Atheists

[stan4257]

While I have been there, and there is probably pockets of this resistance to truth in my life, my eyes have been opened!

Praise God.

[psalmone]

The victim helped of the Good Samaritan would have recovered unto a whole new world maybe where he'd have to account for this strange favour, and from so unexpected a place. Any former hatred would have been completely disarmed and his whole world view would have needed to change simply to honour this peculiar event. Man doesn't know what to do with that kind of thing, so selfless,where does it come from, and requireing no return? Only Calvary explains it.

[artsylady]

Hard-heartedness--maybe this is pride, or anger? I can imagine a person's pride or anger interfering with their ability to look at things in new ways, and to see things accurately. But I doubt it is the sole factor. It's kind of slippery, because within Christianity there are plenty of opposing views on things, and proponents of the various views could all play the hard-heart card when dealing with other 'camps'. I know in my Mormon past life it was often used as an explanation.

Thank you for your honest answer and I do believe that pride and anger can both come into play and definitely interfere with their abilitiy to look at things.

Big difference between hard-hearted and cautious. One should always be cautious and if you're from a Mormom background, I can understand why you would and should be.

[artsylady]

Just because someone tells you that there is a ghost under your bed, and you dont believe it, dosent necessarily make you hard heartedness.

God created Genesis for God to exist. Man created god through genesis. Without man - god would never exist. God is reliant on man to keep him going. When man stops believing, that's when god ceases to exist. This is 2008 not year 8000bc. When will we evolve already? Its really that simple.

Hello and welcome. You didn't really answer the question at all. You seemed to jump to the defensive instead.

I'll bump up a thread called "A Massive Conspiracy Theory" for you to comment on.

[psalmone]

The victim helped of the Good Samaritan would have recovered unto a whole new world maybe where he'd have to account for this strange favour, and from so unexpected a place. Any former hatred would have been completely disarmed and his whole world view would have needed to change simply to honour this peculiar event. Man doesn't know what to do with that kind of thing, so selfless,where does it come from, and requireing no return? Only Calvary explains it.

[artsylady]

A good question. Thank you.

The heart of a human, as a warm blooded creation of God's love, beats faster and slower in tune with emotional thoughts and needs. The heart that doesn't do so might be considered as being hard, unresponsive and unloving. The antithesis of a hard heart is a soft heart or a soft hearted loving person.

And love is truth. Without a loving response to a need in our neighbour the truth is not in us. We then become, as you said, blind to the need, and hard hearted.

Am I hard hearted? No. At least I believe that mostly I am not.

Good answers.

[caughtinside]

Hard-heartedness--maybe this is pride, or anger? I can imagine a person's pride or anger interfering with their ability to look at things in new ways, and to see things accurately. But I doubt it is the sole factor. It's kind of slippery, because within Christianity there are plenty of opposing views on things, and proponents of the various views could all play the hard-heart card when dealing with other 'camps'. I know in my Mormon past life it was often used as an explanation.

Thank you for your honest answer and I do believe that pride and anger can both come into play and definitely interfere with their abilitiy to look at things.

Thanks, I also liked Stan4257's putting it in terms of charity.

Big difference between hard-hearted and cautious. One should always be cautious and if you're from a Mormom background, I can understand why you would and should be.

There's a good deal of subjectivity involved, which is why it's useable by so many differing views.

happy weekend all

[stan4257]

The victim helped of the Good Samaritan would have recovered unto a whole new world maybe where he'd have to account for this strange favour, and from so unexpected a place. Any former hatred would have been completely disarmed and his whole world view would have needed to change simply to honour this peculiar event. Man doesn't know what to do with that kind of thing, so selfless,where does it come from, and requireing no return? Only Calvary explains it.

I don't know the feelings of the victim helped by the Good Samaritan. They are not recorded. But I do know two things. One, that all experienced Christians know, is that often a good deed is twisted by the recipient and even resented by them. The other is that the selfless love of God that shines through us when we help a neighbour in need is passed on with no thought of a reward.

It would be lovely to think that the victim of the Good Samaritan was grateful. He sure should have been. But like in real life, the thought that he owed everything to an enemy might have been too strong in his mind to appreciated the help he had been given.

Like you say so intuitively and accurately,'only Calvary explains it' because the love that flows through us from God without any obligation or expectation of reward is inexplicable otherwise.

[caughtinside]

Artsylady, do you consider nonbelievers hard-hearted?

[Guest]

.... do you consider nonbelievers hard-hearted?

Will You Honestly Consider The Gospel Truth

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 8:36

That's Pretty Hard Hearted

But There Is Hope

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:26

If You Believe

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

See The Lord Jesus, Believe And

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Be Blessed Beloved

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. Numbers 6:24-27

Love, Joe