Could God have designed the Bible to only have one interpretation?

Does a burning building have to be framed as a burning building? Maybe not but if you are in that burning building is it helpful or will it save your life to pretend that it's not a burning building?

 

I enjoy what you have to say.

God loves you.

Nice verse. Mental attitude is important.

 

Weird. I'm seeing a page number "13", but am not able to access it in this thread. Just like in the other thread ("strengthen your faith in the bible,,"), where I can see pages 102-105 listed, but I can't seem to access anything past page 101.

 

Yeah it happens some time, I don't know why but it usually just goes away.

 

I thought maybe "Dejavu" had a way to limit my access, or something. The other day he seemed to be warning me off about getting into it with thedope.

 

There are those that can "limit" your access but it doesn't happen often.

As for getting into it with thedope...
I think I'll just leave it up to you to decide why someone would warn you about getting into it with thedope.

 

You all should know it's because I am vicious and I will rape your soul, but then again if you knew that then you don't know your god, who would never allow anything untoward to happen to you. Only that which you request is granted. Love awaits only on invitation.

 

It is what I am talking about. Our understanding doesn't progress much if you continue to try to limit the flow of information. You would behold that we grow together if, your focus was more than to snuff me out. I do not try to snuff you out, but give greater access to your good self. I am not here to attack peoples beliefs but to give reason to behave with innocence.

Refusing to take offense is a good way to remove barriers between people. If you take offense, you call to defense. The measure you give is the measure you receive. If you defend yourself you are attacked, if you attack you invite defense. The reason you may feel attacked by me, is that you simply will not allow me a place at the table, as though I were here to steal what nourishes you. If you insist on cultivating insult, you will find it. Ask and you shall receive.

If you could lie, that would mean that you had altered the truth. The truth is unalterable. God does not become not god, because you say god does not exist. If you use your opportunity to speak to me, in a consistently denigrating fashion, you cannot hear me or what I am saying.

Let's think it through then. Was anyone's life spared because ted bundy was killed? If you can name one individual, I will believe you. Look around and tell me if any fortress or prison has ended any threat. They do exactly the opposite, they preserve it.

I am sorry if you feel that it is something you have missed. I can tell, or rather I did suspect that this was the case, because there are some aspects of fatherhood that you do not seem to be aware of. I know full well that seeming does not represent the truth, unless the seeming be confirmed. That is why I asked you the question and why I had asked the same question before. When you speak of gods love for you, I get the sense that you feel it is conditional on your performance. As a father I can tell you that is not the case. My only desire as a father is that my children experience the best of themselves and it is not my desire to define for them what that might be. If they ask for help, i am there to support them on their journey not to tell them they should do it like me. I think jesus presented his message to take advantage of how we regard our own relationships to demonstrated how god may love us.

No it is not, but an idea of what a picture is is not the same as viewing a picture.

But it does not tell you what is inside the barn, nor even the features that my be found on it, if it is only an outline.

I am neither a hindu nor a bible.

Could you print that long form?

 

How nice of you to let arthur itis know why people have warned him not to get into it with you.

 

Yeah, saves time.

 

Let me explain something to you.

The truth is easy to explain and to defend, because it is the truth and you don't have to remember all the falsehoods you have told and try to keep them straight.

You don't have to defend falsehood by trying to convince others that there is no such thing as a lie.

You don't have to defend people like Ted Bundy because you have said something that is false and now have defend that falsehood.

You don't say in one place that the Holy Spirit teaches all things and then infer that someone can't know about the about the relationship between a father and their children. Either the the Holy Spirit can teach all things or it can't, you can't have it both ways.

You don't have to take personal information that someone has given you in a spirit of friendship and try and use that personal information to denigrate the truths they have told you because your falsehoods can not stand against those truths.

You don't have to make insulting comments and try and defend them by saying things like they are only insulting if the insulted person takes offense and if they do take offense, tell them that it is not an insult, it is only their perception of it that makes it insulting.

And you don't have to defend Satan's lies just because you teach them as truth.

May you benefit from God's Truths to the extent you apply them in your life and share them with others.

 

You didn't affirm the truth with your "instruction". You had one truth for me and one truth for someone else. However you did not lie, as no untrue thing you can say is true. A lie is never the truth. What is not true is false and therefore does not exist.

You don't have to defend lying.

What is ted bundy like, did you meet him?

The holy spirit will teach you all things, you have yet to learn. God would not leave you wanting so the holy spirit bids that i share my experience with you.

If you did not perceive it as insulting you would not be insulted. We surrender ourselves to our brothers, refuse to take offense.

and you don't have to accuse me of teaching lies

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God bless you.

 

Arthur:

lol! I have only a way of unlimiting your access.

OWB:

That's the second compliment you've paid me OWB! (after acknowledging I had a sense of humour) : D
I suspect you're only saying this because I make more sense than you though.
I hate feeling suspicious!

I don't mind having to spell everything out, but I'm suspicious now you don't want me to! You say what did god do to me lately. I said try ever, as in what has god always done to me, which is nothing. I owe god nothing. We're even. : D

 

Gratitude doesn't have a price, save that we lay aside our complaint.

 

Anytime.

I suspect that your suspicions are suspicious.

If God is not doing anything to you, why do you talk about surviving what God is not doing to you?

 

So you thought I was talking about you. Interesting.

 

What is even more interesting is that you speak not to me, but to the abundance of your heart.

 

OWB:

Because there are people who really do think god is upon them. And a number of them are readers of various bibles, or survival manuals as you call them. : D

Everyone has already survived 'god'. Not everyone knows it, yet.

 

I didn't say I wasn't speaking to you but that it is interesting that you thought I was speaking about you.

As for the speaking from the abundance of my heart, how can I do otherwise?

 

The question still remains unanswered, If God is not doing anything to you, why do you talk about surviving what God is not doing to you?