"Linda Lee" <lindagirl444@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Aug 22, 5:03 am, "Mistylien" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Suzanne" <****l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > 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 wor****pper," being sure to
>> > spell bible with a little "b." But Christians don't
>> > wor****p the Bible, they wor****p 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 wor****pping 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.
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>> > 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 wor****pping a book, but
>> > they are wor****pping the one who blesses his
>> > words. Here are some verses from the Bible
>> > that confirm this:
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>> > 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."
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>> > Suzanne
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>> 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
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>> There are a lot of others to harvest is is a throw back.
>> Sorry to you both,
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> Mistlien,
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> That comment doesn't make sense on many levels.
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> Being 'known by the company we keep' is in reference to hanging out
> with people with whom we are in *agreement*.
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> 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
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> no debate, and it would get pretty boring. He is going to post
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> Suzanne replies to him or not, so she is not perpetuating anything.
> She is simply offering her own view.
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> 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.
Linda,
I see the words but even I am not sure what or why I wrote that.
It does not make any sense to me either.
Susanne is doing her thing and more power to her.
Hmm!
I wonder if some one else is cutting in on us here.
M, + + +
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