To: Don Martini who wrote (104960 ) 2/25/1999 1:09:00 PM From: bry57 Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 176387
Thank,you Don, for the well done response, and you are very correct, GOD is love,, we need to define what love is, my understanding of love is an action more then an emotion or feeling, If you think we live in the perfect will of GOD (now) then we must serve an imperfect GOD,I do not see myself as "all-knowing" by any means, but I do see GOD as "All-knowing". Our will is the active ingredient to perfect love. God makes no one love Him and we can make no one love us. God GAVE His only Son to redeem us and we GIVE our lives to Him. Judgment is not mine, but it is His. Proverb 9:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For by Me your days will be multiplied, and years of life will be added to you. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone." Luke 16:19-31 Jesus says, "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in HADES, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Then he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.' But Abraham said, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.' Then he said,' I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of TORMENT.' Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, 'No father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, the will repent.' But he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead." Don, I truly believe there is a better life for Voltaire. I also believe he deserves that LIFE in Christ. This is my way of loving in God. I am sure I will be able to learn to love better, as I grow in my relationship with God. Apologies for any offense I have caused to this board. Nonetheless, I stand wholeheartedly to the convictions I have GIVEN my life to,,,love ya! bry57