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To: Campion

The scripture is NOT written in coded language! Good Grief! Do you make God out to be a liar?

Talk about reading man-made doctrine into very clear and easy to understand scripture....


50 posted on 04/12/2021 9:25:07 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Mr Rogers
The scripture is NOT written in coded language!

It most certainly is, in places. Of course, the original readers to whom the epistle was written understood the "code" -- it was intended to keep their Roman persecutors ignorant. However, we moderns don't necessarily have the original readers' fluency with that vocabulary, so the code is not always as plain to us.

Cf "disciplina arcani".

Note that the OP basically says he doesn't understand the passage. The original readers of the epistle understood it exactly.

69 posted on 04/12/2021 10:13:32 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: Mr Rogers
Do you make God out to be a liar?

Off-the-wall question. If I tell you something in a language you and I both understand, but our enemies do not, which of us is "lying"?

BTW, if the Scripture is so plain and easy to understand, why do Protestants spend so much time arguing over what it means?

71 posted on 04/12/2021 10:19:06 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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