On Sep 11, 4:19 am, "Mistylien" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "LindaLee" <lindagirl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Aug 22, 5:03 am, "Mistylien" <yardhol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Suzanne" <shil...@[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 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.
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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 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."
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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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> >> M,
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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
> > whether
> > 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.
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> Linda,
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> 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.
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> Susanne is doing her thing and more power to her.
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> Hmm!
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> I wonder if some one else is cutting in on us here.
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> M, + + +
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Maybe it was just a passing odd thought when you were tired and/or
irritated, so you don't recall it and it's out of character?
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