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To: Texas_Dawg
Who has been restricted from praying? I'm sorry that you think the Bible is ambiguous. I believe it's actually very consistent when taken as a whole and understood as the Word, the Beginning and the End, Jesus Christ.

My point is that God's leading is to be followed and that sometimes He leads us to obey man's rule and in other circumstances He expects us to honor His when they are in conflict. To the world's eye it would appear ambiguous, but it is certainly consistant with His will and plan for His children.

Though the Commandments tell us not to kill, it is obvious that there are circumstances in which His will has been for death and destruction. Ambiguous? So it would seem apart from his sovereignty.

193 posted on 08/22/2003 9:25:35 AM PDT by KsSunflower
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To: KsSunflower
Though the Commandments tell us not to kill, it is obvious that there are circumstances in which His will has been for death and destruction. Ambiguous? So it would seem apart from his sovereignty.

The original Hebrew word is much closer to our word for "murder" as opposed to "kill". Thus the reason the NIV version of the Bible translates Exodus 20:13 correctly as "You shall not murder."

My point is that God's leading is to be followed and that sometimes He leads us to obey man's rule and in other circumstances He expects us to honor His when they are in conflict.

I don't see how God's law and man's law are in conflict in this situation.

194 posted on 08/22/2003 9:28:56 AM PDT by Texas_Dawg (I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
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