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I'm a youth minister, living on the Earth--more specifically, Staten Island, NY. I love ideas. I love to think about things that I've never thought about before. I like to think of the world as a giant kaleidescope that can be turned a couple of times, and all of a sudden, there is something new and beautiful.

I also love Jesus. I love helping people, and I love living a life of love.

I think the most beautiful thing about life is our imagination--our ability to dream. We all have dreams, and it's such a shame to give up on them. If anything, I think that's what God loves to do most of all--allow us to dream BIG, and then show us that it's not too BIG.

I want to leave the world a better place than I found it. Is that too much to ask for? I want to belong. Isn't that what we all want? I want to throw around ideas about anything and everything, because at the end of the day we are not THAT different--and yet, we are completely unique.

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pressingheaven:

thebeeble replied to your post: thebeeble replied to your post: thebeeble replied…

You can’t discern what parts of the Bible you like… that’s how heresy is formed. Just because you can’t reconcile what Jesus says with what a prophet says doesn’t mean you can say the prophet is wrong. The Bible is unified through the Spirit.

Even if the two completely contradict each other? really? So I’m to accept something that is contrary to the nature of God demonstrated in Jesus?

There are apparent discrepancies in the Bible. The key to study is not to throw out portions we don’t like in favor of the ones we do like.

Instead, let’s rightly divide the Word of Truth—that means doing proper study to understand how we can reconcile the issue. For the specific example you gave me, here’s an article. Studying the original languages, the context, and a breadth of theology from other authors allows us to effectively navigate tough problems we might encounter. My suggestion would be to look at commentaries, and prayerfully interpret…. don’t ever allow yourself to just say “Jesus disagrees, let me throw it out.”

http://carm.org/does-god-create-evil

chasingthedaylight18 reblogged this from pressingheaven and added:

There are so many things wrong with this, my head is literally spinning.
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God rescued people. He’s not a split personality. You’ve been talking about rightly dividing Scripture. Yes. Let us...
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So, what was Noah’s flood? What about the story about Job? Do the plagues of Egypt come to mind at all? What about the...
idapearl said: The bible does not contradict itself, it is the word of God, mans inability to understand the words and look at the whole context of each area is where they say their is contradiction. God would not allow His word to be a lie!!!!!!!
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