Why I Have Difficulty Loving and Forgiving Enemies

None of that "please come Lord, Jesus" crap for me!

Wow! Such a bold rebel! Sorry pal, but the image you're trying to cultivate just isn't working. You make Barney Fife look like James Dean. You try too hard and it shows.

What a cowardly response

WHAT? I'm scared of you getting down on your knees and praying? You're gonna have to explain that weird comment, Barney.

tell me what salvation entails

Being saved from sin. Tell me what YOU "entail."

You've no problem criticizing my account

I can't. I don't know the name of your bank nor your account number. If I did are you implying I'd find stuff to criticize? Pornhub charges, maybe? That's OK. Salvation also "entails" deliverance from lust.

Grow a pair!

You misspelled "pear" and my tree has grown a few.

Or is it that you are afraid to do so, knowing full well that I can and will demonstrate the conscious, purposeful, and needless harm inherent in the plan?

What plan, Rainman?
 
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Being saved from sin.
How does one become saved from sin?

You don't like my account:
One genuinely repents of sin and removes ultimate trust from self to Christ

So let's see yours!

Prove that you are capable of more than obfuscation, snide remarks, and insults
 
How does one become saved from sin?

One admits to the Lord that one needs to be.

You don't like my account:

That's twice you've said that, parrot. Is it a general account or a savings account that I supposedly dislike?


One genuinely repents of sin and removes ultimate trust from self to Christ

Try it and see. No, on second thought if it's just a trial it won't be genuine, will it? But you're on the right track. You're getting warm.

So let's see yours!

Are we playing "Doctor?" No thanks. Nor do I want to see "yours."
 
Prove it?

Well, yes. That is perhaps the only way for you to learn.

Make your deductive claim and then set off to prove it. I triple dog dare ya.

Let's take a look.

So I can admit to the Lord that I need saving and I am then saved without having to repent for my sins and removing trust from myself to Him?

So, can you prove your points in scripture or not?

Since you want to claim it's just a question, it appears that because of the nature of your question, and you being you, I think it would be greatly beneficial for you to do the legwork yourself.

That way you won't sound so unarmed when you come here. :)

Ok, but in all seriousness, wrestling with these questions yourself would do you a lotta good I think.
 
So, can you prove your points in scripture or not?
Prove what points?

Salvation entails a genuine repentance of sin and a removal of ultimate trust from self to Christ
This is what I have maintained from the very beginning

However, stiggy wiggy takes issue with my account of salvation

When I ask stiggy to tell me what exactly, then, does salvation entail - after much obfuscation - he replies with:
"One admits to the Lord that one needs to be saved"

Obviously, if this is all that one need do in order to be saved - then it goes without saying that one needn't repent of sin
It goes without saying that one needn't place their trust in Christ

One need only acknowledge that one is in need of salvation

This is what stiggy believes - not me
This is stiggy's claim - not mine
Ask him to prove it - not me
 
When Jesus called the Pharisees a “brood of vipers” and when He overturned the moneychanger’s tables was He being unchristian?
That’s a thought provoking question. I can't come up with an answer. Jesus called certain people hypocrites, snakes, vipers, dogs, pigs and blind fools. He’d likely have had his CARM account suspended.
 
No, I am completely indifferent regarding your menstrual cycles.



He was the guy who with the Mysterians did "96 Tears:"




De notes dey play ain't bad.
Typical

More obfuscation

Why are you soo afraid to commit yourself to your beliefs?

Unsure?
Ashamed?
Afraid that they'll be easily dismantled?
 

Hmmm, so what do you think those 96 tears are a type of? I think you're reading too much into it. It's just a silly pop song.

More obfuscation

Oooooh, somebody learned a new polysyllabic word today.

Why are you soo afraid to commit yourself to your beliefs?

Because if I committed myself to believing, for example, that 1+1=2, every kid in the neighborhood would expect me to do his math homework for him. And I'm too busy trying to educate you.

Afraid that they'll be easily dismantled?

Heh, you couldn't dismantle a Mister Potato Head if I spotted you the nose and an eyebrow.
 
Hmmm, so what do you think those 96 tears are a type of? I think you're reading too much into it. It's just a silly pop song.



Oooooh, somebody learned a new polysyllabic word today.



Because if I committed myself to believing, for example, that 1+1=2, every kid in the neighborhood would expect me to do his math homework for him. And I'm too busy trying to educate you.



Heh, you couldn't dismantle a Mister Potato Head if I spotted you the nose and an eyebrow.
Heh, you're too chicken crap to own the faith you claim
 
Heh, you're too chicken crap to own the faith you claim

Somehow I'll bet you can't find any atheist in this place to agree with you on that. Most would probably say the opposite; that I'm too overbearing about my faith.

I shout it from the housetops. Matthew 10:27.

Incidentally, you've become quite a humorless drag lately.
 
That’s a thought provoking question. I can't come up with an answer. Jesus called certain people hypocrites, snakes, vipers, dogs, pigs and blind fools. He’d likely have had his CARM account suspended.
I dont usually debate fellow Christians, but Jesus knew the heart of the people He was talking to. Also, He was referring to people that claimed to be believers, I dont think He ever called an unbeliever a name. We usually dont know the heart of people like Jesus did, so I think generally we should not call people names because we should always treat people with respect as everyone is created in the image of God. As seen in Matthew 5:22.
 
Prove what points?

Seriously?

Since you seem oblivious to what you do, your next words are what you need to prove, in scripture.

Salvation entails a genuine repentance of sin and a removal of ultimate trust from self to Christ
This is what I have maintained from the very beginning

And this is what you need to prove in scripture.

Hope it's crystal clear to you. Just to clear your mind, I've never heard it said like you have, so you need to show your work.
 
Show us where scripture says what you put in your own words.
No thanks

I'm not interested in 'proving' what every Christian on earth already knows

That:
1. We are to genuinely repent of sin
and
2. We are to remove ultimate trust from self to Christ

By all means, though, go ahead and deny that this is what salvation requires
 
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