Having faith in Jesus Christ coming back to abolish sin and rectify His creation is hardly pessimistic or defeatist. And that is certainly where anyone preaching the Word of God in such a manner as above is coming from.
People turned from God because they innately reject the truth and they innately reject Him. Just like the Bible says they will.
Case in point, the response to the above comment.
And not wanting to turn people away is why we have so many sin filled churches these days. Instead of preaching the Word of God, they only preach the "good stuff" as they have personally determined it.
Luke 18:18-19 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Romans 3:9-20 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
What a pessimistic and ultimately defeatist view on humanity, with company like yours, no wonder people have turned from God.
What spaceman Bob said!
My comment is a Bible verse. Look it up.
Having faith in Jesus Christ coming back to abolish sin and rectify His creation is hardly pessimistic or defeatist. And that is certainly where anyone preaching the Word of God in such a manner as above is coming from.
People turned from God because they innately reject the truth and they innately reject Him. Just like the Bible says they will.
Case in point, the response to the above comment.
And not wanting to turn people away is why we have so many sin filled churches these days. Instead of preaching the Word of God, they only preach the "good stuff" as they have personally determined it.
Luke 18:18-19 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Romans 3:9-20 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Thank you for your reply, now I don’t need to. I really appreciate it. You describe that very eloquently.