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To: restornu

Well that is not the Lord Counsel.

Search the scriptures is good advice which enables one to discern which is the Lord’s way and not get fleece.
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The scriptures involved in that praise of the Bereans by Luke was the scriptures in the Christian Bible...

The Old Testament actually...

Not the false words from the book of mormon or the koran...

Neither book was even written as yet...

It was 700 years before Mohammad wrote his religious text...

and 1800 years until Joey Smith wrote his...

The Bereans were only interested in what the Jewish Holy scripture had to say about the coming Messiah and how to recognize Him when He came...

These Bereans were Jews and knowing the scriptures of Isaiah and the other real prophets and checking them for clarity they immediately knew that what Paul said about Jesus was true...

That the LORD Jesus Christ was indeed God...the Alpha and Omega...God come in the flesh...God the Savior who was to come...had come...

The Bereans were not reading or searching out anything the mormons agree with...

The mormons could be identified with the less noble Thessalonians...

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. (Dr Luke, Acts 17:11)


2,177 posted on 01/06/2011 10:02:03 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

to you maybe but others might differ

This is a big nation the Lord did not make it just for one kind of individuals thinking!


2,178 posted on 01/06/2011 10:06:07 AM PST by restornu
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