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To: af_vet_1981
Christ said I have foretold you all things, seems to me ALL is ALL!

Peter has some interesting things to say about that earth age that WAS!

1,206 posted on 03/07/2004 7:26:56 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts; af_vet_1981
My friend, I must commend you for your determination.

As an outsider looking at your posts I get the impression you have studied some formula regarding bits and pieces of scripture. I am fully aware of many teachers who desire to have some sort of exclusive angle in regard to scripture interpretation. What I have noticed is that followers of these types of teachers (And this includes seminary students who find a professor that has strong leadership skills and is very persuasive) to ignore the whole counsel of God. Setting aside the individual truths that God wishes to reveal to us as individuals, to test it by our formula.

The downfall of using certain passages to establish a doctrine that you then try to force all other scriptures to comply with, is that one begins to ignore the overall context of the scriptures in the big picture.

Christ said I have foretold you all things, seems to me ALL is ALL!

All of what Christ foretold takes human beings a lifetime to assimilate, and we are still incapable of comprehending the deepest truths of scripture, for we see Him through a glass darkly.

Job 42:1-8
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

God tells us how to approach understanding Him in the above passage. With humility and respect. Because, as Christians, we have reestablished fellowship with the God we can learn the truths revealed in scripture. However we must be careful not to put God in a box as Job's friends did.

The truths of God are inexhaustible, and in our unglorified bodies none of us have a capacity for them all. We should cherish the truths God chooses to reveal to us through our diligence in not only study, but also prayer.

1,210 posted on 03/07/2004 8:50:30 PM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical!)
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