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I get that we're probably looking at the same thing, but differently.

So we won't meet in the middle.

We never have met in the middle but you already knew that when you quoted me from the start
 
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We never have met in the middle but you already knew that when you quoted me from the start
I see things in multiple parallels, but the education system cultivates one frame of vision at a time. So I didn't know that.

God bless.
 
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I see things in multiple parallels, but the education system cultivates one frame of vision at a time. So I didn't know that.

God bless.

I do remember you expressed the belief that Judas was not lost when we conversed the last time, and so regardless of how many multitude of parallels you say you see things in I couldn't meet you in the middle on that one either (Since Jesus did not agree with you either).

I dont think you are supposed to be taught spiritual things from our education system.
 
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I do remember you expressed the belief that Judas was not lost when we conversed the last time, and so regardless of how many multitude of parallels you say you see things in I couldn't meet you in the middle on that one either (Since Jesus did not agree with you either).

I dont think you are supposed to be taught spiritual things from our education system.
Everytime I read your replies to my posts in this thread, I see a fundamental misunderstanding of what I said.

So no point in discussing further.
 
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Everytime I read your replies to my posts in this thread, I see a fundamental misunderstanding of what I said.

So no point in discussing further.

I would not have addressed you recalling this is the way it would typically go before, no problem.
 
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But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. -Galatians 4:26
Psalm 87:
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And of Zion it will be said,
This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.
6 The Lord will record,
When He registers the peoples:
This one was born there. Selah
 
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we are both an Adam and a Christ ... the two sons in picture portray our duality of mind ... as in two tables we eat from (a double portion) and it is the elder of these two which serves the younger ...

Christ Jesus made these two one again in himself by way of a cross picked up ...
Matthew 11:
25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.
26 Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.
27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and to whom the Son wills to reveal.
 
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

two realms ... the two come in a myriad of forms throughout the book ....
"the heavens and the earth" is called a merism. Contrasting two opposites to simply
convey "First God created everything". then He made it.
Genesis 1:3 And God spoke, "Let there be light": and there was light.
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it
He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
Creativity takes place in the imagination of the heart, as in man, created and made
in His image.
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The "work of his hands" would follow his imaginations.
 
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we are both an Adam and a Christ ... the two sons in picture portray our duality of mind ... as in two tables we eat from (a double portion) and it is the elder of these two which serves the younger ...

Christ Jesus made these two one again in himself by way of a cross picked up ...
No one is born "both an Adam and a Christ". This is why you must be born again from above!
Everyone is born with the error of dualistic thinking by nature, as Adam received the knowledge
of good and evil, and every man suffers from this dualistic thinking, in particular, life and death
as a result. Why perpetuate the error. This is not the Way of Truth, which is Spirit.
To be born again from above is to receive life from the tree of life. This then presents the only
True Duality: God/not God.

Matthew 7:
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Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he
who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name,
cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? (sounds good?)
23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me,
you who practice lawlessness!
 
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to be double minded is to have a duality of mind ....
And yet, not as you have defined it. We all can perceive light/dark, hot/cold, slow/fast, etc..without
double-mindedness that James is referring to. Here is where relativity comes into play. How fast
do you have to go to not be slow? Don't rush me, I'm thinking.
 
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