OninoJB
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- Posted: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:40:19 +0000
You can't boil faith in God down into some mechanical exercise. All the jive about "you have to repent and mean it." God knows if you mean it, and He knows we fail... it's not an excuse to fail, but it ought to make someone pause a sec before taking God's seat and damning someone to hell because the ******** up.
If you think a Christian HAS to perform a certain way, you're still in the mechanical exercise. I love telling people about David. He was a man that Jesus said was after God's own heart. He kicked alot of a**... a whole lot of a**... he killed lions and bears while he was a yet a shepherd, keeping his flock safe. He was the only man in Israel with the balls to challenge Goliath of Gath and then he knocked Goliath out with a stone, and cut his head off with his own sword. He won his first wife from King Saul by bringing him 200 Philistine foreskins. He united the Kingdom of Israel, drove out the original inhabitants other a** kicking things.
But that's not all... David also fled to Gath to escape Saul, pretended to be insane so they wouldn't kill him, and helped the Philistines fight against their non-israelite enemies. He slept with the wife of one of his mighty men, and when she got pregnant, he ended up killing her husband to conceal the adultery. He lied to the high priest and took bread from the sanctuary which was unlawful to do.
Christians can fail, and they will... often more than regular folk because they don't realize that they're escaped prisoners and the "gaurds of the world" will jump on us when we're not looking. The world will do and say anything to keep you from doing what God wants... and I am not talking about the "thou shalts," or the "thou shalt nots."
Anyway, there was something about David that made him different from say the first King Saul, who by comparisson didn't do half the crap David did, and God killed Saul. David knew who God is... and looked to Him for deliverance. Not to what he could do, or what others could do for him. He sought God and when his sin came out, he didn't try to excuse it or cover it up He admitted it, and turned to God for mercy. I only know a handful of Christians today that love the Lord in truth. Most are living a lie... I know I don't live in a spirit pleasing to God all the time, but I know He's working on me.
Whether or not these events really happened for the purpose of this discussion is irrelevant. It is the same record Jesus would have read about David, and assuming Jesus is who He says He is (Son of God), I think Jesus could have made it known if the record was wrong. If He wasn't divine, He still got His information about David from this record, and if you are Christian, you trust Jesus... if you don't trust Jesus, why bother with anything to do with Him, there are better things to do than argue with people you think are nuts anyway.
I'm assuming the creator of this thread is genuinne in his concern, although I know there is a very good probability (given the attitude of his post) that he's just an a*****e trying to pick a fight. Either way, I hope this post will help someone.
If you think a Christian HAS to perform a certain way, you're still in the mechanical exercise. I love telling people about David. He was a man that Jesus said was after God's own heart. He kicked alot of a**... a whole lot of a**... he killed lions and bears while he was a yet a shepherd, keeping his flock safe. He was the only man in Israel with the balls to challenge Goliath of Gath and then he knocked Goliath out with a stone, and cut his head off with his own sword. He won his first wife from King Saul by bringing him 200 Philistine foreskins. He united the Kingdom of Israel, drove out the original inhabitants other a** kicking things.
But that's not all... David also fled to Gath to escape Saul, pretended to be insane so they wouldn't kill him, and helped the Philistines fight against their non-israelite enemies. He slept with the wife of one of his mighty men, and when she got pregnant, he ended up killing her husband to conceal the adultery. He lied to the high priest and took bread from the sanctuary which was unlawful to do.
Christians can fail, and they will... often more than regular folk because they don't realize that they're escaped prisoners and the "gaurds of the world" will jump on us when we're not looking. The world will do and say anything to keep you from doing what God wants... and I am not talking about the "thou shalts," or the "thou shalt nots."
Anyway, there was something about David that made him different from say the first King Saul, who by comparisson didn't do half the crap David did, and God killed Saul. David knew who God is... and looked to Him for deliverance. Not to what he could do, or what others could do for him. He sought God and when his sin came out, he didn't try to excuse it or cover it up He admitted it, and turned to God for mercy. I only know a handful of Christians today that love the Lord in truth. Most are living a lie... I know I don't live in a spirit pleasing to God all the time, but I know He's working on me.
Whether or not these events really happened for the purpose of this discussion is irrelevant. It is the same record Jesus would have read about David, and assuming Jesus is who He says He is (Son of God), I think Jesus could have made it known if the record was wrong. If He wasn't divine, He still got His information about David from this record, and if you are Christian, you trust Jesus... if you don't trust Jesus, why bother with anything to do with Him, there are better things to do than argue with people you think are nuts anyway.
I'm assuming the creator of this thread is genuinne in his concern, although I know there is a very good probability (given the attitude of his post) that he's just an a*****e trying to pick a fight. Either way, I hope this post will help someone.