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Personally, I not going to worry about it. The appropriate people in OK will handle the details and I trust they will handle any smart-*** teacher trying to make a point accordingly.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 6:55 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 6:55 am

I know this personally because I have spent time as a licensed (not ordained) interim minister in one of those denominations.  

And now we get to the bottom of things.

This NPC fruitcake was a navy chaplain.       

Cannonpointer » 05 Jul 2024, 9:45 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 9:45 am

And now we get to the bottom of things.

This NPC fruitcake was a navy chaplain.     

wrong.  not til I had been retired for quite some time.

*Huey » 05 Jul 2024, 9:39 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 9:39 am

I grew up I Brooklyn and lived for a very short time in NJ.  We learned of all major religion.  Islam, Jewish, Christian, etc etc etc.

If it is done that way I have no major issue with it.

nor do I.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 9:33 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 9:33 am

I have read that very passage from the pulpit.

do you understand it?

jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 10:24 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:24 am

do you understand it?

I do.  but my understanding of any passage of scripture might not be the same as yours.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 10:25 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:25 am

I do.  but my understanding of any passage of scripture might not be the same as yours.

the meaning is clear.

what does it mean?

jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 10:32 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:32 am

the meaning is clear.

what does it mean?

@maineman  

This another reason why I steer away from these discussions.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 8:17 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 8:17 am

I don't scoff at it, but some of it certainly does not inform or assist Christians in living Christ-like lives.  Ezekiel 23 is one such example.  As I said, I served as the interim minister at a Congregational church in Maine for two years.  We ALWAYS followed the lectionary, which includes an Old Testament passage, a Psalm, a Gospel passage, and an Epistle passage.  I would always use three of those four in every service, and one of them was ALWAYS the Gospel passage.  And 90 percent of the time, my sermon was an exploration of one of those readings.
 
 

here is an idea nobody of faith every considers possible. Jesus was just a guy that figured out out the algorithm of reproductions being eternally separated as adapting in space each rotation living as an ever changing total sum lived each rotation alive in plain sight and what he taught was understanding the natural series parallel source of adapting as displaced since conceived.

all the people worshipping ideas life exceeds genetics eternally separating each lifetime alive equally won't change what they believed true since people created language barriers between ancestral villages in separate geographical areas in this atmosphere per ancestral lineages of the geographical area...

It is how I developed my line of thinking unlike anyone I ever met or heard about leading humanity into better tomorrows so far.

*Huey » 05 Jul 2024, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:40 am

@maineman  

This another reason why I steer away from these discussions.

because you have no real interest in religion.

jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 11:09 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:09 am

because you have no real interest in religion.

No, that's not it.  I have no interest in arguments over what passages mean or religion itself.  I am very private when it comes to religion.  I believe what I believe.  You are free to believe what you believe but keep it away from me.

*Huey » 05 Jul 2024, 11:15 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:15 am

No, that's not it.  I have no interest in arguments over what passages mean or religion itself.  I am very private when it comes to religion.  I believe what I believe.  You are free to believe what you believe but keep it away from me.

Believing isn't accepting what your brain navigates naturally evolving this rotation like it has every rotation since birth equALLY OCCUPYING TIME TODAY REGARDLESS WHICH TIME ZONE LIVING HAPPENS NOW for each ancestor alive in this atmosphere today..

*Huey » 05 Jul 2024, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:40 am

@maineman  

This another reason why I steer away from these discussions.

I agree.

Maybe @jerra b  could give us the meaning of the passage from the OP instead of attempting to derail my thread?

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 11:25 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:25 am

I agree.

Maybe @jerra b  could give us the meaning of the passage from the OP instead of attempting to derail my thread?

honesty about evolving in plain sight derails every one track mantra dividing the population into typecase stereotypes today.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 11:25 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:25 am

I agree.

Maybe @jerra b  could give us the meaning of the passage from the OP instead of attempting to derail my thread?

why should I give the meaning of a passage I have no interest in?

jerra b » 05 Jul 2024, 11:32 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:32 am

why should I give the meaning of a passage I have no interest in?

To show why it means something to people rather die in character than be honest about their sole characteristics today.

maineman » 05 Jul 2024, 10:25 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 10:25 am

I do.  but my understanding of any passage of scripture might not be the same as yours.

the passage that you have read from the pulpit means that God forgives even atheists. this is in stark contrast to what christian religions teach.

jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 12:03 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 12:03 pm

the passage that you have read from the pulpit means that God forgives even atheists. this is in stark contrast to what christian religions teach.

It may be in stark contrast to what many conservative denominations teach, but not mine.  My denomination has a special designation that has to be earned called "Open and Affirming."  Every Congregational church I have ever belonged to has earned that designation.  "All Are Welcome Here"  is our motto.

https://www.ucc.org/into_the_mystic_we_welcome_all/
 

*Huey » 05 Jul 2024, 11:15 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 11:15 am

No, that's not it.  I have no interest in arguments over what passages mean or religion itself.  I am very private when it comes to religion.  I believe what I believe.  You are free to believe what you believe but keep it away from me.

you just want kids to  read the old testament.

 

jerrab » 05 Jul 2024, 12:32 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jul 2024, 12:32 pm

you just want kids to  read the old testament.

Not at all.  Where do you come up with this ****? I want little kids to read what their parents deem fit for them to read.  I can't wait for your reply to that.

I need some popcorn.