@TheRhetorRick Yes the theological concern for the "uncontacted" tribe is silly. Every human came from the same family, even secular science believes this. So any group on the fringes of earth living a survival based lifestyle is there because their ancestors de-socialized; and they persist.
@sola_chad The Bible doesn't say he never fasted, that he was unbaptized, that he didn't recognize Peter as lead apostle, that he didn't perform works.
@caldwell_e88048@mechanism__8@dsaorthocaucus You don't get it. Grace operates in the world through people and events. You are "using" the people around you that God placed their for your sanctification. You can either love the unlovable ones too or hate them and go to Hell.
@caldwell_e88048@mechanism__8@dsaorthocaucus Also matters that she wrote down all her inner struggles as a diary at the order of her superior. We have an unfair window into her deepest thoughts, God forbid we ever have to write down our's.
@caldwell_e88048@mechanism__8@dsaorthocaucus I'm sure you think the same way about many people in your life for frivolous reasons. I know I do.
But unlike you and me, Saint Thérèse cooperated with the grace that says those people are loveable whether or not we feel they have qualities which merit our love and did love.
@emmathebeloved@dsaorthocaucus@Cary_Bleasdale We are talking about a cloister of nuns. Thérèse was younger and was not in charge of that nun. We are also talking about rather superficial things, imagine someone who's chewing drives you crazy or their responses feel snippy. She was in no position to correct the other nun.
@caldwell_e88048@dsaorthocaucus Bad take. Its normal to make an effort to love people that trigger us into aversion towards them. There is less merit in "loving" people who never upset or bother you. But to choose to love and will the best for someone you have trouble liking is a virtue.
@EsoShaggy Same same sex activities are disgusting and a scandal. Theres no "gotcha". Good morals is part of a spiritual battle. Candace can be choosing to suppress her same sex attractions in order to pursue truth while simultaneously being subjected to enormous temptations and falls.
@FortySacks I am an anglo québécois. I support this post. For the first time I will vote PQ and I welcome a referendum. What Canada is and is becoming and it has nothing to do with me, I therefore want nothing to do with it. If my grandkids never use english, that's a price I will pay.
@StuffForSisters Key word is "fall".
They were forced out by the flames, heat, smoke. Turn your oven to 425 and open the door with your face within a few feet and you recoil instinctively. Now image 1000 degrees.