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The Irrationality of the RASN’s Mind

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the...

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How can we know that someone (including ourselves) is really Born Again?

Many victims of domestic abusers and other kind of their kin (RASNs) struggle with the abuser's claim to be a Christian. In addition, many people including pastors and other church members pressure victims to assume that their abuser is actually...

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The Abuser Really has no Fear of God

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon...

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We Should be Ashamed When we Sin – But RASNs have no shame

Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1:32) I no doubt have written in the past about this...

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Being an Eternal Optimist toward a RASN is a futile path

2Ti 4:14-15 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. (15) Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. God's Word is very negative about certain kinds of evil people....

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Are RASNs on the Increase in our day?

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not...

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It is Grievous, but Expect it – There are Enemies in the Camp

Php 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, (19) whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is...

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Oh, How Forgiving the Hypocrite is – A Picture from Mr. Pecksniff

If you want to see a masterful portrayal of the hypocrite (which so many RASNs are - revilers, abusers, sociopaths, and narcissists) - read Charles Dickens' "Martin Chuzzelwit." In that book you will meet Mr. Pecksniff, whose name has become...

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