well, what is "Atheist" but a label applied to some words? Many claim atheist to avoid being labelled religious, or to avoid pointless discussions, perhaps. And you imagine that good fruit is subjective--when it is this first concept that is--and not objective, meaning good fruit, or manifesting the gifts of the Spirit, would be considered offensive to any believer, and not defined by me. It is up to you to define good fruit and bad fruit, that your heart may be revealed to all.
well, what is "Atheist" but a label applied to some words? Many claim atheist to avoid being labelled religious, or to avoid pointless discussions, perhaps. And you imagine that good fruit is subjective--when it is this first concept that is--and not objective, meaning good fruit, or manifesting the gifts of the Spirit, would be considered offensive to any believer, and not defined by me. It is up to you to define good fruit and bad fruit, that your heart may be revealed to all.
The Internet and YouTube has messed you up completely?
Are you bed ridden where you can't get out of the house? Stuck in front of the computer? Dude, just a label? Like girl or boy? Atheist means what it means. The word ἄθεος actually means without gods, therefore anyone adopting that label is unlike you serious about what they believe. They don't believe in anything supernatural. We aren't talking about the world according to you, because you make it up as you go along. Someone calling themselves an atheist just to avoid being labeled religious would be how old? A teenager? Or someone who really doesn't care about honesty? Is that your world? People who use definitions because they are dishonest with themselves?
Once again, you were asked a direct question but decided to not answer it directly. More of your convoluted Internet Meme Psychobabble.
Good grief.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
people are conflicted, and their words usually do not match their actions
Are you speaking Freudian again?
Hoss, you sure do a lot of pyschological projecting.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
I haven't logged in in a while, but this was an interesting thread to have pop up. Quite a few specific prophecies here. I hope we don't end up having to stone anybody. :-)
__________________
There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
I haven't logged in in a while, but this was an interesting thread to have pop up. Quite a few specific prophecies here. I hope we don't end up having to stone anybody. :-)
What Prophecies are you referring to?
__________________ "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners;.."
I didn't read the whole thread, but I did see an actual timetable for the end of the organization among other predictions.
(Just having some fun)
Hopefully you did notice this is a 7 year old thread? LOL!! Clearly 7 years later the UPC is still here.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Linear Mode
