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<blockquote data-quote="Steven Bobb" data-source="post: 28963700" data-attributes="member: 736329"><p>Yeah figures you'd take the side of the one doing wrong.But maybe you have all this time to help,so when someone sees you as a sap and intentionally takes advantage of you,you have nothing else to do but run to help them. Some of the rest of us might be busy at the time.{Look up the word busy in the dictionary.}And your apples to oranges comparision,God the Father VOLUNTERED to send Jesus, and those of us who would be saved accepted it. That's a little different mindset than someone lurking around, looking for a sign of weakness,scheming on how to "use" someone.{And with things,in most cases, they could do themselves.}Also,when we ask something of God, since God can do things instantaneously, at any given moment He could be free to do it. We, as human beings, might be "bogged down" with other things at the time.Furthermore, if it is truly laziness,and we encourage it by giving in to them continually, aren't we encouraging them in a bad habit?I've had people ask me to do sinful things, a junkie neighbor wanted me to lend him money to get drugs, take him to his dealer. I once had someone who wanted me to lie in court for them, say I witnessed something when I wasn't even there.{And I could get arrested for perjury.}There's a difference between legitamite needs and taking advantage of someone,or you're encouraging them in a bad habit by "giving in".So if some Christians take that verse as "Do ANYTHING for ANYBODY at ANYTIME",I still say, use judgement per situation. But if you wouldn't mind getting drugs for someone or lying in court for them ,that's you. It's not me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steven Bobb, post: 28963700, member: 736329"] Yeah figures you'd take the side of the one doing wrong.But maybe you have all this time to help,so when someone sees you as a sap and intentionally takes advantage of you,you have nothing else to do but run to help them. Some of the rest of us might be busy at the time.{Look up the word busy in the dictionary.}And your apples to oranges comparision,God the Father VOLUNTERED to send Jesus, and those of us who would be saved accepted it. That's a little different mindset than someone lurking around, looking for a sign of weakness,scheming on how to "use" someone.{And with things,in most cases, they could do themselves.}Also,when we ask something of God, since God can do things instantaneously, at any given moment He could be free to do it. We, as human beings, might be "bogged down" with other things at the time.Furthermore, if it is truly laziness,and we encourage it by giving in to them continually, aren't we encouraging them in a bad habit?I've had people ask me to do sinful things, a junkie neighbor wanted me to lend him money to get drugs, take him to his dealer. I once had someone who wanted me to lie in court for them, say I witnessed something when I wasn't even there.{And I could get arrested for perjury.}There's a difference between legitamite needs and taking advantage of someone,or you're encouraging them in a bad habit by "giving in".So if some Christians take that verse as "Do ANYTHING for ANYBODY at ANYTIME",I still say, use judgement per situation. But if you wouldn't mind getting drugs for someone or lying in court for them ,that's you. It's not me. [/QUOTE]
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