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Dear Behold, with respect, you are too quick to draw negative conclusions. I also don't want to do any spoon feeding to those who feel they know. I am clear, you are just not joining the dots well.

what! you don't know the story? ....here you are Luke 15:11-32

what I'm hearing is a broken record stuck at the introduction.

I wonder why the identification with the older brother eclipses that of the Father?

in the willingness to respond or the choice to turn away

or recognise there's a hearing disability in your system :)

and the Father draws all

I suppose you had a lot of say when your mother birthed you? You gave her the date, the time and decided all on your own to start breathing air......or was that forced on you?

I'm sorry, I can't take this seriously!

It leaves us to be responsible for what we choose......whether to make choices because we have arrived at a particular conclusion from our own convictions or whether we draw our conclusions following somebody else's lead. If Jack say's I'm inspired by God to believe such and such, does that put...

I suppose when things go the way I want, I can boast about my faith however, when things don't go the way I want, when I'm thrown to the lions or about to be cast into a fiery furnace will I still boast in my faith or will it vanish like water through a sieve? Hang in there MD...the perspective...

To Whom shall I speak We do not know which seed will sprout and what soil it will land in....we throw it around and around and around. Our responsibility is to know what constitutes viable seed.

what is the other option?....letting others think for you? Seems Judas succumbed to the influence of allowing others to determine his choices!

I dunno Zaggy, whadya need? a huggin', a buggin' or a muggin' ?

I feel sad for you AJ for if you can't decipher cryptic or allegorical language how will you ever understand Revelation or other prophetic utterances like those in Ezekiel or Daniel? Your only other option is to make wild guess's to what's being said or rely on the interpretation of those who...

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.