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If you were not trying to be cute you were being stupid. "Was there?" has three relevant answers. Yes, No, or I don't know.
It could mean that the blood represents something magical. There is nothing clear about the answer, but if you insist there is I know what kind of intelligence I am working with. Thanks. We can either have discourse or shoot the breeze.
Let's be honest here. If you were not you would not have made the accusation when you made it. There was nothing in his post that remotely resembled hatred or bitterness. You tried very hard to introduce them into the discussion.
Is that a debate on all of scripture or only on the small subset that you accept as scripture?
First off, not all "Formers" have left the building. Granted, this one has been in absentia for a spell, but it got tired of reading all the Trad spam and rehash here (whether posted by Trads or not, the threads for awhile seemed to focus almost exclusively upon either trolling for Tradventism or rehashing old debates this one personally either never had an interest in or else having long ago settled has no need to revisit nor sufficient interest to walk anyone else through the lightseeking process therein. (Not a snooty indictment here just an acknowledgment that what engages one person may not engage another.)
Second: for the record, SO not a Calvinist here. A Monergist, most definitely, but Moriah has as little use for the notion of arbitrary election/damnation as it has for the pathetic notion that an unregenerate sinner can cooperate, in the reclamation provided him by Christ, by the exercise of a will bent wholly, prior to his new birth, toward sin.
It has taken a long time and been many years in coming, this complete break away from a pseudo-Christian cult which teaches that ultimately "everything depends upon the right action of the [human] will" and which, being diligent to haunt and obsess with that notion yet mysteriously incapable of teaching precisely HOW to either locate or operate said mechanism, had inadvertently suggested Thelema might supply the missing key. After 23 years in captivity, in 2006, with the helpful input of other gifted believers (here on CF no less), Moriah at last discovered the true nature of the greatest stronghold Satan had established in taking her hostage and holding her in captivity. It had not been sexual congressus cum daemonae, nor anything occultic in nature at all, but the very toxic soteriology willingly imbibed in the House of the Seven itself: no less than a deception so colossal and so cruelly and cunningly devised that indeed, if it were possible, it could deceive the very elect -- for only such a deception could possibly appeal to a devout, sincere believer earnestly despising his sin and hungering for righteousness, holiness, obedience to God, and spiritual purity.
At that time, Moriah bes no longer being blown about to and fro by the fear and terror bred BY that same house of religious bondage, wherein she had been terrified of incurring a worse condemnation than even blatant Satan worship itself could earn, should she indeed follow her heart AND the Holy Spirit in "turning aside from the truth" entirely. Instead, having discovered this secret and become at last cognizant thereof, at long last the grip of terror lost its hold. AT LONG LAST Moriah finally bore witness to God tearing down this stronghold, shredding it, and throwing its pieces to the wind, in one single experience of genuine, true, authentic infilling of the Holy Spirit, wherein the Word of God sprang to life in its entirety inside her and the reality of Galatians 5:16 shone like a million suns at midday to dispel the darkness of all performance-based, volition-dependent, works-focused salvific formulae forever. Not the end of the war quite yet, but most definitely the pivotal key battle thereof, wherein the victory thereof essentially determines the outcome of the rest so soundly that the rest of the war can appear almost gratuitously obligatory and ceremonial by comparison.
Third, as Victor pointed out on page one, the House of Transition would be transitory by nature. Your effort to build a stone temple here, or at least provide a concrete fixed foundation beyond that of Jesus Christ Himself, would be frustrated by the nomadic nature of the journey and the tentlike attributes of transition itself.
More thoughts may come to mind as it reads this thread .... or not.
Thank you Senti. God bes good. He prevails most excellently not only through the storms (which none of us can avoid) but through the thorns also; Moriah has recurring hope for their eventual removal (mass eviction, LOL).
Thank you Avonia! Well met. What a gorgeous avatar you wear.
Will have to snag the image for its personal files if you don't mind.
Praise God, Moriah! The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.First off, not all "Formers" have left the building. Granted, this one has been in absentia for a spell, but it got tired of reading all the Trad spam and rehash here (whether posted by Trads or not, the threads for awhile seemed to focus almost exclusively upon either trolling for Tradventism or rehashing old debates this one personally either never had an interest in or else having long ago settled has no need to revisit nor sufficient interest to walk anyone else through the lightseeking process therein. (Not a snooty indictment here just an acknowledgment that what engages one person may not engage another.)
Second: for the record, SO not a Calvinist here. A Monergist, most definitely, but Moriah has as little use for the notion of arbitrary election/damnation as it has for the pathetic notion that an unregenerate sinner can cooperate, in the reclamation provided him by Christ, by the exercise of a will bent wholly, prior to his new birth, toward sin.
It has taken a long time and been many years in coming, this complete break away from a pseudo-Christian cult which teaches that ultimately "everything depends upon the right action of the [human] will" and which, being diligent to haunt and obsess with that notion yet mysteriously incapable of teaching precisely HOW to either locate or operate said mechanism, had inadvertently suggested Thelema might supply the missing key. After 23 years in captivity, in 2006, with the helpful input of other gifted believers (here on CF no less), Moriah at last discovered the true nature of the greatest stronghold Satan had established in taking her hostage and holding her in captivity. It had not been sexual congressus cum daemonae, nor anything occultic in nature at all, but the very toxic soteriology willingly imbibed in the House of the Seven itself: no less than a deception so colossal and so cruelly and cunningly devised that indeed, if it were possible, it could deceive the very elect -- for only such a deception could possibly appeal to a devout, sincere believer earnestly despising his sin and hungering for righteousness, holiness, obedience to God, and spiritual purity.
At that time, Moriah bes no longer being blown about to and fro by the fear and terror bred BY that same house of religious bondage, wherein she had been terrified of incurring a worse condemnation than even blatant Satan worship itself could earn, should she indeed follow her heart AND the Holy Spirit in "turning aside from the truth" entirely. Instead, having discovered this secret and become at last cognizant thereof, at long last the grip of terror lost its hold. AT LONG LAST Moriah finally bore witness to God tearing down this stronghold, shredding it, and throwing its pieces to the wind, in one single experience of genuine, true, authentic infilling of the Holy Spirit, wherein the Word of God sprang to life in its entirety inside her and the reality of Galatians 5:16 shone like a million suns at midday to dispel the darkness of all performance-based, volition-dependent, works-focused salvific formulae forever. Not the end of the war quite yet, but most definitely the pivotal key battle thereof, wherein the victory thereof essentially determines the outcome of the rest so soundly that the rest of the war can appear almost gratuitously obligatory and ceremonial by comparison.
Third, as Victor pointed out on page one, the House of Transition would be transitory by nature. Your effort to build a stone temple here, or at least provide a concrete fixed foundation beyond that of Jesus Christ Himself, would be frustrated by the nomadic nature of the journey and the tentlike attributes of transition itself.
More thoughts may come to mind as it reads this thread .... or not.
God bless.
