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To: jo kus; Forest Keeper; HarleyD
Lord, give me patience

From yesterday's reading:

5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited. 7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. 8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit. 9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it? 10 I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

(Jeremiah 17)

God hardened Luther's stomach, so Luther got drunk and forgot to ban Jeremiah. As God wills.
3,676 posted on 03/17/2006 7:39:17 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
God hardened Luther's stomach, so Luther got drunk and forgot to ban Jeremiah. As God wills.

Yea, Luther! "If those Papists complain about me adding words to Scripture, tell them Dr. Luther would have it so"...

Gack. So much for the Word of God.

Regards

3,680 posted on 03/17/2006 8:13:12 AM PST by jo kus (I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life - Deut 30:19)
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To: annalex; jo kus; Forest Keeper
From yesterday's reading: 5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

Hmmmm....I would read that as a caution against believing in what men say about God and not relying upon our own interpretation. It is an excellent verse for sola scriptura.

3,682 posted on 03/17/2006 8:27:26 AM PST by HarleyD ("A man's steps are from the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24 (HNV))
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