On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:33:18 +0000 (UTC), My Name
wrote:
>
>For your consideration:
>KJV Mark 12 24&5
>And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
>because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
>For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor
>are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in
>heaven.
>
>Now you can search all you want, but that is not in the
>scriptures that we have. Ergo, obviously to me some things have
>been left out. Ergo again, changes/corruption/heresy also are
>equally plausible then, IMO.
If someone changes what is legitimate, then they have a motive. We
know that persecution was great then. And so was motive. Look for a
motive.
The verses I've referred to, if followed by the church, would destroy
it. And they are not taught to completion elsewhere in the scriptures
(and they necessarily need be!), so they may be questioned with not
too much difficulty—unless it is taught they cannot be questioned
because God fully protected His writings.
Those verses are just plain vicious, even if they are relegated into a
figurative meaning. Yes, so is hell vicious. But God made us a
certain way. We cannot help but appreciate the loveliness of the
human form. We are not going to hell because we have done so. There
are no warnings in the old law as to such. David's mistake was the
specific things he did after seeing Bathsheba, not the seeing of her.
And He never taught to give all our property to the poor as a special
act of love. There are no examples as being glorified by God—though
some men surely do think that way, (specifically Luke). Not God.
Tend to the poor. That's just being practical. But don't be absurd
with them. Recall Christ's statement, "It is not fair to take the
children's bread and cast it to the dogs." Of course this one
certainly does make sense.
At one time I had interpreted the Matthew 19 passage as Christ knowing
how the man illegitimately acquired his money in the first place, and
was punishing him. But the entirety of the passage, to the "eye of
the needle" statement, makes that interpretation impossible. It is a
lie to say Christ said this. He did not.
We strongly want to say the Bible is especially protected by God. But
that does not make truth out of the untruth.
--
Mike
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