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Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”~Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
Gee, all he would have to do is talk to them and tell them the truth... if he is unhappy, with the power he possesses, then he deserves to be since he doesn't take steps to solve the problem.KevinSim
That would mean that if we go on the assumption that God exists, the possibility exists that everybody in Christianity has a set of beliefs about God that God doesn't want them to have. Can God be happy with that state of Christianity's ignorance?
Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
Kevin,
Here is your assignment, go read the Bible (the word, about the Word- Jesus), not already knowing what it will say to you, but allow God to speak to you. Ask him to open your eyes and heart to what He’d say to you. Read it like a child. Don’t respond to this post with a question.
I would be happy to send you an ESV, NASB, or NIV, or maybe a KJV study Bible.
The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession... The LORD set his love on you and chose you... The LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery. Deut. 7
Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
I dunno, I just read Psalm 137:9msnobody wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:39 amKevin,
Here is your assignment, go read the Bible (the word, about the Word- Jesus), not already knowing what it will say to you, but allow God to speak to you. Ask him to open your eyes and heart to what He’d say to you. Read it like a child. Don’t respond to this post with a question.
I would be happy to send you an ESV, NASB, or NIV, or maybe a KJV study Bible.
The Bible is full of terrible things god does to people. Destroying fetuses, torturing people for no reason, genocide, shebears, etc.Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
Please explain what you think the purpose of that verse is and whose will is being expressed. Thank you.Informant wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:37 am
I dunno, I just read Psalm 137:9The Bible is full of terrible things god does to people. Destroying fetuses, torturing people for no reason, genocide, shebears, etc.Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
We only get stronger when we are lifting something that is heavier than what we are used to. ~ KF
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Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
Yeah, I'm with Jersey Girl here Informant. I don't think you grasp the situation in the Psalm at all, and use God as a foil for whatever reason...
Re: Question for KevinSim- biblical gospel articulation request
Malkie, I don't want anyone to consider that I might be right about what I claim. I want them to consider that they can themselves ask God questions and get answers directly.
I am sure MsNobody sincerely thinks God inspired the Bible in such a way that we can conclude that Christianity's doctrines are completely correct. Even so, you are asking me to believe the words of a human being instead of the direct words of God. That's why I don't accept it at face value.malkie wrote:Why question her claim? Why not accept it at face value?
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Malkie, do you know that the number could be zero? If so, then there's one other thing that you have come to know right there.
Not really. It's just that Informant declared that we can't know anything. That's clearly not true; we can know at least one thing. If it's not true regarding that one thing, then the possibility exists that there might be two things (or three, or more) that Informant can know that s/he is not aware of.malkie wrote:Or do you think that "knowing that one thing" justifies the idea that we can know other things?
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By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept.
The Bible is about the things that happen here on earth with our conflicts and evil injuring the good.
The Bible is about the things that happen here on earth with our conflicts and evil injuring the good.
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For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors mirth.
psalm 137 is an intensely and in its way beautifully expressive statement of real, all to real, experience. It takes a heart of wood to not understand it.
psalm 137 is an intensely and in its way beautifully expressive statement of real, all to real, experience. It takes a heart of wood to not understand it.