Mom and Me

THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMETH RIGHT TO MAN, BUT THE END THERE OF IS D EATH. GOD'S LAW IS WHAT MATTERS AND WHEN HE SAYS A THING IS WRON G, THEN IT IS WRONG. YES HE WILL HAVE THE LAST WORD ON EVERYTHING THAT IS D ONE ON THE EARTH...GOOD OR BAD. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERANCE THOUGH. WE HAD A wonderful time in Tatum, TX. last night....They had a cook out & we sang for 40 mins. hey gave us $100.00 . The food was great too. That was four singings this week that we did. The new CD sounds good too . Now to get it finished for sale. Ha ve a good day...love, Mom

I don't disagree, Mom -- I just don't want that chocolate in my peanut butter. Freedom means what it means... free will is free will, and if we start trying to enforce God's law on Earth, we have more in common with the Taliban than I would have ever thought.

Honey it is not enforcing GOD'S will....it is GOD'S law. Since He made everything...He won't change His law for anyone. It is the ONE thing we can count on. About the only thing right now. We can do our FREE WILL thing all we want, but when it is all over GOD'S law will still be in force, it will not have changed one bit. You can count on that. I've got washing going so I must run. Love, Mom

Mom,

Please, slow down! Please, re-read what I wrote.

You've misinterpreted what I said.

I don't expect God to change ANYTHING. I only want to express to you
that *my* beliefs are that as humans, with free will to do what we
will, WE are SOLELY responsible for out actions, in THIS life AND the
next... and I would have it NO OTHER WAY.

Again, this is what I understand to be FREEDOM, upon which our great
nation was formed. Freedom does NOT equal "doing the right thing, all
the time." Most people abuse freedom, to some degree, at some point.
But if it doesn't violate *man's* law, it is LEFT TO GOD TO JUDGE, and
not to us. It would be arrogant and presumptuous, in my opinion, to
act as "God's police force," as the Taliban acts in THEIR belief that
they have the right to do so. They are extremists, as anyone, in my
opinion. who believes that they can apply God's law unquestionably to
society, is. There is no room for that in a FREE society, period.

I don't think there's any room for religious police in America, and I
would fight them to the death, if anyone were to try to put suchan
enforcement mechanism in place. Our country was formed and is based on
many differing, yet quite similar beliefs, and that is, in my mind, as
it should be. The fact that we *don't* all believe the exact same
things are the SOURCE of our strength, and I suspect it is as God
would have it, because no other nation has successfully existed with
this apparent paradox before ours.

I believe that God has blessed us so greatly BECAUSE WE, almost alone
in the world, are FREE to understand Him and His wisdom on our own
terms, rather than being oppressively forced into believing as the
government/officials would have us believe. Do you disagree?

Love you much, and DEEPLY appreciate the respect you are showing me in
our discussion.

xoxoxoxo,

-Jeff
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