“Yahoo! Answers” and other Internet sights do not always provide healthy and respectful material for godly discussion in a sacred writings blog. Therefore, readers here are invited to use the comments section (below) to share their questions that will honor GOD by uplifting the name of Jesus, and correctly permit others to gain insight, to learn, and to mature as Christian believers. Today, only a BATTLE AXE and GOLDEN ARROW are shared with more on denying oneself.
THE BATTLE AXE: Denying Oneself (05/17/2014)—Everything and everyone are not answers to the people of GOD. In the same way a right relationship to GOD must be “discovered” and developed, right relationships among the people of GOD are arrived at only through continuous, spiritual service. There must be a transformation of ones own awareness and lifestyle in order for the spirit from GOD through Jesus Christ to produce godliness within a person’s relationships with others. Because many insist that self-indulgence is acceptable, natural and “normal”, they refuse to heed the cautions and warnings from GOD against sin. Such view their own behavior as an honest expression of their own character and personality. In their view, they themselves (i.e., their own feelings, opinions, and thoughts) are the standard for truth. It does not make sense that GOD will condemn people for “just being themselves,” for merely responding to their animal appetites, or rejecting repeated appeals that are irrelevant and suspect. These fail to grasp that without divine law, and reasonable self-discipline, human existence is constantly vulnerable to abuse, addiction, damage, defilement, unnecessary conflict, and self-destruction. Selfish thinking, crude behavior, and seeking ones own pleasure may not be regarded as aspects of divinity that should appear within mankind. The concepts of divine judgment necessary to Christian belief all oppose such “regular” conduct as covetousness, envy, feigning ones feelings, hedonism (living for ones own pleasure), hypocrisy, lies, pretension, pride, and callous self-promotion. Because divine judgment centers upon the spirit content of created beings and living creatures, focus must be upon the appearance of ones makeup and substance displayed through attitudes, beliefs, and deeds. Inseparable aspects from the makeup of GOD should be present such as faith, forbearance, holiness, love, longsuffering, righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2nd Timothy 3: 1-5, KJV)
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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