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To: piusv

Well either words have been added to God’s divine revelation or they haven’t. Please note again Jesus’s words in John 4. He is asked directly, point blank, where people are to worship God. It is a physical location question: in this mountain, or at Jerusalem.

Jesus pointedly rejects the proposition of a physically located focal point of worship. Rather, He says the time has come when worship turns on the state of the heart—in spirit and in truth—as opposed to physical location.

To say that what Jesus REALLY meant was that worship should center in, or have any special relationship, with Rome, is to twist the Lord’s words out of all recognition. In effect, it’s saying Jesus didn’t know what He was talking about—which is blasphemy. Jesus ALWAYS knew what He was talking about.

Claiming additional, Spirit-breathed revelation is problematic enough, but claiming revelation that contradicts Jesus’s own words is mind boggling. Had Jesus intended Rome to be the next iteration of Jerusalem, He’d have given some indication of that. But He put physical locations completely out of the picture when He stated that the new center of worship would be spiritual: I.e.: in spirit and truth.

If you know of any Biblical passage that suggests Jesus’s teachings were incomplete or inadequate, and would need additional divine revelation to be accurate, I’ll take such passages to heart. If not, then Jesus’s words must take absolute precedence over any others.


78 posted on 08/14/2016 11:16:30 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

Are you done now? Because I am.


79 posted on 08/14/2016 11:21:19 AM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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