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Could you help me out here, Jim? I'm trying so hard to see the impersonal, non-combative aspect of this post. This is about the point where you usually flip the -ignore- switch on me. Let's see what happens. :hmhehmhmmx1:

Eisegesis is what folks very often do to portray a passage of Scripture as being inapplicable to themselves and their situation. The remark you referred to as exhibiting MPD (that isn't a personal attack, is it, Jim?) is an expression I used to render kindness to you. It's nicer than saying...

Differences, but not essentials, and the closer we get to Jesus, the more superfluity we naturally offload.

Hi, Brother David! :waves: It's been a while. I like the Scripture you quote. I've always seen it as a discovery that the rich young ruler had actually only kept the first 9 commandments, at most, from his youth. IOW, his problem wasn't the cross he wouldn't take up. He was nowhere near...

Forgive me, but "sour wine" is "from God directly." "OT/Sour Wine," on the other hand, is from men.

I see this as a geometry problem. We are all like points in a circle with God in Christ at the very center. We spend remarkably more time comparing ourselves to each other than we do fixating upon and moving toward the center point. If and when we tire of this and purpose in our hearts to behold...

Not commanded to obey the commandments... Hmmm... To whom do the (10, I'm assuming, because those are the only commandments to which anyone objects) commandments belong? https://biblehub.com/parallel/exodus/16-28.htm Who is speaking here? Father, Son, Spirit? The Spirit doesn't speak at all...

We're all quite certain that you're certain that you thoroughly understand Scripture, Jim. https://biblehub.com/parallel/1_corinthians/8-2.htm

Are they anything like this? Or this: Or perhaps this: It's possible that I could have missed some impersonal or non-combative aspects of these posts, I suppose.

"Forgive" means to give something in advance of it's due season. In the case of God's forgiveness, it is showing mercy where none is indicated or deserved whatsoever. And it is not only this. It is also being in a state of readiness to act as if literally no offense is taken. This "state"...

If they did that, I'm afraid I would be left with no choice but to come over to their house with my Meat Police badge and haul them off to serve the maximum penalty allowable for the crime of Vegetable Assault in the first degree. ;)

Well, for a bowl that big I don't know if I'd bother firing up the stove for an ounce of anything, Amigo. ;)

Making curry sauce for supper. My blender thinks it's a whipper.

Scrambled tofu, stewed black eye peas, and stir-fried carrots and green bell peppers $12.47 worth of carefully chosen bargain produce—the other white meat :p

We have a growing number of exercise apparatuses that clutter our house, including our 2nd treadmill in 20 years that has pulled as much or more double-duty as a clothesline as the first one (how anyone who lives out in the country could want one of these behemoth contraptions cluttering up...

Was you ever on MasterChef?

It does my heart good, too. Almost selfish, ain't it? :tiphat:

If you get that far there might be an extra-terrestrial in it for ya. :jest:

I'm about 99% sure that you're correct about the "b" in plum. I'm also about 99% sure that 99% of folks who use the word in the folksy way in question have no idea of its origin and would be unwilling to bet a nickel on how it's spelled. I sure wouldn't. I doubt that it ever made it into old...