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To: WVKayaker; Salvation
Sorry to keep interrupting, but the Scriptures tell me so.

"Having made KNOWN unto us the mystery OF HIS WILL, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:..." Eph. 1:9

So YES, we CAN read God's mind. He's very pro-mind reading..

58 posted on 09/14/2013 4:30:35 PM PDT by smvoice (The 2 greatest days of your life: the day you're born. And the day you discover why.)
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To: smvoice; Salvation
Sorry to keep interrupting, ...

I don't mind interruption when it is continuing the propagation of God's truths. As Christians, we share the same mind through His Holy Spirit. We are family!

Romans 8; 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. ...

Romans 12: ... 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

59 posted on 09/14/2013 4:42:00 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" - Sarah Palin)
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To: smvoice; WVKayaker

And the Scriptures tell us that as Christ met the apostles on the shore on Easter, “He breathed on them (imparting the Holy Spirit) saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall bind, they are bound.”

My addition in parenthesis.

Thus Christ gave the Apostles, the first Bishops the power to forgive or not forgive sins and the priesthood and the Sacrament of Confession was thus founded.

I’ll take Christ’s words any day over Paul’s words.


61 posted on 09/14/2013 4:51:24 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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