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Post by jimmie on Aug 25, 2021 8:59:31 GMT -8
Did God/Yeshua, our bridegroom ever participate in divorce?
Jeremiah 3:8a (ESV) She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce.
God did divorce Israel How should we should take this? Israel never joined to another nation, and always a remnant was kept set apart.
May want to compare/balance with:
Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
God did send Israel away but remained married to her. Thus allowing Israel to return if she were to become faithful again.
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Post by jimmie on Aug 25, 2021 8:51:11 GMT -8
Will I thought I fixed that. Guess I did the same thing second time around.
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Post by jimmie on Aug 23, 2021 8:35:12 GMT -8
Again, to clarify, for me I have no animosity towards the average Christian who doesn't obey the scriptures/commandments, what I have issue with is only with those Christians who minister to people while they are not obeying the commandments themselves, like this friend. Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. |
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Post by jimmie on Aug 10, 2021 13:41:36 GMT -8
Num 20:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
To me the KJV is clearer on this passage. The "if/then" statement makes sense. Earlier Balaam went to the men, after asking the LORD if he could go, and told them he could not go with them (Vs 13). Now God wants the men to come to Balaam to ask him to come with them. Instead Balaam gets up and saddles his ass to go with the men without them approaching him first. Thus Balaam does not follow the word of god in that he should have waited for the me to come to him to ask him to go. So God stands up as an adversary/devil to Balaam.
This is similar to Moses hitting the rock twice when instructed to hit it once, or the un-named prophet eating while in Israel, when he had been instructed not to eat while there, and the priest who tried to stabilize the ark that was being carried on a cart instead of by staves.
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Post by jimmie on Jul 16, 2021 12:53:27 GMT -8
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Post by jimmie on Jul 16, 2021 8:59:15 GMT -8
Mark Twain once said "It is easier to fool a man than it is to convince him that he has been fooled. Nearly the entire body of Christ has been fooled regarding legalism, and is falls to us to convince them that they have been fooled.
Legalism: Strict and literal adherence to the Law.
Is there any other way to obey the law? Take “thou shalt not kill” as an example. How can I be lax with that law? Don’t kill on any day except the first day of the week? How stupid. When someone calls me a legalist, I agree with them.
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were legalist, else they would not have been thrown in to the fire. King Saul claimed to be a legalist (I Sam 15:13 ...I have performed the commandment of the LORD.) When in fact he didn't perform the command of the Lord.
It is a partial fulfilling of the law, while claiming full adherence that God detests.
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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Post by jimmie on Jun 23, 2021 14:10:24 GMT -8
In chapter 3, God uses the singular personal pronoun “I” in verses 11, 15, 16, and 17. Why go with a plural pronoun in verse 22? As shown below the LORD answers the serpent’s charges in reverse order. It appears to me that he uses the plural form to refer to himself because the serpent said “ye shall be as gods.
A) 4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
B) 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
B) 22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:
A) and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
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Post by jimmie on Jun 22, 2021 14:07:25 GMT -8
Round 2:
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
"the man is become as one of us" Who is the "us"?
"to know good and evil:" How does knowing good and evil make man become like God or who ever the "us" is.
"and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" Wait1 Didn't God say man would die if he ate of the tree of good and evil, but if man could eat of the "tree of life" he could live for ever. Wouldn't that make the tree of life more powerful than God's word.
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Post by jimmie on Jun 15, 2021 13:21:23 GMT -8
She points out a power plant in the video. If Israel bore a tunnel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea which is 1412 feet below the Mediterranean Sea, they could built a hydroelectric power plant that would produce 2500 megawatts of power (hoover Dam produces 2080 megawatts). And the discharge would never fill the Dead Sea basin due to evaporation. The water could also be ran through a desalinization plant to provide fresh water to the region and the waste could go to the salt pools to recover salt and other minerals.
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Post by jimmie on Jun 2, 2021 8:35:49 GMT -8
My I offer a fifth possibility? Did anything directly contribute to the creation of man other than God or the Godhead?
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
So the earth contributed "dust" and God contributed "breath of life." Our flesh bears the image or likeness of the earth and our spirit bears the image or likeness of God. We bare the image of all that contributed to our creation. Do you ever find your self speaking to or with the items you are working on. I speak to my computer al the time. I speak to my garden tools, wood working tools, mechanic tool etc. Does God speak things into existence? Gen 1:2,6,9,11,14,20,&24 "And God said,"
I think God was speaking to his creation when he said "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness".
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Post by jimmie on Jun 2, 2021 5:22:19 GMT -8
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
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Post by jimmie on May 3, 2021 9:56:23 GMT -8
Jonah 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
1 Kings 13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
1 Kings 13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
1 Kings 13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings 13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish
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Post by jimmie on May 3, 2021 7:37:31 GMT -8
If God had forgiven King David for that most grievous of sins then why didn't he save the son? 2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. Here David pronounces his punishment for his sin. He caused the death of Uriah (one of his top champions). Now four of his household must die according to his own judgement. The four are the child, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah. Mark 4:24 ...with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you:... |
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Post by jimmie on Apr 29, 2021 14:19:17 GMT -8
I do know most vineyards keep the in-row area of the floor free of vegetation. This addresses competition, rodents and pest issues as well as allelopathy. Most cereals, cole crops and sunflowers show allelopathy towards lettuce, the canary of allelopathy. Germination is cut 50-90% and germination time is lengthened as well.
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Post by jimmie on Apr 26, 2021 14:32:09 GMT -8
Deuteronomy 22:9 (ESV) “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.” Some say this applies only to ha’eretz, others everywhere. It is one of those instructions we don’t understand the reason for as well, which tends to influence people’s decisions on whether it applies to us. This could also be a metaphor for mixed marriages with Gentiles. Allelopathic reactions between the grapevines and crops notably the grain crops. Even Pliny the elder knew of this. |
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