Thank you and yes, it has been a big issue for the church for some time. Fortunately, many are working to fix that but there's still so much left to do.
This is so good! So much going around right now about this and it can be so confusing. But you laid it out so clearly. I've always believed this, but now I can articulate why I believe so much better after reading this! Thank you!
Lamentations 3:23 His mercies don’t change, they “never come to an end”, they are the same wonderful mercies but renewed fresh each morning. The mercy He gave yesterday has been renewed and made fresh. It makes me think of the truth that our sins are remembered no longer (Hebrews 8:12), put as far away as the East is from the West ( Psalms 103:12).
I LOVE that I'm seeing this message everywhere I look lately! And I especially love that we all approach it just a little bit differently with a slightly different focus.
We need to spread this as far and wide as we possibly can!
Wow, this came across my feed 2 weeks late. My post tomorrow morning is closely related to this! How did we stray so far to twist the Scriptures?
Hint:
“…when once we start with the rule that whole passages and books of Scripture say one thing when they mean another, the reader is delivered bound hand and foot to the caprice of the interpreter. He can be sure of absolutely nothing except what is dictated to him by the Church, and in all ages the authority of "the Church" has been falsely claimed for the presumptuous tyranny of false prevalent opinions.” - Dwight J. Pentecost
This is so perfectly explained and has given me a picture I can make sense of. Finally. I never knew what to think of any of this and this just made it so crystal clear. I have been praying for understanding about this for months!!! Thank you!!!
This is one whale of a drash and calls my attention to how the world, the languages we use, the words we use as metaphors to describe what we don't yet have words for...to any student of and embracer of Scriptures and I suspect any well-developed if yet human faith your illustrating how such a spiritual surgical graft needn't leave a wound if we remain within the continuum is Truly Renewal.
Our labels for ourselves don't have to change, so long as our relationship to the Mystery of the Divine and all of our being(s) remains organic, growing and ever learning from humanly fallible error and genuine repentance and corrective change of behavior or even of
our never fully mapped out path. You must've had some powerfully formative teachers and how humbly proud they must be in your role as educator, guide and leader in a world where every day in every way our leaders discredit themselves as only humans (of Good Faith) can foul up...Sure hope your guidance system can withstand the failures and frailty of humankind, without ever losing touch with the "kind" part....Blessings be upon your whole family. Tithqadash...
May our upcoming seasonal holidays bring this world relief way beyond any human's abilities\capabilities. Keep on doing, greedy as this sounds, I pray you keep getting better at this strangest of vocations in such maddeningly cynical breeding grounds we blithely refer to as
The World! Tithgadal, (Kenn yehi ratzon) v'tithchadash and so forth and so on and on...Amen Aman Amane
Thank you for this! It is excellent and needed at this time with so many in the church dangerously flirting with replacement theology.
Thank you and yes, it has been a big issue for the church for some time. Fortunately, many are working to fix that but there's still so much left to do.
This is so good! So much going around right now about this and it can be so confusing. But you laid it out so clearly. I've always believed this, but now I can articulate why I believe so much better after reading this! Thank you!
Oh that’s makes me so happy! Thank you!!
Lamentations 3:23 His mercies don’t change, they “never come to an end”, they are the same wonderful mercies but renewed fresh each morning. The mercy He gave yesterday has been renewed and made fresh. It makes me think of the truth that our sins are remembered no longer (Hebrews 8:12), put as far away as the East is from the West ( Psalms 103:12).
I LOVE that I'm seeing this message everywhere I look lately! And I especially love that we all approach it just a little bit differently with a slightly different focus.
We need to spread this as far and wide as we possibly can!
Amen to that my brother!!
Excellent! I want to spend some time today going back over this! Also began the Ruth study last night! Thank you!
Oh I hope you're enjoying it!!
It is wonderful!
Wow, this came across my feed 2 weeks late. My post tomorrow morning is closely related to this! How did we stray so far to twist the Scriptures?
Hint:
“…when once we start with the rule that whole passages and books of Scripture say one thing when they mean another, the reader is delivered bound hand and foot to the caprice of the interpreter. He can be sure of absolutely nothing except what is dictated to him by the Church, and in all ages the authority of "the Church" has been falsely claimed for the presumptuous tyranny of false prevalent opinions.” - Dwight J. Pentecost
This is so perfectly explained and has given me a picture I can make sense of. Finally. I never knew what to think of any of this and this just made it so crystal clear. I have been praying for understanding about this for months!!! Thank you!!!
I am so happy to hear that!! 🙌
I love how you explained this! I just wish I could get my family to accept it. But then, I guess that’s between God and them.
Yes all we can do is pray, which does make a difference!
This is one whale of a drash and calls my attention to how the world, the languages we use, the words we use as metaphors to describe what we don't yet have words for...to any student of and embracer of Scriptures and I suspect any well-developed if yet human faith your illustrating how such a spiritual surgical graft needn't leave a wound if we remain within the continuum is Truly Renewal.
Our labels for ourselves don't have to change, so long as our relationship to the Mystery of the Divine and all of our being(s) remains organic, growing and ever learning from humanly fallible error and genuine repentance and corrective change of behavior or even of
our never fully mapped out path. You must've had some powerfully formative teachers and how humbly proud they must be in your role as educator, guide and leader in a world where every day in every way our leaders discredit themselves as only humans (of Good Faith) can foul up...Sure hope your guidance system can withstand the failures and frailty of humankind, without ever losing touch with the "kind" part....Blessings be upon your whole family. Tithqadash...
May our upcoming seasonal holidays bring this world relief way beyond any human's abilities\capabilities. Keep on doing, greedy as this sounds, I pray you keep getting better at this strangest of vocations in such maddeningly cynical breeding grounds we blithely refer to as
The World! Tithgadal, (Kenn yehi ratzon) v'tithchadash and so forth and so on and on...Amen Aman Amane
Yishaar co-akh
Tihyu barreee
Tio Mitchito
TM
Thank you so much Tio!! Your comments always make me smile!