nonaeroterraqueous
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I thought it was a wake-up call that I don't take God seriously... Though salvation doesn't require works, surely Christians should take God seriously.
I'm glad you ended with that conclusion. I was referring to your first post, where you said this:
I thought that maybe I should offer God something to help me...
You were considering a barter. It says something about a person. Take Christmas, for example, where everyone is trading gifts. If you didn't know what was going on it might look like bartering, the exchange of goods. Yet, it's not just an economic transaction, and if it were, then it would be so much less than what it could have been. What is Christmas, anyway? It's where someone gives you what you probably could have bought for yourself, and it's never one-hundred-percent what you would have picked if you had gone to the store. It's not about the physical goods, but the sentiment behind them.
The same is true for God. If you try to offer him something in exchange for his services, then you're not offering him what he really wants.
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