🚀 go-pugleaf

Ric Justice <ricjx@gte.net> writes: > Dru Jensen wrote:
> > 
> > So this is what we were called to do as christians!  No wonder the world is
> > laughing.  When are we going to practice what we preach. Why not just curse
> > at each other?  It's all the same.  If anyone thinks that this kind of talk
> > is fruitful, I would like to know.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dru
> > 
> > Rev. Steve Winter <steve.winter@prime.org> wrote in article
> > <33cba7f0.54712343@206.250.118.61>...
> > > Ric Justice <ricjx@gte.net> spake thusly and wrote:
> > >
> > > >> Jesus called the filthy religious scum of His day "names".
> > > >
> > > >How many times?  And do you  equate yourself with Him?  Do you ignore
> > > >the words of Paul about the fruit of the Spirit?  Brother Steve, my dear
> > >
> > > Scum, I am NOT your brother!  Jesus was the perfect example and He never
> > > tolerated deceiving religious dirt like Ric Justice.
> > >
> > > Paul taught that a man could go to hell for wishing a dirt like Ric
> > Justice
> > > "God speed".    Paul did not teach tolerance toward deceiving religious
> > scum
> > > like Ric Justice!   You want to deceive souls into hell by scratching
> > their
> > > itching ears with sugar coated fables.
> > >
> > > The fruit of the Spirit does not include coddling DEVILS like Ric Justice
> > and
> > > the other unrepentant deceiving false christian scums.
> > >
> > > Let's look at how Paul related to deceitful dirt like Ric Justice and
> > other
> > > false christian filth :
> SNIP
> 
> Hi, Dru!
> 
> Yep!  That is what it has come to!  I figure we should be ashamed of
> ourselves for this kind of stuff.  It bears nothing in common with the
> fruit of the Spirit, does it?  But we are what we are.  If there is any
> hope in changing us, it rests within yielding ourselves and our selfish
> nature to God.  But, let's be fair - Brother Steve hasn't had time to
> get around to reading all of Galatians 5, but when he does read it, I am
> sure he will drop the blustery language.  Seems to me like the old
> farmer who bought a new goat to work on his farm.  He waited until the
> animal was starving, then gathered up a bundle of succulent weeds and
> came to the goat, then proceeded to beat the goat unmercifully with the
> bundle.  When the beating was ended, after half an hour, the poor goat
> would go nowhere near the bundle.  It chose to remain hungry, and died
> within a couple of days.  The way the message is presented is very
> important; you can starve an animal by beating it with healthy food,
> rather than treating it as a being worthy of respect, and offering the
> food in a nonviolent manner.  Ahhh!  The lessons of life and those of
> faith seem to overlap at times, don't they?
> 
> I hope others on this NG will remember to pray for Brother Steve, and
> for me.  We are bound closely in spirit, though our approach to these
> matters is radically different.  He loves you and me; just has a little
> trouble finding the right words to say so.  Each of us has his or her
> flaws.  An armada will survive best when a plurality of ideas becomes
> the basis for action.  This is true of the Church as well.  So don't
> lose the faith over such petty things.
> 
> Peace,
> Ricj
>
> Oh come on,lets be real,sometimes we just have to get it off our chest,
> OK? I love the Lord,but I'm surely not perfect and God knows I'm not
> perfect and when I stand before him and he asks me why did you say these
> negative things about steve winters,I'll say because it was the truth,
> So here goes;
> Steve is nothing more than some arrogant little mickey mouse loud mouth,
> who thinks hes all filled with the Spirit of God,because he speaks in
> tounges,hes puffed up,the church he belongs to is inmature,still on milk
> not ready for meat yet.The church he belongs to is the one talked about
> in the end times,they perform signs and wonders but they are false!
> So steve I say to you COME ON DOWN from your high and mighty platform
> that you've set your self upon.
>     JDW
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~not pretty but true~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~