Dayyum! (To steal another's word usage.)
You said IT!!!! No "if's", "ands", or "but's" about it! You cut to the quick, AGuest! Hurrah! for you! Jah be praised.
--Inkie
Posts by Inkie
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75Question for believers: How does God set priorities?
by sir82 inwhile waiting for the bus yesterday, i overheard (wasn't trying - but due to his volume, impossible to avoid) a guy on his cell phone talking to someone about his likely imminent dismissal from his employment.. but he then went on to say that he had full confidence that god would take care of him, and he wasn't worried at all about finding new employment.. then i got home, watched the news, and found out that 4 million kenyans are in danger of starving to death because of a year-long drought there.. so i got to thinking - how exactly does god set priorities?.
the guy at the bus stop is not the first christian i've heard express his confidence that god chooses to intervene and help in the lives of individual believers.
he saves them from car wrecks, he helps them find jobs, he lends some sort of invisible emotional support to help them cope with the death of a child, and so on.. on the other hand, millions of people suffer excruciating pain for months or years before finally dying covered in mud with flies crawling on them - no relief from god in sight.. why does god help one middle-aged guy who's never been hungry in his life find a new job in time so that he doesn't miss his $3000 mortgage payment, but not send a little rain to help a land where millions of people are already living in misery and filth?.
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Who Really IS the Faithful and Discreet Slave?
by AGuest into the household of god, isarel... and those who go with... may you have peace!.
when among those loyal to the wtbts, i recall having conversations with those of "the great crowd," who believed that, while perhaps christ led "the anointed," it was the ""faithful and discreet slave" who led them.
certainly, the wtbts teaches this lie.
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Inkie
Dear PSacramento,
How is it you say that Jesus was "neither discreet or a slave"? Please check out:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discreetMain Entry:
dis·creet
Pronunciation: \di-
'skret \
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French discret, from Medieval Latin discretus, from Latin, past participle of discernere to separate, distinguish between — more at
discernDate: 14th century
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capable of preserving prudent silence
: having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : prudent ; especially : http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1401&t=NIV#Please go to this blueletter page and see the ENTIRE definition.
Slave or Servant = doulos
1)
a)
a slaveb)
metaph., a. one who gives himself up to another's will . . .are those whose agency God employs in executing his purposes; used of apostles; of Moses; of prophets; of all who obey God’s commands, his true worshippers; strenuously laboring for another’s salvation;
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devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests2)
a servant, attendantHaving read the biblical texts, I do SEE that Jesus fits all of these definitions to warrant Him being not only "a" faithful and discreet servant/slave, but also "the" faithful and discreet slave/servant.
Perhaps in the broad text there are other "faithful and discreet" slaves/servants--and this is certainly to be hoped for, yes?
--Inkie
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Who Really IS the Faithful and Discreet Slave?
by AGuest into the household of god, isarel... and those who go with... may you have peace!.
when among those loyal to the wtbts, i recall having conversations with those of "the great crowd," who believed that, while perhaps christ led "the anointed," it was the ""faithful and discreet slave" who led them.
certainly, the wtbts teaches this lie.
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Inkie
AGuest and PSacramento:
I think it would behoove us to look at what Jah himself says about whom he has appointed (or not). You really can't get more "faithful and discreet" than Christ, can you? Note the three verses quoted below:
31 Because he (God) has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.” —Acts 17:31.
5 For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come, about which we are speaking. 6 But a certain witness has given proof somewhere, saying: “What is man that you keep him in mind, or [the] son of man that you take care of him? 7 You made him a little lower than angels; with glory and honor you crowned him, and appointed him over the works of your hands. 8 All things you subjected under his feet ” For in that he subjected all things to him[God] left nothing that is not subject to him. Now, though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him;. 9 but we behold Jesus, who has been made a little lower than angels, crowned with glory and honor for having suffered death, that he by God’s undeserved kindness might taste death for every [man]. —Hebrews 2:5-9
1 God , who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to our forefathers by means of the prophets, 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the systems of things. 3 He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very being, and he sustains all things by the word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places. —Hebrews 1:1-3
--Inkie
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Hitler Forgiven ?
by Inkie inpoppers writes in the thread entitled: a conversation that sent me on a search, on page 489. .
but ask about hitler, stalin and queen ( bloody) mary of england and they would say that they didn't know, or that they would be resserected and given 1000 years to change their ways.... does anyone think that if the hitlers and stalins of history were resurrected and given 1000 years to change their ways that they actually would?
it seems to me they would end up doing lots of terrible stuff during their 1000 years.
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Inkie
Wantstoleave: We were all brought up to believe something that was not true. King Mannaseh is a prime of example of someone committing horrendous acts against God's people, yet God is so wonderful as to forgive him who was truly repentent. (How fortunate are we then to have Jah's mercy!)
PSacramento: Your points are well taken and I do agree with you. However, while Paul said a lot of things, the important point is what did Christ say. And . . . we are to judge (if we are to judge) as Christ and Jah would judge, which is WAY DIFFERENT than how Man judges.
--Inkie
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Hitler Forgiven ?
by Inkie inpoppers writes in the thread entitled: a conversation that sent me on a search, on page 489. .
but ask about hitler, stalin and queen ( bloody) mary of england and they would say that they didn't know, or that they would be resserected and given 1000 years to change their ways.... does anyone think that if the hitlers and stalins of history were resurrected and given 1000 years to change their ways that they actually would?
it seems to me they would end up doing lots of terrible stuff during their 1000 years.
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Inkie
Paul stated in Romans: "When people of the nations (your bad people) do by nature the things of the law, they are a law unto themselves." So, no, they didn't sin in that which you speak of.
--Inkie
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The WTS & The Sound of Music
by Farkel ini recently watched the classic 1965 film "the sound of music" for the umteenth time.
it was the winner of 5 academy awards, including best picture.
i originally saw it on the big screen when it first aired and loved every minute of it.
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Inkie
Farkel, you use the "straw" so that you can suck up all the good tasty stuff, ya know? (Smiling at you.)
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Inkie
Outlaw, "you're" too funny. I can hear "your" squeaking laughter! --Inkie P.S. Don't going paying any more than a dime for them (apostrophes).
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The WTS & The Sound of Music
by Farkel ini recently watched the classic 1965 film "the sound of music" for the umteenth time.
it was the winner of 5 academy awards, including best picture.
i originally saw it on the big screen when it first aired and loved every minute of it.
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Inkie
Farkel,
The Master didn't say he came to give us life in abundance when we get into the New World (that's a Watchtower doctrine), he said he came (then) to give us life in abundance--period (in the here and now and eternally).
--Inkie
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Hitler Forgiven ?
by Inkie inpoppers writes in the thread entitled: a conversation that sent me on a search, on page 489. .
but ask about hitler, stalin and queen ( bloody) mary of england and they would say that they didn't know, or that they would be resserected and given 1000 years to change their ways.... does anyone think that if the hitlers and stalins of history were resurrected and given 1000 years to change their ways that they actually would?
it seems to me they would end up doing lots of terrible stuff during their 1000 years.
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Inkie
PSacramento:
It's not a question of what you think. It's a question of what Jah thinks about a person who is repentent. You have no 'say so'! We have no 'say so.' Thank Jah for that.
--Inkie
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Inkie
Outlaw:
In your sentence: "If your not sure . . . ," the "your" should be "you're" (with an apostrophe between the u and the r) because you are saying: "If you are not sure . . . ." Just an FYI!
--Inkie