Trump, lets move on

[Belsnickel]

(07-24-2022, 03:32 PM)GMDino Wrote: This discussion on what God REALLY meant reminds me of my college friend who "found God" after his first marriage.  He attended classes led by a relative of his who was a preacher, did all the proper readings, etc.

He love to debate me about what God REALLY means.  And he is always right because he STUDIED the bible and what it REALLY means.

When I bring up that men wrote the bible his argument is the same as above:  God wrote through those men.  

When I mention the parts left out or edited his answer is the same as above: God worked through those men.

When I question the inconsistencies and just awful things left in the bible...well, you get the point.

See HE knows what God and the bible really means because HE studied it.

My suggestion that any teacher other than God is still just teaching him a personal interpretation is scoffed at.   

In the end I told him the only way to know which one of us is right is when we die.  

Personally, I'm a Micah 6:8 man. It's all I need most days.

There are two churches I am in more than any other. Two different denominations; one more liturgical, "high church" if you will and the other is more of my anabaptist roots. I'm a member of the liturgical one (wife grew up Catholic, so we split the difference and go Lutheran) and the other is one that charters three Scout units I work with a lot. In both of those churches, that verse is a prominent part of what guides them which is coincidental. It's not like it's universal in the denominations and these churches don't really intermingle (different towns, plus the denominations aren't known for getting along), but I love the coincidence and the connection between the two.