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To: YogicCowboy

The greek root for Hypocrisy means “actor”. When Jesus used the term we know as hypocrite, it was meant in the greek meaning of actor at least as it was translated most likely from the Aramaic.(Luke was probably written in greek as Luke was a physician). While Hypocrisy includes most of what you said, it also includes being an impostor or to act as something that one is not, or to judge others on issues that one is himself guilty of or even worse. Hence...”why choke on gnats when one swallows camels....why complain about the splinters in another’s eye when one has a “beam” in one’s own”? That’s hypocrisy!

The Old testament has a scripture that reads...”There is a time coming where men will no longer say to one another...”Know the Lord!” as everyone will be given perfect knowledge of His glory filling the Earth as waters cover the sea”. It speaks of a tendency for folks to “Lord it over” one another or for some to pretend they have better knowledge that the rest of us.(which is not to say that in our time period there aren’t those so gifted by God...but it takes testing, and discernment born of conviction to know which is which)


10 posted on 02/02/2017 11:26:42 PM PST by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: mdmathis6
hyp·o·crite /ˈhipəˌkrit/ noun noun: hypocrite; plural noun: hypocrites a person who indulges in hypocrisy. synonyms: pretender, dissembler, deceiver, liar, pietist, sanctimonious person, plaster saint; More informalphony, fraud, sham, fake "I've been made to feel inadequate my whole life by someone who turns out to be a total hypocrite" Origin Middle English: from Old French ypocrite, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupokritēs ‘actor,’ from hupokrinesthai (see hypocrisy).
11 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:00 PM PST by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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