yeshuaslavejeff
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OR, someone else , not them, may have been wrong.
That would be called self-righteousness,
or vanity ,
also.
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What do you think the Mark of the Beast is?? And what is sin about it?
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That would be called self-righteousness,
or vanity ,
also.
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Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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yeshuaslavejeff
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Backwards - the mark is required to be accepted by a person, before they are allowed to buy or sell.
This has been being set up for decades or century or more.
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You are obviously not trying to follow what I have explained. True Christians do not receive the mark of the beast...true Christians buy but do not sell their faith (and again that is a manner of speaking).
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I know you may be quite learned, but such folks still offer an explanation for their "well grounded" and "hard and fast" beliefs...please do so.
BTW, I did come upon my interpretation independent of any human help and at that time compared it to our church interpretation and almost identical. It is not a new interpretation it is ages old and passed down...how about your interpretation? how did you come upon it?
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So then we can insert that anywhere we feel like it.
So then everywhere it says that the beast does do that -- we just insert "not" in front of it??
So then we "join the beast" in that "not sell" ??
That looks like a lot of creative writing.
I was just trying to point out where the reader might have questions.
in Christ,
Bob
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It is error to "interpret" literal things. You said, "The beast does not stop people from buying and selling" and that was wrong. You claim Christians buy their faith. That's wrong. Time to rethink everything you believe about Revelation etc.
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Again, this is a manner of speaking or as Proverbs puts it one of the "sayings of the wise"...same thing. Jesus, all-wise, says...I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich (Revelation 3:18) I have repeatedly tried to make myself clear on this point, but it escapes you. Do you understand what He is saying there...tie it in with Psalms and Proverbs.
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BTW, I knew this to be an almost fruitless endeavor, but God does work through His Word and in His own time...none of you really agree and it all appears to be a big guessing game on your parts. The guesses are from your own minds, not Scripture.
Enough on my part.
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What escapes me is where the word faith is found in that passage. You say Christians buy their faith...where is that in the bible?
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Most understand that Rev has symbolic and literal language. Making the symbolic literal, or the literal symbolic is a problem. Only those with the mark being able to buy and sell is clearly literal and is not Christians able to buy faith...that clealy does not fit anywhere in scripture let alone in the GT passage of Rev 13.
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