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Originally Posted by Chewy
Can someone please tell me what bitterness is? Does it even really exist?
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Do I detect a hint of bitterness?????
Yes bitternees does exist. See
Acts 8:23,
Rom 3:14,
Eph 4:31,
Heb 12:15.
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Originally Posted by Chewy
Are you comfortable calling someone bitter just because they have disagreed with the pulpit?
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That in and of itself would not necessarily indicate bitterness, rebellion maybe, but not bitterness.
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Originally Posted by Chewy
Could it be that only a small percentage of people labeled as bitter are just disappointed at how things turned out in their life?
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I would think that if anybody had a good excuse to be bitter it would have been Paul, but he wrote:
Philippians 4:11 - 13 (KJV) 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. [/quote]
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Originally Posted by Chewy
Why isn't the thing or person that caused someone that disappointment and further, bitterness what is held in contempt opposed to the person being affected?
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Because the bitterness does not come from a thing or action it comes from the heart and mind of the embittered.
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