Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Lucy #293: Then you go on to note that, ―But I know you want control so you can have
His glory, because you say you live like Jesus -- spreading love and telling everyone sin is OK
and that there is no price to pay for sin.‖
Nope – wrong again, my dear Friend. And again, wrong in a way that I have already
clearly & calmly explained to you so many times already in this thread alone! … (sigh) … No
matter, I will do so again for you now … Please consider the following facts:
Initially, let it be once again known that I have chosen to live as a Follower of The Way
of Christ, and that I have been doing so for the past eleven+ years of my life. What this means is
that I have taken the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospels and have chosen to live them
literally – each & every one of them; not watering them down with cop-outs to personal comfort;
not dampening their majesty using the contradictory teachings of Paul; not mitigating their
awesomeness by conveniently turning every now and then to the archaic ramblings of the Old
Testament … I live them all exactly as they are written. I have tested them all over many years,
in many hundreds of communities, and in many thousands of encounters … I have seen the Great
Fruit that Jesus‘ teachings of perfect Love bear whenever they are interpreted Love-fully and
then enlivened courageously, and I seek to enliven them as such each & every day of my own
life. I am not perfect in doing so, of course, and yet that is The Way I have chosen to Walk &
Live & Be nonetheless.
This means that I have no home of my own … This means that I have no money of my
own … This means that I live to serve all those around me and never ask to be served by them …
This means that I defend the innocent from persecution (as in the case at hand – namely, the
homosexuals who are being persecuted by you & yours) … This means that I champion a LOVE that
is truly & divinely ―perfect‖ – which means that it is a Love that knows absolutely no judgment
(John 5:22 + John 8:15 + John 12:47), that inflicts absolutely no punishment (1 John 4:18), that has
absolutely no end (Matthew 18:22), and that entertains absolutely no exceptions (Matthew 5:40-48)
… And this also means that I accept no glory for myself at all. I have changed my birth-name
to deflect all praise, and don‘t even attach my currently adopted moniker directly to anything I
personally say or write or do. All praise goes to where it is due (namely, the ―Holy Spirit‖ of the
―heavenly Father‖ that resides both within and all around us) – and while I can never be exactly sure
where that due is to be found, I do know that it most certainly is not to be found in my self.
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