When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"

It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.