bill-
if you could post a little more detailed account of your experience, id appreciate it, this one was much to vague. perhaps you could include what you were wearing at specific points in time, possibly what you ate that day. just a thought.
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by Bill Parker 18 Replies latest jw friends
bill-
if you could post a little more detailed account of your experience, id appreciate it, this one was much to vague. perhaps you could include what you were wearing at specific points in time, possibly what you ate that day. just a thought.
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To Dubla-the-Small
if you could post a little more detailed account of your experience, id appreciate it, this one was much to vague.
perhaps you could include what you were wearing at specific points in timeAre those white-elephant wings and chantilly lace that you're wearing?
possibly what you ate that day. just a thought.Its is called spiritual food. If you're looking into bird gravel, he's not that type.
just a thoughtCome on now, get real; do communist sparrows really think?
thomas-
first of all, thank you for the insults; they speak volumes about you as a person.
secondly, i apologize if my humor offended you. a word to the wise though: if cutting sarcasm and negativity appearing on posts about jehovahs wonderful spiritual help offend you, then you might want to find a new forum to preach in. i doubt this will be your last encounter with it.
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To Dubla the Pout
If you could post a little more detailed account of your feelings, I would appreciate it, that last one was much to vague.
Perhaps you could include what you were wearing at specific points in your thunderous thoughts. Also explain what you possibly were eating that day and why. Just trying to share your type of logic.
You might also try talking about something we can all understand. You're so topic oriented, it's hard to follow you.
Explain to us how you can read one thing, and explain it so profoundly by leaving the original subject and talking about something else. Only a great mind with intent to obscure the original topic could do that. Well I think what is needed is to give you more time. Meantime, no tears please.
sarcasm is wasted on some.
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People, people.....please....just be conscious of your spiritual WEED. and my brothers in Mary Jane, feel free to post to my thread, 'be conscious of your spiritual weed.'
thank you, and good night brothers and sisters.
ashi
Sarcasm is wasted only if there is no response.
Sometimes I talk to my dog sarcastically. He just
smiles and wags his tail. He understands me and
he always keeps me on the subject: food.
He's very charismatic too. If I say ""heal""
he sits down every time.
thomas-
Sarcasm is wasted only if there is no response.false. sarcasm is wasted on those who cannot understand it. it was very obvious by your "response" to me that you did not understand my original sarcasm. you see, you parroted my sarcasm, but you did it in a way that was completely out of context and entirely nonsensical. this is a clear sign that it soared just a few feet north of your noggin. if youd like me to break it down for you in an explanitory fashion, ill be happy to do so. i imagine though, that we can both agree on the pointlessness of this tangent we are now following.
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(((The end result of said testing produces the works necessary to identify the individual as a true worshipper of God. James 1:2,3.)))
What kind of works are acceptable to God? What kind of works are judged by God? What kind of works identify an individual as a true worshipper of God? Can a person do good works without faith and gain salvation? Can a faithful person do works that contradict what is acceptable and gain salvation?
Ezekiel 4:12 "And as a round cake of barley you will eat it; and as for it, upon dung cakes of the excrement of mankind you will bake it before their eyes." And Jehovah went on to say: "Just like this the sons of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the nations to which I shall disperse them." And I proceeded to say: "Alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Look! My soul is not a defiled one; neither a body already dead nor a torn animal have I eaten from my youth up, even until now, and into my mouth there has come no foul flesh." Accordingly, He said to me: "See, I have given you cattle manure instead of the dung cakes of mankind, and you must make your bread upon it."
The works that Ezekiels faith called him to during this time wouldn't 'appear' to be the kind of works we think of when we talk of works, do they? Yet, Ezekiel didn't lack FAITH that God was telling him to do these things. He was concerned about defiling himself though. Even though God wouldn't have told him to do something that He would then condemn him for, He still made allowance for the Ezekiels conscience.
By all 'appearances' though, Ezekiel was doing something that made him unclean. He also probably 'appeared' to be crazy too. He had faith that he was doing what God told him to do. He had faith that God wouldn't judge him for obeying him. His faith was being put through a test though, don't you agree?
Hosea 1:2,3 There was a start of the word of Jehovah by Hosea, and Jehovah proceeded to say to Hosea; "God, take to yourself a wife of fornication and children of fornication, because by fornication the land positively turns from following Jehovah." And he proceeded to go and take Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, so that she became pregnant and in time bore to him a son.
Here's another example of God directed 'works' that seem unlawful. If Hosea was to be judged based on works by their own merit, he would be condemned by the law, wouldn't he? Yet his FAITH is what convinced him he was doing God's will. Do you think those who knew the law would think he was being faithful? I doubt it, they probably thought he was an unfaithful sinner. And crazy to boot. It was his faith that made his works righteous though. It was his faith that motivated him and took away any self judgement he might feel. It was his faith that was being refined, wasn't it? Faith is what makes us follow and obey God no matter where He takes us.
Matthew 26:38,39 The he said to them: "My soul is deeply grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with me." And going a little way forward, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as You will."
Jesus knew that the death that he was heading for would, by law, make him be cursed by God. He had FAITH in the truthfulness of the law that said so. He also had FAITH that God was directing him to do just that. His works by all appearances were unlawful. The manner of his death testified to that also. Still, we know that the FAITH Christ had is what led him to live and die the way he did. I think his faith was under constant test, but following his faith even to the point of death as a lawless man, brought him through triumphant.
Works, in relation to faith, are the physical demonstration of your faith. Works themselves can appear to be questionable, by a human standpoint. It is FAITH that makes works meaningful to God. Something is not acceptable or unacceptable on its own merit. It is the motive behind it that makes it so. Faith is what is important