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I doubt anyone so wise would be so petty.

gjsman-1000 2y ago
> I doubt anyone so wise would be so petty. Why should God have mercy on someone who offends him, night and day, and does not care, nor show any remorse for his actions? Mercy requires repentance; no repentance, no mercy. "And his master, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he would repay all that was owed him." - Matthew 18:34 Edit, as a reply for the comment below about how this is a "small breeze to a great mountain": to claim this is to reject the words of Christ. "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." - Matthew 12:36-37 Are not all possible words a small breeze before an infinite God?
- TeaBrain 2y ago
  As God, simple words like this would be like a small breeze to a great mountain. As I said, to be offended by this would require pettiness which I would have a hard time believing would be possible for such. As a human believer, I think you are speaking outside of your bounds of understanding.
  - throwup238 2y ago
    > As I said, to be offended by this would require pettiness which I would have a hard time believing would be possible for such. Isn’t that the old testament in a nutshell?
- ptsneves 2y ago
  Jesus died on the cross to clear all our sins. Heaven’s door is open to all who just want to enter. Says uneducated me of course, but I damn sure like that Jesus and God. Confident, forgiving and cavalier.
  - _bin_ 2y ago
    I hope you are, in fact, sure to the point of damnation. The stakes are rather high.
    - tomrod 2y ago
      Nah. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
  - tomrod 2y ago
    Hear hear. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- TeaBrain 2y ago
  To your edit, you are still making an assumption of pettiness on the part of God. These "swear" words are nothing but wind. They have no impact on the world. If God is invested in the world, then is probable that only those words, idle or not, that made a positive or negative impact on the world would be worthwhile to judge with any weight. So-called "idle" words may have been mentioned simply to cast an umbrella over all speech, due to an incomplete recollection of what the Christ figure had once said about speech. Like most attributions in the new testament, it is a second hand account of what had been said a decent while before.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y ago
  >> I doubt anyone so wise would be so petty. >> Why should God have mercy on someone who offends him, night and day, and does not care, nor show any remorse for his actions? Mercy requires repentance; no repentance, no mercy. Because in order to think, you must risk being offensive. That's why the snake was wisdom, and God is literally, figuratively, collectively unconsciously and historically in our Gaps. Newton claimed only Jesus knew what made the leaves green.

> I doubt anyone so wise would be so petty. Why should God have mercy on someone who offends him, night and day, and does not care, nor show any remorse for his actions? Mercy requires repentance; no repentance, no mercy. "And his master, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he would repay all that was owed him." - Matthew 18:34 Edit, as a reply for the comment below about how this is a "small breeze to a great mountain": to claim this is to reject the words of Christ. "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." - Matthew 12:36-37 Are not all possible words a small breeze before an infinite God?

TeaBrain 2y ago
As God, simple words like this would be like a small breeze to a great mountain. As I said, to be offended by this would require pettiness which I would have a hard time believing would be possible for such. As a human believer, I think you are speaking outside of your bounds of understanding.
- throwup238 2y ago
  > As I said, to be offended by this would require pettiness which I would have a hard time believing would be possible for such. Isn’t that the old testament in a nutshell?
ptsneves 2y ago
Jesus died on the cross to clear all our sins. Heaven’s door is open to all who just want to enter. Says uneducated me of course, but I damn sure like that Jesus and God. Confident, forgiving and cavalier.
- _bin_ 2y ago
  I hope you are, in fact, sure to the point of damnation. The stakes are rather high.
  - tomrod 2y ago
    Nah. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- tomrod 2y ago
  Hear hear. Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
TeaBrain 2y ago
To your edit, you are still making an assumption of pettiness on the part of God. These "swear" words are nothing but wind. They have no impact on the world. If God is invested in the world, then is probable that only those words, idle or not, that made a positive or negative impact on the world would be worthwhile to judge with any weight. So-called "idle" words may have been mentioned simply to cast an umbrella over all speech, due to an incomplete recollection of what the Christ figure had once said about speech. Like most attributions in the new testament, it is a second hand account of what had been said a decent while before.
Jerrrrrrry 2y ago
>> I doubt anyone so wise would be so petty. >> Why should God have mercy on someone who offends him, night and day, and does not care, nor show any remorse for his actions? Mercy requires repentance; no repentance, no mercy. Because in order to think, you must risk being offensive. That's why the snake was wisdom, and God is literally, figuratively, collectively unconsciously and historically in our Gaps. Newton claimed only Jesus knew what made the leaves green.