Nathan_Jr

“Ancient thread”

So much effort to MAKE it fit is your sign that it doesn’t.

"This is the second paragraph."

There are some "super" posts on this thread that cause the knees to buckle and the head to explode under the weight of their nonsense and stupidity. So many words, so little said.

Hyperbole is not a subtle exaggeration. Hyperbole is obvious. That's why it's hyperbole. It's not a device used to weasel one's way out of responsibility and culpability. It's not a cop out.

Then what's the point of using a figure of speech? Weak communicators, amateurs, neophytes employ hyperbole and then provide the literal. It's cutting the legs out from under the figure of speech - it renders it useless and ineffectual. It's pointless. It's awkward. It can only elicit embarrassment from the reader. It's cringe. It's analogous to a comedian explaining the joke, or a magician explaining the card trick. If it must be explained, it's a bad joke, a bad trick.

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I call. Collaterals are not God-breathed. That is established. To assert otherwise is to burden oneself with "spiritual liabilities" that are very difficult to remove.

Isn't interpretation subjective? Who decides when Christ is inconsistent or consistent with his Word? Though the opinionated claim has been asserted, the Word/Bible/scripture does NOT interpret itself.

Law of Believing: "60% of the time it works every time."

Reminds me of a cologne.

Could we say more clearly, simply: The writer/author/storyteller limits God to fit into the plot of the story.

Mmmph

No. Not the followers I know.

Reminds me of Scientology. They are always “discovering” lost or hidden writings of LRH. The goal post is always moving. One spends $millions to reach the highest level of mastery… but, wait! There’s more… a previously unknown text to master. Get back in line…

Boy, that’s a dandy! The way you put it all together so that it fits, that’s some original work, I tell ya.

God can’t breathe jokes. Even if He’s willing, he’s unable. For 2000 years God was unable to teach. That’s riiiight. Hey! I didn’t say it, Victor did. If you don’t know when, where and how (H-O-W) to limit God, how will you ever MAKE it fit? Absorb it.

God is unable to loan, like he was unable to teach. He limits himself in this way to protect us. Maybe you didn’t fully absorb it the first time.

Victor claiming that PFAL is God-breathed should be evidence enough that PFAL is NOT God breathed. HOWEVER, just in case one misses victor's self-indicting claim, there are oodles and oodles of errors that can prove PFAL is not God-breathed. There are so many errors, who could keep track of them all - the ocean of error is vast, many are easily missed.... the first time.

So what. Victor asserted a claim. So what? He asserted oodles of claims that have been throughly refuted as lies, falsehoods and errors. He claimed he invented the hook shot!! Victor Barnard claimed... Jim Jones claimed... L. Ron Hubbard claimed... Beware the self proclaimed. The one who asserts the claim that he speaks for God is surely the one who does not. Self proclamations are the confessions of hucksters and liars.

Just look in the pockets of the cloak...or in the bookcase... you'll find the canon there.

Home is where the word is, according to a postcard.

They MUST be right because everyone would insist they are wrong.

F’ing hilarious!

Direct or indirect based on what? Are you just regurgitating? You left out Hebrew. The Satan first appears in Hebrew. I’ll see what Heiser and others say. I’ll find out.