MusicForThePiano
Pelican
Treating mindless savages with civility is a futile gesture.
There is no reconciling differences with these people. They are full of envy, malice and strife. We cannot live together peacefully because they cannot live with anyone peacefully, including their likeminded kin. They do not value life. They are thieves, liars, and murderers to their core. They live only to fill their bellies with food they did not work for, to blaspheme God with their words and actions, to get high, and to fornicate. They destroy anything and everything beautiful because they hate what they don’t have and can’t steal.
If someone is coming to destroy. It's prudent to destroy them first. Especially those savages here.Treating mindless savages with civility is a futile gesture.
My natural inclination is to agree with this because it fits my biases. However is there any scripture that is more explicit about not forgiving the unrepentant? It's implied but not explicitly stated in that passage.When Jesus talked about forgiveness he is assuming repentance from the offender(Luke 17:4) not the unrepentant that even God doesn't forgive.
My natural inclination is to agree with this because it fits my biases. However is there any scripture that is more explicit about not forgiving the unrepentant? It's implied but not explicitly stated in that passage.
I believe we are supposed to forgive regardless. Check out the parable of the man who is forgiven a massive debt but is incapable of forgiving a petty debt in Matthew 18.My natural inclination is to agree with this because it fits my biases. However is there any scripture that is more explicit about not forgiving the unrepentant? It's implied but not explicitly stated in that passage.
These proponents of multiculturalism are trying to usurp God and achieve a secular paradise like the Tower of Babel, and it’s going to end up the same way.Christianity is not self-defeating pacifism. The religious case for ethnic nationalism/separatism is more compelling than secular arguments -- forced multiculturalism is a chronic source of conflict and violence, forever pitting us against each other to where our mind is preoccupied with anger, stress, and safety concerns rather than Christ.
All nations are worthy of God's salvation, and it's inevitable that we interact with those from other nations, treating them as we treat ourselves. There is no imperative however to forcibly and unnaturally integrate when it only leads to tension, violence, and sin. I support the brotherhood of separate nations through Christ, not the dissolution of nations without Christ.
When Jesus talked about forgiveness he is assuming repentance from the offender(Luke 17:4) not the unrepentant that even God doesn't forgive.
Charlottesville comes to mindWhen was the last time a white person intentionally drove an SUV through a rap concert where everyone was black and fired rifles to kill/injure some more?
I remember a few years ago in Germany it was some Muslims who killed a bunch of people driving through a Christmas parade.
I think as Christians, we are to be forgiving on a personal level, both because God has forgiven us, and because it is better for our own hearts to release the anger.I believe we are supposed to forgive regardless. Check out the parable of the man who is forgiven a massive debt but is incapable of forgiving a petty debt in Matthew 18.
I don’t think the concept of forgiveness has anything to do with living around savages and letting them destroy you. Any Christian society would purge the wicked intent on destroying its institutions and killing or subjugating its people. We don’t live in a Christian society though. I just think we need to form communities capable of self defense when the society at large is at best indifferent.