James;
All you had to do was answer the questions. My wife did. Since you did not answer the questions or express your feelings to GB you never gave him a chance did you? Maybe you would have been surprised with his reply if it offended you. GB put out the hook and proved a point did he not? God is big enough to handle himself and he knows GB's intentions we are not all going to think alike and their will be times when we disagree. What do we do James run away from whatever because they do not fit our mold? If I thought that way many people that I have met in my life would never have become believers in the Lord one of them was a hells angels biker his name was Jim Ravoni he smoked pot and you name it but he knew I had boundaries and boy did he turn out to be one heck of a friend and believer in the Lord, he ended up witnessing to all his other biker friends which totalled about 50 mean looking and the works and I am sure some cursed him and so forth I never knew what happened since I left and returned to NY, but when I left I knew his life had changed and I hope some day to see him again.
I only wished I had answered the questions and if I had gotten to some that offended me I would have express it to GB in a respectful way and I am sure he would have answered back in a respectful way. In other word he would respect my beliefs something that I find lacking in the communication with others. Setting an example is all that God can ask from us, do you think he died for the perfect? or the lost.
3: Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4: Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5: One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6: He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9: For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
10: But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12: So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14: I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15: But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16: Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18: For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
19: Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
20: For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21: It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
22: Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23: And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
James I know you took offence to some of his questions but were they directed to you? You need not protect God I am sure he can protect himself if GB was trying to make him look bad, I think that was not the case since no one took the time to answer his questions only to stereotype his motives. I am not putting you down as a believer James I know you are but please step back and understand my thought's they were Questions not statements.
Alan |
