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When privilege is taken for granted the position of the older brother in the story of the prodigal is assumed without blinking an eye. There is no compassion for the wayward in real terms; this is manifest in the superimposing of the carnal dividing mindset of them and us onto God as if he is...

Wrestling with truth and the confrontation of one’s own weakness is the lot of all who want to go forward and won’t go back.

Thinking one has beat the flesh is a set up. The flesh is persistent even in dreams. We have however one at our side who is stronger than the flesh.....will I avail myself moment by moment of his strength, will I fasten myself to the rock that will not move?

I dunno Ziggy, sounds to me like the standard stories that are bandied around to fit ones narrative.

Thanks.

Hey, question.... what was the feast of weeks about?

G’day Rainy

Yer welcome at my house Addy!

Strange reply Tong, as if you don’t post what comes to your mind!

Hey ChildofGod234, sounds like you dad has a carnal spirit masquerading as a spiritual one. Recognise it as you have done and don’t buy into it by not letting him wind you up.... even walking away when it starts.

My language is straight forward; how is it you don’t understand it? ‘You search the scriptures thinking that in them you have eternal life, yet they are they which testify of me yet you won’t come to me to have life’....Jesus

You play a game which diminishes your credibility!

‘Is the word of God only found in scripture?’ Ahhh, a little insinuation here, a little doubt thrown in there. This tactic is not new .....’did God say.....?’ First you undermine the credibility before planting the poison. We know where that source comes from!

So you see yourself as fully comprehending?....hmmmm!

Is your understanding solely cognitive?

1 John 2:2 ‘and he himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world’.

From having experienced some of that love....and as John also says ‘so we may have fellowship....’

That is the big question of which one theologian asked ‘how have we known Christ?’ Have we known him as an enigma? or as a religious revolutionary? perhaps a name to rubber stamp our theologies?

When God gave Jesus he gave all the accumulated treasure of eternity.... he gave till there was no more to give.

The fact that his whole reality is love as John says, ‘in him is no darkness at all’