Acting Suspicious Much?
1.) You're a brand new member, you show up out of the blue, and the ONLY thing you do is IMMEDIATELY create a post with the SOLE PURPOSE of ATTACKING Christians for talking freely about corruption.
2.) That is incredibly weird and suspicious behavior.
3.) It's especially suspicious at a time when so much corruption is being uncovered on a daily basis.
For The Regulars Reading This:
1.) This is a thread where people post their ideas about corruption, many of them silly, but a few of them quite serious and weighty.
2.) Nowhere in scripture does God tell us to be ignorant of the world around us.
3.) The Bible says in Proverbs, that a wise man foresees evil coming at him, so that he can avoid it... this means he has to understand and recognize the evil. (It's so important, that it says this twice.)
4.) There is a difference between being aware of evil, and being fearful of it. We ARE to be aware of evil, we are just NOT to be fearful of it.
5.) We are, biblically, to focus primarily on good and wholesome things, however, that does not preclude us from making ourselves aware of the evils, so that we can avoid them. That's a principle in Proverbs.
6.) CONCLUSION:
a. ITS ALL ABOUT BALANCE.
b. We are to be aware of evil so we can avoid it, yet we are not to be afraid of evil, nor give it the majority of our attention.
c. However, we cannot know evil well enough to avoid it if we know nothing about it at all. We are to be wise as serpents; we are to understand the world around us, and the evil therein, so we can avoid the evil. So although we are to primarily focus on that which is good, we are required to also know about the evils in the world so we can avoid them.
d. It is so important to understand evil and danger, so we can avoid it, that the Bible SAYS IT TWICE:
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
(We cannot foresee evil if we don't even know what it is... if we're so gullible we think everything is fine.)
* There is balance in all things.
* There is a time for all things... read Ecclesiastes.
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