Billygoat
You said:
It is people like you that make Christianity look so hypocritical. I'm embarassed to be lumped in the same category as you.
Listen, Billy, you and I don’t share the same category. You see, you are a member of what is known as “Christendom”. That’s a mock form of Christianity. So, I’m glad that you’re embarrassed.
You also said:
This is the first negative post I've made directed at a person. But what would God Jehovah think of your intolerance and unkindness? Aren't we to be kind to all men no matter what they're background and lifestyle? How would Jesus Christ treat Joelbear? I cannot imagine him saying to Maximus what you just posted. Can you actually believe that Christ would be that cruel??? I can imagine nothing but kindness and love coming from Christ to Joel. His character is something to be proud of and followed by others!!!
I’ll answer you here with the same answer I gave in the other thread, since it’s primarily the same question:
I’m afraid you’re, to some extent, getting my ‘forthrightness’ mixed up with ‘rudeness’. Besides, where in the Bible can you point to that says that a true Christian is to be a pacifist? Can you point that out to me?
Perhaps you have Luke 6:29 in mind: “To him that strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also.” Is it my fault that you and others don’t know how to properly understand Jesus’ words? You really need to take into consideration who I am dealing with here, for the most part. For the most part, they are ex-JWs. Therefore, those words of Jesus have ABSOLUTELY no application in such cases. Then when do they find application? Of course if I were being struck, as it were, “on the one cheek” by a person who had never been exposed to true Christianity then I would “offer the other also”. However, not so with those who were once privileged with having come to know about Jehovah’s wonderful provisions and then foolishly rejected them. And what’s even worse, these ones have determined to “beat” their former brothers, those who gave their time and energies to share those things with them. And so because they have now become enemies after having that background, this places them out on the battlefield of war. Now, they and I are in a state of war. For all the above reasons, I don’t sit idly by and allow myself to be trampled on by worthless, enemy apostates.
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