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This expression 'rightly dividing the word of truth' I am certain any believer would approve of even those who have a diametrically opposed view to ones own. I think however that it is overstepping its intent to make it the catch cry of a particular theological view.

COFFEE Drugged and bouncing with the beans City life with all its scenes Screaming as life passes by Hoping it will satisfy Up at dawn and down the hatch Midday break and more to match As the evening’s sure to follow So will be another swallow Fill our heads with quaint distractions Join a...

Yes. Symbols paint pictures that words often find difficulty to express and for our joy and dare I say sanity will, as you say, endure.

I hear what you are saying Stranger yet I do not find your explanation persuasive. The reason you give for Jesus not quoting the full text in Luke 4:16-18 are his reasons and not the ones you superimpose upon him. Isa. 61 covers both aspects of God's duel salvation story (justice and mercy)...

did it have more lines than that?

↑quietthinker said What can I say? I tell you what I mean to clarify my statement and yet you choose to tell me otherwise. If you cannot hear it you can not hear it! But you didn't clarify your statement. You just said the same thing which is wrong Here is the copied communication again...

The man was obviously inspired to write. Are they weighty in content?

yes bbyrd, language does have its limitations.

Thank you amadeus although I'm not sure what your question pertains to. k.

What can I say? I tell you what I mean to clarify my statement and yet you choose to tell me otherwise. If you cannot hear it you can not hear it!

'What comes out of the mouth is the overflowing of the heart' ... listening carefully will identify the spirit that speaks irrespective of the tag/identity people choose to put forward.

thanks Helen k.

'by different ways' I mean the same story is described using varying imagery. Gods justice executed, God's mercy revealed. It is against people who in the context are represented by the sin bearer. He bears their sin single handedly.

I used to think these scenes were a set up but then realised it was the free universe vindicating God. That changed my perspective altogether and my heart jumped and throbbed with the prospect.

I I find it interesting to note that the Jews who believed in him (Jn 8:31) further down in vs 50 picked up stones to stone him. Yes, without an inner renewal all external piety is just show and smokescreens.

THE SPIRIT It can’t be locked, it can’t be tamed or pushed into a mould the spirit, like the wind is wild it will not be cajoled He’ll testify to me one says and show you things to come and so it is that those imbued will glorify the Son The harvest’s ripe so lift your heads the people...

A li A light on a hill can not be hid.

Yes, the context reveals it is vengeance against sin. Isa. 40 onwards portrays Gods view and redeeming activity in different ways. For the the Jews not to see this is one thing but for Christians to miss this is indicative of misappropriation and an ignorance of of how the scriptural puzzle...

Ohhh yes, stepping back, looking forward. Too often my small subjective view blurs or stunts the bigger picture yet as I read in Revelation of millions upon millions of angels and the saved singing and extolling God's rightness I am lifted from the temporal to the eternal. I'm reminded of Paul's...

Ahhhh, some things roll off the tongue, some burst from the heart and yet others the pen. Poetry gives me permission to break the rules of English. Not that the rules necessarily need breaking but the flexibility evokes a certain freedom. The scriptures too paints word pictures which we are...