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Post by jimmie on Dec 11, 2014 15:13:09 GMT -8
Have you ever tended a tree with out touching it?
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Post by jimmie on Dec 11, 2014 10:59:33 GMT -8
I Samuel 14 gives the story of a fence around a law of God.
The Law: Avenge the Philistines for the wrongs inflicted upon Israel.
The Fence: No man should eat until the avenging has taken place.
The result of disobeying the fence: A godly man –Jonathan- is placed under the death sentence.
The result of obeying the fence: The people did eat the spoils with the blood. A clear breach of a Law of God not related to the fence or the law it was to protect.
Genesis 3 records the original fence around a law of God.
The Law: don’t eat of the tree of knowledge.
The fence: Don’t touch the tree.
The result: Sin and death entered the world.
I wonder if this may be why Jesus said, “The traditions (fences) of man make the laws of God of no affect.”
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Post by jimmie on Dec 9, 2014 15:02:16 GMT -8
... the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away... Job 1:21
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Post by jimmie on Dec 5, 2014 10:42:10 GMT -8
Alon,
Please keep in mind that chapter and verse references are just markers and are not indented to determine how scripture is read. Ex 20:4 is not a standalone statement and doesn’t end with “.” Look at the Jewish Publication Society version of the Bible which has somewhat different reference markers from the KJV standard verse references:
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments
- Exodus 20:3ff [JPS]
The second commandment: 'Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.' in conjunction with 'Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them,' puts the prohibition against graven images in context: nothing shall receive worship that is reserved for God. So worship is at the center of the second commandment: worship of the one true God is allowed, and worship of graven images is not allowed. It is a specific strengthening of the monotheism of the first commandment which says 'I am the LORD thy God.'
Jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Dec 5, 2014 6:13:37 GMT -8
Your conclusion leaves us with the problem that God commanded man to break God's commandment. Which, in trun, means God is a god of confussion. While God will cerntainly test his people as he did Abraham with Isaac and Peter with the sheet of unclean animals. He doesn't get them to break his laws. Abraham didn't kill Isaac and Peter didn't eat the unclean.
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Post by jimmie on Dec 4, 2014 6:13:36 GMT -8
Even the images, build as God said to do, are not acceptable when they are used in the wrong manner. Wittness the Branzen Serpent. As I see it, the image is not the problem. The problem is do we bow down to it. See Ex 20:5
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Post by jimmie on Dec 3, 2014 10:12:31 GMT -8
So the icons of the Eastern Orthodox is fine, but the stautes of the Catholic's are not?
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Post by jimmie on Dec 3, 2014 6:03:33 GMT -8
do you not have images(photos) of your children and grandchilen? did you make those images for yourself or did God instruct you to make thiem?
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Post by jimmie on Dec 2, 2014 15:00:51 GMT -8
I Kings 7:25?
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Post by jimmie on Oct 16, 2014 5:24:52 GMT -8
I have been promoted to a management position at work which will require a lot of my time, at least starting out. This will require a reduction of time spent at this forum. I have enjoyed my time here. May God bless each of you here. I well still drop by from time to time to see how things are going.
Jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Oct 15, 2014 5:27:04 GMT -8
You were right about circumcision being one great stumbling block to becoming completely TO. And that was a choice, not an insurmountable obstacle. But could I have done it if not already circ'd? Thankfully I don't have to find out on that one. Dan CI have two adult sons who have self-circumcised. I am having a hard time with this thread. One says that TO is not mandatory for gentiles, while the other says that gentiles should be TO if they can be. The following is a command that I have had trouble with. Deut 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, Since, I am a gentile is it okay that I desire my neighbours' wives? I don't seem to be able to stop desiring my neighbours' wives, will God overlook my sin because I am a gentile and can't help myself. Phil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end (the point aimed at as a limit) of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. To be like Christ is my goal. He kept the law. So I will strive to like wise. |
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Oct 1, 2014 5:17:18 GMT -8
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Post by jimmie on Oct 1, 2014 5:17:18 GMT -8
The Lord of the Sabbath allowed this.
(Deu 23:25 KJV) When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
You are free to eat even on the Sabbath.
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Post by jimmie on Sept 30, 2014 5:34:38 GMT -8
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This is the first feast of the LORD's that I kept. Then I grew into the others. Although it appears I am out of step as far as timing is concerned. I just started from the time that I acquired my land and have been boing so since 1989.
If this only applies to the land of Israel, then is it okay to keep an brother in bondage through the year of rest outside of Israel? Since I am grafted into the true vine of Israel, anything that I have is also grafted in.
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Post by jimmie on Sept 29, 2014 14:02:10 GMT -8
This was one week plus one day- 8 days later; and now Yeshua tells Peter to touch Him! It was after the purification time GIVEN BY LAW for ritual purification after coming into contact with death. This is extremely important as it shows Yeshua was still keeping  after his resurrection!
[/font][/quote] I think you may have mint Thomas instead of Peter. (Mat 28:9 KJV) And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. This occurs before the 8 days of purification is completed. How is it explained in light of the regulation given by the law. |
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Post by jimmie on Sept 24, 2014 13:30:53 GMT -8
I don't recall saying what I believe about how the first month is determined. It dose appear however that the barley stage in Israel did not need to be know to determine it. You may add Noah and Moses to the witness that do not need to know the barley stage in Israel to determine when the first month is.
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after his resurrection!
