You are a complete waste of my time if you think I have EVER seen ANYTHING as extreme black or white, especially concerning scripture.
In fact I made a big deal of it in a thread I did on the book of Job.
Someone posted a scripture as if it were a black and white issue. I posted the scripture I did to show that it was not so black and white.
That is NOT the actions of an extremist with a black and white complex, you blithering moron!
You need to give up on trying to analyze where folks are coming from, because you suck at it.
Your consistently carnal response when you perceive you have been unjustly attacked and or not agreed with; as you just now responded once more; merely proves once more I have read your double-standard correctly.
It is your seemingly convenient to you double standard that you are emotionally staight jacketed by; not my words to you.
1 Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
You continue to miss out in your victory on the Lord during such moments - though you don't have to.
The victory is yours for the accessing.
Not to mention it's intended conforming through adversity when adversity is viewed through Pauline truth on it.
Romans 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
As Paul had had to remind the "yet carnal" Corinthians...
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Try that, and you'll find what I have personally continued to find; whenever I perceive that others have defamed me, but I instead choose to reckon the following...
Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
The result of looking at so called personal attacks whether real or imagined - when willingly viewed by faith through said reckoning?
8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
How so? Work together how? To produce what good; specifically?
The conforming or shaping tool the suffering is converted into by the above reckoning - the following being the result...
8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Why do you think I said "precious Tam"?
Because I knew you would take my words wrong and had hoped to let you know I did not mean you any harm through them.
Well guess what?
Now the ball is in my court - what am I myself also taught in everything?
Your insult just now - I have two choices...
To momentarily throw the grace that I assert is the victory out the window because it is in the way of the flesh's lie that I should both take a thing personally - and - am supposet to want to pay you back in kind; or refuse to go there by faith - that Christ might be glorified in my infirmity.
I choose the latter - out of habit "by reason of use."
As a result; at this point, in my walk, Tam; you words can't hurt me.
Your years too late, sis.
I've long since learned that neither one of us is the issue.
That Christ alone, and Him crucified...is.
I would that this victory were yours, my sister in the Lord.
It is. It is there in you, in Him, for you to access during these very moments.
You see this that follows?
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
No need to take words personally. Not in light of what you have in Him.
Yours in him,
Eph. 4:16.
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