09 Feb 20
@old-indian saidConsider the lilies...
This scripture is testament to smoking some weed and relaxing and to forget about tomorrow and focus on rolling that next one.
So?
Relax people...enjoy the ride.
09 Feb 20
@old-indian saidExcept your corporate masters don't want you to self-medicate with inexpensive herbs. They want you to get hooked on expensive, addictive drugs instead. Why do you think the federal government is so desperate to keep weed illegal?
This scripture is testament to smoking some weed and relaxing and to forget about tomorrow and focus on rolling that next one.
So?
Relax people...enjoy the ride.
09 Feb 20
I think that Mathew 6:34 is another tiny piece of evidence pointing towards the Romans having had a hand in the setting up ~ or at least initially shaping or steering ~ Christianity. Paul may have been the key to it. He is supposed to have kind of 'downloaded' the whole of Christianity during a "vision" on the road to Damascus. And he was probably working for the Romans. The rather passive and politically impotent [not to mention user friendly and adept at absorbing sundry pagan religions] Christian doctrines rather nobbled the hostile, troublesome radical Jews. The gospels were written after Paul wrote all his bits. Mathew 6:34 suggests people should not sweat the big stuff [politics etc., governing, the future] and just look no further than the end of each current day.
09 Feb 20
@fmf saidYou think Jesus was working for the Romans?
I think that Mathew 6:34 is another tiny piece of evidence pointing towards the Romans having had a hand in the setting up ~ or at least initially shaping or steering ~ Christianity. Paul may have been the key to it. He is supposed to have kind of 'downloaded' the whole of Christianity during a "vision" on the road to Damascus. And he was probably working for the Romans. The rath ...[text shortened]... ff [politics etc., governing, the future] and just look no further than the end of each current day.
09 Feb 20
@old-indian saidThe point Jesus makes is to focus on getting into the Kingdom of God [by living righteously and doing good works] and stop worrying about minor things in this life. If some weed helps you to achieve that then by all means go ahead.
This scripture is testament to smoking some weed and relaxing and to forget about tomorrow and focus on rolling that next one.
So?
Relax people...enjoy the ride.
09 Feb 20
@secondson saidI think it's highly likely Paul was. Did you not read the post you were replying to?
You think Jesus was working for the Romans?
@fmf saidI read it, and I found it interesting how you got all that out of the verse of which this thread is about.
I think it's highly likely Paul was. Did you not read the post you were replying to?
The skewed perspective you gave defies logic. If Paul was working for the government of Rome to spread the lie that Jesus Christ is the "only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;" and "the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God", when doing so would defy the edict of Caesar, then why did the Roman government cut his head off?
You're making unsubstantiated assertions you've obviously been duped by. Paul received, from Jesus Christ, by revelation, as he said, "I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God."
Yours is merely the skewed perspective of an unbeliever, and an unaccredited one at that. And it won't matter how many sources you cite to bear witness to your assertions, the record in the Bible stands un-refuted by anything other than skepticism.
09 Feb 20
@secondson saidFMF didn’t state, claim or imply that Jesus was working for the Romans.
There's nothing in yours.
How did you come to make that comment?
09 Feb 20
@divegeester saidIf you didn't get it the first time, you probably never will. I'm not doing your thinking for you.
FMF didn’t state, claim or imply that Jesus was working for the Romans.
How did you come to make that comment?
But I'll give you a clue. My question did not state, claim or imply that FMF said that Jesus was working for the Romans.
Besides having intellectually crippling biases and prejudices your comprehension of what is said is severely limited.
10 Feb 20
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@secondson saidWhere is it you think I claim I got "all" of what I said from that one verse?
I read it, and I found it interesting how you got all that out of the verse of which this thread is about.
10 Feb 20
@secondson saidI don't think Paul ever met Jesus and I don't see any credible reason to believe he "received" anything from Jesus "by revelation".
You're making unsubstantiated assertions you've obviously been duped by. Paul received, from Jesus Christ, by revelation, as he said, "I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God."