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To: Alamo-Girl; kosta50; MarkBsnr; wmfights; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; hosepipe

” Not everyone can perceive the difference between the words of God and the words of men.”

I take it you can? :)

Why do you suppose +John’s gospel is called the “Holy Good News according to John”? and not as I had otherwise proposed. A plot of those Roman Catholics established by Constantine the Great? Why not perhaps called something along the lines of “Holy Good News according to John which The Church understands one way but which those of you who are self defined as the elect or God’s sheep will know is actually God’s very words taken down by his secretary +John for you alone, well maybe along with Calvin et al, to really, honest to goodness understand and not for mega sinners like +John Chrysostomos or +Gregory Palamas let alone the common run of sinners who humble themselves in churches and monasteries to understand?


2,743 posted on 02/23/2008 11:30:09 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix
take it you can? :)

Why yes, Alamo girl can! !.

3 reasons:

1.Unity

2.Prophecy (Thus saith the Lord)

3. Power, authority

2,744 posted on 02/23/2008 11:39:28 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: Kolokotronis; kosta50; MarkBsnr; wmfights; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; hosepipe; Quix
I take it you can? :)

God words are not merely language symbols like text on papyrus or pressure (sound) waves. He is not stumped by language, translations, media, physical or mental handicaps, scribes or orators.

Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. – John 8:43

His words are not corruptible.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - Matthew 5:18

He speaks in a spiritual language the natural man cannot understand.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. - I Corinthians 2:14

And He gives the gift of the "ears to hear" according to His will, not ours.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. - Deuteronomy 29:2-5

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. - Romans 11:8

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. - Matthew 13:9

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. – Matthew 13:10-13

His sheep are blessed with "ears to hear" - we know His voice, we are not deceived.

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. – John 10:3-5

To God be the glory!

2,746 posted on 02/23/2008 11:54:24 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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