I understood your original post...it just has nothing to sdo with the
question. Again, eiither you don't get it or you are playing around. I'm out
on this one, too. I haven't got time to play the stupidity game.
Perry
From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Dave, what does this verse mean to you?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:48:56 -0800
*Do you mind giving it a second try? *
DAVEH: OK Perry, let me succinctly explain what I tried to explain before.
Paul was a busy guy....too busy to baptize many. His time was better
spent traveling to meet more people, than to spend time trying to baptize
those who heard his testimony. He left that job to others who had the
proper authority to do so, in order that he could testify of Jesus (the
mission of an apostle) to many more.
Did my second effort make it any easier to comprehend, Perry?
Charles Perry Locke wrote:
Dave, you response does not appear to have anything at all to do with the
question. *Do you mind giving it a second try? *
"will you tell us the mormon interpretation (or, at the very least, your
interpretation) of the following verse? Exactly what is Paul trying to say
here?
1 cor 9:14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach
the gospel should receive their living from the gospel."
Perry
From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*will you tell us the mormon interpretation (or, at the very least, your
interpretation*
DAVEH: I'm not sure why you want to know my opinion on this, Perry. I
thought you might prefer to delete my posts instead of responding to
them, as you might think it would give me platform to preach Mormonism.
:-)
I don't see that Paul's mission was any different than the current
day apostle of the LDS Church. He/they are a special witness of our
Lord, Jesus Christ. I view their missions as being to testify of Jesus
to as many people as they can. To do that efficiently, requires that
they not tarry much to perform baptisms. That may have been particularly
pertinent to Paul, as I suspect finding bodies of water sufficient for
immersive baptisms would have occupied a fair amount of his time in an
arid climate without the modern transportation conveniences we have now.
Even so, baptisms can easily be performed by those given the authority to
do so who are not so time constrained, which is the case now as it was in
Jesus' time. We do not have record of our Lord performing baptisms, yet
he set the example by being baptized himself. Why would we expect Paul
(or latter-day apostles) to be any different?
Charles Perry Locke wrote:
Dave, *will you tell us the mormon interpretation (or, at the very
least, your interpretation*) of the following verse? Exactly what is
Paul trying to say here?
1 cor 9:14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach
the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
Thanks,
Perry
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