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Great non-answer to my post!
We need to be approach everything gentle as doves and wise as serpents but too often the church's response seems as gentle as a serpent and as wise of a dove which only separates and pushes people away.
I wasn't responding to your post. You were not even the person I quoted.
Oh, yeah. I see that now. I was a little hasty and my eyes played a trick on me. Nevertheless, what I said about your post is true, and you've just backed me up on it: your post (#74) is a non-answer to my post.
Yeah. You really need to step-up your game! Next time, try to make your post more, uh, one-size-fits-all, or universally applicable.My post was, then, a "non-answer" to every other post in all of these forums except the specific one I quoted.
what I find interesting are serpents and doves are very contrasted animals. Where one is seen as wise, even to cunning levels, the other is seen as dumb and simple. one is aggressive the other is gentle. But calling a serpent gentle and a dove wise seems not very well thought out. The serpent also is seen as a symbol of sin and the other a symbol of peace. I've lived in developing African and developing Asian regions and although different culturally one thing that is similar is doves are kept as pets but if you see a snake you get a group and hunt it down until its dead. I think the contrast Christ makes is deliberate to obvious levels.As a side note, the phrase "wise as a serpent" refers to the fact that a serpent keeps its eyes open and its mouth shut. It's the same reasoning for the phrase "wise as an owl," because compared to other birds, it sees everything but speaks rarely.
Since the Bible also uses the word, "Ghost," what's your problem?
Teaching a new form of grammar these days?What you just wrote is not even a sentence, since you have no subject. Your word, "asinine," is an adjective; it is not a noun, and it is not a substantive.
You have no subject, so you have no sentence.
Methinks thou wast day dreaming the day this part of grammar was taught.Since you obviously did not carefully read what I had written in my previous post, you're obviously not about to improve your conduct so as to try to carefully read a reiteration of it.
You obviously think otherwise on both of these points, and to think otherwise is for you to fail to understand both of those words.
- The word, "thing," is a noun, not an adjective.
- The word, "inanimate," is an adjective, not a noun.
It uses the word Spirit.
Which text?
Obviously the Greek text says neither "holy thing," "holy one," nor "holy child," and it does not even say "holy". You need to remind yourself that the word, "holy," is an English word, and not a Greek word, and that, ipso facto, it can be clearly seen that the Greek text does not say the English word, "holy." This is elementary.
And, again: the KJV text does, indeed, say "holy thing". Also elementary.
And, again: there is absolutely nothing wrong with the KJV saying "holy thing".
It uses the word Spirit.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Yeah. It also uses the word, "Ghost".
For example, John 14:26:
If that bothers you, it shouldn't. You shouldn't let it bother you. One thing I often remind myself is that we, being Christians, ought to never let worldly, pagan culture, with all their rank, God-hating stupidities and superstitions, shape and control our use of our language.
"Halloween" didn't come from Satan.I mean, should we also refuse to pray what Jesus told us to pray—"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name..."—just because Satan has misused that perfectly good, old, English word in naming one of the ridiculous farce "holidays" he has instituted among men for the purpose of further debasing the morality of fallen man?
Now, don't get me wrong, though. I'm certainly not intending for you to get some idea that I think you absolutely should use the phrase, "Holy Ghost," and that you would be in error in refusing to do so. I'm just saying that, when you really stop to think about it, there is nothing wrong with using it. It's just that it is merely a matter of personal taste, rather than moral obligation.
"Halloween" didn't come from Satan.
Hallow-een is the eve of All Hallows (deceased saints; i.e., spirits) Day.
It is the correct name for the day before All Hallows Day.
I give up. . .did you?The word, "Halloween"? Did I say that the word, "Halloween," came from Satan?
I give up. . .am I?No. I did not.
So, according to you, it would be wrong—incorrect—to not refer to any day by this word, "Halloween"? The day that the superstitious rubes call "Halloween," I, for one, just call "31 October". Is it incorrect for me to not participate in such foolishness as that pointless referring to certain days by certain, special names? Are you saying there is a moral imperative for everybody to call a certain day, "Halloween"?
I give up. . .did you?
I don't know. See, that's why I asked you. I wonder why you can't just answer the question.I give up. . .am I?
I think I just solved the problem which facilitated my making that embarrassing mistake. I discovered that you can disable certain categories of notifications, and have now disabled those notifications which would tell me that someone responded to someone else's post in a thread in which I've posted (for which notifications I can't imagine I'd ever even come close to having a use). Man, I, personally, can't think of a dumber default setting than to have that particular notification switched on.I wasn't responding to your post. You were not even the person I quoted.
The word, "Halloween"? Did I say that the word, "Halloween," came from Satan? No. I did not.
So, according to you, it would be wrong—incorrect—to not refer to any day by this word, "Halloween"? The day that the superstitious rubes call "Halloween," I, for one, just call "31 October". Is it incorrect for me to not participate in such foolishness as that pointless referring to certain days by certain, special names? Are you saying there is a moral imperative for everybody to call a certain day, "Halloween"?
Hallowe'en, the Eve before the Feast of All Saints, is a Christian observance. It has nothing to do with the devil--neither the name nor the day itself.
I think the point is that Hallowe'en is part of the Western Christian observance known as the triduum of [All]Hallowstide: All Hallow's Eve (Hallowe'en), All Hallows Day ([All]Hallowmas or All Saint's Day), and All Soul's Day.
If you don't want to partake in the modern secular activities that are today associated with Halloween, no one is going to force you.
But there's nothing wrong with dressing up in costumes, going trick-or-treating, or making fun of the spooktacular.
This is like calling people "superstitious rubes" for going on dates on the Feast Day of St. Valentine.
The question:Instead of giving up, you should have just read the next sentence I wrote after having written that question—you know, the sentence that (for whatever motive) you decided to not include in your quotation from my post; the sentence in which I already answered that question.
I don't know. See, that's why I asked you. I wonder
why you can't just answer the question.
The question:
"So, according to you, it would be wrong—incorrect—to not refer to any day by this word, "Halloween"?
The answer:
Strawman.
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