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Interesting how you hear things I'm not saying AJ. Perhaps its to do with your inability to hear the cryptic? Has it also to do with not being able to decipher sarcasm? Perhaps if I were to say I went to pick blackberries and saw they were red then knew they were green you would conclude I...

do you think I'm a wolf?

I think thats what the Pope has in mind as well!

eisegesis is reading into the text what you want it to say. exegesis is discovering what the intent of the text is.

You resort to chastisement because my questions/statements do not fit your paradigm. That's unfortunate because it implies your paradigm is the authority.

of course there was a Big Bang.....or do you believe your mother resorted to in vitro fertilisation? :rolleyes:

Isaiah 45:7 'I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.' 1 John 1:5 'This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.' have fun!

It appears to me many are on a bible trip here rattling off texts like it's a badge of honour. Pity the poor folk who are blind and are intellectually disabled...they would never make the grade! 'You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are...

and are you going to generate that yourself?

you're then going to have a difficult time reconciling the various contradictory accounts.

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. Revelation 1:3 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add...

God did not hold the pen of the Prophets. They wrote from their understanding and their cultural background just like you do. You do not write with the cultural baggage of a Chinese any more than the Prophets wrote with the cultural baggage of the Western mindset.

It must be able to be removed....Jesus warned the churches of this.

Observing my own journey over the last 50 years, in my own mind I have always been right at any given time. When I realised I was wrong I would change my mind and be right again. That process hasn't really stopped. In my heart I want what is truth yet I have often found that what I considered...

Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone? What about (1)faith based stealing or (2)faith based murder.....what about (3)faith based adultery I'm sure Robin Hood was into (1)....and men pray when the go to war (2) and when loving your neighbour spills over into...

if you don't forgive you will find it near impossible to believe you have been forgiven.

"The Spirit will not enlighten an unloving mind" I wonder what happened to Saul of Tarsus?

Why are so many Christians still so confused about the afterlife? because they think it involves an after burner.

be careful that your candlestick is not removed!

God doesn't create evil......so why is it written that he does? The Hebrew writers believed in one God; a power that was responsible for everything that exists and they wrote from that perspective. They were mistaken in this just as Job and his friends were mistaken in their belief that God was...