AFF is a BLACK HOLE!
 

Think about it!! AFF is nothing but a BLACK HOLE of questions, fear, doubt, maybes, what if's, disagreement, and like ALL past generations, this running in circles will never stop!

Every statement made here gets sucked into oblivion!

Stand back and look at this. It's really quite comical, especially when you consider that the Bible is supposed to bring unity and agreement with Faith, or what many boldly claim, THE TRUTH!

I think this simply means, hold your breath…..there are GREY areas!

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VERY GOOD OBSERVATION! I agree. :D

Some folks DO understand that here, though.

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Well, so far, Not4Sale's statement hasn't been "sucked into oblivion."

I've come to think of the Bible as being a sort of Guidebook, and not some sort of Final Jeopardy style know-it-all "Answer Book." If you go to the Bible looking for absolute answers to everything, you often come back looking rather foolish. Just look at the Young Earth Creationists.

If however, you approach the Bible with a bit of humility and knock-it-off with the "God Talks To Me Inside My Head" nonsense, you do have the opportunity to glean a great deal of wisdom that has been accumulated, refined, stored and transmitted just for this purpose.

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I find AFF to be a great place to bounce ideas off of others. Sometimes you get useful input and other times you don't. That's because humans are involved (including myself.)

Some people view it as an endless source of questions, doubts etc.

I view the opposite as an endless source of back patting where everyone thinks the same and never challenge prevailing thought.

One is nice, clean, cut & dried and fosters no growth.

One is a bit untidy and rambles around a bit but it offers opportunity to learn and grow.

I'll take the latter.

Iron sharpens iron... but only when they are moving in opposite directions.

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You have multiplied the questions, doubts, maybes, what ifs, disagreements, ect. Congratulations.

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Yep! Couldn't agree more!

And, it's a good place to talk with ya friends about shoes and grandchildren too!

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Like you haven't?? I guess we should just all agree with you and we can end this nonsense!! :laffatu

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True! We talk about all kinds of interesting things, including the good stuff!:thumbsup

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To be honest, I was thinking of this very thing today. The Bible is truly an amazing Book. I don't think any other Book on Earth is really quite like it. It can basically go whatever direction you go, and I think this might be the dilemma with people who try to define Scripture.

It appears that God may be a lot more flexible than we think. My wife and I have been doing a little research on Jewish Theology and have found some interesting concepts used by Rabbi's. One that fascinated me was that they believe there are 70 different interpretations to every "Word" in Scripture (Torah), and they are ALL right!

They also believe the Scripture to possess 4 different meanings to every event; allegorical, metaphorical, mystical, and literal, and they are ALL right.

It seems that 2 people can disagree on Scripture using the above method(s), yet they are both right.

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:thumbsup