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Amen! Reading a commentary or other book by a man might be no different than reading a post by another person on this forum. Can we not ever listen what someone else has to say? Of course we can. Sometimes we may learn something important by doing that.

What I meant was that Catholic Church believes that the verse is directed only to certain persons, the apostles in particular. I believe it is directed to all readers or hearers... which includes me. The confusion you relate to... truly does exist, but it exists, I believe, because too many...

Because people get meanings from other than God... I do not suggest that you do that. I believe there times when the scripture has more than one meaning. This frequently is true in the OT where the words tell the history, but God may have another message for the reader besides the history. Does...

I got it while reading and studying the scriptures myself. No man ever taught me that. I only recall definitely knowing one person who believed as I do but he did not teach it to me. I am certain you will doubt me still when I say that God showed me. I know already what the Catholic Church...

Thank you for your interest. Your comment here reminds me of an old song:

I do not partake in a physical communion as do either the Catholic Church or most of the Protestant churches with bread from grain and wine from grape. I partake of the flesh of Jesus when I read his Words [the scriptures] and when the Holy Spirit quickens them to me I am drinking his blood...

My stepfather was an old-school Portugee from the Azores. He was always a nominal Catholic. In all the years I lived under his roof to my knowledge he never read the Bible nor did he ever attend mass. My mother was baptized Catholic when she married him. She attended mass only for Christmas and...

Look for a double meaning: what you see in addition to what I see,

Precisely. The truth is the truth whether people believe it or not.

Indeed... My friend was very apologetic after the fact, but he was not finished with his foolishness. At the French border, they searched our bags because they saw him digging into his bag for his passport while we were in his car waiting our turn. They presumed something worse and searched our...

Yes, it was better for us to leave. The church had originally been located in Downey, CA, in the Los Angeles area. Some years before our time, the pastor decided to move the whole assembly to a small town across the Bay from San Francisco. That was a move of about 400 miles. A large part of the...

Thank you! Yes... a lot of men died in both of those places. I was a radio operator and it was only in my final 6 months that we lost 4 men from my company. Two of them I knew personally and to this day their faces are ingrained in my mind. The numbers who were to die increased greatly after I...

Our pastor was neither a good teacher or was he good at getting folks fired up. He pressed at one time to divorce my wife because she was too outspoken... though when she did so she was usually speaking the negative truth about him. The Lord has softened my wife, but not while we were sitting...

No, I had not, but I just now went back to read it. Seems like I repeated some of what you already covered. Unfortunately, I seldom read all of a thread especially when it is very long. May God richly bless you my friend.

Yes, I can see that. Our God is always able to perform that He wants to perform. When my wife and I came to the Lord in 1976, there were two women evangelists holding what they called a revival meeting. They were not pastors or shepherdesses. One played the piano and both of them sang. One of...

And was not God able to select each writer according to and including all of the faults, misunderstandings, limitations and biases of that individual in mind so that what was written would equal precisely what God wanted to be written?

Oh I do agree that she was a shepherdess only of groups of wooly critters. I suppose that she had no physical brothers able to do that job. Could that ever happen with groups of people? In my own experience, my pastors, good or not, called by God or not, were always physical men.

Even so and... 1co 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

But in the OT, I believe, we do see one definite Shepherdess: Ge 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. h[r Ra`ah (raw-aw'); Verb, Strong #: 7462 to pasture, tend, graze, feed (Qal) to tend, pasture 1a to shepherd 1a of...

Indeed! I was in the US Army until August of 1966. I started my college immediately upon separation back civilian. I was in Viet Nam when the first combat troops were sent there by LBJ, the president who took over from JFK.