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YellowStone:
Hi Dean
Thanks for a well thought out and worded response. I could not agree more. Yet, I will offer this in support of what you said. During my years of "searching" for truth, I think I must have found every contradiction / fallacy ever conceived. I realized that the truth was not going to be found there (not because it wasn't, just that I couldn't) I then walked away from all my Bibles and study aids.
It was here that I learned a most fundamental truth; for when Christ said: "Look and you shall find" and "Ask and you shall recieve" he wasn't talking about physical eyes and ears, but rather our spiritual. It wasn't after I stopped trying to "find" the truth of God myself, that he slowly began revealing himself to me. The crazy thing was that I knew he had been there all along.
Another profound thing happened, the contradictions vanished, the words or rather their message stood out clearly, and the mixed up jigsaw puzzle of truth that I could not fatham, began falling neatly into place.
The Spirit and the Word must be in harmony, because they are one and the same.
Thanks for your post,
Love in Christ,
Darren
YellowStone:
--- Quote from: jER on July 18, 2007, 09:30:45 PM ---Truly stated, Darren.
For, we are not in need that man teach us (truth), but rather, the comforter and "Holy Spirit" of God.
A friend in Christ - jER
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Thanks jER :)
A fellow friend in Christ,
Darren
sasscell:
Oh Mg, you are so sweet and transparent. I feel the same way somtimes, I see "something" in His Word, but it never pans out and I feel frustrated. Maybe those who understand things easily aren't being entirely truthful?? I want truth in my heart. Anyway, I feel you, seems like these days I fight for every morsel of truth, used to come so easy, but not now. Indeed, perilous days ...
Dean Peterman:
Dear Darren,
Thank you for your valuable insights. I totally agree with everything you said.
Sincerely,
Dean
Chris R:
Hi,
Wow, i'm just not understanding the questions, How could there be "christians" before Christ?....Even the greatist of profits died "and did NOT receive the promise".
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that THEY without US should not be made perfect. Hbr 11:39-40
Everything ever done was for US...so that we could SEE
1Cr 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Gods purpose and plan has not changed, there is a plan to call and choose those that will be Christs, and those chosen will make ALL perfect. How...through judgement. "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?" [1Cor 6:2]
We must have faith in the scriptures.
Chris R
--- Quote from: sasscell on July 18, 2007, 08:01:02 PM ---I gang, I'm Tracy. I have been a member on and off for a couple of years, haven't posted in about a year or so, SO here goes. I have been reading the "Contradictions in the Bible" thread. It's corrupted, it's not, it has contradictions, it doesn't, etc. The argument really seems to be over what God intends the scriptures to be. A mere guidebook? A GPS? Somewhere in between...an atlas maybe!!! Anyway, the question that keeps comming up, and HAS for years for me, is WHAT DID PEOPLE DO BEFORE THE SCRIPTURES BECAME COMMONLY AVAILABLE? I have 5 bibles in my home, many of you have many, many more. This is a rather NEW development in Christianity. MOST people, MOST CHRISTIANS through the ages have never even SEEN one. Surely there have been Christians in ALL GENERATIONS. What did they do, how did they learn? Obviously, they maybe heard some, were taught of the Spirit. Does that change the way I look at my bible?? No, I have more I am accountable for more (yikes) Thoughts???
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