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To: Stourme
A few points:

First, as far as God and the rest of the world, he left that as our task:

Mark 16:15-16 (King James Version)
15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

As far as why there has been nothing "new" to date, two things, one, God works in his own time, not yours or mine and he is working among us now, though not through false prophets or those who seek to change his nature or his word, nor change the path of salvation or add to it, that is work left to the evil one, who has much success in that endeavor.

Also there is this: John 19:28-31 (King James Version)
28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost

Jesus was finished, the scriptures fulfilled, all that remain were stories to build on what he taught and the examples of his apostles to set in motion the formation of his church.

When the time comes God and Christ will reveal themselves again as promised, and the book shall be reopened, the legacy and historic linage carried foreword as it always has been, in very linear and uniform fashion, with no harsh turns to the improbable...

Oh, and as far as "Not adding or taking away from the Bible" no being discussed, again, nice try but I suggest a few verses for you, and read then from a proper bible, not one corrected by your fellows:

Deuteronomy 4:2
Deuteronomy 12:32
Proverbs 30:5-6
Revelation 22:18-19
Galatians 1:6-12

30 posted on 07/21/2008 9:07:21 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: ejonesie22
Jesus was finished, the scriptures fulfilled, all that remain were stories to build on what he taught and the examples of his apostles to set in motion the formation of his church.

When ever I ask one of a couple questions such as; why does God not speak to your church the way he did for 4000 yrs? I'm guaranteed to get the answer you gave.

It's understandable...people in your religion had to find a reason why God wasn't showing Himself to you and never has.

Let me give you something to think about...

From the time of Adam down to Jesus Christ, every prophet on the earth had one priority; to testify of the coming Savior. Regardless of what parts of their record we have today...during their time on the earth...they taught the people of the coming Christ.

The promise of the coming Savior is the scripture that was fulfilled.

30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost

He's referring to the pain and suffering he just endured for our sins. Which started in the garden of Gethsemane and was finished on the cross. It is finished; the price has been paid...

The real reason modern churches have never seen God is quite clear in the writings of Amos.

Amos 8:9 - 12
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
The day he's speaking of is the day Christ died on the cross.

11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

People wander all over the world and won't be able to find the words of the Lord. They were cut off.

That's why the trinity doctrine cannot be inspired by God. Because Amos tells us that the word of God was not on the earth at that time.
101 posted on 07/21/2008 9:20:05 PM PDT by Stourme
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