My, O my, the lengths you will travel to save face!
Yup, they were sent forth into something else, no doubt about it --
and with the same word certain sailors, fearing
shipwreck, "cast out the wheat
into the sea."
jt: So sailors casting wheat overboard is the
same as the Holy Spirit casting Jesus off into the wilderness because the
Greek word Ekballo says so and we must not violate the sanctity of the
Greek language?
And so I ask you, what does "forth" mean,
here, if not OUT -- send "out" laborers
into the harvest, etc.
jt: So what was Jesus cast out of before
being sent forth into the wilderness?
"And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without
understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth
in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out
into the draught?" (Mat 15.16-17)
--
jt: Speaking about what defiles a man - coming
out of the defiled heart rather than what goes into the belly and comes
out in Charmin' land.
Perhaps as good a place as any to end our conversation, Bill
jt: Possibly so - now that the issue is
thoroughly and totally confused.... Now I see why Jesus chose
12 "unlearned men"
to evangelize the known world....
