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So, I thought that this week I'd take a page out of the news and discuss Jerusalem - not from a political perspective, but from a spiritual perspective. What does Jerusalem represent for us? What does it point us to? Given the importance of Jerusalem and its surrounding environment (including Bethlehem) to the story of Jesus' birth (and death and resurrection) it seemed an appropriate Advent topic.

My Faith Thoughts: A Thought For The Week Of December 11, 2017
 
revsdd said:
So, I thought that this week I'd take a page out of the news and discuss Jerusalem - not from a political perspective, but from a spiritual perspective. What does Jerusalem represent for us? What does it point us to? Given the importance of Jerusalem and its surrounding environment (including Bethlehem) to the story of Jesus' birth (and death and resurrection) it seemed an appropriate Advent topic.

My Faith Thoughts: A Thought For The Week Of December 11, 2017
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A Nous world perspective is thought about instead of fought about as an emotional interim? Tis an opinionated zone due to the trade roots for war industry! The nature of man as opposed to a man of nature ... John dunked into the arid lands? Nothing left but the bones of heh's Tory ... the Spanish refer to these a Cajon's ... absolute nutz very difficult!
 
revsdd said:
So, I thought that this week I'd take a page out of the news and discuss Jerusalem - not from a political perspective, but from a spiritual perspective. What does Jerusalem represent for us? What does it point us to? Given the importance of Jerusalem and its surrounding environment (including Bethlehem) to the story of Jesus' birth (and death and resurrection) it seemed an appropriate Advent topic.

My Faith Thoughts: A Thought For The Week Of December 11, 2017
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It is kind of sad, I find, that we are fighting over who should get the city as a political capital when, as the hub of three faiths, it should be a spiritual one with no political connections. Perhaps we'll get that with the New Jerusalem but I'm not expecting to see such a utopia in my time. Maybe not even in my son's.
 
Melchizeedek went out of Salam" ,to meet Abram and Bless Him". Abraham meant our Lord" Who was (King) of Jerusalem.
before he Abram, even changed his name. He told Abram who" won the war for him"'. Abram payed," GODS first tithing", in all he had won in the Battle. Melchizeedek Bless him. The Number of the Sons of Abram is told by GOD".
Gen 15:5 And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

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Gen 15:6 And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

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Gen 15:7 And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to possess."

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What GOD has given, let no Man , try and take away." For who is strong enough to do war with ,"The LORD GOD Of ALL?
 
If one forgets poor past activities .. are we doomed to repeat them?

An argument for not knowing ... or just gnus ... related to beefs!
 
revsdd said:
What better thing to do at the beginning of a new year than go back to the beginning. So I have a few thoughts that revolve around Genesis 1:1 and the broader creation story. How it's used (or abused.) How it's misunderstood. What a difference it might make if we took it seriously rather than literally.

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--So Rev --
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

--Airclean--post--Just a Question or two Rev Steve.
1--When did God make The Heavens an earth?
2-- What GOD, Made all things?
3--When was The beginning?
 
airclean33 said:
--Airclean--post--Just a Question or two Rev Steve.
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There's actually three here, but who's counting?
airclean33 said:
1--When did God make The Heavens an earth?
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In the beginning. God is the creator of all. Nothing exists apart from God. Thus, God created at the beginning. The beginning of God's creative process, or, perhaps, the beginning of time would be the best way to describe it.

airclean33 said:
2-- What GOD, Made all things?
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There is only one God. That one God is the creator of all. Nothing exists apart from God. There are numerous false gods. None have the power to create as God created. They do have the power to control, to tempt, to entice, etc.

airclean33 said:
3--When was The beginning?
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"The beginning" was when God began the work of creating. Again - the beginning of time itself. God, of course, has no beginning, but is eternal; existing outside the realm of time and space.
 
Is heaven truly a state of mind that a rich man can't get their mind of avarice around thorough behind ... and thus resulting in undergrowth?

"Nothing exists apart from God"

Thus god is in another dimension away from us that are now considered nothing ... a vacuous power of sucking all good to destruction ...

Opposite to that dimension is still another dimension ... includes nothing but intellect ... this yet beyond us ... over the horizon ... lost as Finnegan ...
 
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)

revsteven said:
"So, you have some Christians who insist on treating the creation story as if it was a science textbook, and some non-Christians who then choose to poke holes in the details of the story. Both groups seem to miss the point. The former abuses Scripture and the latter abuses science."


how do some Christians abuse this passage? all I ever heard was Time,Space,Matter, which is not to say its science but also doesn't go against science either, unless there is other ways of interpreting I have never heard of .
 
revsdd said:
There's actually three here, but who's counting?


In the beginning. God is the creator of all. Nothing exists apart from God. Thus, God created at the beginning. The beginning of God's creative process, or, perhaps, the beginning of time would be the best way to describe it.


There is only one God. That one God is the creator of all. Nothing exists apart from God. There are numerous false gods. None have the power to create as God created. They do have the power to control, to tempt, to entice, etc.


"The beginning" was when God began the work of creating. Again - the beginning of time itself. God, of course, has no beginning, but is eternal; existing outside the realm of time and space.
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--Thank you Rev Steve. This being only ONE LINE.
The Lord Jesus Made all things Rev. The Book- John 1: 2-- But your answer is right two , GOD The Father had two other parts of the GOD Head with Him. By the way Rev , there are 7. The Spirit world" seems to work a bit different" than are world dose. No one knows the start of time but GOD Himself". That's when HE made That World ,being some what different, than are world" today. There are many answers in Gen, Rev. What a great book" to start one line at a time. --airclean33--Gord.
 
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God is out there all alone as separate from the divine split in the emotional intellect of mankind ... a grand divide pumped by Trump as the greatest ... as he does better dealing splits ...

His representation of great things just breaks me up ...
 
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