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johnw
Frank, I understand and share the opinions you offered, at least to an extent, but I try to never say never and to never imply 'all.' The Shakers relied entirely on conversions and the Quakers do not associate themselves with violence of any kind. We c>>>
Anarchist
Mike, I have always had a hard time discerning the Spititual from the literal myself. I wood find myself in my studies always comparing some type of literal meaning to the word , and this is ok I think. There is much literal meaning to scripture,>>>
Anarchist
Yes Mike , the literal part is true , and it all points to Christ , but this is just scratching on the surface. The meat is deeper and requires spiritual discernment to comprehend. imo ,more on this as it comes to me.
II Tim 2 15. Study to shew thys>>>
DCROOF
PG Please try to remember our original intent with this topic, Have broad shoulders and let it roll off you like water off a ducks back . Other wise you will start reacting and miss out on some great stuff. Hang in there buddy I appreciate your comments a>>>
Anarchist
Mike H says
CIAK and Pot,
I have to admit that I have always tried to take the Bible quite literally. I've long held the view that if God and the Word are true and if that word was given to us as a way of gaining understanding of God, His nature>>>
Anarchist
Jedd ses:
I posted Grimms originally, and reffered to there being another 209 tales to try and dissuade PG from posting quotes from the bible. Childish maybe, but how else to get my point accross? Posting said quotes could only have led to what>>>
Anarchist
You gentlemen have no idea as to what this week has done for my Spiritual life. I have been a studier of the Word for many years, and have gained some knowledge about a variety of matters contained in the scriptures. Many things we have discussed this wee>>>
DCROOF
PG thanks for the support. egg ,And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." AMEN The church for thousands of years well , at least, ever since Christ passed away from the earth and left his ministry in the hands of men, has been steriliz>>>
kegolliday
Mike, I posted Grimms originally, and reffered to there being another 209 tales to try and dissuade PG from posting quotes from the bible. Childish maybe, but how else to get my point accross? Posting said quotes could only have led to what we have now>>>
Anarchist
egg says: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." For me it just doesn't get any better than that. It just simply can not will not get any better than that.
egg, ther are some things , that , when they are comprehended as muc>>>
Anarchist
Chuck Says:
I 'll paste this so I don't have to keep going back and rereading ----- the Word. John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." together with John 1:14 "The Word became flesh and made h>>>
Anarchist
Yes Mike , the literal part is true , and it all points to Christ , but this is just scratching on the surface. The meat is deeper and requires spiritual discernment to comprehend. imo ,more on this as it comes to me>>>
Anarchist
OOOps , sorry bout that , it was getting sort of late, and I was pushing it , I guess my mind was sort of wavering some?
After getting away from the puter last night, some things came to me out of the things that I was trying to respond to. Reflection an>>>
tinner666
Some paralells; All religions basically say " Go forth and populate" This to create new, little Baptists, Catholics, Muslims, etc. None rely on conversions.
All have fighting and killing in there tenets. Did you ever listen to the words, or read them i>>>
johnw
There's literal and there's literal. I am extremely comfortable with the figurative, in fact I often fail to distinguish any serious deviation between the two other than what one might call hue. As I hold the spiritual realm to be a literal fourth di>>>
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