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To: Scully
A point I have pondered for many years....One of my issues with believing God is our Father is precisely this question of identity. ...BUT, this implies that we already know who our Father is...a point which is ambiguous at best for me.

But you seek to fill the void. "Seek and you will find". "Knock and the door shall be opened." They seem like platitudes but they are precisely true. This is what Jesus has to say.

Jhn 10:24 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense ? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Jhn 10:25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.
Jhn 10:26 "But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep .
Jhn 10:27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
Jhn 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
Jhn 10:29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
Jhn 10:30 "I and the Father are one."
Jhn 10:31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
Jhn 10:32 Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"
Jhn 10:33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."
Jhn 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I SAID, YOU ARE GODS '?
Jhn 10:35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken ),
Jhn 10:36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God '?
Jhn 10:37 "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
Jhn 10:38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

Paul started out as Saul, a persecuter of believers. He, being one of the fold, eventually knew and became an illuminator of the Word.

1,471 posted on 11/20/2002 2:37:40 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
persecuter=persecutor

Lousy spell checker, it thinks everything is cute.

1,472 posted on 11/20/2002 2:45:05 PM PST by AndrewC
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