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Bible verses I've been struggling with
Owen Thomas
Ayden Mitchell
And yet nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him. The sticking point of eating meat from a sacrificial offering is not the meat but participation in the sacrificial rite.
Evan Clark
Close, but it's a generic for gods, not lords. El means god, not lord. Doesn't imply demons. John 10:34-35 makes clear who Psalm 82:6 is talking to.
Luis Cook
Josiah Anderson
Which is why God doesn't punish those who mess up the Lord's Tab….oh: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
So it's okay to use vaccines made from butchered babies who were simple, unprotected cells as long as I'm not the Moloch scientists? It's okay to accept a tithe from a man who charges interest from the poor or who got the money from extreme gambling or graft as long as I'm not the money teller? Why Thanks for clearing my conscience user! :) I guess God doesn't care about the little things like our eating habits, which is why He….well sh–! There's 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 ruining everything again!
If you have to use a verse out of context to get a quick shot at my arguments, you are probably reading you Bible wrong. We know, we Protestants have been dealing with this for loooonnnnggg time with the issue of Justification.
My bad, especially for that mis-translation.
Jack Young
From Wesley's notes:
The God of this world - What a sublime and horrible description of Satan! He is indeed the god of all that believe not, and works in them with inconceivable energy. Hath blinded - Not only veiled, the eye of their understanding. Illumination - Is properly the reflection or propagation of light, from those who are already enlightened, to others. Who is the image of God - Hence also we may understand how great is the glory of Christ. He that sees the Son, sees the Father in the face of Christ. The Son exactly exhibits the Father to us.
Parker James
This is a problem for me. Then what about the Greek's gods? What about the Summerian's gods? Demons fooling humans? For what purpose? And why would God permit it for so long?
To my mind it makes more sense that these entities are, as you've said, completely fanciful, but become "real," and powerful, as humans invest energy and emotions into them. Tulpas. I don't completely rest my faith in that being the case, but it strikes me as a more plausible explanation.
Jose Bell
Ruining what? The drunkard of 1 Corinthians 11:21 is defiled by his neglect of a brother, not the booze. If this is your best attempt at context you'd be better off cultivating that snide tongue of yours.
Cooper Lopez
Why did the Devil ask Jesus, the eternal uncreated Son to kneel down and worship him? Overweening hubris is in the nature of demons.
Alexander Fisher
That Psalm is about humans. Jesus quotes this Psalm in john 10 confirming that it's about humans. Because humans are made in image and likeness of God and purpose of our life is Theosis/Divinization. It's not talking about pagan """"god's""""