ezrider
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stovebolts said this in another thread:
"I don't want this site to be like the rest of the world. I want this site to give glory to God. We can all start by listening to others and give an honest answer. It doesn't mean we have to get another to think like we think. It just means respecting others enough to listen and treating others the way we demand others to treat us."
How does one give glory to God? How do you suppose this site to give glory to God? Does glorifying the flesh bring glory to God? Or does talking of Spiritual things give glory to God?
When a man can justify the shooting of another unarmed man in the back seven times because he thinks he deserved it; does this seek to glorify the flesh or does it seek to glorify the Spirit?
When a man sees a pattern of unequal treatment under the law and wishes to discuss the nature of our hearts that creates such racial biases and prejudices; would that type of discussion give glory to the flesh or to the Spirit?
Seeing the forest for all the trees: When we focus on the detail of a tree, we are not watching the forest. When we focus on the things of the flesh, we are not listening to the things of the Spirit. For the wind blows upon all the trees of the forest, it does not stop for one fell tree. The wind moves through the trees, it rattles their leaves and shakes their limbs, yet it does not stop for one; for the wind moves through the trees, it knows the blight upon all.
If we wish to talk of spiritual things, then tell me of the wind!
"I don't want this site to be like the rest of the world. I want this site to give glory to God. We can all start by listening to others and give an honest answer. It doesn't mean we have to get another to think like we think. It just means respecting others enough to listen and treating others the way we demand others to treat us."
How does one give glory to God? How do you suppose this site to give glory to God? Does glorifying the flesh bring glory to God? Or does talking of Spiritual things give glory to God?
When a man can justify the shooting of another unarmed man in the back seven times because he thinks he deserved it; does this seek to glorify the flesh or does it seek to glorify the Spirit?
When a man sees a pattern of unequal treatment under the law and wishes to discuss the nature of our hearts that creates such racial biases and prejudices; would that type of discussion give glory to the flesh or to the Spirit?
Seeing the forest for all the trees: When we focus on the detail of a tree, we are not watching the forest. When we focus on the things of the flesh, we are not listening to the things of the Spirit. For the wind blows upon all the trees of the forest, it does not stop for one fell tree. The wind moves through the trees, it rattles their leaves and shakes their limbs, yet it does not stop for one; for the wind moves through the trees, it knows the blight upon all.
If we wish to talk of spiritual things, then tell me of the wind!