Posted on 05/19/2014 3:58:40 PM PDT by xzins
I originally had read the entire post, and the “well, duh” still struck me as out of place.
My point is that as “followers of him” we do all those things that you say. That is what marks us a believers as “sanctified set apart believers” You are splitting hairs!
You should ask Him about that.
And I have said in a previous message that all I have done is remind you of the Word of God. “...But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
I did not think your redefinitions of “follow” and of “homosexual marriage” fit with the Word of God.
“I originally had read the entire post, and the “well, duh” still struck me as out of place.”
I disagree. It indicates that the passage is obviously, undeniably true. So much so that if someone didn’t get it, I would want to slap him in the back of the head after saying, “Well, duh.”
Am I?
Is you heart filled with the Holy Spirit? Did He tell you to accuse me of hair splitting?
Or might He have suggested that our differences were based on semantics with no one in the right or wrong?
Or did He tell you to make an accusation in which you take the high ground and offer me the low?;-)
I think I am hearing your voice...not His. Am I wrong?
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I might, of course, be completely wrong.
Tell me I am wrong.
I didn’t read the part beginning with “flippant” that way, but if you say that’s what you meant by it, then I have no business telling you what you meant to write.
I have stood for the Word of God and You have said things that don’t align with the Word of God. You have said we don’t have to follow Jesus, and you have said that homosexual marriage isn’t what’s really wrong. I have said that Jesus said to follow Him, and I have said that Jesus said that a man will be united to his wife and they will become one flesh.
Do you agree with Jesus or do you agree with yourself?
If we are singing from the same hymnal...
vs 1 We follow him
vs2 we worship him in spirit and in truth
vs3 we are transformed by the renewing of our minds
as so on!
In my hymnbook...being followers of Jesus Christ appears in many stanzas as well as all the other things that go into being a child of grace!
1 Peter22: 21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should FOLLOW his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
There’s that word “follow” again...coupled with that shepherd motif like Psalms 23!
I agree..no ifs, and or butts. Especially a Queer one.
This isn't an intellectual exercise.
Amen, mdmathis6
This isn't an intellectual exercise
I have already told you that the Spirit of God has evidenced His indwelling in me. When I quoted Jesus saying that the Comforter will remind us of His words, it is the same as saying “His Spirit testifies with our spirits that we are children of God.”
And His Spirit does not tell His children that they don’t have to follow Him. And His spirit does not tell them that homosexual marriage is not what’s wrong. That is all pure philosophical sophistry.
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