coheir Posted June 18, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,458 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 729 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/09/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1950 Share Posted June 18, 2012 2nd 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Is this part of what the apostles taught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coheir Posted June 18, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,458 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 729 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/09/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1950 Share Posted June 18, 2012 2nd 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Is this part of what the apostles taught. Bill If you offer work for a person and they refuse then are you still suppose to feed him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~candice~ Posted June 18, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 955 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 11,318 Content Per Day: 1.89 Reputation: 448 Days Won: 33 Joined: 12/16/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted June 18, 2012 I had hoped not to micro manage this thread, but it seems unavoidable now, which is rather disappointing. Closed til I can clean up. EDIT: I've cleaned it up. It would not be out of place for a voluntary apology to come forth. Please do not question the salvation of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1bill Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 116 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 342 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 17 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/12/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/25/1945 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 2nd 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Is this part of what the apostles taught. That is a creed I live by and it is universal. So what has this to do with the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coheir Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,458 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 729 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/09/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1950 Share Posted June 19, 2012 2nd 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. Is this part of what the apostles taught. That is a creed I live by and it is universal. So what has this to do with the OP? I just thought this would be something you would would not observe judging from the op. and was curious about your stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coheir Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,458 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 729 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/09/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1950 Share Posted June 19, 2012 When God created Adam and his wife, Eve, the human race was began. (Gen. 1-3) Then we see that the only survivors of the world wide flood were Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives, eight people out of all the human race. (Gen. 6-8) It is very clear that there is only one race in the world at this time, it is known as the Human Race and, by logical extension, every man woman and child on the face of the Earth are descendants of Adam and his wife and even closer in time, we are the descendants of Noah and his wife. Further applied logic finds that, because of this, there is only one race of people in all of the world, the Human Race. Because of the characteristics God gave His most favored creation, as we began to spread over the Earth, it appears that we began to adapt to the different prevailing conditions in the different regions of our home. This resulted in differing appearances that because of, in some cases, a lack of the study of God's Word and other cases because of the lack of the availability of the Word, we now have what we term, Racial Prejudice. This, Racial Prejudice has to be the dumbest ideology in all of the world. Some, today, will have us to believe that this is the cause for the slave trade of the past and of the present but that is not true. The nation of Sudan has become two countries, North Sudan and South Sudan and one of the resulting problems that led to this was Slavery. Negro men attacked and murdered negro men and sold their wives and children into slavery. In this case the difference is religion, the murders were Islamic and the murdered were Christians. And if we listen to the rhetoric, Islam is the religion of peace! In the US we run around with the idea that the Negro Slave problem was all ours, also not true. On the Documentary of the USS Constitution and the Africa Corps that ended it's mission with the advent of our Civil War, it is documented that less than one sixth of the slaves that were shipped across the Atlantic, were to this nation to be sold. What is clearly illustrated by study is the slavery that has been documented through-out the ages, is the ability of men to hate one another and to misuse others. The truth of the matter is that it matters not who the slave owner is, Slavery, in it's modern day form is wrong. We, the people of the world need to grow up and assume the responsibility God has imparted to us. We are loved by God, saved and lost men and it is our duty (Matt. 28:18b-20) to love all men in the same manor that God loves us. We can never accomplish this mission given us in the last verses of Matthew without discarding the stupid idea that colors and features separate us into different races and remember that God began this with one father, Adam, and one mother. I look at the problems of our nation a little different, I agree color should not be a stumbling block but features, experiences and ethics do separate races and even people of same color. And even though I was raised in a racist enviroment I do not believe I am now. After reading the other post here Im sure I would be considered racist if I continue this post. 2nd Thess 3: 10 - 24 has a special meaning to me. Bill, in the above quote you say different regions adapted differently by that do you mean some turned white some turned black and some do get face and chest hair and some do not get face and chest hair some eyes are shaped different all because of the region they live in That is a reasonable assumption but because people are not stationary objects it is imperrative that we remember that these characteristics will spread with migration and therefore are not constrained to a specific region or area. If these people developed these different features due to the regions they live in; then why if a person is brought into a different region right after birth they do not adapt to the new features of the prevailing region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1bill Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 116 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 342 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 17 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/12/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/25/1945 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 I just thought this would be something you would would not observe judging from the op. and was curious about your stand. I live my life, to the very best of my ability, by the Word of God. I was raised rough as a corn cob by a mother born to a very racial family with a German father and all my parents were drunks. So it is that all of my given history will be slanted by the Military and everything after that is of my LORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coheir Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,458 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 729 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/09/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/31/1950 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I just thought this would be something you would would not observe judging from the op. and was curious about your stand. I live my life, to the very best of my ability, by the Word of God. I was raised rough as a corn cob by a mother born to a very racial family with a German father and all my parents were drunks. So it is that all of my given history will be slanted by the Military and everything after that is of my LORD. now Im not going to question your faith but I would like to point out that you are saying your life history ( experiences ) come before the Lord or am I reading your post wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th1bill Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 116 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 342 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 17 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/12/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/25/1945 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 I just thought this would be something you would would not observe judging from the op. and was curious about your stand. I live my life, to the very best of my ability, by the Word of God. I was raised rough as a corn cob by a mother born to a very racial family with a German father and all my parents were drunks. So it is that all of my given history will be slanted by the Military and everything after that is of my LORD. now Im not going to question your faith but I would like to point out that you are saying your life history ( experiences ) come before the Lord or am I reading your post wrong No, I might have elaborated and looked like a self centered bore but that would be the short version of why, when I reference my past, it is so heavily military centered. What has occurred since 1/1/90 has all been of the LORD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherSinner Posted June 19, 2012 Group: Senior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 628 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 94 Days Won: 5 Joined: 03/13/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1984 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Pigment is pigment. White, black, blue, purple, or green God made all of us in His Image. Love Bible songs and one should really serve as a lesson to us all. Here are the lyrics. I pray we each reflect on them. Jesus loves the little children All the children of the world Red and yellow, black and white They are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world My apologies for any offense caused. None was meant. Just Another Sinner Without A Clue Dani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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