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open one's eyes to the truth, which has been pasted over for centuries.

I have looked at this latest version of the RF "never ending thread" and see the same ground plowed over and over. But here's a matter I'd like you to expand upon.

Are you saying that God allowed His Truth to be pasted over for centuries - that He permitted generation after generation to live without access to Him? Are you saying that the traditions of men thwarted the desire of God that all men be saved?

>> Are you saying that God allowed His Truth to be pasted over for centuries - that He permitted generation after generation to live without access to Him?<<

Actually God had true believers during all those years. The Catholic Church martyred many of them as heretics. It was the Catholic Church who barred the reading of scripture by the lay people as much as they could. It wasn’t God who restricted those generations from access to His word. His truth didn’t get “passed over for centuries” regardless of attempts by the RCC. It wasn’t until the ability to mass produce the written word that many of the errors of the RCC were brought to light for a greater number of people. That also brought about the greatest number of true converts to Christ. We are now in the falling away period.

>> Are you saying that the traditions of men thwarted the desire of God that all men be saved?<<

As it did when Jesus rebuked the Pharisees.

You seem not to have ever read the parable of the wheat and weeds in Matt. 13. From the time of sowing the wheat and it being over sown with poisonous weeds “while men were sleeping”, i.e., in a period of darkness, to the harvest by the angels is a long period of time, from Christ's day until ours.

True God does desire all to be saved but He is quite clear that this is not to be the case, in fact the majority would not be on that narrow road. Hence Jesus compared our day to that of Noah when the vast majority were not saved.

Hiya don-o... It's been a whle since we last spoke. Hope all is well with you :)

Yes, I am saying that the traditions of men damage His purpose... Thwart is probably too strong a word.

I will leave you with the example of the Temple and the Pharisees. The tradition of the pharisees existed many hundred years before Yeshua came to set things right - And every prophet fought the traditions of men, every one... Traditions that were leading generation after generation down the wrong road... And the people seldom listened to the prophets without wrath being brought down on their heads.

So my question to you, don-o, is why one would think that the same condition is not present and working even now, in spite of the fact that John said that the antichrist spirit was already working in his day?