Originally posted by frogstompI wouldn't have thought I was... As a matter of fact, I kept having this suspicious feeling: "Dammit, froggy knew I'd jump in on this when he made that first post...!"
You haven't been talking past me though, I do understand what Valentinus called the ERROR.
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Originally posted by vistesdI have to agree with this, since as all the NT is a story of God and
One Shabbos afternoon, Reb Reuven called me into is study. He was sitting behind his desk and motioned me to take the chair across from him. A volume of the Zohar was lying open in front of him.
“Do you know what the Zohar is?” he asked.
“Of course,” I said. “It is a mystical commentary on Torah written by Moshe deLeon, a thirteenth century Spanish k ...[text shortened]... rts with the word b’reisheet, [b]‘Once upon a time!’”
—Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Hasidic Tales[/b]
mankind, and the OT is the same, each of us is a story and when
God reveals His involvement it becomes important to note why.
Now I’d back off from saying my story or someone else today
would need to be added to the New Testament, but mainly
because the NT is central around Jesus Christ entering into the
human experience, but when God is involved that can still give
enlightenment and life even reading about someone of modern
times.
That does not mean that God has stopped working and walking
with man today, which is why I disagree with someone saying that
we will get nothing more from God, because God has never
stopped giving to us. My life was changed when I became a
Spirit filled Christian, I had read a few verses in my life time
before that event, but it was God that drew me from my life that
basically revolved around my pleasure and entertainment as my
main focus. It is the difference between Spirit of God and text,
we are either alive in God or not, the text of scripture can be just
a text that does not give life.
Kelly
Originally posted by vistesdI'm fine and dandy, my friend, and you're almost right, but hoping isn't the same as knowing.
I wouldn't have thought I was... As a matter of fact, I kept having this suspicious feeling: "Dammit, froggy knew I'd jump in on this when he made that first post...!"
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