August 23, 2008 8:26 AM
Sam wrote:
Always interesting when Moses meets, and talks to God. In this case, his face becomes 'radiant'. Now, I don't know if that is because he got a severe sunburn on the mountaintop where he supposedly didn't eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. Jesus did that, but He was God. Strange story that Moses wrote about himself. Maybe he was just bragging like he did concerning the water that God made come from the rock later on. I don't know, but these stories are somewhat hard to believe. It takes a lot of faith to fully believe that the entire set of compiled scrolls, letters and parchments which make up our present day Bible, as the WORD OF GOD. I mean, a LOT of faith. And some of that just HAS to be blind faith, or else 'convinced' by others that this is so. Don't get me wrong, I believe that what I read in these scribes are most certainly 'from' God, that is, He had a hand in its creation as He made Man who wrote this stuff down. But to say that God actually SAID these things, I think not. EVERY SINGLE reference to Scripture, what some say are inspired by God, and I agree, in the New Testament, is about what we consider, to be the OLD TESTAMENT along with other writings not included in the OT. I am quite convinced that what Jesus, and Paul, and James, and John, etc, said in our New Testament, are not SCRIPTURE. Oh, for certain, some of it is 'from God', as Jesus spoke a lot of it. But for Paul to refer to his own writings as Scripture (some say that 2nd Timothy 3:16 refers to the entire Bible, but I say, how can it, as it hadn't even been put together then by man---not this was in reference, just like every other instanct in the NT, to the historical writings, some of which did make it into the Old Testament of today), is blasphemous in itself. The 'revelator' even states that if anyone adds to 'this book', obviously referring to the collection of Old Testament writings as the NT letters and documents had not been compiled into the NT until many centuries later, would be added to the plagues. Paul most certainly would not want his letters to be considered Scripture, hence adding to the OT documents, now would he? Use the NT for what it was designed....teaching about Salvation and how to live your life properly for God. Use the OT as Scripture. There, that ought to get your blood flowing on a cloudy Saturday morning! Reply to this
Always interesting when Moses meets, and talks to God. In this case, his face becomes 'radiant'. Now, I don't know if that is because he got a severe sunburn on the mountaintop where he supposedly didn't eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. Jesus did that, but He was God. Strange story that Moses wrote about himself. Maybe he was just bragging like he did concerning the water that God made come from the rock later on. I don't know, but these stories are somewhat hard to believe. It takes a lot of faith to fully believe that the entire set of compiled scrolls, letters and parchments which make up our present day Bible, as the WORD OF GOD. I mean, a LOT of faith. And some of that just HAS to be blind faith, or else 'convinced' by others that this is so. Don't get me wrong, I believe that what I read in these scribes are most certainly 'from' God, that is, He had a hand in its creation as He made Man who wrote this stuff down. But to say that God actually SAID these things, I think not. EVERY SINGLE reference to Scripture, what some say are inspired by God, and I agree, in the New Testament, is about what we consider, to be the OLD TESTAMENT along with other writings not included in the OT. I am quite convinced that what Jesus, and Paul, and James, and John, etc, said in our New Testament, are not SCRIPTURE. Oh, for certain, some of it is 'from God', as Jesus spoke a lot of it. But for Paul to refer to his own writings as Scripture (some say that 2nd Timothy 3:16 refers to the entire Bible, but I say, how can it, as it hadn't even been put together then by man---not this was in reference, just like every other instanct in the NT, to the historical writings, some of which did make it into the Old Testament of today), is blasphemous in itself. The 'revelator' even states that if anyone adds to 'this book', obviously referring to the collection of Old Testament writings as the NT letters and documents had not been compiled into the NT until many centuries later, would be added to the plagues. Paul most certainly would not want his letters to be considered Scripture, hence adding to the OT documents, now would he? Use the NT for what it was designed....teaching about Salvation and how to live your life properly for God. Use the OT as Scripture.
There, that ought to get your blood flowing on a cloudy Saturday morning!
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