Posted on 11/23/2011 8:11:14 AM PST by tedbel
How do you know Koresh read it all the way through? I don't know this and I carefully followed the Branch Davidian standoff when it occurred in the early part of Clinton administration. My focus was on Federal abuse of power and the gruesome death of over 80 men, women and children (of all races) by gassing and burning. I have McNulty's videos on Waco, the "FLIR Project" and Kopel's "No More Wacos". Consequently I am not unfamiliar with Koresh and what he believed. He wasn't confused. He was nuts. But I will let your ad hominem slide, because I have a critical question for you.
Have you read the Bible all the way through yet? Many wrest the scriptures, that is why I have provided context and many verses in context confirming the same doctrines. Do you incorporate this same discipline in your own Bible reading and study?
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all tings, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things we also speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual with spiritual. 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." (1 Corinthians 2:11-14)
I haven given the context for the critical verse I have highlighted. Every saved person I know understands this and agrees with what the Bible teaches on these essential doctines (such as "salvation by faith, not works", "who are the children of promise", etc), because they have the spirit of God in them.
David Koresh (Verson Howell) was a Branch Davidian (an offshoot of 7th Day Adventism). BDs and SDAs abstain from meat in obvious violation of scripture.
"Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (substance) is of Christ." (Colossians 2:16)
"Wherefore if ye be dead in Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not, taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? " (Colossians 2:20-22)
Please disabuse me of my confusion and tell me what you think all these verses mean, if I have misrepresented them?
We must throw the Kenyan Muslim Marxist out and clean out the Dc cesspool with bayonets and flamethrowers. Sooner is better than later.
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