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Not only is your vision poor Jack, but also your hearing!

Metaphors require decoding. The decoder (the key) is Jesus. It tells us that in the first few verses of the Book of Revelation. Now you know what/ who the key is but do you know how to use it? Love is a consuming fire. That which is not compatible to love, distances and destroys itself. Love is...

@Debp ....I'm glad you're a chum.

By burking of course! :contemplate:

No, I don't think he would. The mystery hidden for ages is that God is not manipulative or violent and does not use force. This was definitively revealed in Jesus; this was his purpose. Jesus revealed the constitution of Heaven in his Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5) The constitution of Israel...

I'm sorry Jack but you definitely do not have 20/20 vision

I see you fall on the side of God being a vindictive God portrayed in OT writings rather than the testimony of the only eyewitness of God, namely Jesus, W.S.? Wasn't Jesus the one the voice from the cloud told Peter, James and John to listen to? even though Moses and Elijah appeared there also...

I don't see the quote in Luke 19 saying it Marty. I see it like this, We live on a messy planet where bad things happen. These bad things are not orchestrated by God but by the Devil. He is the one who steals, kills and destroys and he uses evil men and the forces of nature to achieve his...

Prediction does not equal causation. I can accurately predict you'll be dead in a hundred years. My prediction does not mean I caused your death.

sooo, was it the wrath of the Romans or the wrath of God? Does God use evil to accomplish his purposes? The Hebrews/ Jews definitely thought so as do many others.....even those who 'believe' in Jesus. I would ask, is this the picture of God Jesus conveyed to the World? .....if it is, how do we...

you have reason for alarm Nancy because it certainly makes mockery of the coined phrase, 'infallible word of God'

It was definitely the wrath of the Romans because the Jews had become so odious to them. The Jews had fed and stoked the fires of their own destruction.

No doubt they saw his scars .....and it was his words that 'made their hearts burn' What I also find riveting is HOW Jesus unfolded the scriptures to them. Have you ever heard someone presenting the scriptures where your heart burns within you?

We have many preachers on this forum Jesusfollower.....self appointed ones might I add. It is near impossible to have a real conversation with a preacher, mainly because they set themselves up as knowing with the assumption that the reader/ listener is unknowing. I hope real conversations are...

The language used is metaphor. Swords are held in hands not mouths, therefore a sword in the mouth depiction is saying his words are incisive.

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So you warn them before you burn them? hmmmmm I surely wouldn't be impressed by a God who threatened me with burning after he told me he loved me. What I would conclude is that he is like a slick used car salesman. Would you trust a slick used car salesman? It seems you would......or would it...

Yes. What I find interesting is, he drew them out gently. First he got their ear, then he got their invite, then after all the riveting conversation they had had along the road and the familiar body language of Jesus at the meal, they joined the dots and the penny dropped. I can imagine they...

....and left ones, well you just need to go back and get them!