I bet you are as sick as I am of the middle east. My religious type friends do not seem to get it that Israel is a secular state by choice. They feel an ancient mandate to "pray for the peace of Israel" and as we all know Israel, God's chosen people, for the most part needed to repent over and over. Many warnings and prophets were sent. Jeremiah, Lot's wife,Nathaniel, and Jesus himself was prophesied over and over in the Old Testament. They would repent. God would restore them, they would fall again.
Abraham's two sons became mighty nations. His son with Hagar became part of the Palestinian movement today. Even though Abraham cast them out from among his people, God kept them safe fro his own reasons. His son with Sarah, Isaac, became the promised son of the prophecy. The ancient struggle, brother versus brother. You see it in your own homes, one child maybe feeling more loved than another. One harboring or nursing a grudge. In Adam's sons it led to jealousy and murder.
We are not so different today. Although God's chosen people, there is no denying the holocaust happened. Afterwards, understandably many remaining Jews were not as enamored of God and his "people". If left to their own devices, many surrounding nations would flatten Israel like a paper pancake. So we must police them, and keep an eye on Israel because they seem to feel they are accountable to no one. Both sides of the borders can say they have had family members murdered.. Both sides,and the Christians claim a link to Jerusalem. Just look at Ireland to see what religious fervor can do to a nation. I absolutely do not speak for God, but I bet he is not on either side. Who honors their God by killing? Who has a right to take a life but God.
Muslims saying, Salaam, want to make the world conform to their God.
Israel, saying Shalom, wants peace through people conforming to their God.
The Lord God wants the killing to end. The Lord God wants those who follow him to be a positive force in the world. He wants people to show their faith by their actions, and quit blaming God for own bloodlust. Before there are actions, sins are thoughts, the Bible says. It is not a sin to be tempted, it is a sin to sin. Jesus was sorely tempted, but without sin. He got angry, but did not sin. I am sure he was tempted to rain fire down on religious phonies, but instead he went around healing and comforting and trying to reconcile the world back to his Father.
God loves every single person he ever created. What he hates is sin. So even the church who loves to get on tv and at funerals to say who God hates-- are lying. YUP.All God hates is sin, and thats because the consequences harm people more than the pleasures of the moment. I can tell you for a fact God not only doesnt hate fags, he doesnt even call them that. He hates the sin, but knows each person by name. Even the sinners who go on tv ad declare what God is or thinks. His heart is broken to see what people turn his church into. And America is right there in the middle of it all. Despite good or bad intentions, all that money and time and lives has not solved this ancient feud. And as I am writing this, more UN soldiers will die somewhere, in the cause of someones God.
I do not know the answer, but before we decide to change a countrys' borders, before we decide to stir gasoline in the fray, lets ask ourselves why Palestine can not be given a home as Israel was? Which brother deserves a home more? We must love Abrahams' sons equally, or this whole world may go up in flames.
And then we will learn what hell is. Too many people have the know how to blow this world to kingdom come. Anyone out there wanna be an agent for peace? I sure do. I have kids who want kids one day, don't you?
Abraham's two sons became mighty nations. His son with Hagar became part of the Palestinian movement today. Even though Abraham cast them out from among his people, God kept them safe fro his own reasons. His son with Sarah, Isaac, became the promised son of the prophecy. The ancient struggle, brother versus brother. You see it in your own homes, one child maybe feeling more loved than another. One harboring or nursing a grudge. In Adam's sons it led to jealousy and murder.
We are not so different today. Although God's chosen people, there is no denying the holocaust happened. Afterwards, understandably many remaining Jews were not as enamored of God and his "people". If left to their own devices, many surrounding nations would flatten Israel like a paper pancake. So we must police them, and keep an eye on Israel because they seem to feel they are accountable to no one. Both sides of the borders can say they have had family members murdered.. Both sides,and the Christians claim a link to Jerusalem. Just look at Ireland to see what religious fervor can do to a nation. I absolutely do not speak for God, but I bet he is not on either side. Who honors their God by killing? Who has a right to take a life but God.
Muslims saying, Salaam, want to make the world conform to their God.
Israel, saying Shalom, wants peace through people conforming to their God.
The Lord God wants the killing to end. The Lord God wants those who follow him to be a positive force in the world. He wants people to show their faith by their actions, and quit blaming God for own bloodlust. Before there are actions, sins are thoughts, the Bible says. It is not a sin to be tempted, it is a sin to sin. Jesus was sorely tempted, but without sin. He got angry, but did not sin. I am sure he was tempted to rain fire down on religious phonies, but instead he went around healing and comforting and trying to reconcile the world back to his Father.
God loves every single person he ever created. What he hates is sin. So even the church who loves to get on tv and at funerals to say who God hates-- are lying. YUP.All God hates is sin, and thats because the consequences harm people more than the pleasures of the moment. I can tell you for a fact God not only doesnt hate fags, he doesnt even call them that. He hates the sin, but knows each person by name. Even the sinners who go on tv ad declare what God is or thinks. His heart is broken to see what people turn his church into. And America is right there in the middle of it all. Despite good or bad intentions, all that money and time and lives has not solved this ancient feud. And as I am writing this, more UN soldiers will die somewhere, in the cause of someones God.
I do not know the answer, but before we decide to change a countrys' borders, before we decide to stir gasoline in the fray, lets ask ourselves why Palestine can not be given a home as Israel was? Which brother deserves a home more? We must love Abrahams' sons equally, or this whole world may go up in flames.
And then we will learn what hell is. Too many people have the know how to blow this world to kingdom come. Anyone out there wanna be an agent for peace? I sure do. I have kids who want kids one day, don't you?
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