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So which church leader was preaching this past Sunday to go out and do this?
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He doesn't say - he just states:
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Maybe soon, I will see God and Jesus. At least that is what I was told.
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Seems as if he was literate enough to read the Book and its many contradictory passages offering justification for nearly everything for himself. Here are a couple to think about
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“We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers”. – 1 John 3:14-16
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What if the shooter
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hate' anybody - but was merely offering a
gift of love by allowing a select few randomly chosen by GOD's will to accompany him on his journey to seek GOD - does that mean he is not a murderer as written?
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law [Holy Bible] to do them.
I've got several copies of the Holy Bible and they have a number of differing interpretations of the same passages - which am I to believe?
Or perhaps he was confused by:
John 3:16
GOD loves the world.
John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
So is destroying the world favorable for or against GOD's love?
Or can GOD be bipolar - loves the world one day and hates it the next? And if GOD is bipolar, shouldn't we be that way, too...or are we? The Earth is - it has a North Pole and a South Pole. But then there is Poland which is...
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Who are we to believe? And if someone doesn't believe what we believe as is written and
edited, doesn't this say we have justification to destroy them as they have brought our actions upon themselves?
Having lived among and witnessed the actions of a vast number of societies and beliefs throughout the world - I have come to accept the concept of
"the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" - maybe I'm wrong, too - but's that my issue alone and I accept that. However, YMMV.
Bottom Line: I fail to understand how any
sane person can do such harm to others - no matter what guise they seek to cloak and justify their heinous actions - religious or otherwise.
And the seemingly senseless killings in Pittsburh is still a sad case.
Richard's $.02
