I do what I do for others but I do not go trumpeting it on a public forum so that I can get some blinkered non-entity called Sassy to give me praise and a pat on the back and a quote from the book of Chinese Whispers for my efforts.
You do what you do for the good of your own conscience. It is all about how you feel for having done so.
You don't get off your bum at your own expense and travel across the world to help. So you don't deserve any praise or pat on the back for doing what you should do anyway. So you see you still are not getting it. You talk of praise etc.
For us it is about doing what is normal without any praise or pats on the back.
As to my order[ing] [my] remarks in accordance with Christian belief/understanding or not at all.
Well, so far you have proved that would be hard for you to do... It is you who thinks people deserve praise and pat on the backs for something the Christian believes is just the normal thing to do. Go figure... Do you think you need to readdress your own misguided beliefs about Christians and Christian giving. What Hope does is just works prepared for him as I said.
What is it, you cannot grasp about it being the norm and not something for praise or deserving praise???
I wouldn't order anything in accordance with Christian belief/understanding if a man was standing behind me with a sword to decapitate me if I did not do so.
Well it would be no great loss to reasoning and understanding. You would lose your head simply because you had no idea of unselfish giving from the heart of Christ and not man. I suppose you living for yourself, stops you understanding a Christian doing works prepared for them and not for any other reason than it is the right thing to do.
Every post that you and Hope and Vlad make on the subject only reinforces my determination never ever to return to with the Christain church or its beliefs ever again and to make my distaste for those beliefs and my reasons for that stance as often and as vociferously as possible.
Every post you make shows you have NO IDEA about/and was never a member of any true Christian Church.
You do not know the first meaning of being a Christian. And you never met Christ or God, as your ignorance to the good works shows.
Each incident of my doing so evokes from you ever more confirmation to me that my view that Christians are trying more to convince themselves of the rightness of their beliefs than to convince others.
If you ever were a believer and I see no evidence of that in your posts. Then you would have known it is the Holy Spirit who reassures the Christian not themselves.
1 John 3:19-24King James Version (KJV)
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.You were never a Christian and even the simple beliefs and teachings prove this. You have no knowledge of the bible and the teachings imparted from God to man. So maybe the truth is you receive nothing because you are too busy making up your own false truths and when it comes up against the real truth, you fail even more miserably by showing off your ignorance.