Nathan_Jr

Amen.

It seems your credibility is attacking itself.

All the bull$hit is exhausting. Like a sharp edge being rubbed down repeatedly to dullness. Like the mind of a poor child taught up in TWI - dulled, blunted, full of BS. To WHOM is the asset or liability attached? And which is it? Asset or liability? So much BS, who can keep up? I'm not an astute music coordinator. I need someone to rightly divide it for me. It's for my learning.

Has a determination been made? Asset or liability? And on whose balance sheet would it be placed?

Great. Thanks. Fascinating. What are those 7 instances in the NKJV that are not in the NIV?

Hi Mark, I noticed you didn't capitalize word of God. We've been exploring what the Word of God could be in this thread? What is the difference between the word and the Word? Any thoughts? Any thoughts on who the only or primary teacher could be?

Zombies are formed. They are not created or made. They are formed through teaching. Teaching = rubbing in by repetition

Uh-oh

Word. W-O-R-D. It's not a misspelling. Chew on it for a minute in the mirror and watch your brain explode. The return of Christ is intimately connected with the Christ in us returning to this Word (PFAL).

"What about the money you owe?" "For WHAT!?"

I'm reminded of an iconic scene from an absurdly wonderful movie full of iconic scenes.

You don't need to know what it means. I will know what it means for you. All you've got to do is BELEEEVE it.

Mike said: I see it as THE new administration, and so do others who have come back to PFAL. The return of Christ is intimately connected with the Christ in us returning to this Word. So, The Word is PFAL. That settles it. Gloves and doves. Diamonds and ducks.

Hold the farm! I found the answer! The Word is NOT the Bible, it's NOT Jesus, and it's NOT the Christ. The Word is PFAL

A curiously Aryan Jesus was rendered on velvet, framed and hung conspicuously on the wall of the set during the filming of original PFAL. Anyway, who wants to look at a bastard Jew?

Good questions. I suspect that alternatives require deeper thought, perception and awareness. Contemplation is incongruent with rubbing in by repetition. The Bible as the Word is the gloved hand. A three-fingered glove perfectly fitting a cartoon mouse.

Yes, I know. I think I’ve read that before. The yelling and the stick on the face. Wretched, abject wickedness. Contemplating these phrases, even for a second, causes inflammation in my central nervous system, leading to graphic fantasies of violent retribution visited upon those who uttered them. A late night visit. A knock on the door at an uncommon hour. A penance violently extracted, not paid willingly. And obedience implies believing. If you aren’t obeying, it’s because you aren’t believing. And if you aren’t believing, you’re out of fellowship. This will require corrective action.

Mark, Who are the true followers of Christ who are truthfully, not deceptively, teaching?

(I’m not raping you, I’m loving you)

Obviously not true. The deceptive, untrue followers of Christ written about in the Bible were the true followers of Christ, according to themselves. Everyone claims the truth and calls all the others liars. The exact same thing is happening today. "I'm right, you're wrong," the mantra of each and every TRUE proselytizer of Christ. Every true follower of Christ can't be right. It's mathematically impossible. But every true follower of Christ could be wrong. This is a mathematical possibility. 1John 2:26-27 solves for this problem.

Gosh. Really? I wonder if you took the time too read what I wrote? It's a longer post than normal for me. It was even longer, but I work hard at concision - obviously not hard enough. *Sigh* I'm open to learning from anyone. Even those who think they have it all figured out. I wonder if you've read anything I've ever written here? What an odd, galactic leap of logic that's required to form this conclusion! I'm sorry, but this makes no sense at all.

This looks interesting to me. As usual, a promising recommendation, Rocky. Wasn't victor's phrase: scientific accuracy and mathematical precision? Either way, you can't put God in that small of a box. Well, you can. But it won't help you. And it won't fit, anyway. You know, the way a hand fits...

Kinda. But not really. It says nothing whatsoever about getting taught by the right mortal teacher. It says nothing about getting a "teaching from a true follower of Christ." The point, purpose and meaning of these verses show who or what is the only reliable teacher where matters Truth are concerned. It's right there in the verses. It's the whole point of the passage. You even highlighted the forms of teach. Can you see it? It's not coded. It's not a trick. Hint: it's not any man born of a woman with a dogmatic doctrinal class or a book or a tax exempt 501C3. The New Testament is a collection of varied perspectives teaching against each other, and ALL of them were the TRUE followers of Christ - so each one says about himself. Everyone is claiming to have the real truth but the other doesn't: Paul vs. James; John vs. Thomas; Mathew vs Mark; and so on.... There is something to be learned from each of these perspectives. Who is the truthful one? Which teacher will you follow? Who will light your path? How will you see the path when that teacher, born of a woman, is gone? So, when it come to matters of Truth, Love, that which is eternal, who will be your teacher? Whoever wrote the epistle of 1John offers an answer. Obviously, we can learn from one another. We can even learn from the liars. (Hopefully, we learn something about BELIEVING them - that's all they require.) But how will you know if your teacher is truthful? This is why there can be no authority in these matters. Contrived, systematic, dogmatic doctrines of belief can only illuminate the path they have carved for themselves. Their prophesy must be self-fulfilling and self-sustaining. Self-referential. Circular. Finite. Belief has no place where Truth is concerned. And that includes belief in a teacher so anxious to teach. Why are the religious teachers so anxious to teach? Why do they hold forth, write books, form corporations? One must find out for one's self.

Since "believing implies obedience" (Life Lines), and the dead no longer believe, they are not only not alive now, they are disobedient. The Dead Are Disobedient Now.

If you say so. I’ll keep my queries in abeyance.