I think the Catholics are God's chosen people.
After all only the Catholics have a clear track record of killing Jews and Moosleems throughout the ages.
Pope Urban 2nd was right about the Crusades.
Even Adolf was Catholic.
Yes, I was allowed to defend myself but questioned the matter because I really did not want to have to shoot him. Not only would I have had that on my conscience which would be hard to overcome but it would have also made one hell of a mess.
That is what was so hard for me in making that call back then. The pistol was slid down beside the mattress and wooden waterbed frame. I tried and tried to talk him into getting off of me as I had reached my left arm down and had the pistol worked around in my hand and ready to pull up and shoot. I only weighed 98lbs and he was a pretty good size healthy young man. At the point where I knew his anger was growing intensely and I was left with only one of two options, either shoot him or take that chance of him raping me and doing me in and possibly hurting my children who were still asleep in their bedrooms, I pulled the gun up and put it to his temple and said, "Get your ass off of me or I am going to blow it away". He didn't jump, he literally flew off of me and landed about six feet from the end of the bed. He stood there trembling as he said, "I was just kidding". I told him not something he should kid about. A few other things were said and I told him, "now get out!" It was about two years later he stopped me on the sidewalk as I was going into a store in a town nearby. He asked, "Hey do you remember me?" I was thinking, 'Yeah you little prick how could I forget'. He pleaded with me to let me show him something. It took a lot of "please" from him but I finally relented and walked up the street about a block with him. He had me stand on the sidewalk as he went into the little cafe, asking me, 'please, just wait here for a second'. He came back out with a beautiful little girl in his arms. He told me she was his little girl, how he took her to Sunday school every week. Then he started thanking me for saving him. I told him "thank God, I was going to shoot your ass".
Blessed are the poor.
All believers are adopted as Children of Abraham. Making them heirs of salvation.
I did not really know him. The night before my cousin had asked me if I would go out with her to a bar with band and a dance floor as she did not have a car or a way to get out to meet other people. Grand' said it would be nice of me to take her out and she'd watch the children while we were out. Dropped the children at grand's picked up cousin, drove to larger town nearby. Right away she went off onto the dance floor. She had met this guy about a half an hour after we got there, came by told me told me his name, then they disappeared. Later when I decided it was time to go she'd had enough time to make friends I couldn't find her. It took me awhile but I finally found her I told I was tired and it was time for me to go home...(a few details left out not worthy of mention)... she said she would get a ride from home with her new friends. She had been staying at my grand's house for the most part who lived near a different town but had stayed a few times in the empty apartment next to mine (grand' owned both apartments). I had all my doors locked so not sure how he got the one of the locks unlocked as I had checked them all when I got home after picking up the children from grand's house. I'd drove home, got them into to bed for the night, and check the locks before crawling into bed. The checking the locks was routine since a guy that I had gone out with before moving there had made some very serious threats when I told him it was over (old boyfriend had gotten a window open I didn't know was unlock and it was a second story window- that's how sheriff got involved watching over me). I had assumed cousins new found friends would have taken her to grand's house and dropped her off but they didn't she went to the empty apartment next to where the children and I lived. The sheriff and deputies had watched over me fairly well there and when I work in a small town nearby at a lounge, cafe, motel they would patrol there. They would cruise the parking lots all around my building that set at the edge of town at night to make sure I was safe because the children and I were alone there. The sheriff told me several times, if anyone ever comes into your house and "is a threat don't hesitate shoot them, better them than you".
Yeah, but there's a lot of bullshit Christians walking around that say they are people of faith, but don't walk their talk.
I was born into a Catholic family. Baptized a Catholic. Confirmed a Catholic. Spent 8 years in parochial school. Have been to over 1000 masses in my life and I am here to say, God doesn't choose. We are all equal in HIS eyes. Even the Jews.
True but if they have requested the salvation it will come in time. There is a scripture that covers that. Jesus told them not to drink of his cup if they were not worthy. Also one that tells us not to think more of ourselves that what we are. Some preachers have taught boldness and being demanding but from my own experiences I would say try to be humble. If we aren't we will be humbled. Solomon also gave the clue when the two women came before him claiming the child was theirs. The real mother wants the child to live not die and if it requires that the child be with an imposter it is still better than a dead child. We judge things in a very temporary state when that 'life' given by the spirit of the creator is eternal. People subject themselves to all kinds of things here in that baby walk stage.
That is true. It also reminds me of the question, "What is the opposite of Love?" Many people think it is hate. But there are some people who "love to hate". Fear, on the other hand, is not something a person can have at the same time they love. Those two emotions are completely opposite from each other. If you are in a state of fear, you do not love. If you come from a place of love, you do not fear.
Like the story of the "two rooms" when someone asks God what is hell like? And HE takes the man in to one room with a bunch of people sitting around a big pot of food with long forks. Forks so long that they could reach the food in the pot, but too long to put in their mouth after they got it. Everyone was starving. Everyone was suffering. That was hell.
I've never heard your 'two rooms' story but feel free to share.
Here you go...
And not just others. We also need to be aware of the hell within ourselves. There are those times where we inflict suffering on others and we don't even know it. But you are right, if we look, we'll see it.
