Hurting

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>In a recent post entitled "Three Gods", I stated that I may go back to
>the Assemblies Of God. I received several private posts. A few were
>very kind, but most reminded me of an oxygen-injected flame-thrower.
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>I have always believed in One God. I still do. It is not the Oneness
>doctrine that that I don't agree with, it is some of the people that I
>don't agree with.
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Bro. Floyd,

Praise the Lord!

You could go to the AOG, the Baptists or even the Muslims, but you would
always find people that may be hurtful.  There are two reasons for this:

1) sometimes we deal with carnal, foolish, unkind people...or people who are
also hurting themselves and do not know how to cope.  This is part of being
human.  You can't run from this, because these types of people will ALWAYS
be around in life.  You just have to learn to cope with them.

2) sometimes people hurt us in helping us.  When the doctor removed my
appendix it hurt, but it also saved my life.  My pastor hurt me on more than
one occasion, but in retrospect it saved me spiritually.  The old saying is
"sometimes the truth hurts' is an apt saying. 

Hope this helps.

R. Deckard

Rex Deckard
http://www.venus.net/~rdeckard
rdeckard@venus.net
       
"Sometimes the Lord calms the storms, and sometimes He lets the storms rage
and calms His child"