"But as Christians the Bible requires that we be nice to others" or so I've been told. As far as I can tell the bible never uses the word nice a single time. It's speaks of being kind, not nice.
Nice is a veneer such as speaking in a pleasant friendly voice or being reassuring with a smile. Kind is treating others as we would like to be t…
"But as Christians the Bible requires that we be nice to others" or so I've been told. As far as I can tell the bible never uses the word nice a single time. It's speaks of being kind, not nice.
Nice is a veneer such as speaking in a pleasant friendly voice or being reassuring with a smile. Kind is treating others as we would like to be treated. If I was making a terrible life-altering mistake would I want others to tell me the truth or be "nice"? I'd want the truth and in fact I got the truth from some not very "nice" people back in my twenties. It got me off the road to ruin. I'm grateful for it to this day.
Was God "nice" when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? Was Jesus nice when He called the Pharisees vipers? Or overturned the moneychanger's tables?
Don't let the world (which hates Christianity) define our morality for us. They sneer at us and think we are fools but we listen to their definition of what Jesus would want? Read the bible, it plainly describes what God wants and it isn't what the world preaches.
In a recent conversation between Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak they were joking about months they prefer over “pride month” like “gluttony month” or “sloth month” 😂
Haha, if we are going to celebrate the seven deadly sins we may as well pick one we can all enjoy. My wife suggests "vanity month" as at least then people would look presentable.
Our adversaries have promoted as New Testament doctrine a narrative of Unconditional Love and in doing so have abused 'Love they neighbor.' This is heretical doctrine. You cannot love thy neighbor by overturning God's moral law order. Thus Romans 13 wherein the magistrate is to be a terror to evil doers.
The adversary in this has performed his usual trick of bait and switch. Bait with quotes of Scripture (which they hate) out of context and then somewhere switch with the insertion of evil under cover of some presumed good ... like 'tolerance'. Like we should tolerate Drag Queens as some equally valid life style and somehow this is some kind of Christian charity or whatever. In this way, God's moral law is tossed out the window. And what is so sad is that most of the churches have fallen for this stuff ... and have been transformed into enablers of evil.
I hope you are wrong that most churches have fallen for this stuff though certainly many have. I've attended fiercely biblical churches for thirty years (primarily Calvary Chapel) and have really not seen any of it. Completely agree though that mainline Prot denominations like the ELCA, PC(USA), and UMC are fully bought into this stuff and likely a lost cause (though with God all things are possible).
The Catholic hierarchy seems hopelessly lost too aside from a few renegade bishops (who will never be promoted beyond their current positions). I'm not RC though I was raised in it. Curious how the local parish priests are holding up or if they are being lost to this stuff too.
You are correct, the Catholic hierarchy is lost in this mess except for a few good bishops and priests. Unfortunately, when parish priests speak out against this stuff of the world, they are often sidelined. It’s quite sad how watered down homilies have become because of fear of the persecution from their own bishop!
Jeff ... it is a strange world now in Christendom. I agree with what you are saying. The obvious examples of fallen churches/synagogues of Satan are the conspicuously 'social justice/equity' churches. But the less obvious churches are the ones that operate by sins of omission. I won't go into all of that right here. However, I'll give you an indication of what I mean. That is, we attended a rural Baptist church many years ago for maybe four years or so, and NOT ONCE did we study from the Baptist Confession of Faith. Never! Only some watered down Life Way study guide material. And ZERO teaching of Church History. Both De Wife and I are now shocked at what churches don't teach. And it has been a dumbing down attack one after another on Christianity since at least the 19th century.
"Unity is not my objective. My objective is ridding the world of evil, and you don't accomplish that by finding neutral ground with the devil." -What'sHerFace
We are called to be both salt and light, truth and love/‘kindly honest’.
We cannot say that we follow Yeshua, our Messiah, without following and ‘teaching all that He commanded’. Many will make false or inaccurate statements saying that God is ‘love’ (only) or that God is truth (only), but He is BOTH equally. He cannot be one without the other. It’s why He is the perfect Father.
There are many ‘doctrinally illiterate’ people (I was one of them) who claim to ‘dislike the God of the Old Testament’ which is a heretical, to say the least. Why? Because He is the same God in the TaNAKh, as in the New Covenant. Same book--different sections.
He is the same ONE--the same today, yesterday and eternally--God, the Father, His Son, our Messiah, and Spirit, Helper/Advocate, they are ECHAD (one). The Son (Yeshua/Jesus) and Spirit always do the will of the Father because they are ECHAD--therefore, if we claim to follow after Yeshua, as true disciples, then we must also imitate Him and be salt and light!
When we present truth, it must be done with love, joy, shalom, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. We are called to love others as ourselves-treat them with respect even when you disagree with them. I had to learn all of this the hard way. I also learned that when I speak from a place of faith, and not from a place of doubt/fear, I will consistently do to others what I would want others to do to me. Yeshua/Jesus said it best:
‘ Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that sums up the teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.’ (Yeshua)
The Bible talks about brotherly love. There is a sense that being kind to someone can be said to show them brotherly love. I read this: “It is a kind of love that does for another what is truly best for that person rather than what will make that person happy. It is a love that looks beyond present circumstances toward the ultimate realization of the act, primarily toward the effect of our own behavior.
It is not just a love that, out of concern, gives to somebody to plug a gap and that only. It is a type of love done with a great deal of thought, in which a person thinks through the effects and consequences of his actions to their ultimate end.
Therefore, the result is that he does good for the other person whether that person likes it or not.” I think that is very thought provoking.
I was approached by a friend whose son, (extremely intelligent), a freshmen at a university in my city, was thinking about transitioning. The parent wanted to know about resources/counseling available for him to talk about why, etc. His gf was all for it (wth?) and the counselors at the U immediately started instructing him on the steps to take: shave body hair, start hormones, etc. No interest in discussing why, etc. just how to get it done. Fortunately, his parents did not relent. They fought with logic, open, loving, communication. Praise God they succeeded and he is a happy, healthy, successful man!
I love this so much. Christians need to ditch being "nice" as though that's some kind of virtue. Nice people watched while their neighbors were removed in trucks in the middle of the night. Nice people politely put on masks during the pandemic, essentially validating what they knew to be a malignant, harmful lie.
"But as Christians the Bible requires that we be nice to others" or so I've been told. As far as I can tell the bible never uses the word nice a single time. It's speaks of being kind, not nice.
Nice is a veneer such as speaking in a pleasant friendly voice or being reassuring with a smile. Kind is treating others as we would like to be treated. If I was making a terrible life-altering mistake would I want others to tell me the truth or be "nice"? I'd want the truth and in fact I got the truth from some not very "nice" people back in my twenties. It got me off the road to ruin. I'm grateful for it to this day.
Was God "nice" when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah? Was Jesus nice when He called the Pharisees vipers? Or overturned the moneychanger's tables?
Don't let the world (which hates Christianity) define our morality for us. They sneer at us and think we are fools but we listen to their definition of what Jesus would want? Read the bible, it plainly describes what God wants and it isn't what the world preaches.
We should love what God loves and hate what He hates.
Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
Haughty eyes,
A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
A heart that devises wicked schemes,
Feet that are quick to rush into evil,
A false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Thank you for posting this. The dictionary defines haughty as , "scornfully and condescendingly proud". Nice reminder as we head into Pride month.
And that describes a lot of our so-called “elite” too!
In a recent conversation between Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak they were joking about months they prefer over “pride month” like “gluttony month” or “sloth month” 😂
Haha, if we are going to celebrate the seven deadly sins we may as well pick one we can all enjoy. My wife suggests "vanity month" as at least then people would look presentable.
Your wife is brilliant! I may post that Monthly Celebration on my Fb page.
So well said. God bless you for taking the time to write this down.
Our adversaries have promoted as New Testament doctrine a narrative of Unconditional Love and in doing so have abused 'Love they neighbor.' This is heretical doctrine. You cannot love thy neighbor by overturning God's moral law order. Thus Romans 13 wherein the magistrate is to be a terror to evil doers.
The adversary in this has performed his usual trick of bait and switch. Bait with quotes of Scripture (which they hate) out of context and then somewhere switch with the insertion of evil under cover of some presumed good ... like 'tolerance'. Like we should tolerate Drag Queens as some equally valid life style and somehow this is some kind of Christian charity or whatever. In this way, God's moral law is tossed out the window. And what is so sad is that most of the churches have fallen for this stuff ... and have been transformed into enablers of evil.
You are right. Another example is give your kid everything they want and never discipline them. Don’t ever say no because that isn’t “love”.
Great Example! The collective West destroyed itself with Woke Marxism and all the UN Sustainable stuff. Nice to hear from you!
Could not agree more Dave, well put.
I hope you are wrong that most churches have fallen for this stuff though certainly many have. I've attended fiercely biblical churches for thirty years (primarily Calvary Chapel) and have really not seen any of it. Completely agree though that mainline Prot denominations like the ELCA, PC(USA), and UMC are fully bought into this stuff and likely a lost cause (though with God all things are possible).
The Catholic hierarchy seems hopelessly lost too aside from a few renegade bishops (who will never be promoted beyond their current positions). I'm not RC though I was raised in it. Curious how the local parish priests are holding up or if they are being lost to this stuff too.
You are correct, the Catholic hierarchy is lost in this mess except for a few good bishops and priests. Unfortunately, when parish priests speak out against this stuff of the world, they are often sidelined. It’s quite sad how watered down homilies have become because of fear of the persecution from their own bishop!
Jeff ... it is a strange world now in Christendom. I agree with what you are saying. The obvious examples of fallen churches/synagogues of Satan are the conspicuously 'social justice/equity' churches. But the less obvious churches are the ones that operate by sins of omission. I won't go into all of that right here. However, I'll give you an indication of what I mean. That is, we attended a rural Baptist church many years ago for maybe four years or so, and NOT ONCE did we study from the Baptist Confession of Faith. Never! Only some watered down Life Way study guide material. And ZERO teaching of Church History. Both De Wife and I are now shocked at what churches don't teach. And it has been a dumbing down attack one after another on Christianity since at least the 19th century.
My! My! What we did not know! It's astonishing.
"Unity is not my objective. My objective is ridding the world of evil, and you don't accomplish that by finding neutral ground with the devil." -What'sHerFace
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@Jeff Agreed.
We are called to be both salt and light, truth and love/‘kindly honest’.
We cannot say that we follow Yeshua, our Messiah, without following and ‘teaching all that He commanded’. Many will make false or inaccurate statements saying that God is ‘love’ (only) or that God is truth (only), but He is BOTH equally. He cannot be one without the other. It’s why He is the perfect Father.
There are many ‘doctrinally illiterate’ people (I was one of them) who claim to ‘dislike the God of the Old Testament’ which is a heretical, to say the least. Why? Because He is the same God in the TaNAKh, as in the New Covenant. Same book--different sections.
He is the same ONE--the same today, yesterday and eternally--God, the Father, His Son, our Messiah, and Spirit, Helper/Advocate, they are ECHAD (one). The Son (Yeshua/Jesus) and Spirit always do the will of the Father because they are ECHAD--therefore, if we claim to follow after Yeshua, as true disciples, then we must also imitate Him and be salt and light!
When we present truth, it must be done with love, joy, shalom, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. We are called to love others as ourselves-treat them with respect even when you disagree with them. I had to learn all of this the hard way. I also learned that when I speak from a place of faith, and not from a place of doubt/fear, I will consistently do to others what I would want others to do to me. Yeshua/Jesus said it best:
‘ Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that sums up the teaching of the Torah and the Prophets.’ (Yeshua)
Yes, any truth out of balance is heresy. He is both love and truth equally!
You can choose to be nicely dishonest or kindly honest. It's obviously easier to be nicely dishonest.
I’ve often described Obama as a polite bully. Often in response to folks (both right and left) whining about Trump’s coarse rhetoric.
Ah-men!
The Bible talks about brotherly love. There is a sense that being kind to someone can be said to show them brotherly love. I read this: “It is a kind of love that does for another what is truly best for that person rather than what will make that person happy. It is a love that looks beyond present circumstances toward the ultimate realization of the act, primarily toward the effect of our own behavior.
It is not just a love that, out of concern, gives to somebody to plug a gap and that only. It is a type of love done with a great deal of thought, in which a person thinks through the effects and consequences of his actions to their ultimate end.
Therefore, the result is that he does good for the other person whether that person likes it or not.” I think that is very thought provoking.
This is how God loves us.
Well said!
I was approached by a friend whose son, (extremely intelligent), a freshmen at a university in my city, was thinking about transitioning. The parent wanted to know about resources/counseling available for him to talk about why, etc. His gf was all for it (wth?) and the counselors at the U immediately started instructing him on the steps to take: shave body hair, start hormones, etc. No interest in discussing why, etc. just how to get it done. Fortunately, his parents did not relent. They fought with logic, open, loving, communication. Praise God they succeeded and he is a happy, healthy, successful man!
I love this so much. Christians need to ditch being "nice" as though that's some kind of virtue. Nice people watched while their neighbors were removed in trucks in the middle of the night. Nice people politely put on masks during the pandemic, essentially validating what they knew to be a malignant, harmful lie.
Jesus was being nice by telling the truth out of love not vengeance and not wanting us to die in our sins.
It’s just not what the people wanted to hear so he had to turn up the heat, so to speak.