Nevermind,
I also assumed we on this site believed the same things.Carry on.....
Antaiwan
Allow me to apologize for the prior hijacking of your thread Antaiwan. I was responding to Arcuturus more than to your original posting and question, sorry, although I did give a scripture as a required response.
I understand what you’re saying. It appears you and maybe others want to know words to make all things assured and confident on a steady basis, words that can be recalled, at will, so sinking ground appears solid. Nothing wrong with that, who doesn’t, me included. Every bookstore has shelf-loads of ‘self-help’ books with solid sounding words, but I’ll bet the overall success rate of any is laughable.
My thrust of response back to Arc was that somewhere down the road one will come to where words of scripture and life, or life experiences, don’t exactly neatly parallel like you once believed they should no matter how hard one tries to make it so. Suddenly words that can be recalled, by the human will, don’t look and feel so solid because the human understanding and God’s purpose appear to be at war. It’s then the words that can be recalled by the human will aren’t enough and one wants and needs a stirring in the soul kind of hearing. The challenge isn’t so much a mountain of ‘word ’ to be learned, leaned on, and recalled but a mountain of empathy, sympathy and compassion to be felt. When Arcturus mentioned the “die before you die”, that’s what came to mind. Jesus knew words too, but he always showed an endless supply of compassion. That’s where the solid is in my opinion. It measures up to this crusty so and so, just not to your thread.
People are introduced into this forum every day with a ‘different’ set of beliefs…………….and THEN we begin to learn in cohesion. To assume we’re all on the same page at the same time is presumptuous.