are we talking about the new testament, or interpetations etc

Whatevs I think. Tim will clarify if you go outside the lines.

i shouldnt be commenting because i have not read the bible.

Not true

just felt like asking

ok

I haven't read the bible either

I can't even explain why, but Jesse lit me up and I ended up at the Bhagavad Gita, and I never cared about it before.

I haven't read the bible either

You should feel free to comment bc you have a concept of what you believe.

I ended up getting into these 2000 year old Indian epics, and finding all these signs that correlated to different events in my life. I have no explanation for why.

What I am taking away from studying these exo-cultural scriptures is a sense of devotion and love for God

It makes me cry at times, just from the beauty. as opposed to the other kind of emotion that's based on things like pity.

@Hake, how does the concept of someone who is incompletely righteous in the sense that their heart still gives them impure thoughts, but they hold no sway over him, "an excuse to stay evil"?

"lean not on your own understanding" means follow the tradition passed down with the Bible instead of your own imaginings. It's the same thing as "Go to the priests and judges that will be in your generation" or "Listen to the Pharisees for they sit in Moses' seat".

"I honestly don’t know if we should have doctrine discussions" is an excuse not to pursue truth. It's up to the individual to be open to changing their positions.

So, is Christ basically Man who is essentially God incarnate?

The concept of Messiah is in every religion

as opposed to a girly beta male who is just a dead branch on the ground

It's not an excuse not to pursue truth. But touting your knowledge and intellectualism is not pursuing truth. It's pride. It's vain pursuit. Especially if you're not living it. Like I said, you don't seem open @Sar

Not open to even trying to understand.

Messiah is the concept that all of our souls have, at their highest level, no separation from each other nor from God

I hear accusations but not reasonings

Then you're not hearing.

Perhaps you're not saying anything

Christ is supposed to be the Son of God, not God incarnate. @Mitch Connor

Oops i mean @J_G_

I see @Hake

If you don't follow the Bible, and I follow the Bible, we're operating under different frameworks

You shouldn't be debating what the Bible says if you don't follow it

You don't follow the Bible. You follow your own arrogance.

I follow the tradition that was passed down, not my own understanding. I offer no novel interpretations of my own.

To this you've made no answer.

You don't trust the codex but you claim that the decoder ring that was given with the codex is faulty? You don't accept the codex nevermind the ring.

You offered novel misinterpretations to everything I've said, LOL.

Name one

Already did. Done. Waste of time. Bye.

Name one interpretation of the Bible I've offered that I produced from my own imagination

What place does an idolator have arguing what is true doctrine and what is heretical?

I have said nothing about myself except, when pressed by you, to say it's strongly implied that I have not achieved theosis. And somehow this is touting myself as an intellectual?

could the song of God sing through you as if you were his instrument?