Peewee wrote:
Time to take a walk around the block or go shoot some tin cans. If they won't listen, dust your feet off and move on. You just can't save everyone. Pretend you're a farmer and some seeds are eaten by the birds, some fall on rocky ground, and some fall on good soil and take root.
You can't make some people ever change their minds or hearts, even if you show them a better and newer covenant. Traditions and rituals are very hard to break.
For instance how many wise men followed the star to Bethlehem? Most people are sure it was three and that they rode camels. It was over a hundred and they rode horses and mules and Jesus was already a toddler when they arrived. About the only true fact is they did bring gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
I still love the song "We three men of orient are...". Maybe because I had a brown crepe paper costume and was a shepherd in my third grade Christmas play.
Do what you were told to do, share the good news, don't start a Holy War. Obedience is better than sacrifice, you love God by keeping His commandments. He repeats this throughout the Bible in both the old and new testaments. My advice is to pray for them and move on.
We all think we have the correct interpretation of scriptures, otherwise, we would all probably change or update our beliefs as we learn more. The more Hebrew and Greek words I learn, the better I understand the word. Even if I have no idea of how to pronounce them. We will never figure it all out but I do love correcting what I have been taught incorrectly. Some people were just born to resist learning anything past a certain age. Download a good Bible program. I love E-Sword from Chuck Missler. Lots of tools in it.
We know Jesus was a historical person, we know He was God in the flesh, we know why He came and why He died, we know He rose from the dead and is coming back. Rejoice and be glad. Hold on to your faith and be obedient to the end. Enjoy seeing the modern-day miracles occurring in our lifetimes. Each day that passes brings us closer to seeing our Lord and Saviour. Another end-time sign just occurred in Israel. The Sanhedrin just dedicated their underground Temple during Hannukah. The only thing really fishy about it was the number of priest and seats were incorrect and they pray with their backs to the Temple Mount. That's can't be kosher. I'm starting to get the feeling that the Sanhedrin is part of Israel's deep state.
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Peewee, thanks for sharing, it's not always easy to know when to dust the feet, finding new evidence that could be another seed, then another seed. Hoping that when I do walk away one seed with the power of the Holy Spirit will seer their conscience.
What I know is God gave man a love letter (the old Testament) and a blue print of how to know him, worship him, and have eternal life with him. It is a blue print of Jesus and salvation.. Then he gave us the new Testament, a continuation in perfect harmony with the old Testament again giving us the who, what, when, where and how he loves us, how we can have eternal life with him and proving it is his word to us through fulfilled prophecy, through the complexities of how the Bible was written and yet it and only by the power of the Holy Spirit is in perfect harmony. Everything we need in our life is contained in its pages. Since I know this is God's original, nothing on earth in all its history since he gave us the Bible, any claim of a church being the true church, or a Prophet claiming God gave him more written word to add to what God has already given us..... It is never in harmony, it always Contridictes what God gave us.
While I believe God talks to man, gives us revelation, God wrote the last chapters of his word to man with Jesus and the apostles. It's perfect, infallible and completely... Completed.
Any claim of any man or church in conflict, not in harmony is false. God wrote the last chapter so we would have his complete word to test everything by, God's standard for truth.
I'm in awe how we (Christians) from different church backgrounds, parts of the country, different ages all have the same doctrine, same faith, same gospel, having never met before . A Testament of the church being the body of Christ and having the same teacher, The Holy Spirit.
Understanding God's word is taught use with eyes understanding spiritual knowledge, spiritual understanding.
Praise Jesus our Lord and Savior, giving us the simplicity of salvation that confounds the natural man.
Thanks again,
God Bless
MARANATHA..