ScottA
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Interesting.Phew! Now you just might be a Christian AFTER all!
Then I will have to apologize! (LEER!)
It's were you choose to put the COMMA, Scott!
You either ignore Jesus and put the comma after "Truly I TELL you..."
Or you understand what Jesus said and put it AFTER "Today"~
TRULY I TELL YOU TODAY (I TELL YOU RIGHT HERE AND NOW!), you will be with me in paradise!
I may have told you this before, but I would suggest that the explanation is not where you place the comma, but rather what perspective you consider: God's perspective...or the world's.
If you take on the perspective of the world, you have to try to make everything fit into a timeline.
But if you take on the perspective of God, then time is of the world, and His kingdom is not of the world.
So, then, Jesus speaking to the thief of the kingdom of heaven, would have referred to "Today" as the day they would enter into the kingdom...which happens to be the same day they would be leaving the world. But where was Christ going? He was going to the Father...which means He was coming into His glory and fully One with God the Father, whom exists outside of time, and whom is omnipresent. Thus, He could move through walls and locked doors and be in paradise...as well as be in the grave. In other words, unlike us mere earth-bound humanoids, He could be on the clock of world time and history, as well as off the clock...forever more.
That is what Jesus meant when He said, "My words are spirit", and what Paul meant when he say, we must "rightly divide the word of truth" - because it not only speaks of the times of the world, but also of eternity.
Paul, then, goes on to speak of dying, being crucified, and being raised with Christ - in past tense....which is not a matter of a comma, but a matter of rightly dividing the word of truth into it's proper perspective, whether it be of God, or of the world.
And then...everything...unfolds differently than once believed.
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