Oh, my dear woman, you make me so confused. I am going bald much faster since I met you.
It would probably surprise you to know that I love listening to Joyce Myers and I welcome learning things from women who speak well and use sound logic and are down to earth. I like the way Joyce speaks in such a practical manner concerning things which are actual experienced in our everyday life. And I admire her willingness to speak of her own imperfections along with what the correct spirit ought to be from God's word. That willingness to make light of her own imperfections and own the responsibility for them makes her very attractive spiritually in my opinion.
personally I don't listen to Joyce Myers and have heard some disturbing things about her. The reason I don't listen to her though is because I am too busy listening to and studying the words of God to invest time in man's ideas of who God is.
As to the rest of this....I have not only been repeatedly told I am a gifted teacher but a gifted writer as well who is easy to understand. I often talk about my own frailties and have on rare occasion been reprimanded for doing so.
I recently have been studying the power of God's Love to transform man. In that study I came across the truth that God promises to give us the words to say in any situation if we seek HIM (which goes back to my opinions in the OP question) It is interesting to watch how many people like you who squirm when I say the most innocent and none threatening of things. For example, when I said that the word temple has more than one meaning and thus it is important to look at the context in order to know what meaning is being referred to...that is like the most benign thing imaginable and yet it cut to your heart because you apparently have problems with context. How strange and biblical at the same time that God would lead me to say something that would shine light on the darkness of your heart, just as He promised to do.
Tell me, are you familiar with Spanish? If you are you should then be able to see where the mistake is that you are making in the way you read the New Testament which has been translated from the Koine' Greek to English. For Spanish words translated into English often must also have the Spanish perspective applied to them or we draw the wrong conclusions. An example is the words, "coming" and "going". In Spanish the perspective is the exact opposite of English. If you tell a Spanish speaking person who has no English understanding, "I am coming", they think you mean that you are going away from them. And just the opposite if you tell them, "I am going", they think you me you are "going to them." And the Koine' Greek has different perspectives for certain English words, also. Not the exact same ones which differ from Spanish to English, but the point is the different perspective found with such things as 2nd person plural pronouns and certain prepositions.
lol here is the problem...you and another poster have accused me of false interpretations but neither of you have offered anything I interpreted wrong nor have you even attempted to without first assuming I said something I didn't. I mean, I could say that you said that God is Satan and then argue with you about how you are wrong but it doesn't mean you said it...that is the only "corrections" either of you have offered me is a "correction" of things I did NOT say. So if you want to save face, show me something I said that was interpreted incorrectly...I'll take just one...should be simple but I am confident you will refuse as you have continually done.
And just for the record, my husband said to me that where I am teachable you all are not. IOW's accusing me of not being teachable shows a complete lack of truth to the discussion at hand. I love to learn and he even said that. In fact, I love learning so much that I taught my children to learn everything they could to the point that our eldest taught himself Spanish and holds his own with spanish speaking people. Our youngest wanted to learn latin and taught himself a great deal of it. Learning is one of my passions so trying to accuse me of not being able to be taught is just evidence of you speaking what Satan wants you to say and not the truths given by God because all false witness is of Satan.
Because what I have been trying to help you see does not match up to what you have come to believe you seem to have concluded I have no education in Greek.
lol and yet I proclaimed you were learned and why I expected more from you.....lol...I proclaim you to be educated and learned and yet you accuse me of believing you are not...lol this is the type of thing that has you in a huge problem with me...
Well, you are very wrong. I am only trying to help you. You say you are not wrong. I say you do not know if you are or are not because you are afraid to really let yourself think about what i share with you.
this is exactly why I got my husband involved...you see, he has the gift of knowledge and so when you addressed my post and I didn't understand what you were trying to get at I asked him. He was more confused than I was because you not only contradicted yourself but changed the topic without informing me. Now like it or not, one of the spiritual gifts is NOT mindreading. If you want to change the topic let me know what the topic is so we can have a discussion don't just assume I believe something and then try to "correct" me when you have no idea whatsoever what I know and believe about the topic. It's disturbing to see you pretend to know what I believe without asking me first...I assure you that given the way you have portrayed me, you would be very surprised by what I know and believe. As I said, I would love to have a discussion with you about the meat of scripture instead of always the milk....but you apparently are afraid of context so I fear we will never get to that point because you would rather be a judge with evil motives than to hear what I believe.
You just quickly grab a hasty defense against having to really think about anything you are told. i am asking that you give yourself a chance to understand. Slow down and think about what I post instead of rushing to disagree.
lol I don't know if I agree or disagree, that is the point. You changed the topic and didn't tell me what we are suppose to be talking about now. When I asked you to clarify all you do is insult me like you are doing here. [/quote] And remember, where you have never known what I believe and why I believe it, I used to believe as you do and I know why you believe it. [/quote] what I believe about what? Seriously I don't have a clue what you are talking about.
I figured out that back then I was deceived. But no one could convince me of that back then, either. You will never know whether you are really deceived or not if you are afraid to really think about what I have been sharing with you.
But that is just the point...I am NOT afraid of really thinking, in fact, I am a thinker who loves questions and the harder the question the harder the answer, the more I love it. But if I don't have a clue what we are talking about I can't possibly know what I am suppose to "think" about or know from scripture if I am deceived or not because I don't know what we are talking about. In addition, if I don't have a clue what we are talking about you can't possibly know what I believe about the topic because I wouldn't have been able to share with you what I believe on a topic I don't know we are discussion.
And that my dear friend is the problem....you changed the topic and when I asked you what you were talking about you made assumptions and insulted my character, my Lord and King, and my husband instead of simply saying, "I'm sorry, what do you know and think about X (the new topic which I still don't know what it is) "
