Posted on 09/20/2001 9:48:26 PM PDT by hope
Ministers get away with rambling inchoherence; businessmen have to be clear, concise, to the point.
Deliver us, Lord, from those who claim a "pipleline to God."
The assumption here is that NY is Babylon. Patently false. Don't try to wiggle out of it. I have nothing more to say about this.
I am not ashamed to say I do so often.
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
God may know where babylon is. WE know where it is not. More lying applications of God's word, to build a radical following of extremists... for the fund raising mailing list.
These folks are nuts.
We need yet another KOOK ALERT!!!
What the U.S. and the rest of the Christian world should do is this:
2Chr.7:14:
[14] If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
{{Ahem}} C'mon, nmh, you just did what you chided hope for. Look at the context of this passage:
When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
"Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
"I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there."II Chronicles 7:11-16
Now, I'm not saying prayer isn't meant for everyone at every time, but this promise is made specifically to Solomon (who had just finished building the first Temple in Jerusalem) and to the Jews over whom Solomon presided as king.
It is not made to Christians living in America, since the prayers were meant to be offered (and were promised to be answered) in Solomon's Temple.
It is a promise made to O.T. Jews, not N.T. Christians.
Still love ya'.
Later...
Because SATAN does not take up offerings and build huge mailing lists for collecting offerings based on the misery and suffering of others....
NYC is NOT Babylon! It NEVER has been! This is just the latest theory amongst the "tossed to and fro" crowd.
Thank you for that...it gets a little chaotic here sometimes...
The most important words in Scripture are the Words of G-d; the rest is history and backround.
I know what you mean...I don't like it when people claim that they are the pipeline instead of Jesus..He is our pipeline..and I don't think the author is saying that he has a special, personal pipeline of himself..
I know what you mean...I don't like it when people claim that they are the pipeline instead of Jesus..He is our pipeline..and I don't think the author is saying that he has a special, personal pipeline of himself..
I don't like it when people claim that they are the pipeline instead of G-d.
This was bumpted for discussion...which you seem to have a problem with unless it agrees with you
hey peg did you ever consider that the Gospels are OT ..Ummmmma little something from a Baptist PHD to consider...
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