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I wasn't. But you were denigrating hippies for their dope smoking, saying that was an insult to the writers of scripture. Yet some of them were murderers... David and Moses.eg.

@Marymog @amadeus when I read scripture I am discerning a picture of God. It is a self portrait revealed through the minds of those He redeemed. And He came to redeem sinners. He came and spent most of His time with the unemployed, the homeless, the dope smokers, the shabbily dressed, the...

That is very true. What general picture do you take away from John's writing regarding the character of God,? Was his writing focused on a different aspect of character than other writers?

Mine too, but not out of that movement. Discovered that a little later through the music of Keith Green, Chuck Gerard, Second Chapter of Act, and who was the guy who sang "Day? of Destruction"?

Yes, they were those things, but you needn't take them all so seriously. Remember, the Bible isn't a treatise revealing them... It's God revealing Himself through them. They painted a picture of God... They were artists... And I think we need to look at the Bible from that part to paradigm in...

Yes, and those people were poets and song writers. They didn't write as Kings and priests and politicians and Rabbis... They wrote as intimate cheerful friends celebrating the wonder and beauty of God. God was revealing Himself through those folk and he didn't do so through the medium of...

The writers of scripture were farmers and fisherman ( and Peter dived into the sea naked on one occasion to swim ashore to Jesus) ... That takes care of the shabbily dressed... The writers of scripture were a tax collector, and a rebel homeless prince... That takes care of the unemployed...

Take Revelation for example. Have you studied the chiasm form John wrote in? He didn't just scribble out a whole lot of words and phrases like a monologue secretarial letter from the boss. It has structure, beauty, design... It's poetic, not a dissertation on theology. I think the Bible...

You don't think God sings? Read Isaiah 42. First He's singing to us about His Son, then He sings directly to His Son. The entire Bible of chock full of songs and poems and metaphor and hyperbole... Even atheists who don't believe the supernatural testimony of scripture but do study the Bible in...

Interesting. And gotta agree with you. Perplexing.

I think that the burden was to explain Who God is like... And He's like Jesus. KJV 1 John 1 John's Reason for Writing 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the...

Seeing you're fond of quoting Jeremiah, here I think is what quietthinker was intending by the use of the word 'burden'... Particularly as it relates to people in ministry... KJV Jeremiah 20 9 .... But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with...

What it is not... Is a dissertation on theology. It wasn't written by a group of PhDs sitting in a communal classroom writing a doctorate/thesis on doctrine and dogma. The Bible is essentially a story...a narrative. Rather than written by scholars, it was more the result of a band of hippies...

And in answer to the original question in the OP, are earrings acceptable now to both genders... Well of course they are. But that question I would suggest is merely a cover for blatant promotion, as indicated in the following, an which are repeats ad infinitum of the same parkway traveled...

Hello my friend. I would be the absolute last person to deny Farouk, or anyone else, the right and freedom to express his views. On the same token, if we are going to disagree with them, we need a sound biblical reason for doing so and be not simply shooting from the hip just to be obnoxious or...

During his short two years here Farouk has posted (at a rough count) 4 threads advocating and promoting the wearing off earrings and other paraphernalia on the body. 6 threads advocating and promoting tattoos. 2 threads promoting hard Rock music. Two threads promoting smoking In those threads...

I have no issue with anyone wanting wedding rings. My issue is with a professed Christian who spends a great deal of energy time and focus on promoting worldly ideas and practices on a Christian forum and claiming it to be in harmony with scripture. And he has been doing that for the entire time...

I would rather suggest simply bad exegesis. James 2.2 has nothing to do with our topic here. There are numerous scriptures that offer better validation for the rejection of worldly ideals and practices than James 2.2 why anyone would use that beats me. Just as it beats me why you spend so much...

Was it mindless legalism that promoted the apostle John to say, KJV 1 John 2 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and...

So I hear.