On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Justin Darnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John - > > This isn't a personal attack....but come on, cherry picking? > > While I agree with Bob's explanation above about Christ, forgiveness, > etc overcoming the old law, it sounds like you believe Leviticus is > still wholly valid. Am I reading you right? If you've read Leviticus > 11:9-12 you shouldn't have eaten shrimp, lobster or crab because it is > also an abomination. Shrimp = damnation? Clearly this is the same > God of Love from the new testament...... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well one of the initial chapters of Acts has Peter seeing a dream with flowing animals from God who says if I made them they are all Clean. > > If I can assume that you'll clarify your position on the old law and > agree with Bob, then I'll move forward to this, a quote from Rich > Mullins: > > "You guys are all into that born-again thing, and that's awesome; > we've got to be born again. You know Jesus said that to Nicodemus. But > if you tell me that I got to be born again, I can tell you that you've > got to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus > said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented > highlighters, so we can we highlight the verses that we like and > ignore the other ones." > --------------------------------------------- The Beattitudes is wonder to read and oh so hard to live. > > The point is - None of us are following 100% of the Bible (or even > 20%, I'd imagine). We tend to remember, believe, and repeat the most > self-serving bits: Gospel of Wealth and Abundance, the bits we can > find against those we don't like or are different, anything that might > help our political agenda, etc. We avoid the hard parts like truly > loving our neighbors, forgiveness of those who hurt us, giving to the > poor... You get the idea. > ------------------------------------------------ God knows that. Forever man has let him down. Except David and his son Solomon all other people who were right with God had not only a tough life, they also experienced a miserable death. tough to be a Saint. > > This is why the Church is shrinking. > > Everyone has to believe and follow in their own way but my personal > understanding of what is required of me is to love first and to leave > the judging to God. > --------------------------------------- Church is shrinking because we as a Society have little personal control. We know that we should go to church but we get caught up in something else and another week is shot. We are supposed to pray but little things pop up and get in the way. The middle east takes prayer seriously. Jewish or Muslim prayer is important and public display of it is not only allowed but expected. Here in the west if you see me pray you could say that it gets in your way and have me arrested. Maybe not today but in the near future that could well be true. :( I have to laugh at how many false people need to have "In God we Trust" on their money, yet their prayer my only come in times of jeopardy. Oh God please let those flashing police lights be fore someone else. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
