amigo de christo
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Spot on right sister . LET the LORD BE PRAISED .Oh the Lord be praised.
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Spot on right sister . LET the LORD BE PRAISED .Oh the Lord be praised.
Oh let the Lord be praised . Victory is in JESUS .Yes...
Leviticus 21:16-23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [17] Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. [18] For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, [19] Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, [20] Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; [21] No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. [22] He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. [23] Only he shall not go in unto the vail, Hebrews 10:19-22)nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
Or crookbackt...Luke 13:10-13 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. [11] And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. [12] And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. [13] And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
A book is not a God.
1. And man is not the final authority.
2. The Bible is not the final authority.
3. God is the final authority.
As far as 2 and 3: I try to follow Jesus teaching, which is found in the Bible.
And since He is God, and since His teaching are in the Bible, that is for me
the final authority.
And as far as certain issues that are not covered in the New Testament
I would say it takes common sense and prayer. The Holy Spirit will provide guidance. Seems to me there are lots of people without common sense these days. And that has been predicted in scripture:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
Does this include God....He better keep His mouth shut or this scripture applies to Him?
oops, that was badly said on my part. It should have gone like this; the woman to be the wife of one man. Not to be rude or disrespectful but seeing you've done so much study I'd a thought you'd figured out my bumbled expression.
I think the matter of staying on topic needs to be given some rope.....and that's not to hang oneself with but rather to express thoughts that arise out of the process of conversation which diverge from the OP.
The attention span of most is relatively short at the best of times. Ideas ingested or dismissed generally takes time.....here a little, there a little. If it's not done through the process of formal study, it's done through exposure to stuff in and to the rough and tumble of life.
I blame the Church. The RCC. Ask them.
I think their answer might go along the lines of sticking to tradition. And there weren't any female apostles or evangelists. Something like that. Breaking with tradition would be apostasy. Apparently. Pragmatically speaking of course, they have no argument.