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Post by solid on Dec 30, 2019 12:08:04 GMT -5
Hi Dezi. You don't want people walking over you, but you don't want to be an angry person either. You can be firm and stand up for yourself without being angry. I am 49 years old and have never found that balance... hopefully I can still learn it. Most of us struggle with too much anger.
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Post by John on Dec 30, 2019 12:28:27 GMT -5
This is really a good topic, because nearly everyone experiences anger at times, and anger itself is not a sin. I mentioned a few examples in my last post of things you can do that would be to sin in your anger. I would imagine others can think of other ways we do that? What are ways that people sin in their anger?
I think if we get so angry and can't forgive afterwards then that would be sin. I guess I needed someone to show me how to express my anger appropriately...instead I now feel if anyone gets angry and acts a little miffed I feel it's bad. Like I was supposed to just accept whatever was thrown my way in life as ok. I wasn't supposed to feel angry. Really screwed up way of thinking I know... Not even sure I can allow myself to really be angry now. I wasn't even able to really get angry with my children much... I just accept all the behaviors and try to calmly tell them when they are not doing right but then they walk all over me it seems at times. I do not think the point of the scripture to be angry and sin not is encouraging us to be angry, but if you are angry, don't sin. If you are not an angry person, that is good.
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Post by frienduff on Dec 30, 2019 13:19:57 GMT -5
Hi Dezi. You don't want people walking over you, but you don't want to be an angry person either. You can be firm and stand up for yourself without being angry. I am 49 years old and have never found that balance... hopefully I can still learn it. Oh dear sister , you are still a pup being only forty nine . I will soon be < LORD wiling forty eight . We still pups my dear sister . You can learn this . And you are loved . Hands up sister , hands up and rejoice in the LORD .
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Post by 777 on Jan 13, 2020 9:39:37 GMT -5
I think if we get so angry and can't forgive afterwards then that would be sin. I guess I needed someone to show me how to express my anger appropriately...instead I now feel if anyone gets angry and acts a little miffed I feel it's bad. Like I was supposed to just accept whatever was thrown my way in life as ok. I wasn't supposed to feel angry. Really screwed up way of thinking I know... Not even sure I can allow myself to really be angry now. I wasn't even able to really get angry with my children much... I just accept all the behaviors and try to calmly tell them when they are not doing right but then they walk all over me it seems at times. I do not think the point of the scripture to be angry and sin not is encouraging us to be angry, but if you are angry, don't sin. If you are not an angry person, that is good.
I would agree with you. It is like how a temperance preacher will encourage folks to drink in moderation. He isn't wanting us to take up drinking, but saying that if we do drink, don't do it in excess.
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Post by John on Jan 13, 2020 18:17:48 GMT -5
I do not think the point of the scripture to be angry and sin not is encouraging us to be angry, but if you are angry, don't sin. If you are not an angry person, that is good.
I would agree with you. It is like how a temperance preacher will encourage folks to drink in moderation. He isn't wanting us to take up drinking, but saying that if we do drink, don't do it in excess. That is a good example.
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