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To: af_vet_1981

You’re trying to cram your soul full of formulas. I can guarantee you that is a losing game. You are forever worrying about whether there is some loose end of God that you forgot to tuck into your soul and God is going to get mad at you and blow you to hell if you do.

You can very easily miss the forest for the trees. God wages His wars for the sake of His love. His anger is but a moment but His lovingkindness is forever. To try to give the two equal time is, in fact, to paint a distorted God. This gets even worse when one forgets to consider the audience addressed in the angrier passages.


72 posted on 03/20/2016 7:33:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You’re trying to cram your soul full of formulas scriptures.

Well, yes, of course.

"What do they teach them at these schools?"
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Psalms, Catholic chapter one hundred eleven, Protestant verse eleven,
Proverbs, Catholic chapter eighteen, Protestant verse ten,
Second Timothy, Catholic chapter three, Protestant verses fourteen to seventeen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

76 posted on 03/20/2016 7:42:28 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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