why respect for Abel’s offering?

[bbyrd009]

Does this approach mean that you also feel Adam and Eve didn't really exist as two people walking around a plot of ground either?

no, but i can certainly suggest that approaching them as a spiritual lesson rather than as historical account will be much more spiritually fruitful. How real they ever were will not be affected in the least i guess

 

[bbyrd009]

Consider the parable of the sower and the seed. The ground has to be fertile to take the good seed and produce life. Otherwise...there is no root and the sun burns it up or the fowls come along and eat the seed. The ground is man's heart...the Spirit has to be there for His Word (the Lord)to take root and produce. A heart of flesh not stone. God gives the increase. The Spirit of God overshadowed Mary and life was planted. A child (The Word of God) sprung forth as promised. Wasn't the Law showing, as with Cain, our own toiling and tilling could not produce strength.(Life found only in Christ.)

nice, we have parables about ground being poisoned, chiefly by "salt," huh? some interesting reflections there too i guess. Also some trees are cut down, some stumps regrow, and some trees get uprooted, too, and put in other soil.

 

[Windmillcharge]

nope, to think a thing is just that, has no bearing on faith, again, actors can think a thing a be representatives of feelings and opinions. (actors, also are known as professional liars)

though faith has bearing on what one may think at the time, faith is:
(OED)
I. Belief, trust, confidence.

1. a. Confidence, reliance, trust (in the ability, goodness, etc., of a person; in the efficacy or worth of a thing; or in the truth of a statement or doctrine). Const. in, †of. In early use, only with reference to religious objects; this is still the prevalent application, and often colours the wider use.

a mental state can be the result of one's faith, but faith isn't a mental state. it is true that faith comes by hearing, but people respond to what they are already ready to believe and trust. hence good ground rocky ground and the like in the Lord's parable.

Yet we are told to have the same attitude as Christ, to change our attitude towards God and others, that the spirit judges our attitude. It follows that our attitude towards God is important and has significant bearing towatds our relationship with God.

 

[bbyrd009]

and by the looks of it

Well, this "blind guy" is trying hard to follow you.

and i don't mean to imply that DP is the blind either, sorry, i was speaking more generally
for all i know he is the one you should be listening to
consider both iow
truth is established in the mouth of two or three
reduxed

 

[DPMartin]

Yet we are told to have the same attitude as Christ, to change our attitude towards God and others, that the spirit judges our attitude. It follows that our attitude towards God is important and has significant bearing towatds our relationship with God.

who's telling you that attitude is important?

again the wicked can maintain a what you might call a "good attitude" in your judgement.

 

[Windmillcharge]

who's telling you that attitude is important?

again the wicked can maintain a what you might call a "good attitude" in your judgement.

The apostle Paul in his letters.