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To: Diego1618
When people learn these things they should shout "Praise God" to the roof tops. But.....some indeed get vexed!

It is good to see you fighting the same battles Diego.

Why do folks get vexed? It is as if learning something new and wonderful should be shouted down. One of the troubles is when they shout it isn't with scripture because they can't argue the points...instead they attack what they believe is the source. The trouble being the source is scripture.

Things don't change....do they?

.........Ping-Pong

145 posted on 02/25/2008 4:58:34 PM PST by Ping-Pong
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To: Ping-Pong
Things don't change....do they?

Hi Ping. [Ecclesiastes 1:9] The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

147 posted on 02/25/2008 5:08:02 PM PST by Diego1618
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To: Ping-Pong; Diego1618
The trouble being the source is scripture.

Yes, instead of that extensive library of scholarly interpretation. It's as if people have invested (covenanted) so much time, effort, and money into studying the works of men that these works have become indistinguishable from (or have simply replaced) the word of Hashem. Notice that the truth can become falsehood by just a little twist or omission of a detail. The whole truth is the truth whereas a half truth is a lie.

Don't have a link handy but their is a valuable Judaic teaching that compares/contrasts the Hebrew word for lie (sheqer) and the word for truth (emet). "Sheqer" (shin quf resh) is spelled with three consecutive letters toward one end (extremity) of the alef-beit, but out of the normal order of quf, resh, shin. The word emet (alef, mem, tav), in contrast, spans the whole alef-beit, in proper order: first (alef), middle (mem), and last (tav).

Now there's an observation that doesn't contradict the word of Hashem; it simply makes note of the obvious.

150 posted on 02/25/2008 5:54:38 PM PST by Ezekiel
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