Re: "But I'm Too NICE To Go To Hell!" -
08-29-2010, 01:21 PM
Kindness - is sort of an interpretive thing.
For example, some think it is mean to punch a queer. I see it as an act of love. If I did not care, if I did not want to see the Homer repent and go to Heaven, then I would not intervene. Would not ignoring the Homer actually be the unkind gesture?
Switching my wife for not following instructions could save her life one day. Is it mean to want to save her life?
Paying minimum wage is not mean. It teaches people how to manage their money. If they learn the lesson well, they can amass a fortune. Is it mean to want to help others become well off?
Does the mother who ensures her child has a full lunch box love her child? No, she does it to make the less fortunate feel bad that not only have they little to eat but it reinforces the notion that their mother hates them.
Does the father that likes to hang out with his daughter, playing 'tea party', love her? Of course not, he is a pedophile on the brink of committing a felony.
So do not jump to conclusions. Most things you see that on the surface look terrible are in reality, acts of love.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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