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Originally Posted by Rapture
Since I had that dream my life has changed in many ways. I feel a burden in my heart a burden for the poor and sick and have begun doing things to help in order to show them an example in hopes that they may receive Christ. But why is it only the ones who are in the gutter who ask God for help? When all God's blessings are for anyone who receives Him no matter what your physical condition and no matter how much how or how little money you already have and no matter how unsuccessful or successful you may be.
You see, many of you here have a certain measure of success already. So why would I come here and tell you that God can make you successful in life. (Or maybe I shouldn't be so presumptuous) All of you eat food everyday so why would I try to feed you and tell you it's a blessing from God? The only service I can think to offer you is the Words of God from the Bible telling you how through Jesus you can be saved. The Bible says that there is wealth that comes from the Lord and it brings no sorrow with it.
I'm of the few that does not believe that Jesus was poor in any way.
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Indeed, why would you? Why would you indeed think that there's a service you could offer us, when you yourself would reject it were it offered to you before your fitfull sleep? What makes you think that any here would have such a kafka-esque metamorphosis by any other means but some nocturnal crisis?
It's the hypocrisy that grates. The demand to turn off all rational thought and throw yourself headlong into a dogma based on a book that has gone through countless revisions by political figures, adjusting and rewriting and retranslating based on whatever interpretation would suit their particular ends, then touted as the one true and only word of the almighty direct from the presses. A book tainted with the blood of countless innocents across the millenia, yet you would have us throw ourselves prostate before its prose as the ultimate expression of our faith and devotion to an inscrutible god.
"Ye shall know them by their fruits." (Matt 7:16) Indeed, I am all too familiar with the works of those professing love with the book in one hand, and a rod in the other to scourge the unbelievers.
You come to us speaking of a dream, yet the book you profess itself urges us to beware exactly those of you who would draw us in; "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." (Mattew 7:15)
No sir. Your words do not inspire, they seethe. Behind them is a motivation not being revealed by you, and that motivation seeps through the lines of coldly quoted scripture like venom dripping from an adder's tooth. If my relationship with Jesus was so personal, so special as you claim yours to be, I would not tarnish it so by heaping a portion of it on every casual observer. Your insistance on doing so belies the existance of your unspoken hidden urges... but not thier manefestation. Do you perhaps imagine yourself a great prophet, bringing salvation to the unwashed masses rooted in the carnal and mundane, diligently (if fruitlessly) hunting for the wayward sheep to be tended? Do you fancy being canonized St. Truethrust, patron of the wanton, washed and reborn? Are you driven to prove your loyalty and obedience by bringing fresh grist for your mill?
Or are you just a cynical little troll?