Originally posted by @romans1009I agree with what you're saying. I was thinking in terms of what Paul said in Romans 6, "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?"
<<If dive is ashamed of himself, then he should fit right in with the rest of us Christians. After all, compared to Jesus Christ we're all just sinners saved by grace.>>
I think there’s a difference between humility and being ashamed. Certainly all who are in Christ are (or should be) humble, but ashamed? I don’t agree. We should be proud to be Christ ...[text shortened]... (can’t remember where I saw it,) was, “You are of infinite worth because you belong to Christ.”
"Now ashamed". It's difficult to come to terms with, but not when we concider our position "in Christ". "Accepted in the beloved". Our worth, from God's perspective, is that each and every human being has greater worth to Him than the entire cosmos. "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
But you are right in that humility, a broken and contrite spirit, which God will not despise, and fear of God is at the root of our relationship with the Lord.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
-Removed-No, the joke was about you getting beat up in a pub fight. I was merely following along with romans' jesting in various posts.
You need to lighten up. Of course it wouldn't be funny if you really did get beat up in a pub. It wouldn't be funny at all, but it's funny when we're being lighthearted with each other here.
Have an axe to grind or something?
Originally posted by @secondsonYou’re a believer so dive has a problem and axe to grind with you on that basis alone.
No, the joke was about you getting beat up in a pub fight. I was merely following along with romans' jesting in various posts.
You need to lighten up. Of course it wouldn't be funny if you really did get beat up in a pub. It wouldn't be funny at all, but it's funny when we're being lighthearted with each other here.
Have an axe to grind or something?
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-Removed-I honestly did concider starting the thread.
When I posted about that in reply to the OP I wasn't certain it would be relevant to the OP, which is why I said I hesitated to post it.
Do you think it was? Never heard back from FMF about it so I'm not so sure it is. But even if I did hear back from FMF I think he'd rake me over the coals about it one way or the other. 😕