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EZE:
Hey thanks for all your help everyone, much appreciated.
Not sure who said it but yes I have come to realise that 'debating' is / can be as much a work of the flesh as anything else.
I think people will see these truths when and if God allows them to do so.

Bible truths rocks harder than ACDC

EZE

jennie:
Now ya'll this is coming from one who "cut her teeth" in the fields. All our family had gardens and stock. All of the family took turns working on each other's farms. They weren't big but that is what we ate from all year. I don't know if this description will help in the discussion but here goes! Every year we burned the broom sedge off before planting. If we didn't  it would just take over the plants and we wouldn't have as many as we would otherwise. After the ground was burned, we would turn it with a push plow and tractor. We got out seeds in and throughout the summer, we weeded and hoed everyday and tended our plants until they got enough size and stability on them to not be overtaken by any stray weeds. At picking time, we hand picked both the good and bad. When we got our pickings to the wellhouse lean to(right outside the kitchens) we sorted in the shade thankfully! We shucked corn ( the shucks were burned but if my Pa had a pig that year, we gave the shuck to the pigs to eat.) We shelled the beans, the shell was burned. After all was said and done, we set fire to the fields again to burn up and clear off the land to grow something else. The unproductive plant life was gone! We  burned it. For some reason this long story makes me think about the "wheat and chaff". In real wheat the chaff is completely separated out either by picking it out(which takes forever) or you can use a water method which is easier than by hand. That chaff is pushed off and eventually burned up and you are left with wheat that you can cook into many different things. Our sinful flesh is that chaff and the good wheat is what God uses in many different ways! (ya'll if I 've spelled wrong, please forgive!)

buddyjc:
I don't mean to throw something new in here,...then maybe I do, but as I have always understood it, and I can be wrong, is that the tares are symbolic of the natural man; the wheat is symbolic of the called, and the barley is symbolic of the elect.  The barley is harvested 7 days, or 1 week prior to the wheat.  The tares are allowed to grow with the wheat.  The natural man along with the called are separated and purged in the lake of fire.  Barley is 'winnowed' while the wheat is threshed.  

Brian

undignifieddancer:
I could be in way left field here but after reading all of this, including the Mike's piece...I just want to say does it matter?  This difference in the wheat?  Hasn't the victory of Christ occured?  Weren't these parables taught prior to the victory?  Aren't most of us on here certain that salvation was given to those who at least believe if not to the whole world?  So who is concerned about seperations, lake of fires and all of that stuff?  Don't we discount or doubt the victory of the cross when we consider picking these issues to bits?

Again I live in left field from most.  So excuse me for butting in where I don't belong.

Peace

Laren:
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