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To: HiTech RedNeck

Some digression and musing.

“Sincere” is a term we get from Greek.

Without wax.

A stature was good if it had nothing covered up with wax that some hot day would subsequently reveal.

The Gospel is without wax, doesn’t need wax, and indeed the proverbial cookies are on a very low shelf where folks of modest capabilities can reach for them and be saved.

I actually think this last is part of the offense of the Gospel ... that if God had wanted to save all the “great and good” as men count such all He’d have had to do was given them a Gospel that only they could understand and they’d have walked into the Kingdom in droves, all the while patting themselves on the back at how clever they were.

So in summation: I’m a bit wary of ornamentation. Even with my own experiences I hold lightly to them as a consequence. They are “nice” but still not Scripture.


16 posted on 02/17/2017 12:44:44 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

Valid ornamentation tends to be humble. “Do everything to make the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ attractive.”

I’d look to any astrological ornamentation as being addressed not to erudite PhD’s but to the Joe and Jane Doe of astrological followings. The Linda Goodman crowd, as it were.


19 posted on 02/17/2017 12:48:19 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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