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From: ptl@fluke.UUCP (Mike Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Who gets the Glory?
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 11:40:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 11:40:58 1985
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Hi,

Who gets the glory when anger and hate filled attacks and counter-attacks
are uselessly made anywhere, including this net.

The person making the attacks - no.  Where is there glory when someone,
man or woman, puts another down or `tears them / their ideas apart'
in order to prove, in vain, a superior intelligence?  How far does
someone have to push another down to make themselves look taller?

The person attacked - no, but how he/she chooses to respond to the attack
can glorify God, if the response includes God's Love.

The person who counter attacks - no.  Where is the glory in picking up the
stone just thrown, and throwing it back?  Where is the glory in trying to
prove equality with someone who doesn't want equality?  You don't need to
prove you're an equal to the people that matter, they already know it.

The damager-god --- doesn't exist.  There is only one true God, revealed
to us all as the Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.  No other.

God - no.  He isn't glorified by our pain or our triumphs, but by how we
respond to them both - with His Love, choosing to give Him all Glory.

satan - yes.  He lives for every ounce of hate he can muster in us,
or that we choose to make ourselves.

Since we are all meant to be priests, according to the Bible, the next time you
post an article, please ask yourself whose priest you are, what faith you are
living.  And lets pray for eachother.  We all slip, we all sin, we all need
eachother, we all need God.  I pray that this message reaches the
non-Christians on this net, too.

God Bless,

	Mike Andrews
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   God said He would never leave me nor forsake me, and that I am His temple.

		          A man is what he thinks.

A body led by the soul is only 2/3 of a person : the soul tries to get rid of
			        the spirit.
A body led by the spirit is a whole person : the spirit works to make the soul
    help the body.  And a spirit led by God the Holy Spirit is invincible.

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