(October 4, 2018 at 11:54 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(October 4, 2018 at 11:28 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: This might be one of those areas where SteveII and I might see things slightly differently. IMO when emotions are coupled with purpose they are transformed. Training and running a marathon is painful and grueling. My tri-athlete friend simultaneously welcomed and dreaded it. Those emotions are not mutually exclusive; but rather, complimentary. What he gained by his achievement and experience remains very valuable to him.
How can you and SteveII see things differently? Was you god unclear in some way? Is your deity of choice so incompetent that he/she/it/housecat is unable to clearly communicate, even to his own faithful?
That is one failure of a deity you have.
how short sighted you are.
Steve and neo are two different people or put biblically they are two different members of the same body which Jesus is the head. Meaning they have different functions as members of the body(church) as such will come to understand the body/church as they function. say steve were a hand and neo were an eye. the description steve may give of the church could only come from how the body felt to steve a hand and then his description of the body would best serve someone like steve who feels. but neo as an eye would describe just as accurately the same body as an eye, while neo may focus on colors and shades steve looks or feels for texture and warmth. Same body two different explanations.
This very explanation is found in the bible. what narrow minded people see as weakness we collectively derive strength. All this to say there is no one way to see or worship the God of the bible. We are simply tasked to take all God has given us to use and understand and direct it toward him. for a hand this love and worship may look strange to an eye...
do you understand what or why we will worship and understand God differently?
