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Hey LR. How're you with C.S. Lewis? "The Abolition of Man" We make men without chests and we expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. I said irrelevant Bill...which all of this is on a DoubleGun forum. But LR said how much he enjoys politics and religion so I just couldn't help myself 
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Craig, Drew: Christianity is a big tent. Those who may appose some of your views could support a great many of them at the same time. One of the core tenets asks us to be unwilling to cast the stone and to love our enemies. Just saying.
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Since I have become part of the "greater plan" to see if this gets deleted for quotes from early Christians why not another of my favorite ones .......... by Richard Sibbes, from The Soules' Conflict With Itself, 1635
"Happy is he that in his way to heaven meeteth with a cheerful and skillful guide and fellow traveler, that carrieth cordials with him against all fainting of spirit. It is part of our wisdom to make choice of such a one as may further us in our way. Any indifference for any company shews a dead heart. Where the life of grace is, it is sensible of all advantages and disadvantages. How many have been refreshed by one short, apt, savory speech, which hath begotten, as it were, new spirits in them."
I have met several that can be described in this way during my time afield with doubleguns.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Drew, I think I understand and appreciate your point about " couldn't help myself." I'm there most all the time. Be well. Hopefully we'll all get through the current plague and on to happier things. Boredom doesn't seem to bring out the best in me.
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Stan/Drew,
All thats inspiring and everything but when Im standing at the Pearly Gates and theyre debating whether to let me in or not, Im just hoping to hear...
Well, its not like hes Pol Pot or anything...
The Gates swings open and I start strolling towards Malibu then I feel I vice like grip on my shoulder...
Nova Scotias that way, bub...
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Sibbes in great Stan. But he wrote c. 1630s so I need modern translations of his stuff. His The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax has been a great comfort to me when feeling beaten up & worn out https://sites.google.com/site/anotherdaysjourneybackhome/wounded-saints Another of my favs, which helps set the boundaries of our tent John Flavel "The Fountain of Life" Would you like to test whether this or that doctrine is from the Spirit of Christ or not? Examine it by this rule: whatever doctrine you find to encourage and countenance sin, to exalt self, to be accommodating to the world's designs, and that bends to the humours and lusts of men, you may safely reject. Whatever doctrine makes those who profess it to be carnal, proud, and sensual, you may safely conclude never came from Jesus Christ. The doctrines of Christ lead to godliness; His truth sanctifies. Be sure, Christ never revealed anything that detracts from His glory, or obstructs the purpose of His own death.
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I think what this thread needs is a bit of color... just for you Billy  
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The only question you'll be asked at the Gates LR: "Do you know God as Father, Jesus as Savior, Friend and Brother, and have you been born again by the power of the the Holy Spirit?" But they MIGHT ask YOU to spell Quispamsis over in N.B. 
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But they MIGHT ask YOU to spell Quispamsis over in N.B. Im fooked. _________________________ Just send me to Hell or Nova Scotia, itd be aboot the same to me.
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