God, some people we see around us may be living in another kingdom.
Peter talks about his physical body as a ‘tent’, which holds his core being. So if it is a form of reincarnation it is not multiple lives as commonly expressed but a single life in multiple bodies.
He may have had food, but he should have made it 3 days without food. It was the lack of air (which is Spirit) which would be the tough one to buy. Does these 3 days in Sheol count towards the 120 year limit? I don’t think so as the Spirit had to leave him.
It does not appear metaphorical according the Jesus:
And Jesus relates 3 days in the fish to His 3 days in the heart of the earth (i.e. underground, where Jonah sank down to.)
Issac was the desire of Abraham’s (and Sarah’s) heart. After forsaking everything following the Lord, the Lord finally gives them what He know they desire. The test is who do you want more, God or your son. It is also a ultimate lesson in trusting God with the thing you most love, giving that up to God.
This is also the test that God did Himself, by sending His Son, in theory God could have split Himself. There is a time leading up to the crucifixion where Jesus says that He could call legions of angels down to fight for Him. This IMHO would cause a split between Father and Son, and Jesus would be with us, but away from the Father. He had to be willing to follow God’s plan causing temporary separation of both Father and us from Him, and trust in the Father that He would bring everyone back.
The part that makes the difference is the power of God. It’s not the love of parents that heal, it is the Love of God through whoever He decides. It’s not the hug that heals, it is the touch of God.
Sorry, perhaps I mistyped, it’s not the professional’s love that is going to do it, it is the Love of God. That Love comes through people He selects. It’s not the person’s love at all that’s going to do this.
Again let me make it clear, it is the Love of the Lord God Almighty that will do it, no human love component is needed.
I’ve never really cared all that much about how Abraham felt about it, at least not in relationship to how Isaac felt about it. Now that’s gonna leave a mark. “Hey dad, remember that time you marched me out to the chopping block to kill me? I bet the look on my face was priceless!”
In your analogy, it depends on whether the $20 bill is in on the whole thing, and whether it finds the setup of the trick to be a laugh riot.
Thast’s very poetic of you, but seriously, what are you going to do when the Guinness Book of World Records reports a man who’s lived past 120?
Expanding slightly on an earlier statment of mine, it isn’t just people who work with autisitic children who try not to get emotionally involved, but also doctors and social workers and police officers and such, who deal with with heart-breaking and/or horrific cases that, even if resolved positively, get replaced by an endless stream of equally-horrific new cases. I suppose being a missionary for Jesus is somewhat different - some people might get burned out if they go for years without converting anyone, but some relish the ridicule and challenge and derision because of the martyrdom mindset where suffering for your cause is not only good, but expected, and increases one’s chance of a rewarding afterlife.