Cornfed wrote: ↑January 6th, 2018, 10:17 am
Adama wrote: ↑January 6th, 2018, 7:49 am
Then I realized, every man's portion comes from God. The things I receive in this life are the things that God gives to me. No man can interfere with my portion. Sure they can try to block me from receiving good things. They can attempt to take my life. But God is my defense and He has my portion. King David knew, our times (the length of our lives) are in God's hand. And anyone coming in between me and my portion to cut me off from it is going to go into darkness and confusion, and it is going to hit them without them being aware of it. And it is their portion that we will cursed.
Besides that, this is not the only life. The next life is where fullness of glory is. This life is only temporary. The purpose of this life is not to wage war against people. It is to get saved by believing in Christ, and then to do good to please Him so that He can exalt us to safety and glory in both this life and the next.
Some people think working hatred against other people will increase them. No, it only marks them as evil doers who need to be removed out of the earth, like dead trees that are plucked up by the roots. Waging war is literally suicide, because God issues recompense to evil doers.
This kind of lethargic fatalism is one of the reasons modern Christianity is f***ed.
For some reason people think of Christianity as some kind of football league or a political movement or something, and they are counting the number of Christians as if their count means something. Well their account of Christianity doesn't mean anything. They have a false view of Christianity altogether.
Besides that, most people are deceived into false versions of Christianity based upon works. Christ completed all the work; it is finished. He paid the full price for our sins. All a person has to do to become a Christian and to be saved is to believe in the Lord.
There can be no accounting of real Christians who believe by faith alone, because they don't need to belong to a church to be saved. All they have to do is believe.
So modern Christianity is screwed? It isn't a movement. Either a person believes and gets saved or they don't.
The purpose of this life is to reconcile with Christ, not to destroy other people or do evil. The next life when we will be with the Lord is where the real life is. We only exist in this state because Adam sinned. Christ rescued all those who believe in Him. Then we each who believe get to live again, but this time the way God intended originally. Those who are greedy for evil in this life will miss out, because God will not rescue them. Because for the people who go too far, He will close their eyes and they will be unable to believe and therefore they will not live again.
A good man is above pettiness. He is better than that.