you know this double-talk you speak of Perry?
A short time thereafter when many in the general population again protested Moses' position, another fourteen thousand were consumed with a plague. They would all have died had not
Moses through Aaron, as God's exclusive mediator, "stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed". Please read Numbers Ch. 16. A careful reading will reveal that
Korah, Dathan and Abiram were not so much opposed to Moses and Aaron as they were opposed to the exclusivity of Moses and Aaron:
Which one was the exclusive mediator then? Moses or Aaron? It looks to me like you just shot yourself in the foot regarding the whole praying to Mary topic!
Remember this too - Jesus was considered a liberal Jew.
The Pharisees were liberal Jews at the time - it was the Sadducees who were 'fundamental'.
This being the case, Jesus, being more liberal than the Pharisees could be considered way off the mark of fundamental belief! He may have led us all up the garden path! We can only have faith that what he says is true.
My main point is that God's word is NOT confined to the written pages of a book - that is why the Jews still await their Messiah...
No - God's word is alive and active and the Holy Spirit guides us into truth - via any route He chooses to take us! Nobody else has the right to condemn the path another Christian takes - because it is by God's will that we are where we are on the journey.
The renewal of Peter's calling at the end of John's Gospel has had a significant impact on me over the last few months, this part in particular:
Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” Peter, seeing
him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”
(John 21:20-22, NKJV)
Do you understand?
