On Aug 22, 5:03 am, "Mistylien" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Suzanne" <shil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Libertarius" <Libertar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Suzanne wrote:
> >>> I don't agree with your idea of the history of the
> >>> Bible. It is just plain wrong.
> >> ===>It is definitely not "wrong", just unknown and
> >> unacceptable to fundamentalist bible woreshipers. -- L.
> > To the reader that is reading this, Lib. is trying
> > to confer a label upon me so that he can sway
> > anyone from trusting anything that I am saying.
> > It is a favorite label to apply to someone that
> > believes the Bible: "a fundamentalist." Often
> > they will shorten it to the derrogatory "fundie."
> > If they are somewhat not sure that this term will
> > carry enough contempt, they will add that the
> > Christian is a "bible worshipper," being sure to
> > spell bible with a little "b." But Christians don't
> > worship the Bible, they worship the one that
> > taught us to read and study God's word. So
> > reading and being strengthened by God's word,
> > and led by it, is not worshipping the Bible, but
> > is really being led by the Lord who gave his word
> > to us in written form as a gift to us, to help us.
> > When Jesus prayed his prayer in the
> > Garden of Gethsemane, just before being
> > taken into a trial, he prayed that the Father
> > would sanctify the believer through God's word,
> > and that they would be sanctified by the testimony
> > of his followers that come after him. So when
> > a person reads what one of his followers has
> > written, which is what the books of the Bible are,
> > in fact, they still are not worshipping a book, but
> > they are worshipping the one who blesses his
> > words. Here are some verses from the Bible
> > that confirm this:
> > --
> > Isaiah 55:10-11 says:
> > 10. "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow
> > from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
> > watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth
> > and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and
> > bread to the eater:
> > 11. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of
> > my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but
> > it shall accomplish that which I please, and it
> > shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
> > Suzanne
> We are known by the company we keep.
> You really do not have to reply to that fellow.
> I see your conversations with him and I just pass it over.
> For I have already had my fill of that one too.
> He is incorrigible
> There are a lot of others to harvest is is a throw back.
> Sorry to you both,
> M,
Mistlien,
That comment doesn't make sense on many levels.
Being 'known by the company we keep' is in reference to hanging out
with people with whom we are in *agreement*.
Ha satan [correction: Libertarias] is a lot of work, and you're free
not to debate him or read
his posts, but this is a *debate forum*, and Suzanne is not in
agreement with him, she is debating him. If we all agreed, there'd
be
no debate, and it would get pretty boring. He is going to post
whether
Suzanne replies to him or not, so she is not perpetuating anything.
She is simply offering her own view.
And it's not up to us to decide who's a "throw back" i.e. beyond
salvation. I hope that's not how you see people in the real world who
don't hold your own views. Only God knows the heart of men; our
outward behavior reveals very little to other people because men have
little understanding of what has formed others or what might cause
them to act as they do.
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