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Of course not ...Have I offered platitudes? If I have, they could not have been made because I am detatched from suffering.
Have I judged anyone, other than to suggest that there is no one who understands?
... and have BEEN told about Him too!You are free to work on the position of your choosing... my intent for starting this thread is to dispell some of the myths people have told about God...
God did not correct them when they were mistaken...so just because they were inspired and wrote it down, does not make it truth....
When my kids were small, my wife called me daddy, and I called her mommy, even though I am not her father and she is not my mother......
You don't have enough information about Jesus or his life to make that statement, unless you are suggesting that the NT contains all that Jesus ever did while on earth.... Since it does not, one cannot say he did not use his divinity on earth, especially since he was a hybrid, where did humanity end and divinity begin?
You are free to work on the position of your choosing... my intent for starting this thread is to dispell some of the myths people have told about God...
Correct AzA as my wife and I knew who we were but as an example for the children and because we wanted them to call us Mommy and Daddy, we called each other that..... Some things that parents do are for the benefit of the kids, not the parents.... Likewise, perhaps there were some things Jesus did not because he needed to but because he wanted the humans to understand the relationship.....Stormy, that's common practice in my family as well.
Do you honestly believe you even occupy any viable position from which to assess how much God has or has not revealed of Himself to someone else? Where do you get off accusing another man of being vain? You need a Romans 2:1 check, stat. And a time out from this thread to chill out.Unfortunately for you Stormy the only myths that have been dispelled are the ones you believe about God. How vain can you possibly be? Do you honestly think that you can claim to know how God really is when He has yet to fully reveal Himself to you?
Do you honestly believe you even occupy any viable position from which to assess how much God has or has not revealed of Himself to someone else?
Because his notions about God and His character are vain. He is attempting to justify ignoring the rather plain word of God. That is the vanity in which he speaks. Instead of believing the clear depiction of God's character in the written word Stormy attempts to correct myths that belong solely to him.Where do you get off accusing another man of being vain?
I'll take your concern under advisement.You need a Romans 2:1 check, stat. And a time out from this thread to chill out.
RND, thanks for sharing your thoughts....
since you have difficulty understanding what I am saying, I'll not bother you in the course of this discussion and continue talking with those who can engage me without the insults.....
four insults in your response was not needed to make any point you thought you needed to make.....
have a good evening...
Back to the wine part of this great question before us.
I hope some of you have been involved in winemaking beause personal experience strengthens that which is recieved through the ear.
Before we consider the biting of the serpent let us see why it bubbles in the cup.
The bubble occurs when the yeast/bacteria particle dies through its union with the sweet particle. If you added salt then this action would be reduced.
After the death of "all" of the yeast then the new wine is ready, but still not matured.
Through a variety of different processes more sugar can be in the mixture than yeast to kill and the result is a "sweet" wine that moves toward Champayne style of wine which has a great excess of sugar and I hope we all know what happens to the tongue when bitten by the wine.
And the heart / mind. Such a veil over them. Tongue moving freely.
Joe
You my friend are exhibit A of two dimensional thinking in a multidimensional reality.... as such you are not in your present state capable of providing the corrective to anyone's thinking about God.... your views are so steeped in traditional thought that your comments to the OP reflect the status quo.... while you are comfortable with where you are, please do not delude yourself into believing that your thoughts comprise the "truth." Nor would your comments as presently configured provide comfort for those who are experiencing suffering.....Thanks for having me.
Stormy, I have no problem understanding you. Correcting you obvious misunderstandings about the nature and character of God is another story. If you feel I've insulted you in any way I apologize profusely but honestly brother what you espouse as knowledge about God is pure mythology.
Four? You're kidding right? I think you are being quite sensitive myself. But again, if you have been hurt by anything I said I apologize.
Sweet dreams.
you make the assumption that the gospel they lived is also the one that was preserved in writing.... understandable given the other assumptions you have made....In your mind. But let me ask you this then. Many who wrote the Bible died because the refused to recant the Gospel they were preaching. How many people do you know that would die to preserve a lie?
your failure to see the correlation reminds me of the preacher who proclaimed, "if the KJV was good enough for Jesus its good enough for me..." Likewise your concrete, linear, thinking indicates that you will never be mistaken for one who thinks outside the box....That's quaint. Of course that doesn't answer the question. But it does give us an insight into your "lovey-dovey" nature. Reminds me of the "smoochy" episode in Seinfeld.
as is your habit you have missed the point... completely....I suspect neither you or your wife were responsible for creating you physically either.
You would be wrong, nice try though.... here is one for you, God is immortal and cannot die and cannot be killed..... Jesus is God.... thus did Jesus God die? ponder it before answering.....Only a linear thinking person would reply as you have thus far....You know sometimes I think you argue just to hear yourself think, because so much of what you say is nonsensical. Christ clearly relied on His Father while on Earth because he always sought to do the Father's will, even to the point of death on the cross.
You don't know what I believe about God, nor are you in a position to know and lastly, whatever it is I believe about God your comments about this topic if taken seriously would be a step light years backwards..... As for how God has revealed himself to me, I think that is between he and I.... last time I checked....Unfortunately for you Stormy the only myths that have been dispelled are the ones you believe about God. How vain can you possibly be? Do you honestly think that you can claim to know how God really is when He has yet to fully reveal Himself to you? Yikes!
No need to apologize you meant to say exactly what you said because you suffer under the delusion that you are correct and I am not.... so you meant, own it... it helps to know where a person stands....as I said before, you will never be mistaken for a person who thinks outside the box....Stormy, I have no problem understanding you. Correcting you obvious misunderstandings about the nature and character of God is another story. If you feel I've insulted you in any way I apologize profusely but honestly brother what you espouse as knowledge about God is pure mythology.
Not hurt at all, however insults have a tendency to get in the way of a discussion.... we can go there if you want, I have no problem with it, but discussions go so much better without them..... As for you, your responses are predictable, but they work for you.....Four? You're kidding right? I think you are being quite sensitive myself. But again, if you have been hurt by anything I said I apologize.
]No need to apologize you meant to say exactly what you said because you suffer under the delusion that you are correct and I am not....
so you meant, own it...
it helps to know where a person stands....as I said before, you will never be mistaken for a person who thinks outside the box....
Not hurt at all, however insults have a tendency to get in the way of a discussion....
we can go there if you want, I have no problem with it, but discussions go so much better without them..... As for you, your responses are predictable, but they work for you.....
as Moriah suggested, let it go.... your comments on this thread have shown you have not understood neither the OP nor the scope of the OP as it relates to what is said about God..... this is one you just "aren't getting" and its okay....No delusion brother. You have a rather warped understanding of God's character.
Meant what?
Say what? I have a view of God few people do and you seem to think that I'm trapped in a box? Being trapped in a box is the view that God's a boogeyman, or it's God's fault there are problems in the world.
Your OP is a classic example of blaming God. I know Stormy, everything is God's fault.
What insults?
Would you "feel" better if I just agreed with you? Fine. Everything is God's fault.
You do realize discussing anything with Moriah bes extremely dangerous spiritually and likely to destroy your mind, soul and conscience in quite short order ... yes?
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