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Xeno.of.athens said:
I know what Jesus thinks by what he says and what he did as described in scripture there is no implication that I read his mind or that I have special insight into the inner workings of God the son.
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Except how Jesus acted and what He said don't convey in their entirety what He thinks/thought. Especially given the variety of approaches Jesus took and sometimes puzzling statements like using a racial slur against a woman who came to ask Him to free her daughter from an evil spirit. So again, are you letting God be God or are you placing a demand on where God can't lead you?
 
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Fervent said:
Except how Jesus acted and what He said don't convey in their entirety what He thinks/thought. Especially given the variety of approaches Jesus took and sometimes puzzling statements like using a racial slur against a woman who came to ask Him to free her daughter from an evil spirit. So again, are you letting God be God or are you placing a demand on where God can't lead you?
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May I ask what is the purpose of your last post and the few that went before?
 
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Fervent said:
Exploration and edification.
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I was curious, I started to wonder if you were advocating for hating people or using terrible slurs as in your last post or killing people for instance like the amalekites for some other rather dastardly deeds, that's why I'm wondering what your intention is.
 
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Xeno.of.athens said:
I was curious, I started to wonder if you were advocating for hating people or using terrible slurs as in your last post or killing people for instance like the amalekites for some other rather dastardly deeds, that's why I'm wondering what your intention is.
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Ah, no. It's more a question of reconciling God's wrath and God's love. I'm hoping to explore the question with you, because it's an interesting dilemma that I have wrestled with myself in the past. What is at the heart of your resistance? Is it truly out of a desire to love as God loves? Is it fear of judgment coming back on you? Is it fear that contemplating the wrath and judgment of God will make Him hateful to you? Is it genuinely coming from the Holy Spirit, or perhaps you've adopted the prominent values of a culture that's last remaining virtues are tolerance and apathy?
 
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Xeno.of.athens said:
My religion, my faith is more wedded to being kind and showing compassion than it is to law and gospel, to justice and rightness. So I ask of my self "will you let the bible teach you to punish and to judge the 'world' casting some away?" which translates to will I let the bible teach me to be unkind and hard - to treat anyone badly because justice demands it or their faults deserve it?

1 Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
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I'm not following you here. Yes, we will judge angels. But isn't a good judge one who is a good and kind person? It seems that you are saying that because we judge angels, we will have to be unkind and hard.

Also, there is this:

Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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So I say, don't judge unless we are specifically called on by God to do so -- at His direction and in His time. Continue to be kind and compassionate, and remember that the Judge of the whole Earth will do the right thing.

Gen 18: 25 ... Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
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Best wishes,
KT

UPDATE: I just realized that I responded to a older post from August.
 
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Hammster said:
How do you know that you should be kind?
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1 Corinthians 13:4​

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4
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Galatians 5:22​

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.” – Galatians 5:22
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Ephesians 4:32​

“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” – Ephesians 4:32
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Colossians 3:12​

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” – Colossians 3:12
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Luke 6:35​

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” – Luke 6:35
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Titus 3:4-5​

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.” – Titus 3:4-5
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