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CRATUS
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So your opinion on abortion is from God and the rest of us are misinformed. We all pray to the same God yet we cannot agree on what He thinks.
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Lynxdk
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I think abortion is wrong, and should not happen.
God says, make no laws against it.
Not everyone is Catholic, some are Atheists… sorry, but we don’t live in a Catholic country.
A few years ago, I wouldn’t have believed me, either. A few months from now… days? Sooner, I hope, you’re gonna say what I keep saying:
Oh My God. You really Are real!
I Talk to God. Praying… has some misunderstandings there…
I hope you all know, moderaters especially, I’m not trying to keep God for Myself, I want EVERYONE to know God as I do =)
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Lynxdk
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I Love My God
There’s no tears of joy smiley
There’s no tears of joy smiley
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CRATUS
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I think I know not everyone is Catholic. Be careful with your tone. Sounds combative
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Lynxdk
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Text has no tone. The reader feels their own tone into text. Text conveys no tone. How else can I express that idea.
I am at peace.
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CRATUS
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Really? Use of all caps is a tone.
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Tezza
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Thank you. I would say I was raised in the exact opposite environment so, yes, that makes sense. I would say it’s also part of my temperament. So I sometimes find myself telling God…“Hey, you made me this way!”
My reading of the old testament still seems to speak to the “toe-the-line-as-I-command” part of me, thus my empathy for those who were trying to do just that. As others pointed at, the pharisees had hijacked the law to lord it over the people, so I get that. In the same token, according to the law, the people should have stoned the woman caught in adultery, as commanded by God. I mean, they did stone the guy picking up sticks on the sabbath. Unless the stoners had some insight (which they would not have because they were not divine like Jesus) and could tell the stick guy was saying, “In your face, God! Curse your law! I’m picking up sticks!” while the woman caught in adultery was a wounded, abused woman used by men and then blamed for their actions (which was probably the case) and was not intentionally disobeying the law in an act of defiance, ok then. Of course, Jesus knew this. But those he commanded to carry out the law would not have.
If my understanding is correct from listening to historians like Fr. Mitch, the law was given to an ancient, uncivilized people at a point in time when they needed this structure to develop holiness. At the point when Jesus entered the picture, the peoples were developed enough to received the new covenant, and, by the grace given through Jesus, would be able to “graduate” from the old to the new.
Maybe I’m getting stuck with Jesus’s fulfillment of the law contradicting what his Father had prescribed to the Jews. At least, if I were one of these anti-Christian, Catholic-bashing atheists like Bill Maher, who likes to dissect scripture just to prove points like this, I would kind of see where he was coming from.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement!
Tezza
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