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[tenordas]

What's taking him this long?

1 Peter 3: 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the L-rd a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The L-rd is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

So, in the meantime, we should...?

Matthew 5: 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Leviticus 19: 17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the L-rd.

James 1: 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of G-d.

Ephesians 4: 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love...14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

So to sum up the answer to your question: in the meantime, we should reach out to each other, listen to each other, counsel those who are hurting, be a calming influence to those who have hatred and violence in their hearts, seek out those who do not see things the way we do and try to understand their perspective and reason with them gently, speaking truth in love. Meeting hatred with hatred will only produce more hatred and violence. Meeting hatred with love and all effort to understand is extremely difficult, but the only way to truly defeat the cycle of hatred and violence.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

1 Peter 3: 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the L-rd a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The L-rd is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Matthew 5: 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Leviticus 19: 17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the L-rd.

James 1: 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of G-d.

Ephesians 4: 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love...14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

So to sum up the answer to your question: in the meantime, we should reach out to each other, listen to each other, counsel those who are hurting, be a calming influence to those who have hatred and violence in their hearts, seek out those who do not see things the way we do and try to understand their perspective and reason with them gently, speaking truth in love. Meeting hatred with hatred will only produce more hatred and violence. Meeting hatred with love and all effort to understand is extremely difficult, but the only way to truly defeat the cycle of hatred and violence.

As long as there's no legislation.

 

[Summed7]

What’s long to you and I is mere seconds for him. I can tell you with honesty we’re closer to the end than to the beginning.

Def respect your views and appreciate your conviction, but No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. So according to that, you would have no idea if we're closer to the end than to the beginning.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

we have to take care of the real problems in this country first like Drag Queen Story time and bathrooms. Guns are waaaay down on the list... /sarcasm

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

What’s long to you and I is mere seconds for him. I can tell you with honesty we’re closer to the end than to the beginning.

Right, but we live here and now.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Boy_of_wonder75​

So I’ve never called out a clown reaction, not once. Really could care less but I’m curious why the clown reaction? I know this is a football board but I just find that reaction to be asinine.

So why bring it up? you obviously could care less, but chose not to..

 

[saintjay]

Grant you that we do not know the time of the fulfillment of the Revelation, but having written my dissertation on end times and the book of Revelation the signs are definitely pointing in that direction. Specifically, Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 and 39 sure looks close at hand, and both of these are end-time related. We shall see I reckon.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Boy_of_wonder75​

So I’ve never called out a clown reaction, not once. Really could care less but I’m curious why the clown reaction? I know this is a football board but I just find that reaction to be asinine.

Because the thought behind it is useless, all things considered. A person is dead, several others wounded, and all you can think of that might help the gun situation is an evangelical trope? It's not a dig at Christians. I am one. It's a reaction to a thought designed to shift the discussion away from a real solution that doesn't involve making everyone in America an evangelical Christian.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Grant you that we do not know the time of the fulfillment of the Revelation, but having written my dissertation on end times and the book of Revelation, the signs are definitely pointing in that direction. Specifically, Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 and 39 sure looks close at hand, and both of these are end-time related. We shall see I reckon.

The signs are ALWAYS pointing in that direction.

 

[saintjay]

Because the thought behind it is useless, all things considered. A person is dead, several others wounded, and all you can think of that might help the gun situation is an evangelical trope? It's not a dig at Christians. I am one. It's a reaction to a thought designed to shift the discussion away from a real solution that doesn't involve making everyone in America an evangelical Christian.

But the issue is a heart issue. Laws don't change hearts.

The signs are ALWAYS pointing in that direction.

Reading prophetic end time scriptures compared with today are sobering. It's like no other time in history.

 

[rlemieux]

So why bring it up? you obviously could care less, but chose not to..

Because reacting with a to my football takes, doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Reacting to the name Jesus with a tells us exactly why we are in the position. We are right now in the world.

 

[tenordas]

we have to take care of the real problems in this country first like Drag Queen Story time and bathrooms. Guns are waaaay down on the list... /sarcasm

The real problem in this country we need to take of is mental health. The staggering percentage of youth that are suffering from depression is the real pandemic of our time, but no one in the national government is taking it seriously. Until they do, expect incidents like this to continue no matter what kind of gun control legislation is passed. Common sense legislation could help (though our government often doesn't do a good job with common sense), but it will not eliminate this. Addressing the causes of the mass increase in depression is the big, and admittedly very difficult step that will stem the tide.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

But the issue is a heart issue. Laws don't change hearts.

then how do explain all the other 1st world countries that have laws that do prevent this type of thing from happening on a daily basis?

 

[Tapxe]

I'll accept thoughts and prayers when it is equally applied.

I am not so hypocritical to accept prayers and laws to protect innocents from abortion while completely ignoring sensible legislation which would protect children in a parade.

If you are a true Christian in a true faith, you must question the men who tell you things. Those who tell you to protect unborn and ignore living because it's different somehow, probably need to be more adequately questioned because that stance is pure garbage.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

But the issue is a heart issue. Laws don't change hearts.

Reading prophetic end time scriptures compared with today are sobering. It's like no other time in history.

Ludicrous. Both of them.