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Love your enemies
hillsbororiver:
Hello Laren,
I know what you mean about using the same word to define itself, I used the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus to check the definitions and synonyms to "reconcile," here is what I found;
Main Entry: rec·on·cile
Pronunciation: 're-k&n-"sI(-&)l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ciled; -cil·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French reconciler, from Latin reconciliare, from re- + conciliare to conciliate transitive verb
1 a : to restore to friendship or harmony <reconciled the factions> b : SETTLE, RESOLVE <reconcile differences>
2 : to make consistent or congruous <reconcile an ideal with reality>
3 : to cause to submit to or accept something unpleasant <was reconciled to hardship>
4 a : to check (a financial account) against another for accuracy b : to account for
intransitive verb : to become reconciled
Entry Word: reconcile
Function: verb
Text: to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences <historians have never been able to reconcile the two eyewitness accounts of the battle> -- see HARMONIZE 2
Entry Word: harmonize
Function: verb
Text: 1 to form a pleasing relationship <the color of the walls harmonized nicely with the blue tones in the carpet>
Synonyms agree, blend, conform, coordinate
Related Words balance, correlate, correspond, dovetail, match; meet, parallel; bond, coalesce, cohere, conjoin, fuse, merge, square, tally
Near Antonyms contradict, contrast, counter, differ, diverge, jar; cancel (out), counteract, negate, offset
Antonyms clash, collide, conflict
2 to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences <an attempt to harmonize the New Testament version of events with the accounts of the ancient Romans>
Synonyms accommodate, conciliate, conform, coordinate, key, reconcile
Related Words adapt, attune, tune; blend, combine, connect, correlate, dovetail, fit, fuse, integrate, join, match, merge, orchestrate, pair, square, suit, synchronize, synthesize, unify, unite; align, arrange, array, balance, equalize, even, order, proportion, regularize, standardize
Near Antonyms confuse, disarray, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, skew, upset
Antonyms alienate, disjoin
3 to be in agreement on every point <interrogated in separate rooms, the two burglary suspects gave stories that didn't harmonize at all> -- see CHECK 1
Kind of "fleshes out" that "bare bones" definition doesn't it?
To bring all His creation (satan included) to a point "free of conflicts" and to "form a pleasing relationship" with Him.
Hope this helps,
Joe
hillsbororiver:
--- Quote from: Extol on September 14, 2006, 01:39:59 PM ---Do we love Satan also? There are many verses about the devil and his evils, and how we must resist them (Eph. 4:27, 6:11; 1 Tim. 3:7, James 4:7, 1 Pet.5:8, etc.). But of course it is the command of the Saviour to love one's enemies (Matt. 5:44). It is not uncommon to hear churchgoers say things like "I hate Satan", "To hell with the devil", and excitedly talk about how he will "get his" when he is thrown into the Lake of Fire forever, etc. In addition to being Scripturally inaccurate, is it wrong to utter such statements, since we are supposed to love our enemies?
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I am totally unqualified to answer these questions, I am still working on (more like struggling with) loving my neighbors. ;)
His Peace and Wisdom to you,
Joe
Laren:
I find this an interesting study, i don't have all my thots formalized, but there is something in this
Joh 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
Satan is the accuser of the bretheren
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
for me, satan has power through the law to accuse. We who are in Christ are dead to the law, and alive to grace. satan is done, defeated, has no power. Grace outdoes sin always, and the power of sin is the law. No law, no sin, no satan.
hillsbororiver:
Hello Laren,
While I can agree that the elect will be freed (some have already) from the power of satan I do not see the devil as being insignificant or impotent in the world quite yet. In fact he will even have power restored to him in the coming age(s).
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,(is he presently bound, or been bound and loosened and the 2nd resurrection and redemption of all been accomplished?)
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years (Are you saying all the elect have already been redeemed and are presently judging the world, or have already?).
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth,
Laren, are you saying all these things have come to pass?
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding the point you are trying to make, I just don't see everything being completed yet, if indeed that is what you are saying.
His Peace to you and yours,
Joe
Laren:
--- Quote from: hillsbororiver on September 16, 2006, 08:26:56 PM ---Hello Laren,
While I can agree that the elect will be freed (some have already) from the power of satan I do not see the devil as being insignificant or impotent in the world quite yet. In fact he will even have power restored to him in the coming age(s).
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,(is he presently bound, or been bound and loosened and the 2nd resurrection and redemption of all been accomplished?)
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years (Are you saying all the elect have already been redeemed and are presently judging the world, or have already?).
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth,
Laren, are you saying all these things have come to pass?
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding the point you are trying to make, I just don't see everything being completed yet, if indeed that is what you are saying.
His Peace to you and yours,
Joe
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Not making any point Joe, just seeing an interesting relationship between satan, law, flesh versus grace and the resurrected Christ. Can't serve two masters, mixin law and grace.
I also think that this is tied into these verses
1Jo 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
1Jo 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
1Jo 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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