I mentioned a couple of times recently that it is ridiculous for Christians to do the to and fro thing with scripture as if one set of texts from one poster cancels out another set of texts from another. Madness! All scripture is given by inspiration of God. Therefore all scripture must be brought together to form a whole truth where they complement each other, not presented as of they contradict each other. So many people try and prove SDA doctrine wrong by presenting scripture to me that they think "proves" me wrong. As if I would disagree with their scripture!!!! I believe in the Bible. I believe it to be the foundation of my faith and practice. You quote me scripture and I agree with it mjr. But what I am about to do is add some more scripture below to form a whole...not to contradict what you have quoted, but to complement it. You cannot isolate certain portions of scripture from everything else that God reveals on one subject, and use that to defend something that does not harmonise with the whole...Yes, Jesus is the Great Shepherd. He knows His sheep, and they know His voice. And they follow Him. Now, I will show you where they follow Him to...
Psalm 23:1 ¶ « A Psalm of David. » The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Ps 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Mt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
You see brakelite all you do is quote scripture, i have lived it. while you sit there and quoute scripture about His sheep and He knows them, I have being with Him when He told me that He died for me, and He called me by name, and I have being with Him while he shown me His sheep, grazing in green pastures, and He has also shown Me His sheep as they left the pasture though a gate that He opens and they all turn into men, all dressed in white, with the biggest smiles.. and all that took was a little faith, that I didnt know I had. His sheep cant follow men because you see His bride , His chrurch is married to Him, ,
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
see you have to chose to whom you are married, or is adultry a part of the SDA religion. That what man is joined too, which or who it it,,,
remember the woman at the well
Joh_4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
