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The same Bill who wrote:
"I also know that I am not as good a
communicator as I want to be and ought to be, and so I keep trying to better my
skills in that area and admit in the meantime my deficiencies."
Now writes:
Yeah, John, I used the term "cadaver" in
a metaphorical sense to point out the absurdity of thinking that
spiritually dead humans could decide to respond to matters of spiritual
importance. If their spirit is literally dead, they would not have the
capability of making such choices. I said something like, How can one who is spiritually dead make a free-will
determination to believe and hence be born again, so as to be made alive?
Cadavers can not make choices, let alone act upon
them. That set off fire storm of false accusations from the one among us who lacks the ability to determine
when language is meant to be taken literally and when it is
metaphorical in its thrust; hence the charge that I thought Jesus and
Paul to be referring to corpses and physically dead bodies. Not
hardly! So rock on, John. You're on the right track. Bill
jt: Nothing wrong with my understanding of Biblical
language Bill but your "deficiencies" make it extremely difficult
to
communicate in this arena. In the past I
have made the same points over and over and over yet apparently you can not or will not see.
Spiritual death has nothing whatsoever to do with
cadavers and corpses and apparently spiritual death is absent
from the writings you are attempting to synthesize. However, it
is a scriptural reality and when we want to understand scripture we
need to go to scripture and allow the Holy Spirit lead us into Truth or
we will be forever learning and never apprehending.
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- Re: [TruthTalk] Spiritual death Judy Taylor
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