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To: stfassisi; smvoice; RnMomof7; metmom; boatbums; caww; Iscool; presently no screen name; ...
>> “Christ can purify and reclaim anything with its roots in human culture, just as He purifies and reclaims everything with its roots in our human nature. He’s the incarnate Savior. He has assumed (taken up and transformed) our human nature. It’s what He does.”<<

Not against His own word He can’t.

4,397 posted on 01/04/2013 12:31:33 PM PST by CynicalBear
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>> “Christ can purify and reclaim anything with its roots in human culture, just as He purifies and reclaims everything with its roots in our human nature. He’s the incarnate Savior. He has assumed (taken up and transformed) our human nature. It’s what He does.”<<

Not against His own word He can’t.

Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us? (Isaiah 29:15)

You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place." (Isaiah 28:15)

"Woe to the obstinate children," declares the LORD, "to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin; (Isaiah 30:1)

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you. (Isaiah 57:12)

Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:24)

He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, 'The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.'" (Ezekial 8:12)

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:1)

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' (Acts 26:18)

The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:12)

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. (I Corinthians 10:11)

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (Ephesians 5:8)

4,466 posted on 01/04/2013 8:04:48 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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