How did the earliest Christians differ from us.

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picture the bark as a covering and the covering a perception in relation to an identity it affords us ...

Yeah, so it is as if the many facets of Christendom are like the facets of a tree's epidermis.

So, in answer to the OP...The earliest "Christians" were softer...being much closer to a germinating seed.

*Only the Husbandman may rightly strip our perceptions...

 

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Yeah, so it is as if the many facets of Christendom are like the facets of a tree's epidermis.

So, in answer to the OP...The earliest "Christians" were softer...being much closer to a germinating seed.

*Only the Husbandman may rightly strip our perceptions...

we are all subject to the process, as it is God who puts a serpent in every sons path as an image we choose ...

 

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we are all subject to the process, as it is God who puts a serpent in every sons path as an image we choose ...

The serpent cannot touch the seed...only sliver upon the covering...

 

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The serpent cannot touch the seed...only sliver upon the covering...

the seed of the serpent affords us a covering/husband not of our own ...

 

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the seed of the serpent affords us a covering/husband not of our own ...

The Seed of the woman has crushed his head.

 

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The Seed of the woman has crushed his head.

either we fall on the rock or the rock falls on us ... either way the image gets broken or crushed ...

 

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either we fall on the rock or the rock falls on us ... either way the image gets broken or crushed ...

Psalms 139
" 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting."

 

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either we fall on the rock or the rock falls on us ... either way the image gets broken or crushed ...

John 15:1
"1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."

 

[honey badger]

Psalms 139
" 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting."

The things which offend is anything (which begins in thought) less than an eye that is single, which is the mind of Christ and not separate from the very person of God our Father ....

 

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The things which offend is anything (which begins in thought) less than an eye that is single, which is the mind of Christ and not separate from the very person of God our Father ....

2 Corinthians 10
"…4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete."


*These guys come to mind:

**LLLLEEEEEEETTSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

 

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2 Corinthians 10
"…4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete."


*These guys come to mind:

**LLLLEEEEEEETTSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

we must take captivity captive ...

 

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we must take captivity captive ...

Colossians 1
" 27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily."

 

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We must descend...to ascend...

 

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Colossians 1
" 27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily."

to enter into Gods rest is to cease from your own labors ....

 

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to enter into Gods rest is to cease from your own labors ....

John 14:23
" 23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."

 

[honey badger]

We must descend...to ascend...

we can not return unless we came out ...

 

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we can not return unless we came out ...

Genesis 1:11
" 11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so."

 

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Genesis 1:11
" 11Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so."

we being the word/seed/son ...

 

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we being the word/seed/son ...

John 12:24
"24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."

 

[honey badger]

John 12:24
"24Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."

if you do not lose your soul you can not find it ...