Too many people see themselves as individuals without consideration of others, too engrossed in their own affairs and too involved in their own thoughts.
So I wanted to share this article.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14062303/site/newsweek
The world is more than you or I, life involves more than self preservation. Be a good person not because it will redeem you but to add to the redemption of the world at large.
Get over yourself
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BGoodForGoodSake
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Get over yourself
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Canuckster1127
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Re: Get over yourself
I always find it amusing when atheists call others conceded when their very own evolutionary theories boast of genetic superiority...
Unfortunately man cannot redeem himself alone.. It is Christ who redeems, not man...BGoodForGoodSake wrote:Too many people see themselves as individuals without consideration of others, too engrossed in their own affairs and too involved in their own thoughts.
So I wanted to share this article.
=)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14062303/site/newsweek
The world is more than you or I, life involves more than self preservation. Be a good person not because it will redeem you but to add to the redemption of the world at large.
The heart cannot rejoice in what the mind rejects as false - Galileo
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
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Canuckster1127
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Re: Get over yourself
Who's the Atheist in this scenario?
Gman wrote:I always find it amusing when atheists call others conceded when their very own evolutionary theories boast of genetic superiority...
Unfortunately man cannot redeem himself alone.. It is Christ who redeems, not man...BGoodForGoodSake wrote:Too many people see themselves as individuals without consideration of others, too engrossed in their own affairs and too involved in their own thoughts.
So I wanted to share this article.
=)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14062303/site/newsweek
The world is more than you or I, life involves more than self preservation. Be a good person not because it will redeem you but to add to the redemption of the world at large.
Dogmatism is the comfortable intellectual framework of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is more decadent than the worst sexual sin. ~ Dan Allender
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Re: Get over yourself
Sorry Bart, I think it was for the guy above not directly BGood... I often see atheists using this scenario against Christians...Canuckster1127 wrote:Who's the Atheist in this scenario?
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The heart cannot rejoice in what the mind rejects as false - Galileo
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
We learn from history that we do not learn from history - Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. -Philippians 4:8
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N4SC
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Re: Get over yourself
Somewhat of a good point.
However, if any of us could be good on our own, then we wouldn't be in the mess now, would we?
However, if any of us could be good on our own, then we wouldn't be in the mess now, would we?
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
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