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* Proverbs 3: 13 tells us that wisdom and understanding are a source of happiness: “Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.”

*Proverbs 14; 21 tells us that extending mercy to others brings happiness: “He that hath mercy on an afflicted one, happy is he.”

*Proverbs 28: 14 tells us that reverential concern and reflection is directly associated with man’s happiness: “Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.”

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To bring under the sway of Christianity nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for oppressing, we ought before all things to leave them in peace, and in case we need or wish to enter into closer relations with them, we ought only to influence them by Christian manners and Christian teaching, setting them the example of the Christian virtues of patience, meekness, endurance, purity, brotherhood, and love.
L.T.

"Corruption in the world grows as God's children fail to shine as lights, Matt 5:16, and no longer walk as children of light, Eph 5:8-10."

You speak of the need to choose righteousness--the average protestant will accuse you of legalism.
You complain of the ten commandments being thrown out of courts--the average protestant church has thrown the ten commandments out of its midst long before.
You speak of obedience--the average protestant church has rejected obedience… Continue

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(a reaction to the contemplations of a secular Jew on the same topic)

Both had pure intentions: sacrifice to God. But in Cain's sacrifice there was an element of impurity... He noticed this impurity and this realization clashed with his desire to please God and to be pure (a desire all God's children have). He was the first man to see that he cannot please God. Perhaps he was also the first to see sin in himself. Adam and Even knew nakedness and shame, and even separation from God, but

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