LittleNipper wrote:Each spotlight the event from different aspects. Both are correct with regard to the aspect focused on in the message studied.
Differences should not be seen as contradictions. The reality is that this ALL happened and God gives us the picture from various accounts that view different pieces of the entire event.
Drifting wrote:Is the reality that this all happened?
I thought the reality was that the author of Mark said that was what happened and the authors of Mathew and Luke embellished the contents of Mark.
Unless there are other evidences of Christs birth, life and death, with which I am not familiar...
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I believe that each book of the Bible is unique and from God for some specific purpose. I do not feel that anyone copied MARK but wrote as led directly by the Holy Spirit. Each contain eyewitnessed accounts. God wants us to study. He does not lay everything out on a silver platter --- cut and dry. The Bible is a living book. Non-believers try to come up with logical rationalizations for what they cannot understand.
I understand that is what you choose to 'believe' and 'feel'.
I guess my points were related to what is factually known and can be shown to be accurate.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Franktalk, I find your above post both boastful and offensive yet so typical of Mormons who appear to demonstrate an attitude that only they have this special spiritual gift to understand the more esoteric aspects of scripture. I boast in nothing, have nothing to commend me, except the shed blood of Christ my savior. That said, while it is interesting to conjecture on words used in scripture, verses must be read in context and the context of this chapter in Peter has to do with earthly blessing showered on believers...in this particular instance the blessing of marriage where two believers joined together in marriage inherit, share, God's grace upon their union.
gdemetz, just go read the chapter in context. Taking one verse to support a suspect doctrine just doesn't cut it. I repeat, the chapter is about blessings to believers of which marriage, in this life is one. There is no other context and trying to stretch it to fit some extra Biblical belief doesn't change that.
Really ignorant, Albion! Try to answer the four points which I made on that post!It is absolutely not out of context! Heirs of the grace of life is just like stating heirs of eternal life! You definitely need that braille version!
Context, gdemetz, context...I know Mormons have a hard time with that when it comes to their "proof texts" but it's all about context. Oh, and did I mention context?
Albion wrote:Context, gdemetz, context...I know Mormons have a hard time with that when it comes to their "proof texts" but it's all about context. Oh, and did I mention context?
But within what context are you framing the use of context...contextually speaking of course...?
gdemetz is factually bankrupt.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Drifting, I guess my problem with Mormon proof texts is that so often they ignore the flow and purpose of a passage. Based on the merest glimmer of a word or phrase that they like, Mormons seem to seize on it as support for some purely LDS doctrine or practice totally ignoring the context in which the words are used. The chapter in Ezekiel has nothing whatsoever to do with a book, doesn't even mention the word or even use a word that could be mistaken for book, but is seized upon as somehow upholding the Book of Mormon. Mormonism doesn't fit the description of the tiniest hair on the tail of a dog yet they claim to wag the entire religious dog. Last week, I was in the holocaust museum in Jerusalem wondering how in creation people could be so inhuman to other human beings when the realization came that that it was only by taking away the very humanity of their victims that the Nazis could justify their actions. While I don't liken Mormons to Nazis, I do liken the process to Mormonism. The big lie of Mormonism is that all Christendom is corrupt, that all who profess it are an "abomination". With this lie in place and swallowed it is easy to then supplant the Christian message with the bizarre beliefs of Mormonism because they have instantly removed the core (humanity parallel) foundation of the opposition. Smith was nothing if not devious.
Yes, but that has never really been the currency with you guys.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Yes, but that has never really been the currency with you guys.
Please...whatever you do...whatever you say Please...do.not.ever.lapse.into.stembelisms.....
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator