Thank you. I feel much better than I did yesterday, but still have plenty of pain from the surgery. The stones were worse though, worse than my appendicitis years ago.
Knowing that somehow He will bring them about for my good and His glory does. I don’t know how He will do it, and I certainly don’t understand His plans sometimes, but I do trust that He knows what he is doing.
I do not believe that slavery, but it’s current definition, is acceptable in any way, and the Bible does not say that either. Actually, the Bible says just the opposite.
I keep saying Pro-Life is the wrong term, a misnomer, in most cases. Pro-Birth tends to be more accurate.
I won’t say you’re wrong, and in the case of a lot of people, you could well be correct. I can’t speak for everyone, but for sure not all who ate anti-abortion are as pro-life as some.
He did that much more long ago, before He sent His Son to earth. There are plenty of places in the Old Testament, and even a couple in the New Testament where God struck someone dead or blind or smote them in some very clear way. Now He has allowed us to live under His grace, and while we will still all be accountable to Him after our deaths, He is more patient with most of us.
I addressed that above, I believe that certain crimes are deserving of death. The Bible clearly lays those out, and they are sins, or crimes, of especially heinous nature. Premeditated murder, for example. The punishment for a crime should fit the crime, and taking a life on purpose is a most terrible sin and deserves an equally terrible punishment.
True story. Last spring I was hired as a contract climber/faller by a Stihl only fan boy who turned out to be one of the worst sawman I have ever worked with. We started a 4-5 week long job removing 40+ largish Reds and on the very first tree he shank it a good 25 ft wide right and smashed my 562XP into shrapnel. Me and an old timer I was working with decided it would be best if we put our stuff to the left of his lay behind a grove of Reds. This fool proceeded to shank his 2nd tree 25-30 wide left center-punching the grove we had just hidden our saws behind. In doing so he tore a large top out of a Red and the top landed directly on my 550XP. 2 trees down and 2 of my saws destroyed. I should have packed my shit up and left at the moment, but I manage to stay on the job long enough for him to put bad fuel in one of my prized Madsen modded 395’s. That’s was fucking it.
So I can have multiple wives, have my uppity children stone to death if they piss me off enough, plus bed and wed the captive women that I bring home as spoils of war.
Wow, that’s terrible! Impressive aim that he hit two of your saws so far off his target, but wow! I hope he paid for them! He sure should have after that!
