@Prayhard @Angelo Santelli and all the others who speak as them:
I have to ask, is this worth it? What good comes from sharing that here? We all already know that this is horrendous blasphemy and sacrilege.
“For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.”
- 2 Corinthians 12:20
Lapide:
Ver. 20.—
I fear . . .
lest there be wraths.
θυμός with the Greeks that part of the mind which is called the irascible faculty, placed by Plato in the heart, and opposed to reason, which has for its seat the brain. Thence the word is applied to angry quarrellings, audacious arrogance, irascible conduct, when a man will not give up his opinion, but clings to it obstinately, and hotly opposes others, to show his spirit. Such actions spring from the irascible faculty when it is unchecked.
Whisperings. Secret and hidden attacks made by the malevolent on those they wish to bring into odium, or when they wish to sever friendships. Such a “whisperer” was Antipater, the son of Herod, who, that he might succeed his father, tried to make his elder brothers suspected by their father, that he might put them to death; but a just Nemesis overtook him, for he was himself put to death by Herod, as Josephus relates at length.
Swellings.—Pride and arrogance, which, as it were, puff up those of those they take possession of.
And from St. James
“4:11
Detract not one another, my brethren.
He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
4:12 There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.“
Finally, Proverbs:
“ 6:16 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:
6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18 A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
6:19 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies,
and him that soweth discord among brethren.”
Today is a holy day, is it not? A Sunday? A day of rest?
@Angelo Santelli“One wonders if Providence is thinking”More likely God is giving us a lesson in humility and faith.
Look, I’m not saying we can’t criticize or point out the errors, but is
how we do it that is important.
