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Welcome here Alan! :)

Praying for you sister... <><

And finally from French folk singer Francis Cabrel...a song about the universality of love..called...Je t'aimais, Je t'aime et Je t'aimerai" or..."I loved you, I love you, and I will love you."

I hear this song from "medieval sounding" folk group Malicorne from France as a gathering of individual roses into a bouquet...like individuals become one in the Lord's hand. The song is "Marions les roses" (Marry the roses)

The only universality is the temporal struggle we all experience in this life....ici bas sur la terre!

Religion is a box that people put God in...without understand God's judgment or His ways. And people justify themselves by locating themselves in that box...checking off the "salvation" box. Not realizing they have put themselves into religious bondage. But with understanding comes an endless...

Exactly! Like the words that Peter used to "comfort" Jesus. Jesus said...get behind Me Satan. Our yes is to be yes and our no is to be no...all else is from the devil...and the carnal nature that is empowered by it.

You are confusing analogies and cultural indicators from outside the bible with changing the meaning of biblical words AWAY from their meaning. There is a difference between gathering and scattering. A tropaion is a real historical symbol that in no way diminishes the value of the cross being a...

Yes. We always hold out hope that THIS time, they see the bigger picture and get a better reading on who they are in it. The most difficult, and annoying, ones. are those who try to adapt their language (wording) to how they describe their condition...rather than allow the words of God convict...

...or even impute God's righteousness to ourselves. It's all the same bag. Take the bible...now apply any nice sounding things to our own self-love. Anything negative is for others. Just follow the logic to its inevitable conclusion. I have had people red in the face tell me that they have...

Do we need more self-esteem or self-love...or more humility and selflessness, in order to hear and understand the truth? What is the popular religious culture telling us? When numbers are the goal, which agenda do people follow? Who or what are we being faithful to? God, or ourselves? Taking...

Whatever the case...teaching people to err on whatever side is still error. When walking on a high wire, falling off either side of the wire is still falling off. We can't take spiritual things in a whimsical way....and be taken seriously by God. A false balance is abomination with God ( a...

Not saying ABOUT us....but TO us. We shouldn't assume ourselves into the narrative...unless we use humility and see ourselves as among those who need to be instructed and even rebuked. You are mixing things here. The verses in 2 Cor. are indeed about being regenerated in the Spirit. The verses...

I got that. :) But if we look at the way grace is being used...even that is way out in left field. There are people now who throw out God's word in the OT...because "it doesn't look like Jesus"....not realizing that Jesus IS the One speaking very often. So it is a crisis of reality...moving...

Agreed. What I see is a system that is looking for a religious (or theological) solution to a spiritual problem. The consequences of which are to build with materials that are unapproved of God (Think...wood hay and stubble, or else "untempered mortar").

LOL. Teaching people to err in one side or another shows how balance is not believed to be achievable by those who ...somehow...are in leadership positions. very sad indeed. :oops:

How do you know any politician is lying? Easy...his/her lips are moving. ;)

Those who are born again need desperately to be instructed in righteousness...not declare themselves righteous on the level of God. To declare such is going the wrong way...the way of God's wrath. Zeph. 2:3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek...

;) God imputes righteousness when people act righteousness, IN SPITE of any other failings they might have had. God imputes righteousness when He sees righteousness. That doesn't mean they never sin. There is no righteous person in the world that never sins. That is the biblical witness. But...

Is that what you are doing?