Bullying why?

pray for this child, she's going to live with her 'aunty' who she says she gets on a lot better than her mum.

She did say to me that she was being hard on the juniors and was sorry she was having anger issues.

I was with them today, and they were playing hide and seek reindeer in the library. I could have kicked them all out, but, they werent annoying anyone, just having fun. I recall when this girl and her peers spend some time in the library with me, THEY wanted to play hide and seek too (and have me join in lol)

God wants to be your defender. Please give Him a chance.

I think bully is a devaluated word and cheapens the conversation. Nowadays it's been tossed too much, if people aren't doing things our way or don't like us, they are now bullies. I think violence is a better word for discussing this as it is still not completely contextually destroyed like bullying.

I do. Sorry you can't see it.

This is a god report,. I pray all goes well with the child living with Aunty. It sounds like you get along with kids and that is a good thing.

This girl has stayed in school this year and seems happier.

but my oh my I had an incident the other day when a boy came into the library and kicked a girl when I wasnt there. He'd been threatening violence the day before but he made it seemed like the was teasing and joking about wanting to kill her. He was also one of the boys who assumed he could just play video games on the computer and hog it and not let others return their books.

I really have to pray for this boy and hes only 7 or 8. What must his parents be like I shudder. Im like I dont want to pray for him cos this is a hard case. He sure got punished though (and a good talking to by the teachers) and nearly broke down the door to the library when the girls locked him out for fear he would kick or punch them again.

Yes he was the chief of sinners.

glad that Saul saw the light and stopped being a bully...if he hadnt, gentiles would not have come to Christ in such numbers without his missionary efforts and loving example.

He was certainly a zealot, and sometimes they can sink to bullying or persecution tactics to close down any opposition.

If the meaning of this thread is to say that : Saul was a bully, then yes, I agree.

saul was a bully because he was jealous of Jesus

I think that was the plain fact of the matter

Seems like a lot of bullies have jealous feelings.

If you are referring to king Saul then it was David who bore the brunt of his machinations. In those days there was no such thing as "bullying" but Goliath would take the prize.

ah, Sipsey , it sounds like you have learned the art of fighting without fighting , you have mastered the art , well done Sipsey-san

As for the bullies, they are of their father the devil, and the lusts of their father they will do.

Pretty sure she was talking about Saul Stoner (Paul).

the jealous principal turned out to be a bully and ended up cutting me in the library and trying to take my job. Because the children liked me more than her it seems.

But then. the first King Saul was also jealous of David and tried to kill him. It seems if you are good at something, someone whos insecure will pick on you.

What in this quote says to you that we need to "kick butt"? Yes, a "time to kill" but it doesn't say what or who we're to kill. Killing according to God, I believe, only can happen in self-defense when someone tries to kill us: "Love your neighbor as yourself." We must love and protect ourselves in such situations as war, for example.

David killed Goliath but Goliath was intending to kill David first and didnt think David was strong enough.
However David said he killed lions, wolves and bears who were preying on his sheep, who are innocent and wouldnt have killed anybody.

the school I was in encouraged war.

It grouped the students into seven different houses and played them off against each other. When I attended a staff farewell the first day, the Principal boasted that his office manager was a bully.

When I got fired, the primary principal said she was 'looking forward to our meeting'. They sure took pleasure in unrighteousness. she left students to fight it out and they were fighting IN my library. It was the most perverse school I had been to.

Amen it wasn't bullying Paul believed he was doing good for God stomping out heresy because Paul was a pharisee before his conversion he wasn't bullying he was blind yet to Christ and thought he was serving God by ending the" Christian heresy" like most of the Jews thought then . Interestingly when Paul converted he became enemy number one to the Jews at jersualem just like Jesus had been then his apostles and the whole church attr point we're considered just like Jesus heretics and blasphemers

He says Jesus chose to convert him, the chief sinner a blasphemer who persecuted the church of God , in order to how that if God can save a man set to destroy the church of god, his beloved , then any of our past sins can be forgiven and we roo can be converted like Paul was for his glory. Paul seemed to carry real regret and repentance for what he did before even knowing he ha been forgiven

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:


but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.


And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:12‭-‬17 KJV


He claims to have been a blasphemer but we have very little record of sauls life in scripture before his conversion he claims to be an injurious persecutor towards the church I would imagine they sort of were pretty rough believing they were heretics in those religious times but it's amazing God uses one of the main persecutors of the church to become one of it's most successful ministers and an author of more than half of the new testament writihgs he took an unbelieving sinners mess and made him a beloved apostle and hero of the faith