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Hey Decalogue - I'm really new here. I just read your posts today on Anything Goes. I was going to say something following your reply to another post about Death At An Early Age by Jonathan Kozol ....
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Euthymius wrote: Why anyone thinks they need to search beyond the plain and clear statements of Scripture, and look for "secret meanings" in both Scripture and nature, I have no idea. I for one...
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And with wresting the scripture unto their own purpose clean contrary unto the process, order, and meaning of the text, and so delude them in descanting upon it with allegories, and amaze them...
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Euthymius said: This basically amounts to Kabbalah, and only in that light do matters such as the (Jewish-based) "Bible Code" nonsense become explained. Ditto with the stars, with numerology, counting...
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Euthymius said: Why anyone thinks they need to search beyond the plain and clear statements of Scripture, and look for "secret meanings" in both Scripture and nature, I have no idea. I for one...
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For: I have also read Deut 29:29. From where I sit, the 2nd half of the verse is very telling because it tells us that some things are also revealed and they belong to us and to our children. true,...
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From what I've been led to understand, the making of the stars is there described in a mere aside, to demote their importance so that people don't understand them to be objects worthy of worship, or...
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Euthymius wrote: forcync: One of the most longlasting traits of the Jews is their love of hiding something. They are great cryptographers. Perhaps only by the Holy Spirit were these items left about...
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Armchair said: I don't think anyone ever came to faith in Christ by looking for the gospel in the stars. Actually Hugh Ross has stated in lecture and his books that astrophysicists have come to Christ...
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Amarillo said: on the other hand, might it not be a little anomalous in the Gen. 1 context to make the Creator one of creatures, among "the stars also"? Where does it say that these stars are holy?...
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forcync: Euthymius said: Why anyone thinks they need to search beyond the plain and clear statements of Scripture, and look for "secret meanings" in both Scripture and nature, I have no idea. I for...
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Euthymius wrote: forcync: Euthymius said: Why anyone thinks they need to search beyond the plain and clear statements of Scripture, and look for "secret meanings" in both Scripture and nature, I have...
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Thanx Euth - I'm going to check that out. You are correct in saying many people have gotten themselves in deep trouble by seeking after some experience. However, the experience sought after me. I was...
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77 said: And there you have the seed of gnosticism. Some special, extra-Biblical knowledge, accessible, invariably, exclusively to the initiated. And it's always just a little bit more than just the...
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Forcy, the challenge, then, is to walk past those experiences, lifesaving n spectacular n biblical as they might seem, n cling only to the Word of God. church history is rife with experiences like...
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amarillo said: Forcy, the challenge, then, is to walk past those experiences, lifesaving n spectacular n biblical as they might seem, n cling only to the Word of God. That is really cutting to the...
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I have just been rereading this thread. I'm actually going to give this a kudo because of the excellent statements about the doctrine of Sola Scriptura, and the clarity in which y'all brought forth...
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Hello All - WOW what a great thread! I admit I have a Companion Bible and it is my favorite. I agree with Euthymius in that there are a few things in it that I disagree with, however, "The Stars Also"...
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Hello everyone, it is now 6 years later from the last comment and I just read this whole thread and wanted comment about the Dake bible vs the Bullingers bible. I love both but one thing I do not...
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i guess this means no one is exempt from the need to declare "the whole counsel" of God and not just our preferred slants.
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Rereading this old thread (upon seeing a new post) reminds me that our caution in things Biblical is not infrequently mixed with an element of fear, and even with a form of wrong understanding (in...
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