Maybe they do things in a way that surprises you in their understanding of the bible.
Maybe they know things from a Jewish or Middle East perspective.
Maybe they know things from a Indigenous perspective.
Maybe they know things from an Asian perspective.
Maybe they are of ancestry of the first settlers in the USA.
People bring their "knowledge" and talent from different angles.
By unfriending, blocking, avoiding engaging in conversation with such people, YOU are the problem for YOUR Jealousy!
If you are considering your self as a Christian, but you do not like to hear the TRUTH that many people who called themselves "Christian" falsely converted, created mass genocide conditions, raped various cultures, enslaved various cultures etc etc.......then the problem is NOT with their talent and WISDOM! The problem is with YOU and how you DEAL with such human tragedies!
Perhaps you don't like the research they did about "marriage" in the past (perhaps it was a little more polyamourous than people realize) or the wicked conditions of NERO.
Perhaps you don't like the idea that ABORTION is MURDER especially if the child was a fit child or had that potential (aka. the child could have survived past 8 days after birth).
Perhaps you don't like the idea of full-water baptism, study scripture daily, worship on Sabbath Day's, women as helpmete, praying for the sick for supernatural healing or other things that you in your religion do not practice......
Perhaps they just happen to eat the wrong apple pie, because ONLY YOUR grandmother bakes it the right way and SAYS it the right way (aka. you don't even know indigenous languages YET).
Whatever the case may be......
The problem is with YOU and YOUR condition before the HEAVENLY condition and the condition of your HEART!
Their talent may be in music, natural medicine, education, writing, self-sustainability, astronomy, basket weaving etc etc. The creator offers wisdom if people listen.
It is EASY to love the talent-less people in our society. The bums who say nothing but.....well nothing. It is easy to love those with a 5th grade education, because they really can't explain the deep inner details of how a machine works. Their faith may be there (as a bible is written at a fifth grade level), but the STRENGTH of the LORD is given to ALL people who repent! Even to PAUL (a talented educated man).
It is HARD to love the talented people.......because people have jealousy problems. Do the HARD thing.
You never know.....your behavior on-line or off-line could be held accountable before the king of kings. It may even be held accountable before your next job interview? Maybe your future spouse wants to see how you interact with the disabled Asperger syndrome people who post a lot of "tough to think about bible verses." Would you react with "they are nuts" or "they are gifted." Maybe that church you love to attend may ignore you when you would like to participate in something super special, but your online interactions show that you refuse to be friends with the "out casts." Maybe that friend who was looking for wisdom from you, may ignore you after she finds out you often unfriend or block people who share bible wisdom. That job you want to apply for, which includes working with a lot of disabled people and socially unusual situations, will not hire you because you often unfriend or block people who come from poor, foreign, minority, orphan or other similar back grounds. Think about that for a bit. (You do NOT have to tell your employer that you have a Facebook account or other online accounts, however, there MAY be people who are LOOKING up YOUR records and BEHAVIOR.)
(The only time I can say not to concern one's self with talented people is if they are encouraging your heart to hate what is good (God's laws are GOOD).....what ever that may be.......God's Judgement is going to be for those who call evil.....good and good.....evil. Do not even try to work with the "wicked" of this world, even if everyone calls them talented.)
Furthermore, you blocking their light, even if that person who is talented has 1 or more disabilities, is to deny that person a VOICE to speak. If you won't even listen to them, how do you think God reacts to you when you become disabled and need a voice?
Jesus had the ULTIMATE TALENT! He had the gift of death on the cross, and raising after three days!
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2Pe 3:3-5 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. (5) For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
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