Bibliolatry: Worship/knowledge of the book MORE than the author

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Jack

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Yet something has caused you to err in it…

Some leaven perhaps…

“A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” (Galatians 5:9, KJV)
You're the one preaching your imaginary law. I'll stick with the New Covenant.

Galatians 5:1-4
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.
4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
 
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VictoryinJesus

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Listen to the word of God.

Just love as the scriptures say.

It’s simple if you’re born again.
To love your enemies is not simple at all. (Imo) I get you are saying it’s simple if born again. Yet consider to say it’s so simple diminishes the perfection of God in Matthew 5:43-48 You have heard that it has been said, you shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy. [44] But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; [45] That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. [46] For if you love them which love you, what reward have you? do not even the publicans the same? [47] And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the publicans so? [48] Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

To clarify I’m not saying “the perfection of God” as something we do but only what Jesus did on the crucifixion while we were yet the enemies of God, how He became poor that others could be made rich…was foreign to the world. Never seen before. How simple could it be when He sweated blood and asked the cup to pass from Him? Yet becoming obedient even unto death. Miraculous. Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Romans 12:17-21 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. (As also in the letter to the Corinthians whom were calling them reprobate, as those who fail, and wanted proof of Christ in them. Paul urged them to do what was right, what was honorable, provoking them to love.) [18] If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. [19] Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." [20] To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." [21] Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
^ “if possible” live with all men peaceably <miraculous > with God all things are possible.


Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail (beyond simple) in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

So beyond simple that people ask all the time …how much Fruit of the Holy Spirit, how much as Christ is so are we—do we witness today? But all have turned away going after their own things and not the things of God.
 
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Came across this the other night when trying to find something to listen to on my earbuds, while falling asleep. It does make you consider what men say about God. It’s worth a listen (Imo).
From post #1890. (with video "They lied about the Bible's God for over 2,000 years)

I've been giving this a bit more thought.

Every time I look into the books that were left out of the canon, the more I agree with their decisions.
I found a video about the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas. Didn't finish it.
The sayings left me flat. Regurgitations of the Gospels we have with a fortune cookie twist.
Neither inspired nor inspiring.

Same with the other writings of the early church. Good for historic references, is all.

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To love your enemies is not simple at all.

It’s not simple until you consider how Christ suffered. Then it becomes simple. Which is why we must keep the Lord Jesus Christ top of mind in all situations.

“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:” (1 Peter 2:20-21, KJV)

“That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.” (1 Thessalonians 3:3, KJV)
 

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It’s not simple until you consider how Christ suffered. Then it becomes simple. Which is why we must keep the Lord Jesus Christ top of mind in all situations.

“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:” (1 Peter 2:20-21, KJV)

“That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.” (1 Thessalonians 3:3, KJV)
When I think of Jesus Christ. He didn’t suffer for Himself, to prove His own Glory. But so others could share in being made Glorious by His example. The point is I’ve seen over the years where we pick a fight and call it suffering when being pushed back. For example “see, I’m being persecuted for doing what is right!@ If that makes sense. I have to ask myself regarding a lot of suffering I’ve had. Was it my own doing wrong, and not good?
 

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From post #1890. (with video "They lied about the Bible's God for over 2,000 years)

I've been giving this a bit more thought.

Every time I look into the books that were left out of the canon, the more I agree with their decisions.
I found a video about the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas. Didn't finish it.
The sayings left me flat. Regurgitations of the Gospels we have with a fortune cookie twist.
Neither inspired nor inspiring.

Same with the other writings of the early church. Good for historic references, is all.

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I agree. I’m not pushing to prove anything about the books left out and agree with you regarding the book of Thomas. I tried a while back to listen to it while going to sleep. I love shutting things off and getting quiet and putting in my ear buds. Something about it makes me hear better. I tried the book of Thomas and felt the same as what you said. I never made it all the way through.

Mostly regarding the video what i did agree with is how men have tried to control the narrative.
 
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here is my question. In Numbers 5 the woman suspected of adultery, in having gone aside after another besides her husband is judged under “the Law of Jealousies” where either she drinks of the bitter water and conceives sin unto death(GUILTY)…or being found clean, she is made free(Whom the Son makes Free is Free INDEED), she conceives and brings forth fruit of obedience unto righteousness(No more called an Adulterous).

It’s her husband that brings her before the priest to be judged, her “husband” being jealous.<keep in mind all of this in Numbers 5 God says go tell the sons of Israel what happens to the woman suspected of Adultery. Which they took as “what should we do to our wives then? Can we divorce them?” <they missed the point spoken to the sons of Israel whom the Adulterous woman is. In the bondage of sin unto death.

In Romans 7 again, to those “who know the law” tell “you have been made free” if your husband be dead, you have been made free by the body of Christ to marry another. Here is my question that is so confusing…people wait for Jesus to return as the Jealous husband clearly taking the Book of Revelation as the curses where men are stoned by hurling stones falling upon them, and more comes upon those who are under the law of Jealousies whose husband is not dead…when have you not heard the law Jealousies?

What happens to those under the law of jealousies? My question is how is Jesus Christ both? The same one who stood with the woman caught in adultery and told the least to the greatest …those among you without sin (not guilty under the law of jealousies, knowing the terror of the Lord) be the first to cast stones! This same Jesus Christ(same to today and yesterday and forever more) then returns as the ministration of sin unto death to bring upon stones, cast at the woman caught in adultery?

How can we serve the ministration of sin unto death AND the ministration of obedience unto righteousness? How can the woman in Numbers 5 be found guilty of Adultery yet also be made clean, free, and bring forth “obedience unto righteousness” I keep trying to point to that woman who is pronounced clean, pronounced Free and conceives seed IS the Woman here:
Galatians 4:31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:26-27 ESV - But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our (woman)mother. 27 For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who do not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! (Come to Me all you heavy laden with labor, My burden is Light)
For the children
of the desolate one will be more (not few, but in My Fathers House there are Many rooms—-even though men say there is no room for you…He goes to prepare a place (room) for those cast out of men”
(If her husband be dead, how can a woman whose husband be dead bear children? Only by God, even when her womb was pass dead she has many more children “than those of the one who has a husband.”

Numbers five:
Numbers 5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

(1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he (Christ) is born of God.

Romans 7:4-6 Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. [5] For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. [6] But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.