Christian conservative non gun people...

by Sarge , Central Misery, Thursday, November 27, 2014, 08:57 (3654 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
edited by Sarge, Thursday, November 27, 2014, 09:08

All this serves to illustrate that there are two paths.

Route Two, which is Religion--AKA 'church'--is often and unfortunately a social club mined with hurdles/hoops to jump, as a condition of Membership. The premise is that via membership/fellowship you will eventually jump enough hoops/absorb enough Jesus to get you saved.

Route One, which is to go directly Jesus for salvation with a contrite heart, via the words Written In Red.

I'm for taking Route One and I won't attend or support any Toll Booth along Route Two, which complicates the process beyond the Author's Instructions.

The topic of choosing to go armed, for the purpose of protecting yourself and others, often evades these people. They'll hit you with WWJD and 'Turn the other cheek', smug in their piousness and oblivious to the fact that they couldn't even HAVE church if good men with guns hadn't fought and died for that right. They refuse to acknowledge that the 2nd Amendment, State CCW laws etc. make us ALL part of those 'higher powers' mentioned in the 13th Chapter of Romans:

1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Every flock has its sheep and this recent 'sheepdog' nonsense is just a PC effort to offer something palatable to those sheep. In biblical times there was only the shepherd and there is no better example than David. When Samuel anointed David, per the Lord's instruction, David did not lay down his sling. He went back to his sheep on the hillsides around Bethlehem, but God was with him.

David grew up strong and brave, not afraid of the wild beasts which prowled around and tried to carry away his sheep. More than once he fought with lions, and bears, and killed them, when they seized the lambs of his flock. And David, alone all day, practiced throwing stones in a sling, until he could strike exactly the place for which he aimed. When he swung his sling, he knew that the stone would go to the very spot at which he was throwing it.

Sound familiar?

God Bless you all and Happy Thanksgiving.