@BENINCASA You still did not answer my question!! Whats your definition of few??! 144,00??? Just doing a short study, some say over two hundred billion people have lived on the earth! Only a small percentage were/or even Christian!!! Muchless resembled OP!!! Lets just say twenty to fifty billion were Christians that just a few outa 200,000,000,000!!! So your use of that scripture to preach any doctrine is WAY WAY offbase!!!
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Sister, when you all started making the rolled up dress comments I just thought that these young people had a foot of material rolled up, and were strolling around campus fluttering their eyes at the boys, and the boys shocked with horror because of the big wad around the girl's newly found hem line.
Ohhhhhh, see...you don't understand the process. LOL!!!! You roll the skirt up (okay, actually down) at the waistband, so it lifts the hemline. You'd probably have to be a girl to know that. Sort of like girls who pinch their cheeks to make them pink just before walking out of the bathroom. Or, hang your head upside down and hold your breath for 10 seconds...
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My wife and I love what were in, and our children may one day accept it as their own, or totally ditch it. I just have to do my job, and that is supply them with enough information to allow them to make their own decision. I can only control me, and my direction. My job is to train up the child, and show the example with a true devotion. Yet, even with all that, they could still grow up and become Hindu Sadhus. I would pray and hope they wouldn't, but it's still God who gives the increase, my wife and I planted, we water, and the rest will be between my children and God Himself. I pray they make the correct decision.
I totally agree with you--we have to do our best, but ultimately our kids will make their own decision. God doesn't force people to follow Him, and parents can't force their kids to follow Him either.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Sort of like girls who pinch their cheeks to make them pink just before walking out of the bathroom. Or, hang your head upside down and hold your breath for 10 seconds...
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