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Originally Posted by Esaias
Yes indeed. But some scriptures we like, and some we don't like, such as the last half of Hosea 4:6. |
Hosea 4:6
My people are annihilated for not knowing: because you thrust away knowledge, I will also cast you out, that you shalt be no minister to me: seeing thou you forgot the law of your God, I will also forget your progeny.
People tend to cherry pick the Bible apart, to create their own personal Jesus.
Some attend churches that are so dry that they have tumble weeds rolling down the aisle. House church which is more like group session around a coffee table, instead of power of the Holy Ghost and prayer. Teaching that the Bible must be understood how the Apostles taught it, not how John Calvin revamped it to get even with the Pope who excommunicated him. Our country was pioneered by Puritans, Pilgrims, Baptists, and Presbyterians. That is a main reason why Churchanity became the toilet bowl that overflows to create more schism, denominations, and organizations. They don't want book, chapter and verse. They convinced themselves that legalism was a necktie and a shoeshine. When legalism was going through the '"religious" motions of "telling" a person you love them, and never actually doing it, "telling" someone you accept their apology and never actually doing it, "telling" someone you will pray for them and never uttering even a lay me down to sleep prayer for them. Cry about long uncut hair, and a shoeshine, to discard standards of attire only to become a facade with hate in your heart, but honey on your lips. They say they have liberty, brothers looking like Jeffrey "the dude" Lebowski, and Sisters looking like Morticia Adams. Who greet you with buttery pancakes smothered in maple goo, and couldn't care less if you dropped dead. PTL Club, Jim and Tammy from Miami, spouting all the right Christainisms but their hearts were far from Him.
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