tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post3451188263406173638..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Scripture's deaf ear. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-20994904673934450992018-12-22T08:52:17.551-06:002018-12-22T08:52:17.551-06:00"...and YOU shall be as God, knowing good fro..."...and YOU shall be as God, knowing good from evil" was the argument the serpent used against Eve (while Adam stood by and said nothing). "You shall be as God" has always been one of the (Devil/world/our own sinful nature)'s best tricks to get us humans to place ourselves above God.<br />I hate that Rosie fell for the very first lie ever told. She really needs to read the Bible more.<br />Good Article. God Bless the Preacher.<br />Timothy Carter, Ex-Deacon, Kingsport, TNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-84124964824118023292018-12-22T07:39:40.184-06:002018-12-22T07:39:40.184-06:00RE: “So much religious language is violent. It is ...RE: “So much religious language is violent. It is about heroic leadership, Kingship, subjection, dominance. It’s about who wins and who looses. It’s about punishment and reward. There are wars, physical and spiritual.”<br /><br />I find this sentence quite telling. She is deaf to the fact that the Bible gives us a long history of the ongoing rebellion in the world. First, how Satan rebelled and the third of the angels who joined him fell with him. Second, how man (male and female) listened to Satan and fell. Third, her own rebellion against the place given to females under male headship. Instead of believing God, she has believed Satan’s lies. Thus she cannot see why we were promised a Savior in the garden of Eden and that the rebellion will not end until the second coming of Christ. Until then, the seductions, deceptions, and violence increase and intensify because we are in the last days and the time is short. She cannot see that Satan and unredeemed man are in rebellion against God, his authority, and his good order. It’s a bloody war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com