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| My favorite Bible verse Proverbs 17:17 |
Last night on Facebook, I was shocked at a post I saw that
was criticizing Christians, the Bible and essentially God. As our pastor has
taught us, our sin has separated us from God, we need mercy, and heaven forbid
we all need mercy and grace as we all will not make it to Heaven, Hell is a
real place.
I digressed, back to the Facebook post, it started out like
this: "What bugs you about facebook? there are many things that bug me but
the one thing that really bugs me is the people who make comments based on what
the bible says, and then quotes scriptures."
This same person has had some major events happen in her
life and not all for the good. I have seen her talk about gods, little g, not
the one and only wonderful living God, although she quotes scripture.
My original comment to the post was, “I quote the Bible all the time,
it is to be our source. It tells us to hide it's words in our hearts.”
She did not comment on what I
said, however, to the lady agreeing with this writer she posts, “lately people
are commenting back to me in threads with scriptures. they cannot form their
own sentence in their own words, they have to quote the bible...it is not
natural...they are stepford bible pushers and well god says love
your neighbor but golly these bible pushers are the first ones to throw the
stone at gay marriages...I don't get it...how is that love????...I am just
annoyed with it all.”
By the time I found the new
testament verse that answered why Christians do not agree with gay marriage
there were several other comments all agreeing with her. I posted the scripture
and you would have thought I had personally attacked another woman that is gay,
however, I did not know this, therefore, it was no personal attack I was simply
answering why as a bible believing Christian we cannot agree with it.
Now, I have family and friends that definitely believe
differently than I do, however, we have agreed to disagree in love. I kind of
thought it was the same this way, however, it was very obvious by the comments
made it is not.
Therefore, I stepped out of the conversation, while mean and
nasty comments kept rolling in. I sent a private Facebook message to the women
saying in lieu of making a bad situation worse I think it is best to un-friend
you, I continued to add, “I try to live my life as a Christian which means
reading the Bible and attempting to live the best I can. It also means sharing
the Bible. I did not say I hated gay people, as I have family that is gay. Do I
have to love the sin while loving the sinner, NO! I also am NOT ashamed of
being a Bible believing Christian.
With that said, have any other Bible believing Christians
felt attacked lately? If so how have you handled it?
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