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To: Alamo-Girl

As usual, I get about 95% of what you write.

The rest makes my brain hurt.

But it’s good anyway, and I always learn something or get a new prespective on it. Thanks.


106 posted on 01/23/2013 10:57:31 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom; HarleyD; Dutchboy88; betty boop
Thank you so much for your encouragement, dear sister in Christ!

I apologize for all my failures to communicate. Truly, we Christians don't require a scientifically or mathematically defensible understanding of time or energy/momentum, etc.

Today's Oswald Chambers' devotional brought that point to my heart when I read this: "Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause."

It's all about Him, the rest is just details.

As our dear brother in Christ, HarleyD, put it in his post 109:

I think we make theology far more complex than it needs to be. God is sovereign, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent.

1) For unbelievers, they rebel against this control.

2) As Christians it should be our goal to give up ourselves to be under His wing.

Not my will but thine. Isn't that what Christ taught us?

Precisely so, dear HarleyD!

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. - 2 Cor 11:3

The important things in our walk with Him are not complex.

The implications of Scripture to math, philosophy, etc. may be interesting to some of us - and may be relevant in a debate - but not to one's profession of faith.

For example, there are just a few paragraphs in Genesis 1 describing Creation week. How individual Christians understand those paragraphs - or "fill in the blanks" - is relevant in a crevo debate, but not to his being our brother in Christ.

God's Name is I AM.

110 posted on 01/24/2013 5:46:49 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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