I’ll admit, I didn’t know I needed your permission to admit stuff. But since you’re paying for billboard space to encourage me to make confessions, I guess I’ll take full advantage of the opportunity.
I admit that I hope the billboards you rented were expensive. I hope they cost more than you make in book sales. I’m hoping that promoting your book results in financial disaster of such magnitude that it forces your family to move into the local mission. That will be getting off pretty easy.
Maybe, when all your God-given material blessings have been revoked and your ego is demolished, you’ll repent. That’s my hope, anyway. In your despair, you’ll cry out to Jesus and He will renew your mind and restore your soul. (I’m getting this from the Bible.)
If your diabolical book brings you monetary reward, you will falsely conclude that it is a good work. You’ll probably write another book of treacherous deceits. You’ll usher in a darkness of such magnitude that countless families will lose not only their wealth, but their hope and joy as well. I’ll admit, I don’t want that to happen.
If the Bible is wrong, then lying, cheating, stealing, and murder are matters of personal choice. If the Bible is wrong, there is no reason to love my neighbor. Your billboard erases the very foundation of our civilization. Your reckless pontificating unravels the fabric of morality. I hope you sell zero books.
Is it ok to admit that?
(Romans 3:3) What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”
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I’m confused as to how 1 Corinthians 13:12 supports the message of the billboard. The “Love” chapter teaches us how we grow when we live as Christ followers and are sanctified.