It pisses me off that I can't get you to see the truth of the matter, and I can't reach thru the computer screen and slap you around. :)
BigMack
I guess call my cynical. I try to get to the truth on these matter. There's just something about a bunch of bishops with pointy hats sitting around coming up with this stuff 300 years after the fact.
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mat 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
If he is meant to hear he will ...