Well state your accusations like a man. Don't just cast shade and then run away like a little girl. What is "Judas" in what I am saying? That I am professing that Jesus is Lord? That I am affirming the Gospel of Jesus and that the Bible is the word of God? That I am affirming the literal, material authority of the Kingdom of God on earth over the petty cartoon tyrants and clowns in the halls of earthly "power"? What exactly in what I'm writing "strikes you" as being Judas and, therefore, from Satan? Feel free to retract your accusation if you've spoken in haste.
That's a mighty high horse you're riding there, Clayton. A mighty high horse.
I can't speak for the man, and I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong. I'm more sure you'll try to correct me even if I'm right. But I'm pretty damned sure the reason he didn't elaborate is because somebody else already told you, and you didn't seem to pay any attention:
Even if I were religious, I doubt God's intention for the Earthly plane was for his believers to twiddle their thumbs waiting for either death or apocalypse.
Does what you do on this Earth, besides have faith in God, even matter?
I would assume that God put these challenges on earth, not only to test his followers, but for them to actually do something about it.
I remember that clip a while back about that dude saying our purpose on earth is to slay the dragon.
Why the $#@! aren't we slaying the dragon? Why the $#@! shouldn't we be?
Well I may not conform to any known denomination, but I
am religious, and sometimes you strike me the same way you strike him.
Evil is a thing to be fought. It doesn't say so in the Bible, but there's a lot of truth in the saying, "The Lord helps those who help themselves." Okay, you claim you're just trying to give us hope, keep us from black pilling each other. Nice of you. But a bunch of us got together here to
fight evil, not to sit on our thumbs and wait for God to wait on us hand and foot. And believing the way we do, I don't see God looking kindly on our souls for giving up, no matter how many people out there can't find the narrow door, and resent those who even try.
I think that's why he said what he did.
Life is not a test. What we do here echoes in eternity, as Marcus Aurelius said, but unlike the pagan view of things, not everything we do (or don't do) matters in that way. We are babes, not military recruits.
That's
just not an answer, Clayton. Not for everyone. Honestly, not for me. No, not everything we do or don't matters, because Jesus is forgiving. But my belief, based heavily on Matthew 25, says things we do in this life
do matter. If it isn't exactly a
test, God does expect us to take
something from this life, and prove we've gotten it. And I'm not the only one.
Is your path to Heaven the only possible one, Clayton? Or is it arrogance to assume that? Is our Father as capable as a mortal parent of relating to, judging, and encouraging the individual strengths of, each of His children individually and uniquely? Is He or isn't He?
If we believe it's a sin not to fight evil, even if we can't win by ourselves, why wouldn't God judge us sinners for not doing what we can? How do you know that our fight won't bring hope and comfort to some of the least of His flock, and so, hope and comfort to Jesus?