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If for a believer salvation is what it's all about, and it's found in the second person, go for it. I have no problem with that.
But I'm heading in a different direction. So for myself it's not about "getting" salvation.
Believe it or not, I actually believe there's a higher calling, right here and right now, while we live and breath.

You don't want to give God what He wants most?
 
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You don't want to give God what He wants most?
I'm doing exactly that. From where I stand what God wants most is for us to have Him as our reality in life...TODAY where He is needed the most. It's finding the presence of God within Humanity. So things like serving others in need is the kind of thing that brings God down here to Earth and makes Him a reality, again... where He is needed the most. That, from my perspective, is what God wants most!
 
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I'm doing exactly that.

Not exactly.

Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

From where I stand what God wants most is for us to have Him as our reality in life...

Wouldn't you like to be His adopted son?

Ga 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

TODAY where He is needed the most.

Yes, indeed -- today.

2Co 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

It's finding the presence of God within Humanity.

They have to look in the right place though.

Ac 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

So things like serving others in need is the kind of thing that brings God down here to Earth and makes Him a reality,

Not exactly.

Mr 16:19 ¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

That, from my perspective, is what God wants most!

He wants YOU the most.

Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 
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Absolutely! No argument from me!
By the way, sorry if I sounded rude to you, and to anyone else I talked to. I don't have an excuse, but the reason is I was stimulated.
 
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By the way, sorry if I sounded rude to you, and to anyone else I talked to. I don't have an excuse, but the reason is I was stimulated.

Not a problem.

I apologize to my electrotherapist all the time.
 
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By the way, sorry if I sounded rude to you, and to anyone else I talked to. I don't have an excuse, but the reason is I was stimulated.
No need to apologize! You're good! :)

Peace!
 
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