Here we go getting to share my heart you who I have know so many years I told things you did understand and things you did. I wrote over your head and I under your head some things above my understanding and some were below your understanding.
It times you believed I was mocking the bible but I would never do that because I love too much for that. I was building image in your heart of love over image of an old book that may fall apart some day I was trying to make the stories real to you.
My pushing a button in your heart, you got mad at me for a time but I am desire to teach you how wrong I was. I should teach you about that about the image that you can have in your heart.
We are living epistles not a book that fall apart but an epistle written in our hearts that the devil cannot take away from us. Is has stood for years and will be here until the very end.
2 Corinthians 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
The bible was written in the stars or should it the word of God because epistle that we have our own was wrote in many languages and tongues. But the one that stood the test of time was the one in our hearts.
Love Roy
You know, Roy, the only thing that I want to clarify in what you've said is this: Its not a matter of loving the bible OR being a living epistle. Its about both. Yes? The bible contains the Word of God, a living testimony to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.
In many communities, I've heard things like "Jesus didn't say that there would be some book left to speak to men, but said the Holy Spirit would come and lead us into all truth." So I asked: "How do you know what Jesus said or didn't say?" Is it not from the bible? --rhonda
I can prove any book Jesus Christ wrote and I can prove he live other than my own heart
yes we love the bible but we are careful to make sure it does not become a God it is there to teach us but Christ guides our hearts
it takes Christ we can do nothing our own
Luke 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 8:28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
8:29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 8:31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
8:32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: 8:33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
8:34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? 8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
that how it works Jesus Christ guides us but we can nothing our own
Dear Roy, in my experience people who love the bible worship the Author. I see constant warnings in many communities about "worshiping the bible" and I think that's a line for an objective I don't understand. I think its used so that people feel guilty for loving the scriptures, so they'll put it down, so they're more susceptible to hearing what the ones warning have to say, perhaps.
Because its always said this way: "Yes, we love the bible but we must be careful not to make it a god" or "we must be careful not to worship it." Its intimating that others are doing that, whereas I'm not aware of anyone who does that. The easiest thing for me when told this would just be to "Amen" it. That would get me a lot more friends. But I don't understand the point of the statement, or why it has become such a mantra in religious circles.--rhonda
Well Roy, it never would have entered my mind if people don't make the inference; that lovers of the Bible are in danger of worshiping it. I doubt it ever entered your mind until someone said it to you.
Those who say this also believe they can pick and choose scriptures as being God's Word, if it "rings true" to their own "spirit", and discard others as not being God's Word. They also don't believe in the Ransom, and are offended by it; they call it "The Penal Substitution Theory". The fact that the word Ransom is in scripture matters not to them--since they believe Christ lives in them, and feel they've "evolved" in "enlightenment" and know more than the Apostles knew--or even Jesus himself knew while on earth. So the bible, they say, is only a reflection of mankind's beliefs about God in those days, that wasn't as "enlightened" as they are.
Their warnings of "worshiping the bible" is a line that is intended to cast doubt on scripture being God's Word because it exposes their own teachings as false. THEY want to be the authority, based on their own ideas.--rhonda
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